jaschop

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[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

Kein Schnapp und dafür das objektiv überlegene FlachPack vorinstalliert!

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 29 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Für die Aussenwirkung von Linux flehe ich euch an Bogen oder eure favorierte Eso-Distro nicht an Normies ohne IT-Hintergrund zu empfehlen. 95% aller Menschen brauchen einfach ein Klickibunti System, das funktioniert wie Linux Mint.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Ich kanns gerade nicht sagen.

Ich finds schwierig wieviele Bilder mittlerweile in die Kategorie "könnte fake sein, gibt aber keine Beweise" fallen. Gleich kommt bestimmt einer mit "das ist ein klassischer KI-Stil, 100% fake, ich kenn mich da aus", aber das find auch nicht wirklich empirisch.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

OpenCloud basiert auf ownCloud Infinite Scale, was scheins eine Neuentwicklung von ownCloud für Enterprise Kunden ist.

Soße

Klingt sehr vielversprechend!

PS: OpenCloud wurde durch eine Ausgründung von Heinlein gestartet. Das sind die Leute hinter mailbox.org, ziemlich korrekter Laden soweit ich weiß.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Vielleicht kann ich dir 2 Links mitgeben:

https://hosting.de/ bietet managed NextCloud Instanzen, die meiner Erfahrung nach stressfrei funktionieren. Es gibt auch eine kostenlose Tier zum reinschnuppern.

Vielleicht findest du NextCloud etwas überladen und frickelig. Ich hab gehört, dass OwnCloud (von dem NextCloud 2016 geforkt ist) immer noch gut funktioniert. Es ist ein reiner FileSharing Dienst ohne Schnörkel.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uberspace wirkt wie ein verlässlicher und bezahlbarer Dienst fürs Webseiten hosten, aber es hat auch Einschränkungen. Man kriegt zum Beispiel kein root und kann keine Container starten (zumindest nicht einfach). Man kann mit den Werkzeugen auch alles irgendwie umsetzen, aber ich fand es einschränkend.

NextCloud kann man aufsetzen, aber die Installation scheint ein paar Schritte zu benötigen.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Recently my research lead recounted a meeting among the senior people, where they hammered out a bunch of project pitches. Some of the wording was still a little rough, but they were going to pass it all through DeepL anyway, to make it read good. Also everyone's bad at spellling these days, since you got a thing that autocompletes for you, right? They were proud they remembered how to spell "continuous".

Sure, everyone has days they can't word good, but this starts sounding like worrying de-skilling. These people spend a good portion of their paid time working on and arguing over wording.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Das klingt wie eine gefährliche Menge an Bildung. Ich würde mal ne Pause einlegen und mir auf keinen Fall als nächstes alle 3 Staffeln von Zahlen schreiben Geschichte auf arte reinziehen.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think I heard a good analogy for this in Well There's Your Problem #164.

One topic of the episode was how people didn't really understand how boilers worked, from a thermal mechanics point if view. Still steam power was widely used (e.g. on river boats), but much of the engineering was guesswork or based on patently false assumptions with sometimes disastrous effects.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fresh from the presses: OpenAI loses song lyrics copyright case in German court

GEMA (weird german authors' rights management organisation) is suing OpenAI over replication of song lyrics among other stuff, seeking a license deal. Judge rules that whatever the fuck OpenAI does behind the scenes is irrelevant, if it can replicate lyrics exactly that's unlawful replication.

One of GEMA's lawyers expects the case to be groundbreaking in europe, since the applicable rules are harmonized.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

You flatter me, I haven't thought about any shit as cool as this in a while.

 

I haven't watched it. I don't know how well she will cover the subject or how deep the rabbit hole she will venture.

All I know is she's delightful and I sure as hell won't read that bilge myself, so I'm looking forward to an entertaining summary.

Edit: I watched it. I had a good time.

 
 

archive of the mentioned NYT article

 

So I recently got an excuse rant about my opinions on federated tech. I think it's pretty much the best we can hope for in terms of liberating tech, with very few niches where fully distributed tech is preferable.

Needing a server places users under the power of the server administrator. Why do we bother? "No gods, no masters, no admins!' I hear you shout. Well, there's a couple reasons...

Maybe using software is just an intrinsically centralized activity. One or a few people design and code it, and an unlimited number of people can digitally replicate and use it. Sure, it may be free software that everyone can inspect and modify... but how many people will really bother? (Nevermind that most people don't even have the skills necessary.)

Okay, so we always kind of rely on a central-ish dev team when we use tech. Why rely on admins on top of that? I believe the vast vast majority of people doesn't have the skills and time to operate a truly independent node of a fully distributed tech. Let's take Jami as an example:

"With the default name server (ns.jami.net), the usernames are registered on an Ethereum blockchain."

So a feature of Jami is (for most users) implemented as a centralized service. Yikes. You could build and run your own name server (with less embarrassing tech choices hopefully), but who will really bother?

But say you bothered, wouldn't it be nice if your friends could use that name server too, and gain a little independence? That sounds a lot like decentralized/federated tech.

Keeping a decent service online is a pain in the butt. Installing SW updates, managing backups, paying for hardware and name services... nevermind just the general bothering to understand all that mess. And moderation, don't forget moderation. I'm saying it's not for everyone (and we should appreciate the fuck out of [local admin]).

I believe that servers and admins are our best bet for actual non-centralized tech. A tech-literate person tending a service for a small- to medium-size community is much more feasible than every person running their independent node (which will probably still depend on something centralized).

And maybe that's just the way we bring good ol' division of labour to the Internet. You have your shoemaker, your baker, your social media admin. A respectable and useful position in society. And they lived happily ever after.

 

Apparently a senior SW engineer got fired for questioning readiness of the product, dude must still be chuckling to himself.

Found the story here https://hachyderm.io/@wesley83/112572728237770554

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