Posts by fg_swe

European biz calls for Euro tech for local people

EU GDPR

For some funny reason, EU law can be avoided by California-Washington Corporations. They simply create a huge document, where they "justify" what they do and that is it. Google, MSFT, Apple, Facebook - all of them do whatever they please. EU politicans always bend over to them, why ?

The simple explanation is that the EU is impotent in military and security matters. They need the NSA warnings(which come from mining the California Data Mountains) to control a certain group of dangerous foreigners(which the current elite is keen on letting in in unlimited numbers). So Google will tell them to either suck it up or be denied NSA warnings. Then EU bends over.

LUGs

LUGs are one place to obtain Linux knowledge and support(especially for private Linux users), but surely there are lots of freelance engineers around whom you can find via the freelance search engines.

LUGs are probably just the gateway into the FOSS world.

Commercial IT Airbus

1.) Fujitsu computers such as the BS2000 mainframes out of Munich, ARM- and SPARC-based servers. At least partially European CPUs !

https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/unix/sparc/

2.) Hetzner, OVH, T-Systems,... as truly European Cloud Providers

3.) Tuxedo client computers. Soon with ARM CPU ? https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/de/In-den-Medien-TUXEDO-Prototyp-mit-ARM-Chipsatz-von-Qualcomm.tuxedo

4.) Local Linux User Groups as Talent Pool for admins, developers and consultants

5.) CompCert proven correct Compiler

6.) SeL4 high security, proven correct OS

7.) MaxDB out of Germany

8.) OnlyOffice

9.)

Re: Fujitsu SPARC and ARM

https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/supercomputer/specifications/

Personal IT Airbus Self Made, GDPR Compliant

Even though it is not perfect, what we can do today is:

1.) Tuxedo laptop for work. Ubuntu or SuSE OS. https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/

2.) Private Cloud storage next to DSL modem on an RPI4. File transfer using ssh/scp.

3.) Private homepage on the RPI4, using DynDNS adressing.

4.) DeltaChat messaging

5.) qwant search engine

6.) PeerTube Video sharing

7.) Hetzner, OVH servers, if needed for performance. Starts at 5€/month

8.) Local Unix User group as a place to learn and connect.

IT Airbus

Like the Airbus project, we need a cooperation to finance, develop, organize, market, support and sell European IT products.

Here are some of my ideas, though not a complete plan:

https://di-fg.de/IT_Airbus.html

Airbus could indeed be the blueprint of this effort, as it is hugely successful. 50% market share and leader in technology and quality !

What is missing is the California-style Risk Financing. We need competent financiers who decide about which project/company is funded. The "IT-Airbus" company could provide the organizational structure to do this. But where is the Franz-Josef Strauß, the Georges Pompidou and the General de Gaulle to be the drivers behind this ? Midgets like Ursula wont cut it. Neither does the authoritarian Breton.

Regarding the "free market" argument - the US DOD/Government has been behind(as an early investor) almost ALL California companies such as Google, Facebook, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard etc.

Fujitsu SPARC and ARM

Last time I checked, they were quite competitive in terms of horsepower.

The japanese have great respect for us. They work with Britain and Italy on the nextgen fighter.

Why not also work with them in computers ? Much deeper than Fujtsu-ICL already does.

Really ?

The EU is hellbent on CISA-style censorship, which the Americans have already dumped again.

Because if you suppress the opposition's voice, paradise comes along. Proven by Cuba and Venezuela !

He who has the more weapons and soldiers makes the law. Not nice, but realistic.

4chan, the 'internet’s litter box,' appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

PHP

The litterbox language ?

That massive GitHub supply chain attack? It all started with a stolen SpotBugs token

KISS

One more proof complexity cannot be secured.

Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end

Works Nicely For Me

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

I just did a recompile of my web server and did not have any problems with the move from x86 to ARM.

It seems ARM has at least a 2x cost/performance advantage.

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat

So

All my arguments are valid ?

You Mean USAID ?

The DNC's secret fund to enrich themselves (and friends like SOROS) from poor congressman to multi-millionaire ?

Or do you mean the GATES-PFIZER scheme to suck dozens of billions out of the public purse via vaccine scams ?

Double Standards

Ursula von der Leyen does Multi-Billion € deals with the PharmaMafia via SMS, on behalf of the EU, then deletes the SMS messages. Before she did the same in German MoD. No prosecution, as she is part of the WEF club.

Hillary Clinton runs an Email Server in her private closet, communicating official business, including SECRET marking. Then she deletes the email server. No prosecution.

At least these folks used a modicum of ciphering. Not sure it is of much use against Russia and China, though.

Almost Good

I give you a two on the German scale of 1 to 6 with 1 being "very good".

Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

Bloody Amateurs

Thank god the malware authors seem to be low intelligence, badly read folks.

I read of much tougher stuff 30 years ago.

Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying

Free Enterprise Fix: Use Linux+AppArmor

With AppArmor, the Email program (e.g. Thunderbird) can be locked into a tiny subset of the entire file tree. Then any malware attack will be localized to this subset of the file tree. The user will have to move files explicity out of this subset to other locations.

Likewise, LibreOffice can be locked down with AppArmor, too.

AppArmor profiles can be created with typically less than 10 manhours of effort by a experienced Linux Admin, depending on the complexity of the access patterns of the program. It took me 10 hours for firefox. After that, the AppArmor profile can be copied to any number of systems.

https://github.com/roddhjav/apparmor.d

Hamburger Computing Insanity

So this "link file" is actually a container for Turing Complete Code ?

Effectively a *.bat file that has a *.lnk extension ?

In a sane world, system administrators would have to digitally sign ANY turing-complete thing running on their user's machines:

*.exe

*.docx with VBA inside

*.bat

*.com

*.xlsx with VBA inside

etc

Also, this $hit should by default all be executed inside some sort of sane sandbox. So that the code can - at worst - only encrypt+reconnoiter the (say) docx stuff, but not the CATIA and the *.cpp files.

France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

Re: les queer studies?

Surely GATES will inflate the virus threat.

This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer

One Man

One Web Server !

The Socialist-Monopolist Model

Currently Monopolists like Google, Amazon and Facebook feast on "free" content created by millions of authors. They make phantastic profits off this. Also, they play tyrannic censor on behalf of shady elitist groups such as the financiers behind them.

During the Covid Vacinne Selling Scam they coordinated with CISA to censor the h3ll out of any opposite voice.

Only on Russian-Dubaian Telegram we had uncensored information flow !

All the folks who yearn for the freebies from these Giga-Corporations should realize that they are enslaved to their tyrannic whims.

Freedom comes from small, independent and competitive suppliers. Not from behemoths who rival GOSPLAN in size and structure!

Freedom has very serious economic aspects.

This shows how rotte3n the FAANG is.

Brave Browser

Interesting Model. What do you think ?

Sure

That is why we live in the soviet utopia of free books. And authors only do their work in addition to their job as a factory worker, eh ?

JK Rowling became a billionaire with books and tales !

Others make more moderate amounts, yet still live nicely from bookwriting.

In the teal world, only few people want to play GNUJesus and live off social security.

Mozilla To The Rescue

What we need is a simple micropayment system that works universally.

Load the firefox wallet monthly, then pay tiny amounts (e.g. 10 cent) on relevant pages.

This could enable a large number of authors on all kinds of subjects.

'Dead simple' hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat 'now actively exploited in the wild'

Poisoned Fruits of Serialization

One of these clever ideas, which turn out to be not so clever after all.

Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip

Re: The road ahead?

You must pin one more needle into your Musk puppet for this to work.

Sovereign Emergency Communications

https://di-fg.de/FES.html

Rolls-Royce

...would also be long dead without financial support by UKGOV.

The financial risks associated with a multi-billion pound/€/$ R+D engine project can in the end only be underwritten by governments.

The bankers will complain, right until they demand even bigger subsidies for their own contraptions.

Go

Hetzner

1und1

T-Systems

OVHCloud

and probably 25 others.

Airbus

Actually Airbus is leading in almost any aspect of big airliners, except maybe finance engineering.

IT AIRBUS

Here is a paper by myself:

https://di-fg.de/IT_Airbus.html

And yes, it does not comply with the "free market" propaganda. Neither do the subsidies, which built the world class players Google, Facebook, Airbus, Volkswagen.

No: Subsidies

Just like that sweet CIA+Army money, which built the Silicon Valley, Google etc.

Or subsidies that built AIRBUS.

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

"training language"

This is proven to be hostile propaganda:

1.) Apple LISA was programmed in a pascal variant. Highly important machine from a technology development point of view.

2.) HP MPE/HP3000 was also programmed in a pascal variant. For all but naming this evolved into a mainframe class operating system with multiprocessing and thousands of realtime users. It was only killed by HP management ignoring the wishes of their loyal HP3000 customers. Mindless MBA types at their "best".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_3000

So ?

How is this firebird+Delphi combo going these days for you ?

Tool Cost

Compare Delphi license cost to:

+ the toolset+VW bus of a craftsman (probably 100k $)

+ the $500k CNC machine of a modern machinist

+ the $300k truck of a truck driver

+ $30 000 of VisualWorks (noone really knows)

So the $5000 of Delphi are rather trivial, except if you are totally broke and/or third world.

Pricing

Even a few thousand dollars are a pittance, compared to what other professionals use at work. A CNC worker will stand in front of a $500 000 machine, for example. If the programming business cannot afford this tiny sum, something about the business must be changed.

So ?

You are confused by an array of robust GUI toolkits ?

Just pick one of them and develop your expertise with that.

Also, avoid Qt if somehow possible. It's a monster of 100 000 files by now.

Quiche Versus Hamburger

Truly capable teachers will introduce pupils/students to a proper programming language as opposed to the hamburger dogfood.

Fltk

I can recommend both wxWidgets and fltk. You can even ask the WormBrain "chatGPT" for basic fltk operations and it will mostly emit useful code snippets.

Here is a sample app: https://github.com/DiplIngFrankGerlach/Taschenrechner

Boeing, Boeing, burned: Over half a billion dollars by Starliner in 2024

No

Boeing has huge contracts with many USG agencies such as the NRO. They "work" for Boeing quite nicely, I assume.

What you see in this article is probably 1/10th of Boeing space activities. Just because one part of a company has problems, does not mean all other parts must have issues.

https://www.boeing.com/space/boeing-satellites#government

Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter

Already Is

https://gauss.di-fg.de/

Strategic Mistake

Gelsinger was not strong enough to cut the fabs lose from the mothership, despite everybody seeing that their fabs were long behind TSMC.

A long time ago, fabs were Intel's strength, but these days TSMC looks unbeatable. Intel is too much of a "vertically integrated" operation. Similar to what IBM and HP were, a long time ago.

In the age of dozen-billion $ fabs, the economic pressure is such that these expensive fabs must be shared by lots of enterprises. TSMC serves Apple, Nvidia, AMD, IBM, Broadcom etc. Intel fabs only serve Intel, which is incredibly weak, economically speaking.

Ampere

I switched to ARM for my web server CPU and it works very nicely. All I had to do was a recompile of the web server.

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

qwant.com

From Paris. Works nicely with minor hiccups.

False

It is Worm-level intelligence if you count the number of neurons.

Avoid The Cr4p

If they run AI on your user input, they forward each keystroke to their data centre in a far away country ? Now your intellectual property is up for grabs ?

So:

Linux

xBSD

DeltaChat

RPI Personal server instead of CageBook

OpenOffice

PeerTube

HTML

Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

And The Exploit Is ?

The real question is how the baddy managed to insert his malware in running routers.

Let me guess: a memory safety bug-exploit due to Hamburger Computing("C").

Here is the fix: https://sappeur.di-fg.de

Actually he does not need this crypto B.S. if he does not also patch the original exploit.

Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing

Also WRONG

Airbus Manching and Donauwörth are essentially corporations of their own with R+D, advanced development, customer service, manufacturing and the entire German-speaking management structure.

Plus they are intertwined with partners such as BAE and the Italians to deliver world class fighters and helicopters. The helos are even sold to the U.S. Army.

Only the highest levels of Manching and Donauwörth need to speak French, if at all.

I am always doing very well in Gallica with three words of Latin ;-)