Just measured my #darkfactor of personality.

https://darkfactor.org

There is serious psychological science behind this test.

My #darkscore is 2,13.

What is yours?

The Codex Hamurapi (photo taken 2018 in the Louvre).

At the stone the oldest written rules known in the world (from mesopotamia, 1800 bc) are written.

Imagine such a stone where nowadays rules of living together in a nation and worldwide would be written up. What would mankind think of that in 3800 years?

Digital Sovereignity also means to do little personal steps.

My bank (Deutsche Bank) offers now also #wero .

It took me two minutes to install the wero app and to connect my personal bank account.

Feels good to have an alternative to #paypal .

In light of the US government's attacks on the EU, I wish everyone would prepare for greater #independence .

System/360 was quite an engineering feat, with an architecture developed first which supported different implementations, including using microcode or not being part of the implementation details.

From the Wikipedia entry on the generic System/360 [1]:

«System/360's chief architect was Gene Amdahl and the project was managed by Fred Brooks, responsible to Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr.»

Gene Amdahl [2] formulated the eponymous scaling law [3], while Fred Brooks [4] was the author of “The Mythical Man Month” [5], and Thomas J. Watson Jr. [6] was IBM’s second president, who managed the mainframe era of IBM. Watson, the expert system supercomputer that beat Jeopardy! in 2011 [7] was named after his father, IBM’s original founder.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Amdahl
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Jr.
[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Watson
https://stefanbohacek.online/@discontinued/115797198191231974

#retrocomputing #IBM #SystemScaling #Scalability #ComputerArchitecture #System360 #IBMSystem360

I wrote this about the fuller history behind Marco Rubio's banning of a woke font. Hitler did it, too. I also explore the history of Times New Roman. With this, I'm honored to make my first appearance in Katie Couric Media.
https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/rubio-calibri-font/

My this years most used communication platforms and social networks. This is heavily influenced by my daily work, doesn't mean I like them all. Decending order:
Slack
Cisco Jabber
E-Mail System 1 (Outlook)
Matrix in a closed network
E-Mail System 2 (Outlook with MS Copilot)
LinkedIn
Confluence (yes, really for cross protocols and mentioning)
WhatsApp (not for work)

Not: Facebook, Xing, Nostr, Bluesky, Discord

Some #digitaldetox needed

I work as Senior Solution Architect.
This year I needed to do a specific industry certification for senior consultants.
Surprisingly part of the certification package was also to show eminence in doing social media with evidence and examples of influencing posts.
I never thought 17 years ago when starting to use #linkedin that it would help me in my professional career.
The last three years in my large bubble of real (former) clients and (former) colleagues I shared business insights.

@arpitaaa
As an introduction, start here:
https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/learning/en/courses/basics-of-quantum-information

If you want to play with Python on a real system, try this (there is also explained how to get some access and compute time for free) :
https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/tutorials/hello-world

Yesterday I used the first time a Quantum Computer myself.
Fascinating to work with qubits.

Easy part: python coding with qiskit on an #IBM Quantum instance in Washington is very straight forward and easy to understand (I am quite experienced with cloud computing). I have 10 minutes compute time for free.

Hard part: understanding the mathematical quantum stuff in detail. It is fun to play with algorithms and to execute stuff. But I am not able to understand really the math.

#quantumcomputing

#propaganda

Aldous Huxley 1946 (!) - aus "Zeit der Oligarchen" - English Original "Science, Liberty and Peace".

"... 60 Prozent der Mitglieder waren der Ansicht, dass Zeitung X die verlogenste im Raum New York war, doch mehr als vierzig Prozent gaben an, sie täglich zu lesen - weil die Comics besser und die Sensationsmeldungen blutrünstiger waren."

#socialmedia #twitter #X

:-)

So true.
Not just because of the business.
There is a hundreds of years old famous university and a liberal inclusive culture.

I grew up there and also worked there.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnathanteh_theres-a-german-town-youve-probably-never-activity-7384850659222867968-QO-v?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAAACkd7UBrezpSA6rMkTgPJLf3eeg55IOvyk&utm_campaign=share_via

#Freiburg #Germany #GenerativeAI #LinkedIn

Thanks to a citizen initiative, the city of Hamburg in Germany will adopt stronger environment goals to combat the climate crisis.
303.422 awesome people voted today to target 2040 to make Hamburg climate neutral.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/zukunftsentscheid-hamburger-stimmen-fuer-mehr-klimaschutz,zukunftsentscheid-114.html

#GoodNews #ClimateChange #Hamburg

Enterprise customer with private cloud in 2025 can still mean:
Everybody in (product-)management being surprised that "the cloud" is running out of resources. No big enough buffer planned and no organizational process in place.
Procurement orders hardware after 100% had been recognized.

#LinkedIn
wants our personal data for training #GenerativeAI models.

Here can be switched off the allowance for that:
http://linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement

https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes/

The hype around vibe coding created a new profession called "vibe coding cleanup specialist".

I don't feel surprised for obvious reasons.

#vibecoding #GenerativeAI

https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

I use #Komoot since a long time. I bought the world package which was already in place before they started selling monthly fees.

I would like to have something compareable in the #fediverse where I could own my data.
It would be OK to pay for an app. But the data should be under my control on a server hosted by myself on a federated platform with an open protocol.

Alsterlauf
#Hamburg

Starting now.

Please report any account that tells you that you need to verify your #Mastodon account to continue using it through a private message. It is a scam. We do not require identity verification. Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the joinmastodon.org domain and will typically never reach out through private messages.

https://decrypt.co/325183/ibm-quantum-roadmap-brings-blockchain-threat-closer

Post Quantum Security is important for TLS communication. The usage of the right algorihms. Organisations already prepare for that.

But sure, blockchain based systems will also be affected.

So, following IBMs roadmap, in four years some crypto guys might get in trouble.

#ibm #quantum #crypto #cybersecurity