Notices by Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode: (publicvoit@graz.social)

@pu Of course. This limits the device choice dramatically.

You can also think of using a projector instead or not connecting your TV with the Internet.

I do have a projector as my main driver and for our guest room, an old smart TV without Internet.

Don't buy a #SmartTV from #LG anymore:

"LG TVs’ integrated #ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer #emotions"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions/

#surveillance #privacy #cloud #advertisement #spyware

#MastoMetrics stopped working from my point of view: "Data syncing suspended [...]"
https://mastometrics.com/

I just revoked its permission and stopped my monthly bank transfer to its author.

Does anybody know a similar alternative to get some insight on the popularity of my toots to get some form of feedback?

I know some DIY-tools but so far, I was too lazy to run it on my own hosts:
https://github.com/muesli/mastotool
https://github.com/blackle/mastodon-data-viewer.py

#statistics #Mastodon

@janneke @nobodyinperson @AngryAnt @raboof On, I have plenty messages on that: my downsides start with: https://graz.social/@publicvoit/112197919942153866

@raboof Wow, thanks for that.

@AngryAnt @raboof I can relate to that but this is only achievable with a high level of Nix knowledge.

So at that stage of Nix(OS), it is no option to me. I failed with much simpler tasks already. 😔

@AngryAnt @raboof Frankly, I haven't even looked at this #NixOS feature.

My experience so far which doesn't necessarily contradict your comment: if something is working, its "source" looks clean and you can reproduce it a number of times. 👍

However to get to that point in the first place, I had to bump into too many issues, rely on multiple experts on the Internet to help me with my specific issue until it somehow worked and I did not even understand all the mistakes I did which is a pity with respect to learning.

My most significant example: simply invoking a local #Python script.

You could read about the very last mile of that journey here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-shell-isnt-executing-its-python-poetry-command-and-doesnt-exit/58452

Note that it took me half a year, at least six iterations of approaches including switching to poetry, various variations of nix-shells/shellscript combinations and so forth.

And this all for a task that is easy as "python3 ./myscript.py" on all(!) other operating systems.

Hardly a motivation for me for NixOS.

@nobodyinperson @AngryAnt @raboof On any other OS I did never have to use something more complicated than a venv. 😉

@nobodyinperson @AngryAnt @raboof My problem is that I thought that NixOS is a solution to some issues I had with other Linux distros. That failed and I got additional issues as well.

When I have to setup my system, NixOS (and Nix) will be a part of my past.

@yantar92 Oh, good thinking! 👍

I do have yankpad/yasnippet in place. However, shouldn't the issue also occur while recording the macro in the first place? 🤔

@amszmidt It works for emacs -q but that doesn't help much I guess.

Bisecting my config (https://github.com/novoid/dot-emacs/blob/master/config.org) is very tedious. 😔

Anybody with #Emacs #macro knowledge could answer why a specific macro is not executed the way I recorded it?

It's as if the last M-x is aborting the execution somehow.

Details on https://paste.debian.net/1339186/

GNU Emacs 29.4
Org mode version 9.7.12

Somebody with deep knowledge about #ActivityPub (the decentralized #Fediverse protocol that #Mastodon is also using) & the architecture of #Bluesky wrote a long-read about the wrong impression that Bluesky is a decentralized or #federated service.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

In short: no, it's not. It's yet another centralized company that can - and according to experience - will go south some day.

«There are multiple ways this could end up being a problem for the decentralized world; one irritating way is that people might believe there's an "easy decentralized way to do things" that Bluesky has discovered which isn't actually that at all, and another is that Bluesky could collapse at some point and that people might walk away with the impression of "oh well, we tried #decentralization and that didn't work... remember Bluesky?"»

Do spare you extra work & maintain your social network here instead. It'll outlive the centralized alternatives.

And try to teach journalists!

#Federation

#Privacy, Why?
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/11/14/Why-Privacy by @timbray

His take on “If you haven’t done anything wrong, don’t worry”.

It's about time that #Signal is working on features to manage #groupchats with parallel discussions. 😞

It is really a drag when there are multiple threads ongoing at the same time. Although the tech could handle Signal group #chats with more than maybe ten people, the UX prevents me from participating.

The bummer was when we left #Usenet. Almost any issue with online discussions was solved beautifully back then. Then we started to come up with mediocre and primitive alternatives. 🤷

#NNTP

@iron_bug Have you read the process?

#GitHub offers a process to take over a project as the successor maintainer when the original maintainer can not be reached any more because (s)he deceased: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-access-to-your-personal-repositories/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-personal-accounts-repositories

The only thing that worries me is how to get a death certificate of a somehow remote person with no personal relation? 🤔

#lastwill #testament #digitalwill #digitaltestament

🤣 #Schweiz kauft 2020 um 240 Mio Franken #SAP für die #Logistik der #Armee und stoppt nun die Einführung, da sie d'raufgekommen sind, dass ihnen jemand dessen #Cloud im Krisenfall abdrehen kann.

Da hat jemand wirklich gut mitgedacht. 😜

https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/militaerische-it-projekte-schweizer-armee-ohne-krisensichere-logistik-bis-2035 (via #fefe)

Mehr zu Cloud-Risiken: https://karl-voit.at/cloud/

#publicvoit #Militär #lockin #Unabhängigkeit

A couple of years ago, there was an incident where #Adobe #CreativeCloud was blocked for at least a whole country because of some sort of political(?) embargo. I think it was a country in South America.

I don't mean temporary service outages.

Unfortunately, I did not bookmark anything related and somehow I'm not able to find any article on that event as it drowns in false positive search results (or my keywords are bad).

Can you help me here?

#cloud #lockin

@kuketzblog https://karl-voit.at/2015/07/29/Smartphone-battery/

TL;DR: über Nacht abschalten und via schwachen/alten Ladegerät aufladen.