Category: microfail

Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]

in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]

short story: phase it out So it finally happened, Oracle wants to cash in on it’s $7.4 Billion investment it made in 2009. The non-Open-Source non-GPL non-Free-Software-coffee has officially gone sour. One can just pray, that this will be a […]

why are those data leaks problematic? because scammers and spammers will use this data to even better scam (social engineer) the affected users that is why it is essential to give those platforms (if the user needs them) as little […]

computers are no way perfect: the rise of the machines: who is scared of killer robots? who is scared of doctors, judges and police blindly trusting in AI and computer output? “we are driving in (heavy) rain right now with […]

what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]

THE ECB BIRD WAS HACKED! “however, the internal system of the Bank has not been compromised” the site http://www.banks-integrated-reporting-dictionary.eu/ was taken offline. It is fascinating. The Europeans probably do not even know about “what is going on” and according to ex […]

Capitalism inspires the short sighted incentives. But trust and honesty is key in long term relationships. So for a short period of time – some dishonest people might enjoy the benefits – but in the end – it comes home […]

don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]

servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]

What is the problem? Microsoft just came up with another closed standard file format…  Microsoft’s proprietary TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format) often named winmail.dat or win.dat, and has a MIME type of Application/MS-TNEF is a proprietary email attachment format used […]

scroll down for ENGLISH: ) OMG! Da die IT von Baltimore sich einen Ransome-Virus eingefangen hat, können die Bürger ihre Steuern und ihre Blitzer-Tickets nicht zahlen! Wunderbar! 🙂 Mit welchem Aufwand man rechnen muss, wenn man sich von der Digitalisierung […]

https://boringsoftwaredevelopment.com/2020/01/episode1-0-screw-windows-10-how-to-setup-gnu-linux-debian-in-15min-including-desktop-and-office/ grab that open source software win32diskimager-1.0.0-install.exe to 1:1 copy (most) GNU Linux iso to USB and chances are really good: it will just boot 😀 (try that with windows haha X-D) Computers have grown complex (ignoring all the KISS(ing) […]

“The cost to companies from malware and “malicious insider”-related cyberattacks jumped +12 percent in 2018 and accounted for one-third of all cyberattack costs, according to new research published today by Accenture and the Ponemon Institute.” src: helpnetsecurity.com logical consequence: stop […]

2020-12: another reason why JavaScript SUCKS badly and websites NEED TO WORK without JS: it might “destroy” NAT security: NAT Slipstreaming allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP service bound to a victim machine, bypassing the victim’s NAT/firewall (arbitrary […]

checkout the space weather today 🙂 “Schwabe cycle, is a nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun’s activity” (src) but the sun’s particles ALSO shield from even more outer space radiation BUT the sun is ALSO protecting Earth & Mars […]

not a day passes by that spammers/crackers/evil money addicted people try to infect your system with an word.doc attached to some mail from “police” “government” “paypal” “facebook” “google” “apple” or whatever. here is the latest scam that: a password encrypted […]

‘Umstrukturierung für den neuen Kurs, den Konzernchef Satya Nadella Microsoft verordnet hat: „Das Unternehmen sieht seine Zukunft bei Cloud-Produkten, künstlicher Intelligenz und Quantum Computing. Das sind die strategischen Schwerpunkte, auf die sich Microsoft künftig ausrichtet.“’ http://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/fragen-und-antworten-das-muessen-sie-zum-microsoft-konzernumbau-wissen/21129292.html

Update: 2020-05 Munich commits to “Public Money? Public Code!” The new coalition agreement in Munich commits to the principle of “Public Money? Public Code!”. The FSFE welcomes this decision by the new government and will closely monitor the progress of […]

“The Unix Philosophy in One Lesson” “All the philosophy really boils down to one iron law, the hallowed ‘KISS principle’ of master engineers everywhere:” “Keep It Simple, Stupid” or “Keep It Super Simple” (less offensive) The Unix philosophy emphasizes building […]

To be honest… SharePoint… seems to be: Office and Wiki in a Browser… is that it? A Wiki is a editable Website where you can also upload files into… if it exists as OpenSource Software… why would you spend MONEY […]