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Am 4. Oktober 2018 war die Softwerkskammer Lübeck im neuen Nobreakspace zu Gast und Mario Rutz hat einen Vortrag über Enterprise Application Integration mit Apache Camel gehalten. about this event: https://chaotikum.org/blog/2018/09/29/47-softwerkskammer/

In the 90s, software engineering shifted from packaged software and PCs to services and clouds, enabling distributed architectures that incorporate real-time feedback from users. In the process, digital systems became layers of technologies metricized under the authority of objective functions. These functions drive selection of software features, service integration, cloud usage, user interaction...

Das Versprechen jeder Kommunikationsverbindung vom Telegraphen über das Radio bis zum Internet ist, dass die Angeschlossenen durch ihren Austausch zu einem gemeinsamen Verständnis kommen. Heute ist die Welt global vernetzt wie nie. Doch statt Horizonterweiterung und Neugier auf Vielfalt erleben wir Xenophobie, Grenzschließungen und eine Internationale der Nationalisten. Die Koevolution von technis...

Das erste höchstrichterliche Urteil zum Staatstrojaner stammt schon aus dem Jahr 2008. Seither konnten keine Bundesregierung und kein Innenminister von dem Vorhaben lassen, zu versuchen, das staatliche Hacking in das Arsenal der Ermittlungswerkzeuge aufzunehmen. In der letzten Legislaturperiode nun wurde der Staatstrojaner als normales Ermittlungsinstrument für Dutzende Straftaten erlaubt. Die tec...

Manche Menschen kaufen sich ganze Städte oder Teile davon, doch der damit verbundenen Gestaltungsmacht ist bislang wenig entgegengesetzt worden. Denn es geht nicht – wie etwa bei Le Corbusier – um das Unterbringen der eigenen ArbeiterInnen, sondern viel wesentlicher um Macht und Kontrolle von Verkehr, Kommunikation, Energie und Arbeit kompletter urbaner Räume. Technische Zentralisierung unterminie...

This talk will describe all of the reasons for podman, all of its features demonstrate its functionality, I will cover the background of podman, how we built it, why we built it, I will demonstrate using it in multiple different ways, Running containers building container images Communicating with it via var link, cockpit integration. Communicating with it from a remote machine. about this event:...

Kdump is a vital tool for debugging severe kernel crashes, especially if the failure can't be reproduced easily or an direct access to the system is not possible. Kdump is a vital tool for debugging severe kernel crashes, especially if the failure can't be reproduced easily or an direct access to the system is not possible. When an sever error happens in the kernel, a new crash kernel get loaded w...

Please submit your talks to mpitt [at] redhat [dot] com or to organizers at the venue about this event: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/en/ASG2018/public/events/233

Efficient monitoring of large-scale networks poses a delicate balance between capture granularity on the one hand and the imposed overheads and performance penalties on the other. Skydive is an open source real-time network topology and protocol analyzer, featuring smart network collection which is both granular and efficient. Skydive allows for efficient network monitoring at scale through Linux...

The “weaponization of the internet” — it’s suddenly a hot topic these days. News of this weaponization dominates the news. Many believe that this is a new development: that the Internet, once a force of democracy and egalitarianism, has been hijacked malign forces. But the internet hasn’t just now become weaponized — it has always been a weapon, going back to its emergence out of the Pentagon in t...

System containers, the oldest type of containers, focus on running an entire Linux distribution, including all its services in very much the same way it would on a physical system or virtual machine. System containers come with some unique challenges, users of those containers expect to be able to do pretty much everything that they can on a normal system. This means it’s not possible to restrict...

Wer oder was gestaltet eigentlich auf welche Weise die Produkte der Informatik? Wie verteilen sich die Machtkonstellationen von der Entwicklung über die Einrichtung bis hin zur massenhaften Nutzung jeweils neu? Sind es die Visionäre und Pioniere der Informatik? Oder die Entrepreneure disruptiver Innovation? Oder die politischen Regulierer demokratisch legitimierter Repräsentanten oder autokratisch...

The Linux Audit daemon is responsible for writing audit records to the disk, which you can then access with ausearch and aureport. However, it turned out that parsing and centralizing these records is not as easy as you would hope. Elastic's new Auditbeat fixes this by keeping the original configuration, but ships them to a centralized location where you can easily visualize all events. You can al...

In den letzten Monaten kam die Berichterstattung über die Einführung von Digitalen Gesellschaftlichen Bewertungssystemen (Social Credit Systems) in China in Fahrt, leider auch mit mancher Fehlberichterstattung. Die Politikwissenschaftlerin und Sinologin Katika Kühnreich gibt in ihrem Vortrag eine Übersicht über existierende Systeme und ihre Funktionen. Doch sie bleibt nicht in China stehen, sonder...

Das Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF) verleiht im Rahmen der FIfF-Konferenz in Berlin die Weizenbaum-Medaille 2018 an Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Coy für seine außerordentlichen Verdienste um das Themengebiet Informatik und Gesellschaft. about this event: https://2018.fiffkon.de/program/events/21.html

Flatpak is a desktop-focused application distribution and deployment system for linux. This talk will walk through the technical details of the core functionallity and explain how it work and why it works that way. Flatpak has now had a major stable release and the rate of change is slowing down. This is a good time to take a look at how the things work behind the scenes. This talk will go through...

There is so much more than you can so, than just starting and stooping your service, when you start to interact with systemd from within your application. Lets find out!!! We'll explore how can you interact with systemd from your aplication, by describing how pystemd, a python binding for systemd, was created at facebook, and what type things your programs can take advantage if you just interact w...

Future of connecting to the container runtime as docker phases out Since docker came on the scene in 2013, for many it was the first they'd heard of containers. They existed before, and an have exploded since then. Today if you intend on running containers in production it means at the kubernetes level, though what is happening below that? what does this mean for direct access and on-going develop...

about this event: https://2018.fiffkon.de/program/events/19.html

libcapsule is a project that allows segregated dynamic linking: Access to the symbols of a library without being exposed to any of the dependencies of that library without requiring recompilation of the binary that pulls it in. libcapsule's goal is to improve portability of programs that are distributed with runtimes (cf flatpak) that still need access to [some] libraries from the host (eg libGL)...

Während die Einen von der Lösung gravierender Menschheitsprobleme träumen, warnen Andere vor einer allumfassenden Überwachung durch die neuen Möglichkeiten soziotechnischer Systeme. Doch steht sowohl hinter der Utopie des Solutionismus als auch hinter der Dystopie totaler Überwachung die Frage, warum, wofür und wie die dazu notwendigen Daten überhaupt produziert und genutzt werden. Lassen sich dur...

CRI-O is a brand new container runtime dedicated and optimized to support kubernetes workload. Its goal is to be a stable container runtime tied to kubernetes releases, replacing the docker daemon. Historically every update of Docker has broken Kubernetes. This has led to major rewriting and fixes of Kubernetes, which is understandable since Docker is not primarily for Kubernetes. Kubernetes needs...

about this event: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/en/ASG2018/public/events/223

TL;DR: Stop making "Desktop Linux" a moving target by agreeing on a minimal baseline that third-party application can take for granted to exist on each Desktop Linux system. To make "Desktop Linux" a viable platform (as in: Windows, macOS) to develop against, we need to insist on backward compatibility and either need to find the "least common denominator" by experimentation (as we have done for o...

about this event: https://2018.fiffkon.de/program/events/20.html