title: when software made by faulty humans is believed to be made by god and never wrong (this won’t happen again with AI will it? (sure it will and it already has with AI powered face recognition software blaming the […]
there is a German saying: “only the Genius rules (one’s own or others) chaos” imho this is wrong, if one was a genius, there would be no chaos in the first place it would be “as perfect as possible” aka […]
complicated long-story-short: asciidoc is a (wiki) like meta syntax that allows documentation for software projects asciidoctor.org is a toolset to write asciidoc.org there is a eclipse plugin for asciidoc (there is a eclipse plugin for (almost) EVERYTHING :D) how to install […]
Hetzner is already doing it with very energy efficient Ampere ARM servers delivering world-class-cost-and-energy-saving-virtual-servers. (Gigabyte has them as well UNTESTED!) #SuperCharge #IT processes with #OpenSource + #GNU #Linux (call it #GNU #Linux and give the dude that wrote gcc some […]
git is a complex source code repository management system that completely relies on file transactions this means: there is no running service or open port (except if git-over-ssh is used, all it needs for network multi developer cooperation is a […]
Just as php python is a widely used easy to read and write on-the-fly interpreted language. performance? performance in the sense of data throughput or amount of prime numbers per second but it is also: how long will a user […]
(has nothing to do with the drug) “Crystal is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language, designed and developed by Ary Borenszweig, Juan Wajnerman, Brian Cardiff and more than 300 contributors.[5] With syntax inspired by the language Ruby,[4] it is a compiled […]
Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]
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what is great about books vs blogs? (+) paper books don’t need electricity and hightech to function. energy grid and tcp networks (up to now) have worked pretty reliably, but at any given day, a massive solar flare or a […]
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 […]
not sure if the news rang through… the Amazon Cloud (AWS) guy will be the new CEO of Amazon. What cloud? Amazon “cloud” Hetzner “cloud” cloud (centralized digital infrastructure) can be designed / implemented in different ways. from: the user/admin […]
vs activity on StackOverflow: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages-loved comment: there is a saying “never trust a chart, that you did not fake yourself” X-D (which probably just means: the data will never be a perfectly representation of reality (because some users block JavaScript […]
Byte The term byte was coined by Werner Buchholz in June 1956,[4][13][14][b] during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch[15][16][1][13][14][17][18] computer, http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/pdfs/Buchholz_102636426.pdf backup mirror: PLANNING A COMPUTER SYSTEM BROJECT STRETCH Buchholz Campbell_102636426.pdf which had addressing to the bit and […]
“floating point arithmetic is considered an esoteric subject by many people” (src: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic – David Goldberg 1991.pdf) some even do “transcendental calculations” (src) make no mistake: computer make mistakes too! not […]
what is the problem? https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/13564/why-is-vim-for-debian-compiled-without-clipboard for whatever reasons a lot of vim packages come compiled without system -clipboard support. furthermore: for copy & paste per default vim uses it’s own registers (not the default primary and secondary system clipboard that […]
this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? guess with it-security and internet-security (internet = roads, cars = computers that users use every day) it is like with real-life-security – there is no 100% security. all users […]
home of git’s git repo: https://git-scm.com/ # to clone git’s git repo git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git # as can be seen there, it is STILL under active development written in primarily in C, with GUI and programming scripts written in Shell […]
UEmacs is the editor/ide that is said to be the work and choice of Linus Torvalds (gnu linux kernel, THANK YOU FOR THE GNU LINUX KERNEL! THANKS!, THANKS MR STALLMAN FOR GCC THANKS! THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED!) UEmacs hostnamectl; # […]
https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM the 4 free software freedom rules: freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. (computers start counting with 0, that’s why it is freedom 0) freedom 1: The freedom to study how […]
is there an ideal IDE for every task? or no IDE at all? Nope. Of course just as programming languages every IDE has their pros and cons. (build for a specific purpose? might serve other purposes also) There is not […]
what do you think about the CNBC documentary? 2012: Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds: 1,5 Million Views! contains the famous “Fuck You NVIDIA” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA Linus Torvalds writes software since his early childhood ages and just loves programming. Without this love […]
is Rust safer than C/C++? “show me the src” https://github.com/rust-lang https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src DebConf 2019: Why would a python programmer learn rust when there are no jobs in it https://ytpak.net/watch?v=IYLf8lUqR40 “This means no matter what language you use, the only safe way […]
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. […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ Anonymous on Facebook & Google & BigData: This will Change How You See Everything Age of Surveillance Capitalism Anonymous on Facebook & Google & […]
long story short: “The Year 2038 problem is where the Unix time can no longer be stored in a signed 32-bit integer and thus after 19 January 2038 will begin wrapping around as a negative number for representing the number […]
after you have setup docker on your system like this (debian/ubuntu) or like this (fedora/redhat/centos) and have started the docker service (does not autostart per default): service docker start # tested on Static hostname: DebianLaptop Icon name: computer-laptop Chassis: laptop […]