Month: February 2025

Von der Cloud über SaaS bis hin zum Workflow: Welche Anbieter, Programme und Tools ich nach vier Jahren bei einem Start-up empfehle - und welche nicht. Ein Erfahrungsbericht von Jack Lindamood (Wirtschaft, AWS)

In der EU kann mit Hot Tub die erste Anwendung für Pornos aus einem alternativen App-Store auf dem iPhone installiert werden. (Apple App Store, Apple)

Funktionen fehlen, und die wichtigste Neuerung kommt nur mittelgut an: Erste Wertungen von Civilization 7 sind da. (Civilization, Steam)

Tesla will seine künftigen Cybercabs sauber halten: Dafür sollen Roboter den Staubsauger bedienen. (Cybercab, Roboter)

Wer sein Auto mit dem Autozug verladen lässt, sollte Software-Updates abschalten. Es gab schon mehrere Probleme beim Entladen. (Auto, Mobilität)

Kotlin bietet zahlreiche Vorteile für die JVM-Entwicklung. Ein Workshop zeigt, wie Java-Entwickler Kotlin effizient nutzen und bestehende Projekte optimieren können. (Golem Karrierewelt, Java)

In what is becoming a sadly regular occurrence, two popular free software projects, X.org/Freedesktop.org and Alpine Linux, need to rally some of their millions of users so that they can continue operating.

Both services have largely depended on free server resources provided by Equinix (formerly Packet.net) and its Metal division for the past few years. Equinix announced recently that it was sunsetting its bare-metal sales and services, or renting out physically distinct single computers rather than virtualized and shared hardware. As reported by the Phronix blog, both free software organizations have until the end of April to find and fund new hosting, with some fairly demanding bandwidth and development needs.

An issue ticket on Freedesktop.org's GitLab repository provides the story and the nitty-gritty needs of that project. Both the X.org foundation (home of the 40-year-old window system) and Freedesktop.org (a shared base of specifications and technology for free software desktops, including Wayland and many more) used Equinix's donated space.

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Like a lot of the rest of the federal government right now, NASA is reeling during the first turbulent days of the Trump administration.

The last two weeks have brought a change in leadership in the form of interim administrator Janet Petro, whose ascension was a surprise. Her first act was to tell agency employees to remove diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility contracts and to "report" on anyone who did not carry out this order. Soon, civil servants began receiving emails from the US Office of Personnel Management that some perceived as an effort to push them to resign.

Then there are the actions of SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Last week he sowed doubt by claiming NASA had "stranded" astronauts on the space station. (The astronauts are perfectly safe and have a ride home.) Perhaps more importantly, he owns the space agency's most important contractor and, in recent weeks, has become deeply enmeshed in operating the US government through his Department of Government Efficiency. For some NASA employees, whether or not it is true, there is now an uncomfortable sense that they are working for Musk and to dole out contracts to SpaceX.

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Microsoft PowerToys is a free application that brings a bunch of advanced features to Windows for power users. Some of those tools give you more control over your mouse and keyboard settings. Others give you more options for how to manage windows. And then there’s the Advanced Paste tool, which supercharges the copy & paste in […]

The post Media transcoding is coming to the Microsoft PowerToys Advanced Paste tool (transcode audio and video from a copy/paste context menu) appeared first on Liliputing.

A lot of human society requires what's called a "theory of mind"—the ability to infer the mental state of another person and adjust our actions based on what we expect they know and are thinking. We don't always get this right—it's easy to get confused about what someone else might be thinking—but we still rely on it to navigate through everything from complicated social situations to avoid bumping into people on the street.

There's some mixed evidence that other animals have a limited theory of mind, but there are alternate interpretations for most of it. So two researchers at Johns Hopkins, Luke Townrow and Christopher Krupenye, came up with a way of testing whether some of our closest living relatives, the bonobos, could infer the state of mind of a human they were cooperating with. The work clearly showed that the bonobos could tell when their human partner was ignorant.

Now you see it...

The experimental approach is quite simple, and involves a setup familiar to street hustlers: a set of three cups, with a treat placed under one of them. Except in this case, there's no sleight-of-hand in that the chimp can watch as one experimenter places the treat under a cup, and all of the cups remain stationary throughout the experiment.

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