Notices by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 (larsmb@mastodon.online)

Building a backup exclude/ignore file for a typical home directory on #Linux is madness.

Especially ~/.local/share/ is completely bonkers. A mix of easily reproducible data (such as #flatpak installs, but zed, nvim, containers ... all do it) mixed with valuable mutable state.

And don't get me started on backing up source code repositories. (Ideally, the tool would automatically only back-up unpushed changes and stashes.)

Storage costs money!

The Venn-Diagram of the people saying "I don't want to take any precautions, I don't want to miss out" and those who keep cancelling our plans because they've come down sick is essentially a circle.

I guess this makes sense to someone?

(That someone is not me.)

@tagesschau Ich find's ein bisschen unverschämt, das nicht korrekt zu formulieren.

"Die EU will Verschlüsselung und vertrauliche Kommunikation aushebeln - und rechtfertigt dies populistisch mit einem Vorgehen gegen KiPo."

#eupol #depol

Bei quasi allen Umfragen (auf #Civey) werden zu nahezu allen Themen (Ausnahme ist Umwelt/Klima) der #CDU #CSU #AfD die höchsten Kompetenzen zugeschrieben.

Inklusive Digitalisierung, Sozialpolitik, Energiewende, Verkehrspolitik, und Modernisierung(!) des Landes.

Es ist ... schwierig.

#depol

@vaurora I have a similar gripe with how my bank wants me to check and update my contact details. (Which is in itself a perfectly reasonable request.)

I'm told to ask the chatbot for them and then tell it if they're wrong.

Because a form with "is this still right?" would be too 2000s I guess?

(I'm also concerned that this implies that there are at least some who prefer the "everything is a conversation" approach and that I'm sharing the planet with them. I try not to think about it.)

We deserve a web browser that's part of and owned by the public commons.

To be frank, I believe we deserve, need, and could easily fund two: Firefox and Servo/Verso.

The "Open Web" does not exist without a truly open browser. Most digital sovereignty initiatives collapse without one.

Mozilla is not the organizational entity to lead this.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/

#Firefox #Servo #WebBrowsers #DigitalSovereignty

@HistoPol Well, that poll was from 2023 ... Today is different:

https://mastodon.online/@larsmb/114709963883567573

@ConnyDuck Sorry to hear that.

(There are still tests available here in Germany - both the LFT/rapid antigens or the PlusLife et al PCR-quality ones. Doctors can also order a test when you're getting a diagnosis.)

@ridscherli @dalias @b_rain Nobody knows that immediately when confronted with a completely new tool, especially one that behaves very differently to all other tools that looked the same before, and when they've been lied to by almost everyone (not just for-profit corporations) about the capabilities.
I think it is very important that we understand why LLMs are so often misunderstood so we can fix it — not be condescending to our friends is probably helpful in that regard.

@dalias @b_rain No. This is insulting. I don't take kindly to insults to my friends, so kindly: don't.

They're not experts in tech. They're being willfully misled about the capabilities and functions.

They all understood it when explained, but the systems are not always explained, because then they couldn't be sold.

The term for "one can't spend time to understand everything and must rely on and trust others at some point" is not "unintelligent" but "human".

@b_rain I've had to explain that LLMs are nothing at all like search engines to friends who are highly educated and, overall, likely smarter and more capable of complex thought than myself.

They're just not computer science educated, and understand computers as good at numbers and large database retrievals.

Which is the exact opposite of #LLMs.

Society isn't ready for them at all.

@jwildeboer @Gargron @evan Is #cve_2025_6019 an option for you?

(Edit: had to remove the / variant, #Mastodon doesn't do nested-obsidian-style variants either :)

A pair of teens next to me started talking mockingly about how ridiculous masking is in 2025 and in the heat.

I ignored them, as one does on #Berlin public transport.

As they kept chatting, they went there:

"How long has it been since COVID?" "I don't know, my entire class just recently had it." "Yeah, and I can still feel it in my lungs."

I don't think the ridicule worked out as they had planned to.

#CovidIsNotOver #MasksWork

Die Berufung auf's "Neutralitätsgebot" durch den (#CDU) Direktor der #Bundestagsverwaltung als Verbotsgrund der Teilnahme am #CSD bedeutet nichts anderes als dass dieser diese für nicht neutral hält.

Klarer: dass die andere Positionen zu den dort vertretenen - gleiche Rechte für Alle - auch legitime und im Rahmen des Grundgesetzes zu respektierende politische, gesellschaftliche sind.

Kann man machen. Man ist dann halt reaktionärer Steigbügelhalter. Aber kann man machen.

#depol #PRIDE2025

Dear #GitHub, when I click on a link to an English language documentation page, I don't want to be automatically redirected to a machine generated German translation.

Yes, I have both enabled in my browser. Multi-lingual people are a thing. If I want a translation, I'll explicitly ask for it.

Every site whose product owner/manager insists on automatic translation should immediately fire them.

Given that the US president has deployed the Marines, historical anecdotes suggest he really is in the #Epstein files in a big way and doesn't want people to talk about it.

#uspol #LA

The mere fact that the US have "para"military combat brigades for fighting their own citizens and within their own borders boggles this German's mind and maybe they should have learned from our history how that's a very bad thing to have indeed.

#uspol #LA

Of all the apps & (cloud) services - unless your life is extremely boring - the highest ROI is taking ownership of your photos and videos.

Some legislations mandate scanning & many providers do it anyway: you risk awkwardness, loss of data or even all associated accounts with uncertain appeal process outcomes, plus potentially legal action.

Even if all your data *is* boring, false positives are highly likely.

-> https://immich.app/

#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalDetox #Immich

Erinnert mich, welche große deutsche/europäische Softwarefirma positioniert sich ständig in den Projekten zur digitalen Souveränität?

So ein Unternehmen würde doch bestimmt für "unsere" Werte eintreten, oder?

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/softwarekonzern-sap-streicht-wegen-trump-offenbar-ziel-fuer-geschlechtervielfalt-a-573d831f-a621-4b4b-8447-b7ac0e8f2a44

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #eupol #SAP

Die #SPD steht also an der Seite des #Verfassungschutz.
Also, an seiner rechten Seite.
Also, rechts neben ihm.
Ein paar Schritte weg.

Wie gut kennen sich eigentlich Frau Lange und Frau Faeser?

Und als völlig aus dem Zusammenhang gerissene Frage, was weiß man über rechts-sympathisierende Netzwerke innerhalb der SPD?

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/brandenburg-joerg-mueller-als-chef-des-verfassungsschutzes-entlassen-a-a68f3354-3feb-4dfc-92da-6d0aee746a35

#depol #NieWieder