Notices by Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)

@bert_hubert met AI kunst, natuurlijk

@kayla somehow the "It was the NVMe drive all along" became a song lyric in my head and now it is stuck there, thank you very much

I’ve told LF (and others) repeatedly that “education” as the leading point is insulting. Many maintainers know exactly what they need to do, but they lack time and energy for it. Lecturing them, I mean “giving them skills”, is… rarely the need or solution.

But “education” allows LF (and friends like GH) to continue elephant-in-the-room-ing the actual solution, which is paying maintainers for the trillions of dollars of value they create.

https://fosstodon.org/@donmccurdy/113512775802077660

I've been expecting something like this since the XZ hack, but still ... frustrated/annoyed/sad to see Microsoft and 13 (!) partners jointly announcing that their answer is to “educate” open source maintainers.

It's nice that they're compensating maintainers for the time spent on that training, but ... compliance with corporate security policies is still a whole lot of ongoing, unpaid work after that? Sigh.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/announcing-github-secure-open-source-fund/

Doing archaeology on the wiring of my in-floor heating again. They brought the right part but seem to have connected it wrong, which is impressive because there are only four wires to connect

@bert_hubert nice!

Does anyone have recommendations of any open source or European solar photovoltaic controller/monitoring solution?

Heard of Fronius, curious to get feedback or other recommendations.

@dblohm7 it's suuuuuper good, highly recommend

Hahaha omg just saw this: "We at Layer Aleph are optimists on AI, as in, its misapplication is surely going to create new and interesting catastrophic failures of complex systems."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/layer-aleph_the-synthesizer-effect-activity-7201245741606973441-Oxvd

Reminder: you can still register to attend the Crisis Engineering Workshop from Layer Aleph on July 30 - August 1:

https://layeraleph.com/event/

Might be a teensy bit easier to convince your manager today... :)

Several of us had some form of the question, "How do I successfully warn an organization about an impending crisis that I foresee but the organization does not?"

The answer is both depressing and freeing: you can't, so don't try. Instead, wait for the crisis to become apparent to the organization and then show up with your ideas for what to do to solve this crisis now—and change things so that the organization CAN see this kind of crisis approaching in the future

#CrisisEngineering

Highlights from the first day of Crisis Engineering from Layer Aleph:

Crisis engineering is more accurately named than I realized.

"Crisis" is in the sense of the crux; the point where things are definitely going to get better or worse depending on what is happening at that moment.

"Engineering" in the sense that an organization in crisis is in the unusual state of being open to transformative change - which is usually impossible

#CrisisEngineering

It makes me wonder about what could constitute a Minimum Viable Crisis and if there is a way to make that apparent sooner

But there is a line between allowing the organization to hit rock bottom by refusing to overfunction as an individual (fine), and full on accelerationism (not fine) so I am not going to pursue that line of thinking much farther

#CrisisEngineering

We also talked about understanding the how other players view the world, what their incentives are, and what risks they are worried about about

Quite often a mysteriously unresolvable crisis can be solved once you correct your understanding of a person or organization's goals

E.g. an HOA's goal isn't to serve homeowners, a university's goal is not educating undergraduates, veteran service organizations don't exist to help veterans

#CrisisEngineering

If you are interested in Crisis Engineering, there is a free online one hour class aimed at public officials on Tuesday Nov. 19 at 2pm EST (US):

https://www.linkedin.com/events/crisisengineeringforpublicoffic7258204500924985345

#CrisisEngineering

@bert_hubert 😂 I read the quoted summary of _The Unaccountability Machine_ in the footnotes, thought, "that's a really good summary, I will read the whole thing," clicked through, and found my post 🤦♀️

https://wandering.shop/@vaurora/112626226847945336

Who should I be talking to about Dutch network infrastructure resiliency?

Taking #CrisisEngineering to heart and assuming we can't achieve digital sovereignty before a crisis happens, I want to put together an informal and creative group to share tools and tips that would help recover Dutch network infrastructure faster after a man-made disaster (e.g., we suddenly can't access AWS). I talked to a few folks at the RIPE meeting and they didn't know of any current effort. Advice appreciated!

@toothFAIRy whoa! I hope you are excited about what's next

@janl @alexglow omigosh. I've seen her live twice and read her biography and ❤️❤️❤️ We are so lucky she went into comedy

gotta say, douglas adams prepared me better for our absurd future than isaac asimov. like, spending hours explaining to a replicator AI how to make an excellent cup of tea, only to have the AI then lock up 100% of the ships computers resources mid-battle as it tries to comply with the request, that does seem like an increasingly more plausible scenario than a scientist planning a techno cult centuries in advance to prevent a great calamity