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2,8 GRAD EIN WECKRUF! Sei am 13.11.2026 dabei!
Finde deinen Klimastreik: https://fridaysforfuture.de/klimastreik/
Deutschland muss seine Versprechen halten und seinen Klima-Schulden Rechnung tragen. #PayYourClimateDebt
Die CDU Sachsen-Anhalt wird die afd unterstützen, Landes-CDU-Chef Schulze hat es angekündigt.
Schritt für Schritt wird die Öffentlichkeit daran gewöhnt. Schlagzeilen dazu gibt es keine.
Bundes-CDU? Kanzler?
"Es wird keine Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD geben, jedenfalls nicht unter mir als dem Parteivorsitzenden der CDU Deutschlands" ...? (Okt 25)
CDU-Chef Schulze will AfD-Anträge künftig im Einzelfall bewerten
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/landespolitik/brandmauer-debatte,schulze-afd-antraege-zustimmung-100.html
RE: https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/117592436289370718
How about “no” and the US can go fuck itself?
Herr Bert macht lieber das mit den Faschisten …
https://www1.wdr.de/politik/politik-in-nrw/palantir-software-100.html
^ #Reul #NRW #Innenministerium
Nachtrag
Die Mitarbeiter*innen 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.“
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
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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.
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I administer my own instance of Lemmy and Mastodon. The CSAM issue was something I learned about real quick, unfortunately. I was able to implement community maintained blocklists. It’s not perfect, by any means, but I’ve not seen any more harmful content.
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. With that, we do have to be diligent and deal with the bad actors. It’s the worst trade off in the whole deal.
It’s also impossible to enforce, I think. The Rage Against the Machine “f you, I won’t do what you tell me” spirit lives in all small server admins (by virtue of rebelling in the first place).
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
The deliberate conscious effort that we humans require to do anything, like make art or write an academic paper, has been belittled and glossed over.
Instead results are glamorously prized as the product of success, and the amount of effort that it took to get there is hidden away in shame.
AI is the obscene extreme to that mentality: not more thinking, effort, work, anything— get the result now. While it was that exact effort that made us human in the first place.
@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
@0xabad1dea yeah people blaming LLMs for everything with zero evidence is... tiring.
Still Working On It Turns 17 Years of Side Projects Into Searchable Maker Timelines
https://lockergnome.com/seventeen-years-hacker-news-unfinished-projects/
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?
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
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.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
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