I recently wrote a (German) article including this graphic (in German). Here is an English version of it. Have fun! Here it is! The Rupp graph, enhanced with additional trend lies and the «frequency wall» (inspired by The Economist). CC BY-4.0If you want a slightly more editable version (with more Inkscape metadata and grouped data points): Here it is. There is a German version of the same Graph, with quite a bit of explanatory text. References Marcel Waldvogel: Was Prozessoren und die Fre...| Netfuture: The future is networked
This is the time to catch up on what you missed during the year. For some, it is meeting the family. For others, doing snowsports. For even others, it is cuddling up and reading. This is an article for the latter. I looked at my access logs and started collecting a best-of list, sorted by number of page views. I hope some of them pique your interest. Enjoy! There is also a 🇩🇪German post summarizing the top-ten of my German articles. It is vastly different. Have a look here. 10. «Right ...| Netfuture: The future is networked
The default WordPress «Archive» block becomes very long and narrow, when months accumulate. Here is an easy way to make it more compact. The problem One of my blogs looked like that after a few years of action (wrapped for better visualization; in the original, it is one huge vertical strip): The goal It would be much nicer if it looked like in the heading: One line per year Within each line, the sequence of the months (only those with active posts) Much nicer, isn't it? What we don't wantW...| Netfuture: The future is networked
«SMTP Smuggling» is a vulnerability that allows to circumvent some mail checks at the receiver and therefore will allow additional spam and/or phishing messages through. Here is the list of what we currently know. Interested in the full story? I have written a German 🇩🇪 article on SMTP Smuggling and SEC Consult's selective (and untimely) disclosure. The SEC Consult article contains information about the software they tested. However, the information is largely unstructured. Here is a...| Netfuture: The future is networked
There was a DEFCON Voting Village panel «If I can shop online, why can't I vote online?» which I found extremely important to read or listen to. Not just for me, in fact, for anyone talking about electronic voting. Here is a transcript for those who prefer reading (or searching for keywords). Of course, a link to the original video may not be missing, for those who prefer to watch or listen. https://www.youtube.com/live/WJjBEhPjLRE Editorial remarks The transcript has received minor editori...| Netfuture: The future is networked
Computers are very good at counting. But usually only within narrow limits. Here is an insight into where these limits come from and what goes wrong when they are exceeded. The original German 🇩🇪 version of this article is here: Zählen wie ein Computer. Counting for beginners Most of us have been counting for so […]| Netfuture: The future is networked
Navigating the slides works perfectly with the Kensington PowerPointer for LibreOffice under Linux, no questions asked. The extra functions (“laserpointing”, drawing, and screen blanking) are not well supported. Here is how to fix them. One of the supposed advantages of the Kensington PowerPointer over other devices such as the Logitech Presenter: No additional software is […]| Netfuture: The future is networked
As an avid reader, you know my arguments that neither NFT nor smart contracts live up to their promises, and that the blockchain underneath is also more fragile and has a worse cost-benefit ratio than most believe. Similarly, I also claim the same for the metaverses built on top of them all. And that the […]| Netfuture: The future is networked
Bureaucracy and inefficiency are frowned upon, often rightly so. But they also have their good sides: Properly applied, they ensure reliability and legal certainty. Blockchain disciples want to “improve” bureaucracy-ridden processes, but achieve the opposite. Two examples: This text also appeared in German 🇩🇪 : «Ineffizienz ist gut (manchmal)» Real estate under the rule of […]| Netfuture: The future is networked
If you wanted your web page excluded from being crawled or indexed by search engines and other robots, robots.txt was your tool of choice, with some additional stuff like <meta name="robots" value="noindex" /> or <a href="…" rel="nofollow"> sprinkled in. It is getting more complicated with AI crawlers. Let’s have a look. Traditional functions New challenges […]| Netfuture: The future is networked
«SMTP Smuggling» is a vulnerability that allows to circumvent some mail checks at the receiver and therefore will allow additional spam and/or phishing messages through. Here is the list of what we currently know. Interested in the full story? I have written a German 🇩🇪 article on SMTP Smuggl| Netfuture: The future is networked
Inspired by an NZZ Folio article on AI text and image generation using DALL•E 2, I tried to reproduce the (German) prompts. Someone suggested that English prompts would work better. Here is the comparison.| Netfuture: The future is networked
AI art is on the rise, both in terms of quality and quantity. It (unfortunately) lies in human nature to market some of that as genuine art. Here are some signs that can help identifying AI art. The German 🇩🇪 translation is available as «Identifikation von KI-Kunst». Tools like DALL•E 2, M| Netfuture: The future is networked
