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"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

Link: https://www.techslang.com/definition/what-is-wirths-law/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015323

As someone who spent a large portion of '98 and '99 making sure shit didn't break on Y2K, I'd like to extend a very heartfelt FUCK YOU to HBO for greenlighting a piece of shit documentary that suggests that effort wasn't necessary.

So I just discovered this bot account that posts random insecure servers, this is wild, lol. A lot of the screenshots look like infrastructure or machinery of some kind.

https://botsin.space/@vncresolver

#Security #Cybersecurity

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

"Regulation stops innovation! Companies need to be free to do whatever the fuck they want to create innovation!"

My brother in Christ, if anything stops innovation, it's patents and copyright.

You're less likely to die in a car crash only because Volvo engineers gracefully decided to do humanity a favor and not patent the 3-point seatbelt technology.

But for example, a technology of safely stopping table saws is patented and only one company can create them, suing similar projects from other companies out of existence 🤡

Best of aus dem Jahr 2023 des Kuketz-Blogs: 👇

- Android Custom-ROM-Serie: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/android-grapheneos-calyxos-und-co-unter-der-lupe-custom-roms-teil1/
- Wissensdossier zu §25 TTDSG: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/wissen-ist-macht-das-grosse-wissensdossier-zu-%c2%a725-ttdsg-das-ttdsg-teil1/
- AdAway: Werbe- und trackingfrei im Android-Universum: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/adaway-werbe-und-trackingfrei-im-android-universum/
- Deutschlandticket-Apps: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/deutschlandticket-apps-49e-plus-datenweitergabe-an-google-und-co-deutschlandticket-teil1/
- 31 Tipps für mehr Sicherheit und Datenschutz im Internet: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/31-tipps-fuer-mehr-sicherheit-und-datenschutz-im-internet/
- Klimaschutz mit Datenschutz? Der große Elektroauto-Ladeapp-Test: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/klimaschutz-mit-datenschutz-der-grosse-elektroauto-ladeapp-test/

I didn’t realize #techcrunch was in the #fediverse. Only noticed because I saw the #mastodon logo on an article today.

https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch

Artists complaining about generative AI be like...

Pillaged from BlueSky:

What is worth measuring?

I'm in this post and I don't like it 😠😭

Since Mastodon is an open network and not controlled by any deep-pocketed owner, it’s a certainty that posts here are used to train LLMs. That’s why it’s important to make sure you always rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog