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Author: Andreas

  • Quitting Google

    Nithin Coca of The Next Web went on a quest to quitting Google. In this article, he describes his experience and gives plenty of pointers on how to achieve the same. He start out making a point about individual privacy, and points out individual alternatives to popular Google services. Starting from using Firefox over Chrome to particular services for daily office use. At the end of the year, this little “Quitting Google” guide contains little news, but serves as a good starting point to maybe develop a new years resolution and be more sensitive about privacy in the upcoming year 2020.

    Nithin Coca of The Next Web
    Nithin Coca of The Next Web

    Over the past six months, I have gone on a surprisingly tough, time-intensive, and enlightening quest — to quit using, entirely, the products of just one company — Google. What should be a simple task was, in reality, many hours of research and testing. But I did it. Today, I am Google-free, part of the […]

    Source: How I fully quit Google (and you can, too)

  • AWS CloudFront Monitoring Update

    AWS CloudFront Monitoring Update: AWS released an early & small Christmas Gift to their CloudFront Customers. CloudFront now supports eight more metrics to monitor content distribution. These include:

    Cache Hit Rate via HTTP POST and PUT requests, via the percentage of all cacheable requests for which CloudFront served the content from its cache, including errors not considered cacheable requests.

    Origin Latency as a quota and the total time spent for requests that are served from the origin, not the CloudFront cache. Origin Latency allows to monitor the performance of your origin server.

    Error Rate by status code as a percentage of requests for which the response’s HTTP status code is in the 4/5xx range, in particular 401, 403, 404, 502, 503, and 504.

    AWS CloudFront Monitoring Update via AWS Blog.

  • Facebook Data Leak

    Just in time for Xmas, Facebook dropped a huge package of user data.

    Mark Zuckerberg
    Mark Zuckerberg

    More than 260 million U.S. Facebook users’ IDs, phone numbers, and names were exposed to an online database that could potentially be used for spam and phishing campaigns. Comparitech reports that before the database was taken down, it was found on a hacker forum as a downloadable file.

    Source: Facebook Faces Another Huge Data Leak Affecting 267 Million Users | Digital Trends

  • More Female Founders

    Not only more Female Founders, but also more successful Female Founders, measured by unicorns, have entered the startup universe. Those are companies that passed the $1 billion in valuation. Crunchbase, the leading platform for professionals to discover innovative companies, has the data:

    Crunchbase data shows what ‘overperforming’ really means: 2019 has been a historic year for female-founded unicorns, which were born at an unprecedented pace.

    https://news.crunchbase.com/news/more-female-founded-unicorns-were-born-in-2019-that-before-data-shows/

  • Munich-based Mylivn raises €5.5 million

    Mylivn raises €5.5 million
    Mylivn raises €5.5 million

    Mylivn is a social network aimed at the ‘slash’ generation who have more than one career or passion, e.g. developer / photographer.

    Source: Munich-based Mylivn raises €5.5 million and launches social network for next-Gen content creators | EU-Startups

  • Es cybert sehr

    Es cybert sehr: Nachdem die Uni Giessen schon offline war, ist heute die Stadt Frankfurt offline.

  • Apple, Amazon, Google, and Zigbee Develop Open Smart Home Standard

    Source: Apple, Amazon, Google, and Zigbee Alliance to Develop Open Standard for Smart Home Devices – MacRumors

    Update: Google also reports on their blog.

  • 5 (Digital) Product Management Skills

    It’s a bit like learning to drive a car. Even though you’ll not become a mechanic, you will have to understand how a gearbox works. And the clutch. For managing products, you should bring a minimum understanding of the digital realm. Allan Wintersieck from ‘The Startup‘ explains 5 (Digital) Product Management Skills.

    • How the Internet Works
    • The (very) Basics of Web App Architecture
    • Open Source Libraries vs. Custom Code
    • Technical Debt
    • Automated Testing

    via Medium.

  • Understanding Internet Disruptions

    David Belson, former Akamai Internet Analyst, now working for Internet Society, explained “Internet Shutdowns” in his latest blog post.

    Internet Disruptions
    Understanding Internet Disruptions

    In March 2019, in a move described in one news report as a “government-imposed Internet shutdown,” the president of Sri Lanka temporarily blocked Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Viber, and other services. In this case, limited access to a class of applications was inaccurately painted as a full-scale Internet shutdown. Unfortunately, this isn’t unusual. Media coverage and […]

    Source: From Content Blocking to National Shutdowns: Understanding Internet Disruptions | Internet Society

  • Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars - Rise of Skywalker
    Star Wars – Rise of Skywalker

    Gizmodo promisses to be largely spoiler free in their article, but doesn’t seem to be convinced. Here’s how Rise of Skywalker is a disappointing end for the saga.: