Notices by hagen terschüren (hagen@mastodon.social)

i hate how silence has died in the modern world. i don’t need the streaming app to start the trailer or play music when i’m selecting shows and movies. games should just should the fuck up when i hit the pause button. leave my brain some capacity to think. please. i feel like an overstimulated toddler.

what is it with the us relying on nazis to build their rockets?

i find the debates about what zuckerberg really believes and what is just opportunism interesting, but honestly, it doesn't matter? the purpose of a system is what it does. the why doesn't change anything.

holy shit. i just installed rednote, the chinese social media app that us tiktokers are fleeing to and i have never seen something like this. of course it has all the usual tracking in it. but also it aggressivly tries to access my clipboad. like every couple of seconds. what the actual fuck.

gotta hand it to matt mullenweg. do you even realize how hard it is to fuck up on a scale that makes you look like the villain in a fight with a private equity company?

so i’ve been a technology reporter for over half a decade now and i’m kind of scared to admit this, but i still have no idea what sap actually is or does and i don’t think i want to know.

i think we should establish a new standard for deciding if a company has a monopoly on the market. if sap can name a software »sap s/4hana« and still be successful that should be considered an indicator of market failure.

holy shit even the tiny bit of research i just did made me sad as fuck.

@tante to be fair »enshittification« has been completely broken as a term anyways because people never read doctorow’s definition and just used a word that sounds fun for literally everything.

i love how »we shouldn’t live beyond our means« is only ever used to stop governments from investing into fixing society and never to stop burning resources we simply don’t have.

»boomers ruined the world by just pushing all of their problems into the future«
…
…
…
»DON’T WORRY CHIPS WILL GET MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT AND WE SHOULD BET ON NUCLEAR FUSION RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT WILL DEFINITELY HAPPEN AND NOTHING COULD GO WRONG.«

yes, amd is getting better, apple silicon is impressive. but the industry trends are clear. moore’s law is over. and the efficiency gains we are getting are mostly from specialized hardware baked into the chips like neural processing units and media encoders. process shrinks won’t fix this.

the notion that the ai energy demand will be fixed by efficiency gains in the future is a borderline lie. i don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we are done with doubling efficiency every two years. and we’ve been done for quite a while. if you watch the pc space most of the performance gains come from pumping more energy into the chips. a high end gaming pc will commonly use power supplies rated for 1,000 watts or higher. consoles have increased in size because they need the cooling.

this whole x/infowars handle situation is also a reminder why i think bluesky’s username system should be adopted widely. tying the name to a domain that you actually own might not guarantee that you own your followers but the »brand« is an entity that is legally tied to you and out of reach for third parties.

i wish activitypub could copy that system. my username should be a domain that i own with a txt-entry that points to the activitypub-server that i use. let me own my identity.

a deepfake of elon’s father saying he’s proud of him?

es ist christian lindners gutes recht die koalition zu sprengen und er hat es mit dem geleakten papier und seinen vorschlägen auch wirklich darauf angelegt. fair enough! aber warum hatte er dann für den fall, dass das wirklich passiert, keine rede vorbereitet sondern diese superpeinliche show gestern abgeliefert?

»but sometimes my mails are too emotional for a workplace setting« fuck this! be emotional. be mad at somebody. apologize after. have honest interactions with people. be cringe. be everything a chatbot isn’t. i can’t deal with this void of nothing that falls out of chatgpt.

one argument i hear in favor of ai generated text is »i’m not a writer, this will make it sound better/professional« and i get it. there is a reason i’m not sharing sketches i draw on the internet. they look like shit. but honestly: i’d much, much, much rather read something »imperfect« but that sounds like a human with an actual personality and emotions wrote it than the wall of beige that falls out of chat gpt. my shitty drawings are more interesting than midjourney images. embrace humanity.

wählt mich und ich zwinge möbelhersteller nicht nur das gesamtmaß, sondern auch die innenmaße jedes regalfachs auf der webseite zu nennen

i did a blog and it’s about internet etiquette and how we need to resist behavioural changes brought by algorithm based social media. because even on mastodon people treat replies like a public forum and it’s kind of ruining the experience for a lot of people.

it’s time to remember that replies mean that you force the original poster to spend their time on you. that doesn’t mean don’t reply, but at least think about how you approach someone, especially a stranger.

https://ausnahmsweise.net/replies-arent-comments-its-time-for-proper-etiquette/