Notices by Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈 (juliank@mastodon.social)

@mxmehl @llas @fsfe @lexelas @kirschner As a cable customer in Germany, I continue relying on the terribly managed, locked-down ISP device instead of a Fritz!Box.

I run a UniFi switch and a coule of UniFi APs behind it. A Fritz!Box wouldn't gain me _much_, and I'd be on my own if connectivity is unstable.

I'd prefer a separate modem. My router has a modem mode, but I believe it doesn't offer IPv6 and I don't have a separate router to test with :D

@llas @fsfe @mxmehl @lexelas @kirschner It's just almost entirely meaningless on coaxial networks as there's no separate modems anymore you could place your own router behind, and only 2 or 3 Fritz!Box coax routers.

@nuxi @robpike I think allowing streaming apps on TVs was a big mistake. Imagine if the streaming services all had to fit in a general TV app. Life would be much better.

@dalias @kiwix No it's not, that's the crux of the issue.

@dalias @kiwix It's funny but it is what it is. Go complain to Brussels.

But if you think about it you create a file sharing association and host a server, it's never public, you are always sharing the data amongst yourselves.

The DSA still applies. Not to you as the file sharing service provider but to the hoster hosting you.

I don't see how to make sure you can get your own content back without introducing a whole bunch of loopholes like that tbh

@dalias @kiwix you can't let them in and move data out because you are required by law to not let them have access to the data, again, as stated, it must be deleted or rendered inaccessible.

If you let them in and move it out you have just made it accessible again.

You don't upload a pirated movie to a hosting site, and then get the right to download it again after it gets flagged.

Here Hetzner is the hosting site, and the server disk contains the pirated content.

@dalias @kiwix Hetzner locked me out of my account and denies me access to my data while continuing to bill me for it isn't much better than just deleting it tbh.

Like once the action is taken either way, there's no way to get the data back because if you did get your data back it would not be inaccessible

@dalias @kiwix I think this is where it gets silly because the regulation isn't written for three parties.

To give an example, f you host a social network and have the issue, you delete the users content.

But now if you don't host the social network yourself, copyright owners can just complain to your hoster, and then ask them to delete your social network.

The provider has the option of forwarding this to you as their customer but oh well if you don't respond they need too act themselves

@dalias @kiwix Yes but there's little point in denying kiwix access to their server and keeping it using resources and continue to bill them?

@dalias @kiwix The Digital Services Act, article 6 requires a hoster in the EU (who like social networks are classified as a information society service):
"upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove or to disable access to the illegal content."

In the case of a server where they don't control individual content, removing or disabling access to that content exclusively is not possible, so removing all data is the only thing they can do.

I woke up, thinking "huh Israel surely must seize the opportunity and start attacking Syria soon" and then opened the news and see Damascus being bombed by Israeli rockets.

This isn't particularly surprising is it, the Syrian weaponry needs to be destroyed before potential enemies can seize power.

They took the Golan heights on Sunday, the next escalation was evident.

And this comes at a good time as now Netanyahu can't possibly be spending time at a trial.

@dalias @kiwix Hetzner argued they sent a message you don't know when that happened, I have no reason not to believe them.

Someone will have filed an abuse notice due to copyright violations, hetzner will have sent an email and then terminated the account after not receiving a response, that's quite normal, isn't it?

@praveen Encryption in matrix is more what I'd call an absolute cluster fuck. Inevitably you end up with failures to decrypt messages all the time. It's virtually unusable.

Please remember to like, boost, and cancel your Bitwarden subscription.

Good night, may your trains be punctual and your on-board restaurants functional.

My Boeing 747-8 flight had a loose inner window glass and what seemed like a hole on the outside glass. It was loudly vibrating, pressing down on it with a finger made it stop.

How can I report this to Lufthansa?

@vv221 I do not believe that killing family run businesses is really the right move, sorry.

Wealth taxes are inherently undemocratic and amount to illegal double taxation. They are not a reasonable subject for discussion.

They also impose a significant threat to social justice, as wealth doesn't get adjusted and eventually covers the top 50% and the top 1% is excluded anyway thanks to loopholes only they can exploit.

In order to create a fair taxation regime, first you need to link all tax caps and limits to indexes such that they automatically adjust wrt to their peers.

A free and fair market with equal opportunities for everyone is the cornerstone of our democracies and it is under constant attack from the extreme left, who want everyone to be poor and dependent on the state for all needs, and the extreme right, who want to exploit us all in a fascist neoliberal hellhole.

We need to defend it with all we've got, to the extent it doesn't negatively impact our fight against fascism.

It's not perfect but it's the best we've ever had.

Then you need to address the issue of generational wealth by fixing inheritance taxation and removing loop holes.

Then you need to start taxing people for fictional income, if they own their space of living, that amounts to the rent they save, such that you do not systematically undertax home owners.

This will likely be much more than a wealth tax but it is fair and reasonable.