Docker is cool and portable, but distributing Dockerfiles comes at a disadvantage: The demands on the build environment are high. Distributing Docker images solves this, but building them for an architecture other than your CPU architecture seems complicated. Here is a simple solution.
When I tell people about timestamping, they often react with, „Ah, yes, that Blockchain thing“. However, timestamping is as old as civilisation and has some interesting properties it gains from non-Blockchain applications. So let’s go back a few millenia first.
Timestamping documents is the basis for many forms of trust and evidence. As such, it is a building block for contracts and agreements, and dispute resolution.
Inspired by Andrijan Möcker’s „Ãœberallklingel“ (Everywhere Bell), I decided to create my own. However, I wanted to use it with a motion sensor and therefore to be able to turn it off and on again, when necessary. I also felt that using Asterisk was overkill and it could be done quickly and much easier with […]
Smartphones and apps have been hyped for over a decade now. But sometimes, the smartphone is not the smartest thing to get an interaction done. A dedicated device or even a plain old phone may be better. Let us look at some advantages of telephones.
We all know about the Internet of Things. Cool or useless gadgets, which are each controlled by their individual app on our smartphone. This is often very convenient, but not always.
While most types of malware such as viruses and botnets try to lay low for as long as they can, while doing their nasty work, ransomware is eager to do its work ASAP. Because of this, ransomware does not need to embed itself as deeply into the system. All it wants to do is to […]
