^ #Reul #NRW #Innenministerium

Nachtrag
Die Mitarbeiter in Herr Berts #Palantir Ministerium beschreiben „ein Klima von Angst und Misstrauen. “

„Beklagt wurde auch mangelnde Transparenz. Der Personalrat bat alle Anwesenden aufzustehen, die die interne Kommunikation für gut halten.
Doch niemand erhob sich von seinem Stuhl.“

„Fachleute würden zu unkritischen Gefolgsleuten gemacht“

„…, weil der Gruppenleiter ihn bedroht haben soll. Außerdem soll er Kolleginnen als "Tussi" oder "Schlampe" bezeichnet und sich abfällig über Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund geäußert haben.“

https://www1.wdr.de/politik/politik-in-nrw/pua-vorbericht-schlechte-stimmung-im-innenministerium-100.html

with opengl, you can go on a website from 2002 and spend a couple hours on a tutorial making a game where a texture-mapped cube moves around a heightmap grid shooting lines at other cubes. this is a severe issue fundamental to the API itself, as it leads to inexperienced people writing graphics code. vulkan fixes this, by filtering out such people, so their contributions are discarded, and only graphics produced by professionals and serious dedicated autodidacts will ever reach the screen

Just broke my guitar. It's okay, I won't fret.

Wenn ihr bei #Buendnis90DieGruenen seid: Änderungsanträge für die BDK brauchen Unterstützung:

KI-Rechenzentren an die Klimaziele koppeln; Wasser- und Energieverbrauch begrenzen. https://antraege.gruene.de/52bdk/kunstliche-intelligenz-mit-dem-menschen-im-mittelpunkt-52965/26046

Das Grüne Grundsatzprogramm gilt auch bei KI. https://antraege.gruene.de/52bdk/kunstliche-intelligenz-mit-dem-menschen-im-mittelpunkt-52965/26045

Keine öffentlichen Investitionen in Technologie ohne Geschäftsmodell: https://antraege.gruene.de/52bdk/kunstliche-intelligenz-mit-dem-menschen-im-mittelpunkt-52965/26058

Digitale Souveränität auch bei KI: https://antraege.gruene.de/52bdk/kunstliche-intelligenz-mit-dem-menschen-im-mittelpunkt-52965/26059

Geltendes Recht gegen KI-Konzerne durchsetzen: https://antraege.gruene.de/52bdk/kunstliche-intelligenz-mit-dem-menschen-im-mittelpunkt-52965/26060

True and the thing that I wish I could literally scream into every rightwinger in America’s face is that the same is true for our current pedophile in chief

Over the past few days, I've been working on some Linux-based setups, bringing back some of my old solutions (with a few adaptations) to make them work the way I like. Mostly inspired by some of the ideas of simplicity that come from the BSD world.

I'm using Alpine Linux as a base, and I've been testing these setups on both proper servers and SBCs, for various reasons.

And, all things considered, some distributions (like Alpine, for example) have remained fairly true to the original ideas of simplicity and predictability. I still enjoy using Linux when it’s logical and predictable.

And this got me thinking: some distributions have gone from:

"Hey, we're a solid, simple, and reliable alternative to Windows. Give us a try!"

to:

"Hey, we support practically all your hardware, just like Windows" (which, to be fair, was a real achievement)

to:

"Hey, Windows! I’ve become just like you!"

As if complexity automatically meant "enterprise-grade", and being "enterprise-grade" were something everyone should aspire to - even on a laptop or a small SBC.

There's nothing wrong with solving complex problems. Some complexity is unavoidable, and sometimes even necessary. But complexity should be the price we sometimes have to pay to solve problems, not something we proudly advertise as a feature.

Otherwise, we end up exactly where we started: just like Windows. Or perhaps even worse.

#Linux

The idea of a centralized judicial system does not seem compatible with the spirit of federation. The safety we expect from centralized platforms is something we gave up for our freedom.

that’s right but I think smaller groups of server admins could still team up and curate shared blocklists. in a small group trust is easier to manage.

People who scream "AI will replace developers (devops/sysadmins/whoever)" don't understand the concept of institutional knowledge.

is ea-nasir something like us-east

@Ameboid beautifully put. I have taken to framing the AI mindset as the *lack of care economy*.

And have summoned that again this morning https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/117596578087273449

Still Working On It Turns 17 Years of Side Projects Into Searchable Maker Timelines

https://lockergnome.com/seventeen-years-hacker-news-unfinished-projects/

#SideProjects #archives #DeveloperTools #tech #GenerativeAI

Weil ohne öffentlichen Druck niemand Klimaschutz ernst nimmt. Die Reichen und Mächtigen wollen Faschismus für die Endzeit, um durch Ausbeutung und Korruption noch alles abzugreifen, was abgegriffen werden kann, während der Pöbel verreckt.

Wann gibt's eigentlich Generalstreik?

https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_101522730/die-wichtigsten-eu-staatschefs-fehlen-auf-der-klimakonferenz.html

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

Reddit got bad long before they restricted API access. That's what was the final drop for many people, but it wasn't the beginning at all.

I agree that growing would be a benefit for Lemmy though. While I wouldn't dismiss the dangers of a growing community entirely, we can just defederate from or block problematic parts in theory. So I wouldn't say we're in quite the same danger as centralized platforms.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

Meine Mutter wäre heute 90 Jahre alt geworden. Sie hat in ihrem Leben wie viele andere Frauen auch zugunsten von Männern zurückgesteckt: Sie ging früh arbeiten, damit ihr Bruder studieren konnte. Dann arbeitete sie weiter, damit mein Vater lange studieren konnte. Ihren eigenen Berufswunsch Kinderärztin konnte sie daher nie umsetzen. Für meine Schwester und mich hat sie eine wunderbare Kindheit mit viel Unterstützung organisiert. Und klar gemacht, dass Frauen heute anders leben können sollen.

I was very, very interested in end-user programming. The thing that drew me to Python was the CP4E ("computer programming for everybody") initiative associated with the language. Python seemed so high-level and so simple that if we could just build a tower of abstractions to separate users from archaic technical concerns like "sockets" and "files" and "IOCTLs", and allow them to write code in terms of the nouns *they* cared about, we would unlock that fabled bicycle for the mind.

Been pretty behind with uploading video stuff. Here's the timelapse for the patch of flowers I made at the beginning of October https://spectra.video/w/gHh9TbJptE7J1Mpz7g5Dox