Notices by Frank Heijkamp (alterelefant@mastodontech.de)

@niekvleeuwen En het is notabene een partij met slechts één lid.

@georgetakei It's funny, I mean it's a bad Photoshop, but it's fun.

@smallcircles Some found a way to generate a massive mark-up. You don't buy coffee, you buy a lifestyle.

@MichaelRoss Adding to that, yes a proper backup is needed, this applies to a NAS and also to cloud services. If you read the fine print of all the cloud providers you will see that they tell you you have to provide your own backup. They won't guarantee the availability of your data. If they have a serious technical outage they can just say, sorry we lost your pictures and documents and that is the end of it.

@MichaelRoss Saving money is only one part of the story. Even more important is knowing what happens to your data and being in full control who can access that data.

@rysiek @pixelcode It looks like AI is unable to read the room.

@mttaggart All that generative AI will feed back into trainingsets. Lovely, what could possibly go wrong?

@georgetakei This comment feels empty.

@ayoub When will the killing of innocent Palestinians stop? Or do the Israeli plan to kill them all? It almost feels like the Israeli took Nazi Germany as their example. It is unreal what is happening to the Palestinian people. Make it stop!

To all my friends in the US of A, you have our support if you decide to take that Elon Nazi Musk out. He should mind his own business en stop commenting on European politics.

@lanodan @bert_hubert @ayo It is always a fine balance between what is good for the short term and what is wise for the long term. Especially in web development there are new frameworks and related components popping up left, right and center. One should always think twice before jumping on the next hot thing that comes along. Keep it simple and have future maintenance in mind. That might mean that you have to do a little bit more work now in order to save time and money in the long run.

@lanodan @bert_hubert @ayo In some cases it makes sense to code your own packages instead of relying on external parties. Minimising the number of dependencies stands out to be the most effective way to make your system future proof and easy to maintain.

@apicultor @kkarhan @Heidi Horses for courses. A company in need of long term archive will invest in proven technology and install a LTO tape library. They are not going to mess around with cheap SSD's. The TCO is more than just the initial investment. A supplier providing a maintenance contract and who will guarantee that the solution they installed works as advertised will be awarded the contract. I don't expect this to change much in the next twenty years or so.

@georgetakei An interesting kind of interspecies support group?

@BeAware @lolgop It's by far not as federated as Mastodon is.

@lolgop Mastodon is the better choice because it's federated and therefore not owned by one company or a single person. #fediverse

@georgetakei Musk is a creep.

@bmacDonald94 The sign showing: "God hates your ears", might be the best one yet.

@oldladyplays Good choice indeed. I personally use Chrome for Google only products, things like Docs, Maps and YouTube. For all other things I use either Firefox or Safari. My default search engine is DuckDuckGo.