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My Favorite Dev Talks of 39C3
The 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) delivered an information-rich engineering feast as usual.Once again, over a hundred talks, several days of intense content, as well as tens of thousands of developers and hackers. As usual for the Computer Chaos Club (CCC), there was a focus on reverse engineering, systems hacking and software concepts.
This post is about some fascinating talks from the 39C3.
Was Nutzer von Facebook und Social Apps wissen sollten - der Fall Max Schrems
Als Verantwortlicher fĂŒr Automatisierung hat man mit zu schĂŒtzenden Daten und Datenschutzthemen wie Verantwortungsbereichen, Verarbeitern, Auskunftspflichten, Datenschutzbeauftragten, MaĂnahmen und diesbezĂŒglichen Methoden zu tun. In den Lese- und Kursmaterialien zu diesem Thema kommt immer wieder eine Geschichte vor, die mit Ăsterreich zu tun hat.Welche Geschichte das ist, die dem David-gegen-Goliath-Mythos Ă€hnelt, erzĂ€hle ich hier.
Warum moderne Autos nicht an KI scheitern â sondern an grundlegendes Engineering
Ich hatte kĂŒrzlich ein nagelneues japanisches Auto (unter 100 km auf dem Tacho) fĂŒr eine lĂ€ngere Fahrt ins Ausland. Und das Erlebnis war ein Paradebeispiel dafĂŒr, wie gut moderne Technik sein kann â und wie sehr sie gleichzeitig an banalen Dingen scheitern kann.Bevor wir ĂŒber KI reden, mĂŒssen wir ĂŒber Ingenieurskunst reden
Abkehr von Microsoft 365 und Public Clouds: Innovation und digitale SouverÀnitÀt in DACH
Im Jahr 2025 entscheiden sich immer mehr öffentliche Einrichtungen und private Unternehmen in Europa â insbesondere in Deutschland, Ăsterreich und der Schweiz â fĂŒr eine Abkehr von Microsoft 365 und den groĂen Public-Cloud-Anbietern.Treiber dieser Bewegung sind der Wunsch nach Kontrolle ĂŒber sensible Daten, die strikte Einhaltung europĂ€ischer Regularien sowie die Vermeidung von kostspieligem Vendor-Lock-in.
Turning Away from Microsoft 365 and Public Clouds
In 2025, public and private organizations across Europe are increasingly choosing to migrate away from Microsoft 365. The need for control over sensitive data and stronger compliance with European regulations, and the desire to avoid costly vendor lock-in are driving this movement.
Internet Services
October 20, 2025: When An Outage Went Global
On October 20, 2025, a disruption in AWSâs US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region began as a local issue with DynamoDB. Within minutes, EC2 instances in the same cluster were also affected. What seemed like a local hiccup quickly cascaded into a global outage, disrupting applications, banks, and public services worldwide.DevOps
Netbox - A Tool for Documentation, Inventory, Automation
This post provides a sneak-peak into NetBox, an open-source application designed to function as the central documentation for IT infrastructure. We will dissect its architecture, data models, and extensibility, focusing on its role within a robust, automated operational ecosystem.
A Guide to Markdown
Markdown is used almost anywhere due to its simplicity.Netbox, for example, used comment fields supporting markdown https://netbox.timewarp.at/static/docs/reference/markdown
My web content is based on markdown.
My development docs, e.g. on github or gitlab, are in markdown.
Which format can Confluence import? Markdown!
Want more than millions of pages? Look for yourself đ
Back to 2013
The Amazon Empire: How a Bookshop Became a Goliath
When Jeff Bezos launched Amazon in 1994, it was little more than an online bookstore operating out of a garage. Fast forward three decades, and it has grown into one of the most powerful corporations on the planetâreshaping how we shop, read, work, and even think about convenience. The story of Amazon is not just about business success; itâs about disruption, ambition, and the consequences of building a modern-day empire.More Articles
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