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Glad that Mercedes-Benz is doing this change. The management team has been misguided for a couple years. The "only luxury" strategy has not been working out as anticipated, partly …

I had so much fun with Lego Mindstorms as well, we had a team at my school and we competed in First Lego league and in regional competitions. We also wrote our software in Java usi…

When you have a simple journey and no interruptions DB in long distance is pretty good, not excellent but solid. But with more complicated things traveling with DB is not well thou…

I set it up for an old Google account that has been breached. It did a relatively good job, but HIBP has more data in my experience, albeit it mainly looks at emails, whereas Googl…

I use ChatGPT to compress SVGs, in particular QR codes. Many QR code SVG generators produce inefficient SVGs, and conventional SVG compressors often lack the understanding required…

I have heard, but do not aggree, that Let‘s Encrypt is risky, because phishing sites use it. It’s implied that other CAs do checks against it.

Graphene OS provides advanced security capabilities and a thorough defense-in-depth approach including a hardened supply chain. GOS aims to provide mechanisms to protect against 0d…

Minecraft modding has done so much to get young people into CS. I started learning Java when I was 10 because I wanted to do modding. At university, I met so many people who had th…

Maybe look into Eleventy [0] or Zola [1]. Both are relatively recent developments and have a skilled and forward thinking userbase. [0] https://11ty.dev/ [1] https://getzola.org/

The best teams from Google CTF were invited to compete in Hackceler8, a combination of speedrunning and CTF, this year on a SEGA Genesis. Today are the finals, which are steamed an…

Android is not just Android. The device vendors have to customize it to fit their devices by including drivers for example. Device vendors have the option to change the look pretty…

How secure is Vaultwarden?

> This caps capacity and reliability. Karlsruhe: The local operators have severe quality issues, in part due to this concept. There are like four points in the city where issues im…

INTERCAL is presented at the Christmas Lecture in Programming at KIT

Just a small hardware project: I am building a cocktail mixer in an old PC case. I saw something similar at a con over Easter and had to build one myself, it had a tap coming out o…

Thank you for the background explanation and the link. KIT is actually my Alma Mater (cs). You are right the overlap is not that large. I was thinking about the WissZeitVG, Exzelle…

I agree that merging the technology division from the ministry of economic affairs (BMWK) to the new research ministry is a good step as both ministries have been large providers o…

Jochen Liedtke became a professor in 1999 in Karlsruhe, sadly he passed away only shortly after in 2001. I don't know if his successor Bellosa still does research on L4. There was …

DNSSEC is the actual solution, providing authenticity and integrity for DNS records. The DNS client can verify that the received DNS response is what the zone admin intended. Addit…

Entropia is the local chapter from Karlsruhe of the Chaos Computer Club. The Gulaschprogrammiernacht (GPN) is their local version of Congress located in HfG and ZKM, a college and …

Daniels email collection is also funny [0]. [0] https://daniel.haxx.se/email/

Clojure is great. Brining together Lisp with the Java ecosystem makeand its concurrency model makes it great for building backend system, while still enabling quick changes. One th…