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The 79th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we explore trust and its importance in human society and culture; in the Library section, we review “Geekonomics” by David Rice; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a video on the Veritasium channel where Derek Muller hacks Linus Sebastian’s phone.
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/issue-79-trust/

Aktuell sehe ich wieder vermehrt Artikel zu den Wahlprogrammen in der BTW, auch zu Digitalpolitik.[1] Das ist natürlich super!
Nur der Hinweis: Theorie ist schön, Praxis ernüchternd.
[1] https://netzpolitik.org/2025/bundestag

Bundestagswahl: Das steht über Daten und Digitales in den Wahlprogrammen
Wir durchkämmen die Parteiprogramme nach digitalen Fragen und dem ominösen „Cyber“: Wer will wen anlasslos überwachen? Wer verspricht am meisten Glasfaser? Und wer will das Militär mit Drohnen aufrüsten?

"It is fair to say that Microsoft spent at least the first five years of its history in relative obscurity. The first appearance of the name “Microsoft” on the pages of Byte was a short mention of their BASIC interpreter in an advertising on page 47 of the May 1977 issue. In contrast, page 34 of the same issue included an article about the Apple II by Steve Wozniak. The Woz and Gary Kildall were the biggest stars of the microcomputer industry at the end of the 1970s."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/where-does-microsoft-want-to-go-today/

Don't forget! In vulnerability-lookup, you can quickly identify sighted vulnerabilities that are not yet published or are scheduled for publication soon (highlighted in yellow in the screenshot).
This example is interesting, a pre-publication on GitHub Gist before the official CVE release.
https://

CVE-2024-42844 public reference
CVE-2024-42844 public reference. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

"Simultaneously to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone in January 2007, Google started publishing a series of blog posts called “Testing on the Toilet”. On May 15th, 2008, this series featured a famous issue: “TotT: Using Dependancy Injection to Avoid Singletons.” The writing was literally on the wall of toilets worldwide: Singletons are bad™®©. Sadly, the much more exciting idea of dependency injection contained in the article got lost in the minds of most readers."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-hype-cycle-of-oop/

I'm 37 years old and I finally finished a #JRPG game for the first time in my life ( #SeaOfStars ).
I like them a lot, but I often get bored of the grinding, or I have to leave it for some time and when I come back I don't remember what I was doing.
Why I managed to finish it this time? Because I had more important, stressing and boring things to do instead, and my brain demanded procrastination. #ADHD

Mal dormir accroit le risque d'accepter des récits complotistes.
https://theconversation.com/how-poor-sleep-could-fuel-belief-in-conspiracy-theories-251669

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Paul Krugman : "Trump est un Parrain Š l'envers, faisant des offres que les autres pays ne peuvent pas accepter."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-the-godfather-in-reverse

"Most importantly, she is the author of “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure”, a freely available ground-breaking report published with support from the Ford Foundation in 2016, where Nadia proposes the notion that open-source code is akin to public infrastructure, highlighting the urgent need for creators to be supported in their work."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/nadia-asparouhova/