Ten years ago, Wikia tried to fight Google Search
Remember when Wikia, Jimmy Wales’ (of Wikipedia fame) for-profit company, tried to build its own search engine and fight Google?
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KontextCast Episode 2 “Computer und Zeit” veröffentlicht
Nach nur acht Monaten Wartezeit gibt es Folge Zwei des KontextCast. Max und ich sprechen in Anlehnung an einen meiner letzten Artikel über Computer, Zeit und die Frage, ob 2038 endlich die Welt untergehen wird.
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Google Summer of Code starts in four days, many open source project ideas still available
If you couldn’t find anything interesting in the 54 Google Summer of Code ideas by the KDE project, here’s some more.
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Free Software Foundation okay with new GitHub terms, but recommends other services
In a statement issued on March 14, 2017, the Free Software Foundation declares that the new GitHub Terms of Service don’t conflict with copyleft, but still recommends to use other hosting sites.
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Meet the “Cat Supremacy License” for software
A recent thread on the debian-curiosa mailing list brought up this license after a Debian ftpmaster rejected the braillegraph 0.1
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A look at the Year 2036/2038 problems and time proofness in various systems
On January 19, 2038 all signed 32-bit timestamps representing time and date relative to the “UNIX epoch” will roll over. Just 68 years later, in 2106, all unsigned 32-bit values will do so. But even before that, timestamps used by the Network Time Protocol will roll over in 2036. Since it’s only 19 years to Armageddon, I’ll lok at what this means for Linux, Windows and other systems and how problems are being solved.
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The KDE project has 54 ideas for Google Summer of Code
Google’s “Summer of Code” (GSoC) will be happening for the thirtheenth time this year, and the KDE project is yet again one of the 201 participating open source organizations. The project’s list of ideas students may tackle has currently grown to 54 entries.
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How to run “8-Bit Armies” on Windows 10 64 Bit
I bought “8-Bit Armies” from GOG today and installed it on a fresh Windows 10 64 Bit install. It didn’t work out of the box, claiming DirectX 11 was not installed, and it took me a while to make it work, so here’s what I had to do.
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The Guardian Project’s “Proof Mode” app for activists doesn’t work
On February 24, 2017 The Guardian Project (not to be confused with the newspaper) presented “Proof Mode”, an app for Android smartphones which promises to add cryptographic “proof” to ever image and video file recorded by the device as to prove the material is authentic and hasn’t been tampered with. Sadly, none of the promises have proven to be true to me.
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Arbitrary code execution in TeX distributions
Many out there use TeX or one of its distributions like LaTex, MiKTeX or teTeX. Sharing TeX files between authors is common, and often conference organizers, journal editors or university institutes offer TeX templates for papers and diploma theses. So what if a TeX file could take over your computer?
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