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.

  • 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.

  • Edge vs. Chrome: A new Browser War

    The new Edge browser, built on the same open source code as Google Chrome, contains a new Tracking Prevention feature that blocks third-party trackers and, at the Strict setting, many ads. My tests show that one in four items blocked are from Google.

    Source: Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft’s Tracking Prevention hits Google the hardest

  • CDU will Open Source

    Nachdem die SPD in München mit Limux vorerst gescheitert ist, will die CDU Open Source für Verwaltungsaufgaben fördern. Ausserdem soll Open Data von der Forderung “Public Money?, Public Code!” partizipieren. Die CDU nimmt damit eine Position der Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) ein.

    via Golem

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Gmail Free Storage Thing of Past

    Nobody could see THAT coming!

    Gmail
    Gmail

    When people hit those caps, they realize they have little choice but to start paying, or risk losing access to emails, photos and personal documents.

    Source: Bloomberg

  • People looking at this product

    Have you ever wondered, how websites know how many people look at a particular product? Ophir Harpaz investigated: