Russia introduces new character encoding to replace Unicode

Russian computer scientists have created a new character encoding that will replace Unicode. The encoding looks like this: For Chinese letter, a three-byte-sequence starting with PREFIX-CN can be used. For all other letters, that are not in the base set, an eight byte long sequence starting with PREFIX-OTHER can be used. This encoding will be …

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2023

Щасливого нового року! — Frohes neues Jahr! — Happy new year!

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Christmas 2022

З Рiздвом Христовим − Merry Christmas − Frohe Weihnachten

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Available for new Projects in 2023

I am available for new projects starting April 2023. I can support you for SW-architecture, SW-development, Linux, databases and security. See IT Sky Consulting to see for more details on what I can offer.

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April

Just a reminder: Articles that are published on April 1st in this blog are always April-jokes.

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Goodware: Russian BOT-Networks

The FSB in Russia has an increasing demand for computing power and storage. On the other hand it is getting more difficult to import computers or parts into Russia due to the sanctions. So now an innovative Russian IT work group has developed a software stack, that allows reliable storage and computing on bot nets. …

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Ukraine

To all my readers: I am way to upset about the invasion of Ukraine by Russian fascists and the atrocities they are committing there. I am at the moment not able to write useful articles about IT topics. This is something from mainstream Russian TV by a super star who gets medals of honor from …

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Test systems

Typical software development environments have several systems running the software. While usually each developer runs it on his machine, there is a continuous integration server running and versions of the software that succeed there go to an artifactory and are immediately, during the night or manually installed on a system that is called „staging“, „development“, …

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File Permissions

Everyone who uses Linux (or some Unix) knows the normal file permissions that are administered with chmod, at least to some extent. It is worth noting, what permissions of a file and the underlying directory mean. In order to read the file, one needs read rights for the file and also read and executable rights …

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Certificates

We have been using the term „certificates“ for a long time for files that are used to encrypt or sign data or to prove identity. Now „certificates“ have become something that we use in our daily life to show that we are vaccinated or tested against Covid-19. Because they are provided as QR-codes and people …

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