"Everybody who is 'pro free speech' is not pro ALL speech. What they're pro is the speech that THEY wish to use that might hurt or offend other people." -- Trevor Noah
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I’m a 50+ year old junior developer. Junior because I just recently switched to work as a programmer. While during the eighties I had a lot of fun with the popular home computers and during the 2000s I made a living out of operating a bunch of Linux- and *BSD-Servers for several clients, now I’m a newbie again. In the time between I did a lot of other things, including studying philosophy and being a taxi driver for several years. :)
Topics I’m interested in are free software, privacy, digital self-defense and autonomy, civil rights, ecology, cycling and being in nature and of course about live, social living, public transport, urban gardening, … PLUS just shitposting.
I write about those topics with people on the internet since I discovered my love for computer networks around ‘97 when I stumbled upon Slackware Linux, IRC, mailing lists and the Usenet. As the Usenet slowly faded away and finally died, I tried to use a lot of other platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Twitter again.
I think Friendica might be the one I was looking for. Federated infrastructure, you’re able to host your own instance, you can write sort of blog posts and are able to discuss topics without being limited to two-hundred-something characters, nice and clean UI and the best: community driven without being spied on for the benefit of the advertisement industry.
I’m going to post mostly in german and sometimes in english too. And sometimes I’ll be going to translate a german article to english later on.
Have a lot of fun!
#introduction #vorstellung
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Wasn't "have a lot of fun" the slogan for SuSE Linux back in the old days? And yes, I am showing my age. 😁
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The true question is tho: how did we miss THIS native Linux point 'n clicker?
An adventure game where the protagonist is desperately trying to find a PILSNER, but is laughed at by everyone, as in this cruel world people only care about craft beers.
...and the stranger the name (and unusual the taste), the better THEY find those 🤔
Find a good beer => https://store.steampowered.com/app/1288760/Dude_Where_Is_My_Beer
#Linux #Beer #gaming #adventure #life #ale #Steam #SteamDeck #brewery #pub #Tux
Dude, Where Is My Beer? on Steam
An old school point and click adventure game about finding a pilsner in the confusing world of unnecessary craft beers and snobby hipsters.store.steampowered.com
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Deutscher Gedächtnis-Rekord: Mehr als 15.000 Pi-Ziffern aufgezählt
15.637 auswendig aufgezählte Nachkommastellen der Kreiszahl Pi verhalfen einer Frankfurter Polizistin zum deutschen Rekord. Sie ist die "Route ablaufen".
https://www.heise.de/news/Deutscher-Gedaechtnis-Rekord-Mehr-als-15-000-Pi-Ziffern-aufgezaehlt-7542977.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege
#Mathematik #WTF #news
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As a former senior employee at Twitter, this is what I have to say… watch to the end 🫡
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Das von Russen besetzte AKW Saporischschja musste vom Stromnetz genommen werden.
Es wird mit Dieselgeneratoren notversorgt; der Treibstoff reicht 10 Tage.
Wenn #Putin so weitermacht, habe wir bald alle den ganz besonderen "Glow". 😒
Das passende Plakat hat das Museum für Medizingeschichte an seiner Fassade in Lettlands Hauptstadt Riga angebracht - gegenüber der Russischen Botschaft.
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦
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Meine letzten Aufenthalte sahen eher vor 3 verschiedene Gerichte, Friss oder stirb.
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(Sogar richtig komplett Internet - alle Ports rein und raus sind offen.)
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Vermutlich macht den Hauptunterschied zu anderen Häusern, dass hier der Träger eine private Stiftung ist und nicht irgend so ein Großkonzern.
https://www.krupp-krankenhaus.de/
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We ❤️ the .NET developer community! We're happy to be here to share news, answer your questions, and... toot? It's called a toot, seriously? I guess toot, then.
Thank you to @styx31 & team for setting up and running this amazing community instance.
#dotnet #dotnetmaui #aspnetcore #efcore #programming
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Your company had a huge gap to bridge in the 2010s, and you've done it in an absolutely stellar fashion with products like WSL. 👏
Welcome.
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Home of the open source .NET platform. .NET Platform has 228 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.GitHub
"We meddle. People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think. Don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."
Aus: Serenity - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/
(Irgendwie spukt dieser Dialog seit 15 Jahren immer mal wieder in meinem Kopf herum.)
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1. Portal oeffnen, einloggen.
2. Bescheinigung anklicken. 3x Submit
3. Email bekommen, dass Bescheinigung angefordert wurde mit Link auf Portal.
4. Portal aufmachen, SMS Anfordern um benanntes PDF herunterzuladen.
5. PDF herunterladen. Darin steht: "Bescheinigung angefordert".
6. 12 Tage auf Bescheinigung per Post warten.
Leute, eh. Digitalisierung in Deutschland oder was?
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apropos "vorher eingewilligt digital ..."
Screenshot vom PDF welches ist ueber das .... online Portal ... heruntergeladen habe. Jedes. Mal.
@unixtippse
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„Es ist nicht auszuschließen, dass es sich bei der Aktion um einen aktuellen negativen TikTok-Trend handelt. Hierbei zeigen einige Personen ein derart asoziales Verhalten, welches dazu führen soll, einen Kinofilm abbrechen zu lassen. Dass man hierdurch vielen anständigen Leuten den Abend vermiest, scheint die angehenden "Social Media-Stars" und Möchtegern-"Influencer" nicht im Geringsten zu interessieren.“
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/11562/5455945
POL-E: Essen: Abbruch von Kinovorstellung möglicherweise bewusst provoziert
Essen (ots) - 45127 E-Westviertel: Gestern Abend (4. März gegen 18:30 Uhr) baten Mitarbeiter eines Essener Kinos um polizeiliche Unterstützung. In einer Vorstellung des Filmes...Polizei Essen (Presseportal.de)
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Im ach so renommierten Alfred-Krupp-Krankenhaus trägt so gut wie niemand vom Pflegepersonal Maske, von den Patienten erst recht niemand.
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- Get your own domain (20€/yr max)
- Get a VPS (Virtual Private Server) with the power and network traffic needed (5€/mo, 60€/yr)
- Get a basic setup with an e-mail server and a web server for some static pages
If you already know your way around a Linux server, it'll just take a few hours and you are on your way to become a true #Netizen 😀
I've put all parts in my blog already https://jan.wildeboer.net
Why exactly at a provider that is pretty much isolated from the federated e-mail network due to their nonexisting abuse handling?
But for friends who are starting with system administration I recommend Yunohost.
What do you use for anti-spam filtering?
That's an email address for my "Argonaut" projects, I might follow up with a home-hosted personal email address when I know which old machine I'll reuse.
GitHub - brunomiguel/userrepository
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Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Jekyll website
WARNING: As with all my technical posts, this is NOT a simple copy/paste description. If you want to use this proposed solution, I expect you to know how Jekyll works and how my changes work as described after reading this.Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)
I will save it for a rainy day, when the stress level is lower.
I would really love to get the postal service back in-house - perhaps next time I will not mess up the DKIM/DMARC/SPF configuration.
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this necfenollosa.com
I'm using their mail server since many years with my own domain and it always just works.
When it became a dot-bomb era cash grab, Surak thought that it was a bad idea to charge money for string declarations in a distributed database, and IMHO, he was correct.
I'm not sure what happened to the alternative non-commercial root name servers that occurred in antipode to ICANN, but perhaps that should be revisited?
Arguably RFC7557 would help community networks a lot too.
Get rid of price tags.
Spend hundreds~thousands of hours developing your sysadmins skills!
Then don't worry about dropped messages when DNS goes sideways, or any kind of spam filtering!
Lol losers using gmail! Didn't they know they can run send
/sarcasm
Imagine if instead of blaming folks for not being willing to run their own mailserver, folks who have sysadmin skills operated high-quality, reliable mailservers with good spam prevention for their communities.
1. Host a mail-server for the folks you care about
2. Listen to why they won't use it
3. Adjust your offering until they will
Telling people to "learn to run their own mailserver" is like me telling people to learn to adjust their own carbuerators. Sure; you could do it but nobody is running a naturally aspirated engine anymore...
How does one maintain a “backup” email? Especially if they’re on a yahoo or gmail or what not?
Telling people to “take back the Internet” by running their own mail servers is like telling people to take back transportation by building a kit car in their garage.
it works for like 1/1000% of the people you’d need to actually take back the Internet.
Practical alternative is to encourage people who like to do that shit to community host ala run your own social
If ya wanna run your own mail server go at it!
But don’t pretend it’s about taking back the Internet. It’s nerdy masturbation, fun and healthy for the prostate but not good for much more than that.
However, Jan's motivation for this is freedom (and rightfully so) as stated in the first post. In my experience this critically depends on owning your own domain and one does not get this with Zee's suggestion. I belief this is a critical problem: how to give non-admins this power?
I'm not sure how many standards there are that are both are marked as an "open standard" and also aren't proprietary.
Any standard from the "open group" is out, as that group does their very best to ensure that everything published is as proprietary can be (the POSIX standards are proprietary and redistribution is forbidden without permission for example).
I know of a number of standards with reasonable licensing terms though.
>#OpenSource operating systems
Can you name any OS's developed using an "open source development model"?
"Linux" is out, as that's only a kernel and is proprietary software and isn't even "open source".
As for GNU, well that's free software and none of it is "open source", although an external group (that's buddy-buddy with lots of proprietary software companies) has certified most of the licenses used as qualifying as an "open source license".
I am a pure pragmatist - I compromise when necessary, but avoid making ruinous compromises: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html
Having some fundamentals is good when deciding if a compromise should be taken.
>which are IMHO quite a good example,e of standards that can be used by anyone
I looked into licensing of the RFCs, and it seems that articles published before 2008 are under unclear licensing terms and those after are under these licenses: https://trustee.ietf.org/documents/trust-legal-provisions/
The licenses on RFCs 2008+ are proprietary - distribution of RFCs unmodified is permitted (under certain conditions are), but modification is forbidden (I haven't yet done a complete reading and analysis of the newest proprietary license).
Assuming the worst, the pre-2008 RFCs have no license and are the default "All Rights Reserved" (thanks to the Berne convention), so you're only allowed to read those RFCs on the ietf website, but distribution and modification of such RFCs is forbidden.
Technically those standards might only be usable by those with an active internet connection, so they actually can't be used by everyone, unless you're willing to infringe copyright.
>I respectfully decline to go down that old rabbit hole of infighting and instead continue to focus on bringing more people into the world of F/OSS.
There's no infighting, "open source" from the very start has been a movement against free software (the initial announcement even admits this), so I just stand against such onslaught from proprietary software companies and their supporters and will not fall.
I've determined that it's a complete waste of time to lose focus of the entire goal just to gain popularity with those who won't ever say no to proprietary software even once.
Every freedom enjoyer will come without needing to lower the freedom of the software, so the freedom level shall not be lowered below 9001.
Why I don't Use Odd.af Anymore
The last few days, I have been pretty busy migrating my domain from “odd.af” to “ungra.dev”. I posted a bit on Social Media about the story, but I wanted to wrap it up in detail in this blog post.What Happened
ℹ️ The top-level domain “AF” is Afghanistan's country code top-level domain. A country that the Taliban took over in 2021.
A few weeks ago, my domain provider, Vercel, wrote me that my domain will not be able to be renewed. It's due for auto-renewal on the 22nd of April. They stated they have issues with the authorities in Afghanistan.Due to factors that are out of Vercel’s control, we are no longer able to accept or renew .AF registrations, similarly to most registries today. CcTLDs (country-code Top Level Domains), like .AF, are managed by bureaus from the country, sovereign states, or dependent territory. An attempt to register a ccTLD will open a series of requests to the managing entity. We have made this decision due to the uncertainty Afghanistan continues to have with an evolving political situation. The .AF registry has been unresponsive and payments to them have not been possible, disrupting process renewals and new registrations.
So, long story short, the Tailban did not create a bureau being able to handle domain registry. I'm, however, still not sure whether this means every single domain provider is in the same boat and all “.AF” domains will expire sooner or later. On one hand, it sounds like this. On the other hand, this would be huge. Like, imagine not holding a silly domain for private use but for a big company with its HQ in Afgahnistan.What I had to do
Vercel recommended I get a new domain ready.We recommend you prepare another domain and are here to help you with that process.
To be honest, at first, I thought about talking to other providers in order to keep “odd.af”. I love that domain and didn't want to go through the pain of migration. The longer I slept about it, the clearer it was that I had to move away. I had several good reasons.Reason One: The Expiry
Well, that one is easy. Since my domain cannot be renewed, I have to do something. A possible solution to the problem is to ditch it and use another.Reason Two: Language Barrier
A problem I always had with “odd.af” was that it was hardly understood in Germany. Not only was it a different language, but you also needed to know basic “internet slang”. Especially for older folks, it was quite confusing. Admittedly it was rather short and very easy to spell out. Also, not that I really cared, but many people are not keen on profanity in – at least somewhat – professional domains.ℹ️ “af” is an internet acronym for “as fuck”. The domain meant “odd as fuck”.Reason Three: Uncertainty of CcTLDs
The first reason I didn't like to use a ccTLD anymore was simply that it was semantically incorrect. I have nothing to do with Afgahnistan, especially because AF is not a ccTLD with a “Commercial License”. Such domains (e.g., “me”, “am”, “fm”, “sh”) adopt policies to be not reliant on the infrastructure of a country. For example, “.co” is not managed by the Colombian Government but rather a Colombian and US company. The second reason is, well, that it's a ccTLD, thus dependent on the particular country. 😊 What happened to my domain is seldom enough but can happen anytime. I don't want to have this unnecessary risk anymore.What I did
At first, I gathered a list of potential domain names.The problem was to find one that had not a ccTLD (see previous chapter), was affordable, and was not too boring. I pretty much liked the idea of translating “odd” to German. Among others, it means “ungerade” or “ungrade”. Then “ungra.de” came to my mind. However, first of all, that domain was already taken, and second, it still relies on a ccTLD. (I mean, “DE” would've been not too bad since I'm a resident of Germany, but well.) Finally, I went with “ungra.dev” it's a portmanteau of “ungrade” (German for “odd”) and “dev. I pretty much like it, and it's only 15 $ per year.
Now came the hard part: migrating. It was a bit easier than I initially thought to be honest, but still pretty much painful. At first, I went through all accounts using an “odd.af” mail address. I just filtered for “odd.af” in my password manager. Surprisingly, they were very few since I use masked e-mails for most of my credentials.
After I changed all the addresses in these accounts (not to my new “ungra.dev”, but rather “masked e-mails”), I went on and checked my mail account. I informed everyone I had contact with that my mail address changed.
Then I updated all the links on my social media profiles and my website. Nothing should point to “odd.af” anymore.
The last step was to redirect the old domain to the new endpoints technically. In most cases, this was just a case of adding “ungra.dev” to the project and installing a 301 (“moved permanently”) redirect to the “odd.af” domain. One redirect was a bit more complicated. It was blog.odd.af. I changed the custom domain configuration in write.as, but I can only provide one, meaning I needed to create a redirect at Vercel. This is also surprisingly inelegant, as you have to create a repository with a certain configuration file and then assign the “to be redirected” domain to it.{ "redirects": [ { "source": "/", "destination": "https://blog.ungra.dev/" } ] }
Or in other words, I needed to create a nearly empty project and assign “blog.odd.af” to it. I found this blog post explaining this approach.Done
I'm so glad that I'm through with this truly unnecessary workload. It's super hard to find the time and energy to do this. It's quite a relief that I think I have it off the plate. Keep your fingers crossed that I didn't forget about anything. 🤞blog.odd.af/vercel.json at main · OddDev/blog.odd.af
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My D.O. IP address is on a dent list despite not being on any spam naughty lists and is “ineligible for review.” DMARC and everything else is configured.
I was able to get my previous address on their allow list but they’ve apparently changed their policy since then.
It was about getting blacklisted very quickly for various reasons.
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this necfenollosa.com
I agree with the stance of avoid the walled gardens of Google and Microsoft but I don’t think spinning up a vps and installing exim is the path. Why not use a good webhost who can do it for many using the same open toolset
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