Elias Probst

#OpenSource and #OpenData fanboy & contributor (#KDE, #NixOS, #OpenStreetMap)

hopelessly idealistic - realistically pessimistic

values science & facts over feelgood-ism

web 🌐: https://eliasprobst.eu/
PGP: 82C512826511BADB
location: EU/DE/BaWü/TÜ
OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/eliasp/

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2026-04-05 11:54:55 UTC

Im ICE unterwegs. Zugbegleiter ruft über Lautsprecher nach Unterstützung durch med. Notfallhilfe/Arzt.
Innerhalb 2 Minuten stehen 8 Leute, davon 3 Ärzte da.
Auf unsere Zivilgesellschaft ist manchmal doch noch Verlass! 🤩

2026-02-04 23:44:19 UTC

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they're hopefully a bit more oriented towards using their resources more wisely and to cooperate with other members of the @npub1c64…jwxh project where most of this work has already been done in a collaborativeand centrally maintained manner 🤷
@npub1t2q…n4vh @npub1854…hexw

2026-02-04 13:22:28 UTC

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also having a lot of fun right now with low-level pkg management tools for Debian/Ubuntu...
It feels so arcane after years of NixOS usage.
Currently working on making the output of "apt-cache dumpavail" usable as JSON and then building my own dependency solver on top of it 😩

2026-01-27 21:57:25 UTC

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They present me elaborate architectural documents, troubleshooting documentation, helper scripts, etc - and it all just doesn't really fit together. And those people don't have the slightest clue what they're doing, besides letting their agent cobble everything together, seemingly working until it doesn't - and then I'll have to deal with it.
I'm thinking about putting up some limits here - allowing myself to reject those cases as soon as it turns out that there was #AI involved.

2026-01-27 21:53:54 UTC

On every job, I somehow became the person people go to for help, when they're stuck with obscure issues or technologies in the stack no one else has experience in.
So far I loved tackling those, since it often meant debugging challenging issues, helping people out with knowledge, simplifying things by pointing people at the right tool for the job etc.
But recently, this started changing: people approach me with quite complex, often incoherent issues - and it turns out: it's mostly #AISlop

2026-01-08 10:07:46 UTC

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anything in `journalctl --user -e -u plasma-plasmashell.service`

2026-01-01 09:25:01 UTC

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eine Alternative könnte #Taiga sein:
https://taiga.io/

2025-09-12 13:33:30 UTC

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unbundling, now that they secured their massive market share through those practices seems quite pointless.
Let them pay like hell, so that their profits made from those unfair practices are dried up and they don't just end up, calculating those penalties as expenses as part of their strategy.
Then put all this money into #OpenSource #EuropeanAlternatives

2025-07-08 10:16:22 UTC

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do you have plans to document your findings and solution as a systemd issue? So they could look into integrating the fixes in the "right places"?
@npub1d4h…spfl
#systemd

2025-07-06 11:37:39 UTC

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auch bei rein erneuerbaren Energiesysteme gibt es Transport/Wandlungsverluste. Bei weitem nicht so drastisch, wie bei den Fossilen, aber um sich gegen dümmliche Argumente aus dem fossilistischen Lager nicht angreifbar zu machen, sollten diese ehrlicherweise beinhaltet sein.
@npub1952…2d07

2025-06-03 13:49:42 UTC

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der erste Link ist kaputt.

2025-05-26 21:38:52 UTC

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hier ab 23:12
https://www.zdf.de/video/magazine/heute-journal-104/heute-journal-vom-26-mai-2025-100
@npub1tz5…u727 @npub1nvg…yg0s @npub1t3g…qqds [@markus_netzpolitik](https://chaos.social/@markus_netzpolitik ) @npub1syh…zkrn

2025-05-21 06:47:00 UTC

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"Butchers for Veganism"

2025-05-16 18:29:15 UTC

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nix da! Europa braucht einen Abgleich mit seinen Idealen.
Einerseits der Gipfel der Zivilisation, Menschenrechte und Erleuchtung sein wollen - andererseits die tödlichste Außengrenze der Welt haben und innenpolitische Profilierungsspielchen auf den Rücken der Ärmsten austragen.
Es ist erbärmlich!

2025-05-06 09:33:53 UTC

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mit dem, was die Autoindustrie mittlerweile an Entertainment, AI-Bullshit und Assistenzsystemen in Fahrzeugen verbaut, stimmt das so leider nicht mehr.
Da ist relativ viel Bleeding-Edge dabei.
@npub185d…h0j0

2025-05-01 15:54:06 UTC

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und bei der für Energie aus #Biomasse verwendeten Fläche verstecken sich weitere 120.000 Hektar mit Renaturierungspotential:
https://mastodon.social/@eliasp/113912699649886916
@npub14mu…j9r9

2025-03-26 08:13:39 UTC

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discussion on the orange site:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477057

2025-03-14 23:34:35 UTC

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if you don't want to/can't tinker with too much low-level tech stuff, the easiest way of getting started with #HomeAssistant might be this ready-made appliance which comes with HomeAssistant pre-installed:
https://www.home-assistant.io/green
It won't magically de-cloud all of your devices (e.g. the #AmazonEcho), but in general #HomeAssistant is the most comprehensive and capable solution nowadays to control as much of your smart devices as possible.
@npub1grl…rayl

2025-03-14 23:09:55 UTC

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…add the #HomeAssistant hashtag to your post and wait for the crowd to rush in 😄

2025-03-02 14:34:44 UTC

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Musks actions of destroying scientific institutions and archives feel worse than the burning of Alexandria's library.

2025-03-01 21:00:27 UTC

Hier hat sich vor einiger Zeit ein #Biber aus einem kleinen Rinnsaal einen ordentlichen Teich geschaffen.
Und ich bin positiv überrascht, wie es hier aufgenommen wurde:
So viele Leute sind neugierig über den neuen Mitbewohner, dass über die Presse und Schilder vor Ort die Menschen gebeten werden mussten, Ruhe & Abstand zu wahren
Die Gemeinde #Kusterdingen hat dem Landwirt, dessen Fläche überflutet wurde, unkompliziert eine Ausgleichsfläche überlassen.
#Rewilding #Biotop #Naturschutz
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/089/174/584/074/613/original/b11790456cd56e7c.jpg
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2025-02-26 20:15:58 UTC

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maybe this is helpful?
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/63157/who-assigns-algorithm-oids-for-cryptographic-algorithms

2025-02-26 19:41:54 UTC

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I thought the #ITU does, but couldn't find anything so far.

2025-02-04 22:29:41 UTC

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that's a built-in functionality of #KDEPlasma
It can be found in System Settings under:
→ System
→ Power Management
→ Advanced Power Settings
#KDE #Plasma #PowerManagement
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2025-01-29 10:28:52 UTC

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man könnte ja mal die Kolleg:Innen im benachbarten #Pforzheim fragen, die dort unter @npub1mn9…8sp6 regelmäßig Live die Gemeinderatssitzungen tickern…

2024-12-18 09:49:17 UTC

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this actually happened. There was a "buy one, give one" program and I bought 4 back then.
@npub1u6n…rger @npub1m7m…2e7k

2024-12-13 14:44:57 UTC

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I was waiting for the penguin to leave a little surprise graphics effect 💩

2024-12-05 08:55:12 UTC

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a friend of mine implemented nix-fused more than 10 years ago (unfortunately as a corp-internal non-public project) which just pulled on demand whatever was needed to execute a random binary into the Nix store.
I believe there was a recent talk at #NixCon or so where someone reimplemented the same idea...
That's basically comma on steroids ☺️
@npub1hrq…gzxf @npub1x59…gect

2024-12-05 08:40:12 UTC

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came here to say that, but didn't want to be "the annoying #NixOS user". Thank you for taking one for the Team! 😆
@npub1x59…gect

2024-11-18 14:16:07 UTC

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I do so often enough, because I mess up so much with my hack-around-and-find-out approach that I need to recover all kind of data all the time 😆

2024-11-15 07:50:32 UTC

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if you're looking for some fancy graphical effects to make it feel less old-fashioned (it really isn't - it's well-maintained and full of modern features), you can change the profile settings to have a semi-transparent background ☺️
#KDE #Konsole
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2024-11-14 19:19:29 UTC

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I feel like #Flatpak should implement a solution for this scenario, where either an app can be renamed and thereby its data get migrated or alternatively an app can request temporary access to another app's data to do this on its own.

2024-11-08 10:19:46 UTC

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diesen Anspruch habe ich vor rund 13 Jahren beerdigt und konzentriere mich seither primär auf meine Kernkompetenz: "existieren".
Der Rest wird überbewertet!
@npub1j2y…p4cs

2024-11-05 21:28:44 UTC

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for all the horrors (and sometimes also the good parts) of #CrossBorderRail - follow @npub10ra…24jw and this hashtag.
@npub1wnq…xw6v

2024-10-31 17:56:59 UTC

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AI is as much of an alternative to a search engine as Grimm's fairy tales are an alternative to an encyclopedia.

2024-10-16 10:11:20 UTC

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🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🥴
Next time, hand-draw it, take a picture of it, then show it on your smartphone!

2024-10-15 00:03:58 UTC

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Mehr als die Headline von @npub1qr8…4xa4 muss man an dieser Stelle wohl kaum schreiben:
"SPD läutet traditionelles linkes Halbjahr vor wichtigen Wahlen ein".
https://www.der-postillon.com/2019/02/traditionelles-linkes-halbjahr.html

2024-10-14 22:07:46 UTC

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EBCDIC is illegal around here!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
@npub1syu…s5cm

2024-10-08 11:37:10 UTC

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mysteriös! Als gäbe es irgendein Virus, an dem sich leicht die ganze Bevölkerung ansteckt und welches oft schwerwiegende Folgeerkrankungen nach sich zieht!
Das müsste man mal erforschen!
#CovidIsNotOver

2024-10-04 10:46:38 UTC

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#Wikidata Item Q76420 würde sich über entsprechende (belegbare) Informationen freuen. Bislang ist dort nur sein universitärer Bildungsweg verzeichnet und keine Referenz auf #Frankfurt zu finden.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76420

2024-09-28 16:33:56 UTC

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es ist insofern nachzuvollziehen, dass man keine Kontrolle über die Endgeräte hat und damit nicht weiß, wie gut notwendige Maßnahmen zur Einhaltung der Datensicherheit umgesetzt sind - in aller Regel ist das Niveau hier unterirdisch - auf irgendwelchen verranzten Privatgeräten, ggf. sogar mit Familienmitgliedern der Lehrperson geteilt usw.
Aber wie im vorigen Kommentar schon erwähnt: die Abwesenheit von Dienstgeräten ist dermaßen absurd, das ist schlichtweg unanständig.
@npub1tkc…ygjt

2024-09-28 14:15:48 UTC

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es ist einfach nur absurd, dass IMAP wegen dummer Ausreden deaktiviert wurde und vermutlich auch deaktiviert bleiben wird.
#DAP #eduBW

2024-09-26 22:54:26 UTC

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you might want to actually mask it, otherwise it might get activated by a socket unit.
@npub17mj…0mhx

2024-09-17 14:10:34 UTC

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Thank you @npub1m96…ag4y!

2024-09-14 19:56:12 UTC

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I haven't! Didn't have much time back then, but might give it another try now and will see if I can solder the power supply, since only very specific ones seem to properly work, so keeping the current one might be worth it.
Thanks a lot for the pointers!
@npub1m7m…2e7k

2024-09-14 19:22:22 UTC

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loved them! Ordered 4 of them back then - 2 for the family, 2 for recipients in need selected by the project.
They were in use for many years. Just half a year ago or so I tried to ressurect one of them, but the lack of modern TLS on them and a failing power supply gave me a hard time.

2024-09-14 19:16:53 UTC

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Europe has the most deadly border (the Mediterranean) in the whole world, killing most exclusively people from the global south.
Claims of Europe not being racist are infuriating, since reality shows it's quite the opposite.

2024-09-13 06:23:07 UTC

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IIRC there was a Diaspora instance that tried to archive public posts and allowed users to archive their own posts.
@npub1rm3…gnxv might remember more details.

2024-09-10 07:13:16 UTC

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sooner or later, it'll have support for it. @npub1qxw…mqsw requested it a while ago and [@redstrate](https://mastodon.art/@redstrate ) said, he planned to implement it already for a while...
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489380
@npub1zts…4g7j

2024-09-10 07:05:01 UTC

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tried @npub1zts…4g7j?
It only lacks support for a multi-column layout, but should otherwise tick all the boxes.

2024-09-06 11:39:34 UTC

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GDPR Art. 15 - Right of access by the data subject:
"[...] (g) ... any available information as to their source"
This, combined with a deletion request, worked just fine for me in the past.

2024-08-23 08:24:42 UTC

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wieso gibt es da keine Scopes pro Behandlungsvorgang/Fachbereich usw?
So dass z.B. ein Neurologe, bei welchem man per Überweisung landet nur die notwendigen Informationen statt alles sehen kann?
@npub188a…74mh

2024-08-20 23:15:21 UTC

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as soon as Musk got his seat on the Trump government's panel of advisors.

2024-08-07 08:00:25 UTC

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nice to read such a positive take on using a Linux DE for such a use-case.
Have you given @npub1rfc…7tmz a try as potential Figma alternative?