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

#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.

Asking #ChatGPT how many "r"s are in "#strawberry"?
https://imgur.com/gallery/humans-win-i-also-think-i-pissed-off-cCWURiO

Brilliant chat.

Awesome that all major corporations are investing billions on integration this technology into their products. 🤷

#AI #bullshit #lying

@jtr Your article proves (again) that Emacs is not just a text editor.

My take on that: https://karl-voit.at/2015/10/23/Emacs-is-not-just-an-editor/

@amszmidt @jtr Interesting. Which Emacs implementation besides GNU Emacs has any practical impact beyond niche?

@amszmidt @jtr After working for almost three decades with Emacs, I only stumbled over XEmacs and GNU Emacs.

I've never stumbled over your other examples. Emacs might be a niche on its own, yes, but your examples don't even qualify for a niche worth mentioning IMHO - at least what their practical impact means. YMMV.

Emacs is a Lisp platform, no editor (only). I'd love to see your reference from the creators or Emacs. Might be a definition from the 70s/80s where this might have been correct.

@amszmidt @jtr I never used the term "Emacs editor".

If I would, I'd agree.

@amszmidt @jtr A Lisp platform. Easy as that.

If this happens to be something where you edit text, it's similar to a text editor.

If it happens to be composing music, cutting videos, playing games, visualizing your agenda, or many other use-cases, there is no text editor involved at all.

Exclusive-Multiple #AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-multiple-ai-companies-bypassing-143742513.html?guccounter=1

"A Wired investigation published this week found Perplexity likely bypassing efforts to block its web crawler via the Robots Exclusion Protocol, or "robots.txt," a widely accepted standard meant to determine which parts of a site are allowed to be crawled."

#Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/signal-app-username-phone-number-privacy/ by @micahflee

"In short, if you’re worried about Signal handing over your phone number to law enforcement based on your username, you should only set a username when you want someone to contact you, and then delete it afterward. And each time, always set a different username."

#privacy #security

#HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an #opensource HDMI 2.1 driver
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/

#FOSS #Linux

@feld @saxnot As if most people are able to choose freely.

I do have a multi-monitor setup with two hosts and I need both, HDMI and DP, because each TFT has those two inputs (and DP daisy-chaining isn't working here) and the hosts do have one HDMI and one DP output each.

I personally would prefer both connector/protocol standards to die and use any USB-C-based connection instead with whatever protocol that works (also with FOSS).

YMMV.

@feld @saxnot As you said: it's not always DisplayLink which is bad, yes.

Then it needs to be a different protocol - I don't really care as long as it works and it's available for FOSS.

Currently, I'm using lenovo t490 -TB/USB-C-> TB3 doch -HDMI/DP-> 2 TFTs. An additional desktop is also connecting the other two DP/HDMI plugs. As long as the TFTs don't offer more DP inputs or multi-TB-USB-C in parallel, I rely on whatever connector they offer.

@jonan_gallas @lispi314 @timbray True.

However, as long as you don't control 100% of all file names yourself by renaming them, you certainly should learn how to write scripts which can deal with spaces and special characters anyway. YMMV.

Einführung vom #DDR #Tempolimit 50 (innerorts), 80 (Landstraße) und 100 (Autobahn) für Pkw "reduzierte die steigende Zahl von #Verkehrstoten drastisch."

#Wiedervereinigung: "eine große Umfrage [...], bei der sich 89% der Bürger a.d.neuen Bundesländern für e. Beibehaltung d.Tempolimits aussprachen."

"Anfang 1992 wurde es dennoch abgeschafft. Die Zahl der Toten [...] verdreifachte sich innerhalb eines Jahres." 😲

Quelle:
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Zahlen-bitte-Die-25-als-unterschiedlicher-Wert-in-Ost-und-West-9323425.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag

Unsere Politiker wollen Tote & Umweltzerstörung.