31 July 2021

28 links · Saturday

The Presenting Vendor Paradox

There's a paradox in information security where the community wants two things at once: 1. High quality research and talks, and 2. Unbiased research and

Don’t become an Enterprise/IT Architect…

With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Str…

Did Dvorak Die "A Bitter Man"?

Yet more MSc yak-shaving. I’m currently reading Melissa Schilling’s book “Strategic management of technological innovation”. In a passage talking about customers’ resi…

The Poincaré Conjecture

Poincaré began working on what is now considered to be the foundation of topology and algebraic topology in the 1890s with the work Analysis Situs (1895) and five later supplements (1899; 1900, 1902a, 1902b, 1904).

Back to Linux

Background Note: I’ve started writing this article about one year ago (September 2020), but I dropped it at some point. Its final version is way less ambitious than my original plans for it. Still, better than nothing. A long time ago I wrote about my frustrat…

UV Radiation

Learn how to protect yourself from UV radiation.

Gold, silver and brass medals

What are the Olympic medals made of? It seems an obvious answer but the silver medal is the only one that is actually pure silver.

User Activity | Firefox Public Data Report

The state of the Firefox userbase, including user totals, usage hours, and version adoption. Use our public data to improve your Firefox support!

OfficeSuite

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The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs

When M1 Macs were launched, a new GPU with iOS-like architecture started driving the external monitors. This meant that the old method for controlling monitors using DDC wouldn't work anymore. Apps like Lunar and MonitorControl had to find other ways to change…

.NET July 2021 Updates – 5.0.8 and 3.1.17

Today, we are releasing the .NET July 2021 Updates. These updates contains reliability and other improvements. See the individual release notes for details on updated packages. You can download 5.0.8 , 3.1.17 versions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, for x86, x6…