Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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My private account. Posts/Opinions are my own. Focused on #Open and TCP/ID, identity ownership in the real and digital world. 3D printer. Can solder and repair. Antifascist. European. Policy hacker. Rambles around at times. He/Him/His $argon2id$v=19$m=512,t=256,p=1$SWmoDffV/hOu+/Vii5Nxsw$zYZ5n+cXxZLKoLnXZJjll1JWcCFyiRVli7xOPqu63GM Blocks threads.net Works at Red Hat.

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2025-09-27 11:06:09 UTC

I'll just leave this here.
"One of the world’s most powerful technology leaders [Peter Thiel] has reportedly warned that regulating artificial intelligence risks hastening the coming of the Antichrist."
https://archive.li/HcoiM#selection-1525.0-1525.159

2025-09-20 19:48:09 UTC

Decentralisation is the biggest enemy of authoritarianism. So #SelfHost. Buy solar and batteries. Heat pumps. Get an electric car. Electric bicycles.

2025-08-26 14:42:29 UTC

The biggest trick the (far) right pulled off is to convince many people that anti-fascism is politically left. It isn't. Anti-fascism is a politically neutral, foundational requirement for any non-fascist society. Yes, you can be conservative AND anti-fascist. That is the norm. If you are conservative and do not loudly support anti-fascism, you are almost a fascist yourself. Simple, innit?

2025-05-24 15:40:35 UTC

The #PirateBay founders must be looking at the arguments from #OpenAI and #Meta on why they should be allowed to ignore copyright and authorship laws with a certain level of astonishment.

2025-04-29 18:32:32 UTC

The last name of the Dutch prime minister is Schoof. Which is also the past tense of the verb to shove in the dutch language. His first name is Dick. The jokes write themselves. #SlightlyTipsy

2025-01-19 19:51:47 UTC

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Legal experts question how Trump could grant an extension of up to 90 days as the law is in effect and its validity confirmed by SCOTUS. The 90 days can only be granted if a new US based owner is in the process of closing the negotiations.
So Trump will possibly ignore the rule of law on his first day in office. That's impeachable, innit? ;)

2024-12-08 09:25:15 UTC

It isn't that far-right has suddenly become a big movement in Europe. The far-right support has always been and will always be around 20%. The task of society is to keep that support in the "morally unacceptable" box that is buried deep in the ground. Clickbait, polarisation supported by technofascism and Putins money and methods for destabilisation in democracies however are the most powerful attack against that equilibrium I have ever experienced. And we are losing.

2024-12-06 14:06:07 UTC

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Being able to run my own mailserver is the result of many, many developers publishing the needed parts under open source licenses and keeping these packages updated over many, many years. I am very grateful for that.

2024-11-30 14:13:11 UTC

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I guess the hope is that the occupied territories become some sort of neutral zone with Ukraine demanding full demilitarisation of said territories, maybe even some sort of free trade status with Ukraine. We will see. But things are moving, which is the only way forward, IMHO. A perpetual war is no solution.

2024-11-30 14:10:10 UTC

Seems Zelensky is offering (some of) the occupied territories in exchange for full NATO membership for the rest of Ukraine to end the war. A very tough compromise, but IMHO a pragmatic approach that allows both sides to claim a win.

2024-11-29 07:55:14 UTC

#FastDreiProzent #FDP #DDay

2024-11-27 19:57:26 UTC

After a very tough discussion last week, I want to explain a fundamental rule of FOSS (Free and/or Open Source Software). It is called the "no field of use restriction" rule. What it means is that when you publish code under an accepted Free Software or OSI approved Open Source license, every downstream recipient is free to use the code for whatever they want to use it for. It is a very important but often attacked rule. 1/n

2024-11-27 15:02:38 UTC

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what I really want is to have full voting rights at the country of residence for all EU citizens as fundamental part of the freedom of movement principle. But that’s a long term goal.

2024-11-27 13:08:09 UTC

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No, never did. I vote where I live and I want full voting rights at the place of residence. We have our own far right weirdos here too :(

2024-11-27 12:48:11 UTC

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That's the lowest parliament approval count a new commission ever had.
11.2019 Ursula von der Leyen 461 yes
10.2014 Jean-Claude Juncker 423 yes
02.2010 José Manuel Barroso 488 yes
11.2004 José Manuel Barroso 478 yes
09.1999 Romano Prodi 510 yes
01.1995 Jacques Santer 417 yes

2024-11-27 12:39:37 UTC

EU parliament approves new EU commission with 370 of the 688 casted votes being yes.

2024-11-27 12:34:06 UTC

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EU citizens living in a different EU country (like me, a dutch person, living in Germany) do not have full voting rights, but we can vote on the municipal level and for the EU parliament. Thus it logically follows that if we have at least these limited voting rights, we should definitely be allowed to be active as members of a political party. The court has made this very clear in its decision. #ThanksEU

2024-11-27 09:11:31 UTC

Court of Justice of the EU: Poland and Czech Republic must allow EU citizens that live in their country but are not nationals access to membership in political parties. Their current rules/laws are in violation of EU principles. https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-11/cp240194en.pdf

2024-11-26 10:48:38 UTC

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Yep. My main goal with this short thread was to explain to the uninitiated what you can do when you read a story about patent infringement to be better informed, should you want to. And for that the few bullet points can be very helpful, IMHO and experience.

2024-11-26 08:44:43 UTC

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So as a rule of thumb, prior art should be provably (which is another problem, how do you prove the publication date of prior art) available around 12 months before the filing date to avoid problems.

2024-11-26 08:40:36 UTC

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Yes, it's complicated. Priority date isn't always the filing date. E.g. in Europe I could file a patent application on the 1st of June 2023 in Belgium and then decide to file another one for France in June 2024. The priority date for the French application would than still be June 2023, as it is based on the *first* filing of the patent in Belgium. There are even weirder rules and exceptions.

2024-11-25 18:02:29 UTC

Need a fancy name to use instead of #selfhosting? I got something for ya ;)
#SPI Sovereign Private Infrastructure sounds a lot more sophisticated :) (Yes, I work in marketing, I admit :)

2024-11-25 17:21:40 UTC

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- Patents also protect retroactively (12 months before filing date in most jurisdictions), meaning that prior art that could invalidate the patent must be publicly known before that priority date
- Most patent cases don't go to court, far more often some kind of deal with license payments is offered to avoid that
I am not a lawyer, but I am quite an expert in the patent field since 2002 when I joined the fight against software patents in the EU.
2/2

2024-11-25 17:18:19 UTC

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Should you read about a patent case somewhere, here's the things you should know:
- design patents are NOT patents. They are more like registered designs.
- the *only* important thing about a patent are the claims. You can safely ignore all the descriptions, graphics and other stuff. Read the claims. The first one is the most important
- Patents expire after 20 years (or missed fee payment, whichever comes first)
1/2

2024-11-25 17:12:13 UTC

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One of the patents they tried to monetise came from Nokia (filed 2008, granted 2010), was transferred to France Brevets (2013), who in turn transferred it to Burley Licensing LLC, Texas (2021), who in turn moved it to Nimitz Technologies LLC, Texas, 14 days later which finally sued 11 companies for patent violation. They didn't succeed in court. The patent is US 7,848,328 B2 and the claims are as vague as you would expect ;)
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/8e/a9/d6/b55ae845972bfb/US7848328.pdf
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2024-11-25 16:54:03 UTC

TIL that in 2011 the French government "invested" 100 million Euro to setup a company that was supposed to monetise patents by suing all around the planet. Despite some minimal "success" with an NFC patent, the concept that I would call patent trolling wasn't delivering the expected ROI (Return on Investment) and in 2022 the plug was pulled. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Brevets

2024-11-24 19:16:17 UTC

At the #Guinness 0.0% tasting today organised by @npub134a…fv7y in #Munich we learned: there is a plastic container with nitrogen in the can that releases its content when you open the can which gives you the famous foam when you immediately pour it into a glass. TIL!
https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/113/539/528/149/168/984/original/13c027c1154ead2b.jpg

2024-11-23 20:39:48 UTC

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Sponsors at FOSDEM don’t get a presence at the venue, as I’m sure you know.

2024-11-23 20:08:02 UTC

I have 50 tickets to #FOSDEM to share. First come, first serve. DMs are open. #38C3 (just kidding. FOSDEM is open to all since 25 years. No tickets, no registration. Just be there and enjoy. https://fosdem.org

2024-11-23 20:01:12 UTC

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The EU (and/or its member states) could set up a system that (partly) pays for the costs of the process for SMEs and not-for-profits to ensure that consumers are informed citizens. @npub1m96…ag4y

2024-11-23 19:26:00 UTC

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Full-blown markdown support including the various flavours doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, TBH. Tables and heading levels? Overkill ;) But basic bold, italics, links, quotes and code would make things so much better :)

2024-11-23 19:22:24 UTC

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Could be extended to the
#CDIA — Consumer Data Information Act
that forces all companies that have data about the consumer to send a notice, via the consumers preferred method of contact (e-mail, post) about the fact that they have data stored and the rights under #GDPR to receive said data or give notice about the consumer’s right to delete said data and how to do exactly that.

2024-11-23 19:17:01 UTC

Dear @npub1m96…ag4y — a proposal for a new directive called the
#CIA, the Consumer Information Act.
Once a year on a fixed date, 1st of November, all companies with which you have a contract that involves payment must inform you via the consumers preferred contact method (e-mail, post) about what contract you have, the amount per year and the current conditions to cancel said contract. Inspired by https://fosstodon.org/@grueproof/113527526441323269

2024-11-23 19:03:47 UTC

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effectively meaning that current API remains unchanged and backwards compatible by extending it with an optional internalRich field when posting and adding the internalRich content as an option when editing.

2024-11-23 18:54:29 UTC

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Clients (be it the web UI or any mobile client) could implement whatever editor for whatever format but send the plain text version and their try of the internal representation that the instance will try to interpret (and sanitise) and if that fails, fall back to the plain text variant.

2024-11-23 18:48:54 UTC

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My approach would be simple. Federation in both directions in/out with html. Incoming posts never need to be edited. So input parsing could result in a defined intermediate state after sanitisation, which gets stored on the instance. Rendered to html when showing or federating. So for editing you have the internal representation. My preference for that internal state would be markdown, obviously ;)

2024-11-23 18:15:23 UTC

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I will not give up hoping (and nudging ;). I know that yous have agreed that the glitch-soc approach isn’t feasible. But some sort of input wrangler solution that allows for posts containing the formatting that mastodon already renders for HTML posts coming in through federation would be much appreciated.

2024-11-23 14:17:43 UTC

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Oh, and dear @npub1u84…s78a — when will you finally accept the PRs that bring some basic (markdown) formatting to posts? #kthxbai

2024-11-23 14:11:40 UTC

Yesterday, as on every Friday, I updated my public servers. This time I was on the train, so a bit of a flaky connection. I am old school, so I logged in to my machines, started a `screen` session and ran the `def update`there. This way I could be reasonably sure it would work even if my connection breaks.

2024-11-18 18:11:42 UTC

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I've been there since the very first FOSDEM and never had a problem to get into the sessions I cared about.

2024-11-18 17:29:22 UTC

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Altersarmut existiert nicht weil di es sagst. Danke. Ein problem weniger ;)

2024-11-18 17:23:30 UTC

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Lehrmittelfreiheit die nur theoretisch existiert
Klar, noch sind Schulen und Universitäten gebührenfrei. Aber lasst uns mal realistisch sein. Die Kosten für Schule und Uni sind weit höher als null. Egal ob es um die Wunschliste der Grundschule geht welche Farben und Stifte man kaufen soll, wie teuer die Bücher für Unis sind - Ausbildung ist teuer.

2024-11-18 17:21:23 UTC

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Pflegeversicherung
Ursprünglich (IMHO) als Verschleierung der zu erwartenden Kosten für die Rentenversicherung geplant, wird es uns in Zukunft richtig in den Hintern beissen. Mehr ältere Leute werden mehr Pflege brauchen und die Preise steigen exorbitant, während ds "alte" System von "Familie wird sich schon kümmern" wegen der Alterspyramide nicht mehr greifen wird.

2024-11-18 17:18:46 UTC

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Zu den einzelnen Punkten:
Rente in Anbetracht der zukünftigen Alterspyramide
Das deutsche Rentensystem momentan und seit SEHR vielen Jahren ist "linke Tasche, rechte Tasche". Die Einnahmen aus den Gehaltsabgaben gehen mit nur geringer Reserve in die Rentenauszahlungen. Das ist mit der sich ändernden Alterspyramide nicht vereinbar auf mittlerer Sicht. Privatisierung der Rente ist kein Ausweg, IMHO.

2024-11-18 17:11:02 UTC

Als etwas älterer Mitbürger möchte ich den jungen Wählern nur mal kurz die Liste der seit Jahrzehnten ungelösten, geflickschusterten Themen für die nächste Wahl mitgeben:
- Rente in Anbetracht der zukünftigen Alterspyramide
- Pflegeversicherung
- Lehrmittelfreiheit die nur theoretisch existiert
- Ein würdiges Auskommen ohne Einkommen
- Medizinische/psychische Versorgung ohne zerstörerische Wartezeiten.
Wählt entsprechend. Lasst Rassismus und Populismus aussen vor, OK?

2024-11-18 11:30:34 UTC

IMHO: Biden allowing #Ukraine to fire missiles deep into Russian territory is a smart move. Should Trump decide (he will) to undo that decision, it will be seen as Trump doing Putins bidding and he will seem weak to the (not only US) military brass.
(And yes, this decision by Biden should have been made a long time ago)

2024-11-18 10:46:24 UTC

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They’d have to check/scrape *all* ActivityPub instances all the time to get a complete social graph of the Fediverse. While at a centralised service that social graph is part of the architecture. That’s a huge difference.

2024-11-18 10:43:27 UTC

„Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to #NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially renamed X“ https://niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-musk/ via @npub1tvs…2832

2024-11-17 22:32:46 UTC

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Another reason for staying here is metadata. Trust me, not many organisations out there really care about the content of your posts. They focus far more on the connections and frequency of data on likes, boost, follow/unfollow etc. In a centralised service that metadata is, ohm, centralised too and easy to access. In a federated network that isn't that easy, especially when, like me, you live on your own instance and not a big one like mastodon.social. Decentralisation makes abuse expensive.

2024-11-17 22:21:42 UTC

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And yes, I still treat every single post and message here as ultimately being stored and analysed by adversaries because the for me the Pub in ActivtyPub means public. My private communication happens via Signal or old fashioned pen and paper. Or, even more often, by direct communication over a coffee, beer or a walk outside :)

2024-11-17 22:14:24 UTC

Why am I here and not on #Bluesky or #Threads? Because here I am on my own instance, hosted in the EU, and not on a centralised service from the US (which both Bluesky and Threads are) where soon a Trump government is installed that can easily force both Bluesky and Threads to hand over full access to all my data. That's my personal risk calculation. Yours might be very different. And that's perfectly fine!

2024-11-17 10:25:54 UTC

IMHO: If you want to fight (proto-)fascism and centralised, authoritarian regimes by relying on centralised infrastructure that can be blocked/outlawed by said regime, you are doing it wrong, IMHO. Decentralised solutions, while coming with a more demanding learning curve, have proven to be far more resilient and sustainable. So have your fun on Bluesky, TikTok etc while you organise resistance here :)

2024-11-06 09:07:19 UTC

Dear @npub1m96…ag4y please use the next few weeks to make Europe safe by starting the process to disentangle on all levels from US influence. Our sovereignty is at stake now.

2024-11-01 18:11:06 UTC

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I am absolutely not saying you should do the same. I remember how I spent the first Obama Election Night at an illegal party in the former Hungarian (or was it Romanian?) embassy in East-Berlin where some people broke into and set up a sound system, lights and bars. It was a looooooong night :) But this time I will protect myself from too much weirdness and check the results once they're a bit more stable.

2024-11-01 17:55:22 UTC

PSA: On #ElectionDay I will go to bed on time (I am in the European time zone), have a good night of sleep and when I wake up I will make coffee and pancakes, sit around for a while before, around noon, I will finally open up the NYT, WaPo and Guardian pages. During the night, when the misinformation and radical takes saturate all frequencies, I will dream about a better world. I will not waste my precious time with consuming information that only upsets me, without me being able to do anything.

2024-10-15 08:42:47 UTC

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So. Let's all bookmark https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en (or in your preferred language) and keep an eye on new European Citizen Initiatives (and maybe start one!) because they can really help to put topics on the EU agenda. Deal? :) 3/3

2024-10-04 16:51:31 UTC

Almost all European manufactured electric vehicles are oversized, overpowered and overpriced. So the only way to get what many, many people out there want — decent, but not too big EVs at a reasonable price — is to import them. And that’s why the EU has decided to raise tariffs on these imported vehicles that people want but cannot get from their local manufacturers. Instead of forcing the local manufacturers to produce what people want. #justsayin

2024-09-14 20:09:20 UTC

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It’s IMHO one of the reasons we never saw the OLPC concept being introduced in a western country. I tried at the time. But we were always destroyed by government agencies with the „it doesn’t run Microsoft Office“ argument.

2024-09-14 19:54:47 UTC

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(In a flat and open field, the mesh network of an OLPC, that didn’t need the CPU for transmitting network traffic, so still worked when the OLPC was „sleeping“ had a range of up to 4 kilometres)

2024-09-14 19:48:04 UTC

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Decentralisation remains an underexplored field in commerce and communication, IMHO. For obvious reasons. Capitalism relies on control and centralisation. Kind of a contradiction, IMHO. A reason why decentralisation and transparency are often touted as goals, but never really implemented. 3/3

2024-09-14 19:42:41 UTC

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With the mesh network built in to the OLPC, a local network that worked without needing a central access point, farmers used the chat function to compare prices offered for their produce and found out that merchants offered different prices. This led to pressure on the merchants to pay better. The government was not amused. And mesh networking became a problem. Ultimately an inspiring story that was never told, IMHO.

2024-09-14 19:24:27 UTC

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I got a bunch of OLPC from [@random_musings](https://social.tchncs.de/@random_musings ) who updated them to the newest OS/apps and might be able to share the HOWTO.

2024-09-14 19:02:17 UTC

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It was so far in reaching forward. The transflexive display. The mesh networking. The Sugar UI. The #fedora based operating system. It overtook itself, IMHO. But the 100$ goal was never a fantasy. It was very real.

2024-09-14 18:00:20 UTC

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There’s a whole dystopian series hidden in the way mesh networking was destroyed by lobbyism and money, BTW. We had mesh networking in low cost hardware with the OLPC. A way to create local networking and communication without any possibility of centralised control and surveillance. Which is why it had to die, IMHO.

2024-09-14 12:21:59 UTC

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The #A1mini is "just" a tool, unlike all the other #3Dprinter in my collection, going back to 2012. All printers before were projects. Every printer a diva in its own way. But the #BambuLab JustPrints(tm), so I can focus on other things. That's truly a big change, allowing me to do things like this. Design, print, iterate. That's the way it should be, IMHO.

2024-09-07 21:39:57 UTC

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I still have that B1 machine. And it is still working :)

2024-09-03 17:48:42 UTC

I now have more followers here in the #fediverse than I had on Twitter, but still just half of what I had on Google+. But over the years I have learned to not care that much about follower count. I care more about interactions that feed my brain with interesting information. And the #Fediverse delivers on that, IMHO. In positive and negative ways. I have learned more about problems I could usually ignore on other platforms due to algorithm selection. And that is A Good Thing.

2024-09-03 16:29:30 UTC

Rap battle between Public Enemy and Sam Altman (OpenAI), explaining why one side has to pay and negotiate complicated contracts for every single sample they use while the other side thinks they can sample everything they can scrape from the web and elsewhere to feed their LLMs to produce words, music and pictures. Fight!

2024-09-01 13:56:23 UTC

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You think that should be the important focus? That I might act ableist? OK, then.

2024-09-01 13:44:55 UTC

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Do you think these three selfless heroes are now all over the media, telling their stories adnn getting the praise and respect they absolutely deserver? Nope. I guess it's not clickbait enough. But I think this story shows that we are surrounded by good people.

2024-09-01 13:36:41 UTC

What if I tell you that a German woman, with mental problems, as it seems ATM, pulls out a knife and starts to stab passengers in a bus, severely hurting 3 passengers. Three muslimas, fearing for their children, throw themselves at this woman, manage to wrestle the knife away from her and keep her down until the situation can be resolved? Oh? You didn't hear about that? Well. It just happened. last Friday. (article in German) https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/kriminalitaet/id_100479780/siegen-drei-muslimische-muetter-stoppten-messer-angreiferin.html

2024-09-01 10:10:01 UTC

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Zero issues. But that is because I have a hosting plan with @npub18sk…l2gu who has been simply the best at running my (and many more) instances for a very reasonable price.

2024-09-01 10:05:31 UTC

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There is a high level of centralisation, especially in the Mastodon based part of the Fediverse. Classical Pareto Distribution, IMHO. 80% of the traffic happens between the big instances, with mastodon.social having the biggest share. If the admins there decide to block my instance, I would be cut off from many of my followers. That's not the decentralisation I am hoping for. And that's also why I decided back in 2018 to run my own small instance where I am user and admin.

2024-09-01 09:19:33 UTC

The "you are holding it wrong" hand wavy dismissal of these problems makes us worse, not better, IMHO. And of course, when people want/have to leave a centralised social network, their natural impulse is to look for a similar, centralised alternative. Hence Threads and BlkueSky "win". People come to the Fed verse too in such moments. But not many stay active here. And the reasons why are not something "we" in the fediverse really want to discuss, IMHO. 2/2

2024-08-30 18:05:54 UTC

Why I will never be a successful „influencer“: I get my dopamine from finding people that at least in part agree with me and are happy to take ideas and make them better. Without me. I’m not here to provoke and attract flamewars. I actually block or mute accounts that try to lead a thread down those muddy paths.

2024-08-30 17:55:45 UTC

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(I consciously decided to post this thread in English. My (many) German followers will understand it too. But my experience tells me that this thread in German would quickly devolve in weird „yes, but” fringe arguments and name calling. I don’t need that today :) 7/7

2024-08-30 17:50:20 UTC

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At https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113052227866312061 some numbers from 2022. Around 280 million € was generated (and distributed) by the levy.

2024-08-30 15:56:35 UTC

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The levy (called Pauschalabgabe) is by the way €0,30 per USB stick or SD card. For hard drives, SSD it is €4,44 per device. Source: https://www.bitkom.org/Themen/Urheberrechtliche-Abgaben-auf-Geraete-und-Speichermedien

2024-08-30 15:12:33 UTC

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My real point here is: If you don't use the rights you have, you will lose them. I pick up dozens of music CDs from my local library in #Munich every few weeks, rip them to my music collection and bring the CDs back to the library. There is nothing wrong with that. So far 100% of the CDs I got from the library are completely unprotected, no DRM, so all is good.

2024-08-30 15:04:18 UTC

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Now, there is a lot of discussions since many years on what constitutes a "working copy protection system" (wirksame Kopierschutzmaßnahmen) that you are not allowed to circumvent to make a copy. Is DeCSS on DVDs really working, when the code to circumvent has been available as Open Source since many years? Well, I am not a lawyer, so I won't answer that for you. Is copying cached downloads from Spotify allowed under this rule? AFAICS a clear no, but again, IANAL.

2024-08-30 14:57:17 UTC

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You do NOT have to own the original media to make a #Privatkopie. If we are friends, we could meet at my place and you can rip all my CDs to your hard drive and take them home to listen to the music, if you want to.
But note: these copies can only be made for personal use. You cannot share them publicly or for a fee. But you are perfectly fine when you rip an unprotected music CD and put the WAV or MP3s on your player devices. You have paid for that right. You should use it. 2/2

2024-08-30 14:53:44 UTC

Because some people in #Germany seem to have fallen for the music/film industry's whispering lies: It is perfectly legal for you to rip/copy unprotected music CDs that you get from the library or a friend/family member. It is called #Privatkopie (UrhG §53) [1]. This right is the reason you pay a levy on every storage device (SD Card, hard drive etc) you buy. That levy compensates the right holders. However, you officially cannot copy media that are copy protected 1/2
[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__53.html

2024-08-30 12:24:46 UTC

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Most of the time, yes. But a superdrive has some extra tricks up its sleeve when it comes to correcting audio reads.

2024-08-30 12:11:33 UTC

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And as a FYI (For Your Interest): iTunes/Music on MacOS can *still* just rip music CDs you insert into a Superdrive. It'll happily fetch the song titles and album art too. Oh. And did you know that many libraries will happily lend you music CDs? And that making copies of unprotected music CDs for private use this way is (at least in Germany) 100% legal? If you didn't, now you do :) So go and fill your music collection for (almost) free!
#LifeHack #SupportYourLibrary

2024-08-25 13:36:05 UTC

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To the right, the books continue. And yes, that includes a full Encyclopaedia Britannica :) And that’s just the books I keep in my living room. The hallway has a „few“ more ;) Books have always been special to me.
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2024-08-25 13:21:37 UTC

My daughter was not happy with the chaos in this corner and decided to make it a place to showcase some of my books. I think she did a very good job :) #Shelfie
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2024-08-24 08:13:39 UTC

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Yep. Und ds Modell könnte man dann auch für Stadtwerke einführen.

2024-08-24 08:05:08 UTC

Wenn man bei der Bahn einfach mal das mittlere und höhere Management für 1 Jahr beurlaubt (von mir aus bezahlt) und den Bahn Mitarbeitern die Möglichkeit gibt all das endlich umzusetzen wovon sie aus direkter Erfahrung wissen, dass es die Probleme mit den Arbeitsabläufen und Verspätungen lösen wird, wenn sie das können ohne auf Managemententscheidungen warten zu müssen, wo alle Vorschläge eh versanden, dann wird alles gut. One can dream.
#WorkersUnited

2024-08-23 07:55:30 UTC

Thank you, @npub12r3…zz58 for becoming Free Software with commit https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/94631ccef67eb385f416feb9017214f3da99ab3a that switches the project from MIT license to GPL V3 or later!
#forgejo #gitea #GPLv3

2024-08-21 13:53:37 UTC

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2024-08-20 19:14:56 UTC

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Da bin ich überfragt. Aber es scheinen keine Warnschüsse abgegeben worden zu sein. Das finde ich auffällig. Von Pfefferspray wohl direkt zu gezielten Schüssen.

2024-08-20 18:58:05 UTC

2 Polizisten in München geben insgesamt 4 Schüsse auf eine 31 jährige, aggressive Frau mit Küchenmesser ab, nachdem Pfefferspray angeblich nichts gebracht hat. Die Frau stirbt. (Possibly paywalled) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-frau-erschossen-supermarkt-implerstrasse-lux.Xgy3gXouerGHmK5poP8yBu
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2024-08-20 17:03:22 UTC

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Become (politically) active in your community and suddenly you will print all the time ;) Cookie cutters, keychains, etc ;)

2024-08-20 16:19:56 UTC

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The built-in camera however is a joke, let’s be honest about that. If it would do spaghetti recognition (that’s when a 3D printer spits out filament due to non-adhesion) that would be acceptable, but it doesn’t. But that really is a very minor thing. Having a camera and light at all in a 200€ printer is already unexpected.

2024-08-20 16:03:45 UTC

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So yes, I understand why Stratasys, the old guard of FDM, is panicking and suing Bambu Labs for patent infringement. The engineers at Bambu Lab cracked the whole thing. They found the combination of cheap, good and simple that seemed to be impossible. Sure. I wished it was all open source and open hardware. But I also admire the fact that I can 3D print whatever I can think of without wasting hours on calibrating, tuning and producing waste from failed prints.

2024-08-20 15:57:38 UTC

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No matter what (old) PLA filament I load, it does its flow calibration and just prints. Bed adhesion just works. Layers stick. And it is fast. The auto bed leveling just works. It has nozzle cleaning built in. The filament and speed settings in the Bambu Studio slicer JustWork(tm). Now I don’t do multi-colour, I don’t have the AMS lite, just the A1 mini. The best 206€ I invested, IMHO.

2024-08-20 15:51:57 UTC

Somebody in some video put in words what I felt over the weekend. After 13 years of working with 3D printers as a hobby, the Bambu Lab A1 mini changed everything for me. As this person said: The A1 mini is a tool, not a project. It contains so much built-in (and actually working) smartness that makes it a send and forget device. No more tuning, tweaking, iterating. Load up filament. Send the job. Let it print. Done. That’s a huge change for me. I can now concentrate on design. Wonderful!
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2024-08-18 19:11:53 UTC

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Prices from April this year. Should give a bit of an overview :) https://jan.wildeboer.net/2024/04/Big-Transfer/ @npub18vy…yeue @npub1ef5…gcpc @npub18v5…lren

2024-08-16 08:29:29 UTC

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But any modern system should work with redundancy and avoid SPOF (Single Point Of Failure), as we both know. So rebooting is not the problem, making sure that services are configured to be redundant and hot-swappable is more relevant in that setup ... @npub184m…rqze

2024-08-16 08:03:35 UTC

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It's a lesson I learned the hard way years back when doing my RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) training. At the end of whatever configuration changes, reboot. Why? To make sure that all changes you've made persist. It's really weird how often that simple mistake of not persisting config changes leads to domino effects that can be easily prevented by rebooting a bit more often ;)