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Author: Andreas

  • The Road to Python3

    When Python3 came out in 2009, it was already heavily debated. Python3 would be incompatible with previous versions of the popular language, but fix many drawbacks. While the vision was clear and the community initially planned to move forward much quicker. The demand for having a 2.x branch was so huge, however, that the community decided to extend support for 2.7 until the end of 2019. Stack Overflow took a look on why the path took so long.

    https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/14/why-is-the-migration-to-python-3-taking-so-long/
    The Road to Python3: Stack Overflow took a look.

  • Dystopia of the Day

    Protests in Santiago de Chile.

    Neo-Santiago, distopía cyberpunk
    byu/Alerta_Fascista inchile

  • Former Munich Mayor Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux

    Christian Ude, Oberbürgermeister von München zwischen 1993 und 2014.

    Christian Ude speaks in a new interview about what Microsoft did in Munich and elsewhere in Europe in order to undermine GNU/Linux and impose Microsoft Windows on everybody, together with all the spyware Microsoft provides for it (likely violation of privacy laws)

    Techrights.org

    Source: Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux | Techrights

  • How big is the cloud?

    It sound’s odd and definitely wrong. At 43.000 participants in 2018 at a registration fee of $1.799, that’d be $77.357.000 of revenue, which is hard to believe Oracle and IBM together cannot top. Still, it’s s still a totally fascinating thought about size of cloud and how dominant AWS is in that business.

  • Iraq Internet outage

    All too often, Governments use this to cut population off communication ahead of measures against civilians. Stay safe, Iraq people.

  • Klimaanalyse: „Oktoberfest“

    Was für die Münchner unter den Lesern.

    Oktoberfest

    Oktoberfest ‘produces 10 times as much methane as Boston’

    Via The Guardian.

  • Raketenbahnhof in Deutschland

    BDI und Wirtschaftsminister Altmaier fordern einen Raketenbahnhof in Deutschland. Michael Büker schaut sich das auf Twitter einmal genauer an.

    Spoiler: Die Idee ist gar nicht so gut.

  • Facebook News Tab Aims to ‘Strengthen Democracy’ 

    “What could go wrong?” is exactly the right question one would ask over the feature Facebook announced. Facebook has been facing criticism not only recently over enabling filter bubbles and fueling extremist echo chambers. “Strengthen Democracy” is a clear attempt to whitewash from accusations to actually hurt the same. Digital Trends has more details.

    Facebook News Tab

    Facebook is launching a dedicated news tab amid growing criticism for the social network. Facebook News uses articles from a list of publishers meeting a set of standards and includes a section curated by journalists. But is that enough for a platform criticized for fake news?

    Source: Digital Trends

  • Teaching Rats To Drive Tiny Cars

    Teaching Rats To Drive Tiny Cars

    Rats can relax better while driving tiny cars, Scientists Discover. It’d make a good tag line for a few car manufacturers.

    Rats driving tiny cars
    Rats driving tiny cars.

    A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food. 

    Source: Hacker News.

  • AWS hit by major DDoS attack

    DDoS is an annoyance not even the biggest Cloud is safe from. Apparently AWS’s Route 53 was affected and failed to resolve multiple DNS names over several hours.

    DDoS, Distributed of Denial Service
    Distributed of Denial Service

    Parts of AWS were taken offline for hours

    Source: TechRadar. The newspage also has a reference of 2019’s best DDoS Protection.