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Category: Internet & Culture

Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new  businesses, fueling innovation  and creativity.

All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.

  • #36C3 – Impressions from Day 2

    Lectures at 36C3

    – Impressions from Day 2: Eine Auswahl von Vorträgen und Workshops die den 2. Tag des Congress für mich prägten.

    Der Pfad von 4G zu 5G
    Der Pfad von 4G zu 5G

    Der Pfad von 4G zu 5G

    In Saal Ada erzählen Peter Schmidt und Heurekus schon um 11:30 über dem Weg von 4G zu 5G und den notwendigen Wandel im Core Netz. Im wesentlichen erklären die beiden dabei Unterschiede der beiden Protokolle an der sogenannten Luftschnittstelle, inkl. der Vor- bzw. Nachteile.

    12:50 An ultrashort history of ultrafast imaging
    Caroline vom DESY erklärt wie man Bilder von sehr schnellen Ereignissen aufnimmt und nicht nur das, sondern auch von sehr kleinen Strukturen.

    14:10 Das nützlich-unbedenklich Spektrum
    Fefe teilt seine Gedanken zu Softwarequalität und Legacy Code, in dem er Software zwischen Nützlich und Unbedenklich einteilt. Auf dem Gedankengang dahin erörtert er mehrere Dimensionen, die man für eine Bewertung heranziehen kann.

    16:10 The ecosystem is moving
    Moxie Marlinspike, Gründer von Signal, dessen Crypto-Protokoll sogar in WhatsApp Einsatz findet, über Messenger: distributed and decentralized technologies from the perspective of a product that many would like to see decentralize.
    In his talk, Moxie Marlinspike, makes an argument against decentralizing. He argues with four (4) individual talking points and invalidates all four of them throughout the talk:

    • Privacy
    • Censorship Resistance
    • Availability
    • Control

    Unsurprisingly, the crown in the room disagreed.

    Die Zukunft grenzüberschreitenden Datenzugriffs und politischer Verfolgung
    Die Zukunft grenzüberschreitenden Datenzugriffs und politischer Verfolgung

    17:10 Die Zukunft grenzüberschreitenden Datenzugriffs und politischer Verfolgung
    Elisabeth Niekrenz politische Referentin der netzpolitischen Organisation Digitale Gesellschaft e.V., über eine in Brüssel gegenwärtig verhandelte Verordnung, die Zugriffe auf Benutzerdaten Grenzüberschreitend regeln soll.

    36c3, aus dem Netz

    – Impressions from Day 2, on the Internet:

    From the blog: CCC analysiert Münchner Staatstrojaner FinSpy

    Decoding the cultures of hacking: hackcur.io räumt mit Klischees über die Szene auf.

  • Day 1 at the 36C3 in Leipzig

    Day 1 at the 36C3 in Leipzig

    Day 1 – 36C3

    After having traveled for a few hours, we missed the opening ceremony but still had a few good first impressions. Here are a few notes from what I managed to see so far at Day 1 at the 36C3 in Leipzig:

    Large Hadron Collider - Infrastructure
    Large Hadron Collider – Infrastructure Talk at 36C3

    16:10 The Large Hadron Collider Infrastructure Talk
    Sev and Thasti give an insight into how the Large Hedron Collider at CERN works. LHC is a particle collider that measures about 27km in diameter and requires – if I got the two speakers right – 450kV of current off the French electricity grid. The particle beam produces enough energy to melt 1000kg of copper, when turned on.

    David Graeber: From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes
    From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes

    17:30 From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes: David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5000 Years and Bullshit Jobs is talking about how the caring classes, e.g. health and education, are becoming increasingly less appreciated and how administration is on the rise.
    Link to Lecture.

    21:00 What the world can learn form Hong Kong.
    Katharin Tai talks about backgrounds of the Hong Kong protests and explains the 5 demands of protestors. The clarity helps the movement keep their momentum and stand against government. She also gives insights into strategies to cope with police and organisation of the protests, that are ongoing for months now. So is “Be water”, a phrase apparently inspired by Bruce Lee, a tactic to organise flash mob type protests. Plenty of these ideas are reflected in Hong Kong Protest Art, that Katharin Tai also covered in her talk.

    Stimmen aus dem Netz

    https://twitter.com/dborch/status/1210297562428854273?s=20

  • 2020: The year of ARM?

    Rumors, that Apple would switch to ARM for their computers have been floating around for a while. MacWorld just recently reaffirmed these with Annual ARM predictions.

    Another important product that was announced at this years Re:Invent, AWS has ARM servers in their cloud portfolio. The Graviton2 is a custom-built 64bit processor available for EC2 workloads.

    A clear signal ARM becomes ready for primetime.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 100 Best Memes Of The Decade

    Pepperidge Farm remembers

    Do you still remember Memes from the 2010s? Like Sad Keanu, the Ice Bucket Challange, The Rent Is Too Damn High, the Harem Shake, Bottle Flipping, Bronies, Gangnam Style, Harambe, Vine, or even Kermit? Peppridge Farm remembers.

    From planking to VSCO girls.

    Source: 100 Best Memes Of The Decade

  • We have forgotten about the work-hard, play-hard Generation X

    This:

    On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog
    On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog

    Boomers don’t understand the internet and millennials were raised on it. Generation X created it. We stripped off and dove into the glittering waters of this brand new thing, and made it what it is today.

    The Independant

    Generation X was breast-fed punk and invented indie, and grunge, and techno, … . We transformed the Eighties and we owned the Nineties. … we were fearless and stupid and happy, but we still got up for work on Monday morning, no matter how bad we felt.

    The Independant

    Source: In the war between millennials and baby boomers we have forgotten about the work-hard, play-hard Generation X | The Independent

  • Paul Krugman on “the Internet’s impact’

    Paul Krugman on “the Internet’s impact’

    Economist Paul Krugman predicts the impact of the internet
    Economist Paul Krugman

    Prognosen sind schwierig, besonders wenn sie die Zukunft betreffen.

     Karl Valentin,  Mark Twain oder Niels Bohr zu. (Wikipedia)

    Natürlich ist es immer schwierig, Vorhersagen zu treffen. Nachdem es sich bei dem Urheber des Zitates um einen führenden Ökonomen handelt, kann man das ein bisschen strenger betrachten. Um etwas positiver zu sein, kann man an der stelle vielleicht noch anführend, dass Deutschland offenbar nach wie vor Marktführend in der Anwendung von Faxgeräten ist:

    https://twitter.com/Saefken/status/1201898727922900992

  • The cyber speaks for itself.

    The cyber speaks for itself: Somebody trained an AI to write a paper to predict the future of Cyber. Sources were 1000 other predictions about cyber.

    There are a lot of 2020 cybersecurity predictions. We had a bot do it for us.

    Cyberscoop

    Now, the Cyber speaks: And the result speaks for itself:

    Cyber by Erdbeernaut on Flickr, Public Domain
    Cyber speaks about cyber

    Real-time data and analytics and machine learning and AI creates unpreparedness by corporations and Big Tech companies.

    Cyber predicts Cyber

    Source: 2020 cybersecurity predictions, as told by a bot – CyberScoop

  • Kubernetes 1.17 released today – Open Source

    Kubernetes 1.17 released today
    Kubernetes Logo

    Today Kubernetes released it’s version 1.17. The software is one of the most popular open source projects ever. It allows managing containerised applications and micro-services. The release arrives at the end of a regular development cycle.

    After the project was announced in 2014 by two Google employees, it hit a first 1.0 milestone on July 2015. The project gained massive popularity in the cloud world because it enables scalable infrastructures and service. With the Kubernetes 1.0 release, Google partnered with the Linux Foundation to form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a new home for the technology.

    Since Kubernetes became publicly available, it gained popularity quickly and today is commonly used as the main way to host microservice-based implementations, mostly because Kubernetes and its associated ecosystem provide a rich choice of tools with all the capabilities that are needed to address key concerns of any modern software architectures.

    With Kubernetes 1.17 released today, the package comes with more details on the release in the Release Schedule or in particular on the Changelog.