Andreas Weinberger

Digital@rbyter at 53.33 degrees North and 10.03 degrees East

[David das Neves @david_das_neves]

NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Tool - Great Overview and visualization, created by John Masserini, reflecting the new NIST CSF 2.0

https://t.co/NMXc3fzCS4

#CyberSecurity #NIST

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Happy 33rd birthday the world's first website!

On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web (WWW) creator, Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first website.

#InternetHistory

[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

Compaq LTE 386 (1990)

[E. @tystochtimid]

🇸🇪✨🙏🏻

[CrowdStrike @CrowdStrike]

This morning, we published the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) detailing the findings, mitigations and technical details of the July 19, 2024, Channel File 291 incident. We apologize unreservedly and will use the lessons learned from this incident to become more resilient and better serve our customers. To any customer still affected, please know we will not rest until all systems are restored.

For the executive summary and full RCA, please visit https://t.co/VxZdW6gKmt

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How different colors got their names

[✏️ etymology_nerd]

[Andreas Weinberger @human_makro]

@MartinBraml Rückfrage dazu: und auf welchen Geräten wird das dann geschaut? Also konkret wie ist die Medientechnik & IT-Ausstattung der Privatpersonen?

[BSI @BSI_Bund]

ℹ️ Zu den weltweiten IT-Ausfällen gibt euch BSI-Präsidentin Claudia Plattner ein Update. #Crowdstrike #Falcon #Microsoft Unser BSI-Lagezentrum behält die Situation 24/7 im Blick.

🔄 Wir halten euch hier und auf unserer Webseite weiter auf dem Laufenden.

[Andreas Weinberger @human_makro]

@HumansExplained Biok arrived. Discovered two hidden spaceships in Hamburg already:-)

[baakenwerder @baakenwerder]

Brauchbares Karten-Tool und spannende 3D-Ausblicke auf Hamburgs Dächer.

[Andreas Weinberger @human_makro]

@duhrtrier Ich sag immer: wer in Trier gelebt hat, braucht Rom nicht:-)

[Inge Duhr @duhrtrier]

Die Kaiserthermen in Trier.
Guten Morgen am Dienstag.

[baakenwerder @baakenwerder]

Heute ist Hamburger Tag des Franzbrötchen!

Seit 210 Jahre ohne französische Besatzung.

210 Jahre Franzbrötchen.

[Andreas Weinberger @human_makro]

@Opa_Homie Sh;t Happens:-)

[Landesbetrieb Geoinformation und Vermessung (LGV) @HH_Geo]

#3D-Stadmodell komplett: Das neue hochqualitative Abbild Hamburgs ist jetzt vollständig im #Hamburger Geoportal veröffentlicht. Die attraktive Darstellungsform macht Verschneidungen von Datensätzen der #UrbanDataPlatform Hamburg (#UDP) greifbar. Mehr: https://t.co/OppMOGt3Nd

[Die Seenotretter – DGzRS @Seenotretter]

#OTD vor 2⃣0⃣0⃣ Jahren wurde die @RNLI gegründet. Unsere britisch-irische Schwestergesellschaft ist die älteste der Welt. Congratulations! 🎂 200 years ago the #RNLI was founded. Our British-Irish sister institution is the world's oldest. #Seenotretter🤝#SARfamily 📸RNLI/#DGzRS

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

This is the Corvette that Windows zip folders bought.

Back in '93 or so, I was working at Microsoft on COM, and at home for fun I started writing a shell extension to browse zip folders in the new Win95 user interface, making them appear as if they were just folders. That grew into a shareware product call VisualZIP.

Then one day just before heading into work, I got a call from a lady at Microsoft. She wanted to know if I was the Dave Plummer who wrote VisualZIP, and long story short, they wanted to buy it, and could I come in to talk about it at some point?

I said "Sure, what's your office number, I'll stop by!" and it kinda freaked her out.

She said "No, no, we'd have to coordinate with travel and legal..." but I was confused as to why I'd need to book travel to talk to someone where I already worked!

And THEN I figured it out. She didn't know that I already worked for Microsoft, and I didn't know that she didn't know. So that was a bit awkward. But we worked it out.

In the end, my choices were pretty limited - either quit my day job and compete with Microsoft, or do what I wound up doing instead: cheerfully accepting their first, best, and only offer. So that's what I did!

I accpepted their offer, paid the taxes on it, and bought a lightly used red 1994 Corvette LT1. There wasn't much left over. So next time you open a zip file on Windows, think of my car :-)

If you've ever wondered why the zip support is so slow today, there are two main reasons: first, being 25+ year old code, it's single threaded. It doesn't matter how many CPU cores you have, it only uses one.

Second, because of the way the shell used to work, you couldn't just hand it the contents of a file, you had to give it a local file path as the source. So the code first extracts the file to a temporary location, hands that location to the shell, and the shell copies the file. In other words, there's an extra temp copy operation involved in every operation.

That *could* be fixed, but I imagine the sense is that anyone who's hardcore about their zip performance or feature set will likely be using 7-Zip or WinRAR, etc. I don't see them improving it any time soon, but they have added more compression formats like RAR to the mix, so you never know.

If you enjoy these random nostalgic looks back, follow me for more! And heck, if you made it this far, you might as well share it too :-)

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

India overtakes China to become the world's most populous nation

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."

"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."

"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?"

"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."

"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."

"No brain?"

"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"

"So... what does the thinking?"

"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"

"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"

"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."

"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."

"So what does the meat have in mind."

"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."

"We're supposed to talk to meat?"

"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."

"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"

"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."

"I thought you just told me they used radio."

"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"

"Officially or unofficially?"

"Both."

"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."

"I was hoping you would say that."

"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"

"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"

"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."

"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."

"That's it."

"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?"

"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."

"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."

"And we can marked this sector unoccupied."

"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"

"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotation ago, wants to be friendly again."

"They always come around."

"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone."

--

Terry Bisson, 1991

[Andreas Weinberger @human_makro]

@Tokyonobo Very interesting question. I am from Germany and my native dialect is Bavarian. Japanese in cinema often gave me a wrong expression since samurai and warriors were often displayed speaking very tense and aggressively. Nowadays I like hearing it since I find it very melodic.