Ich fand an der Stelle einen Talk auf dem CCC zu deepfakes echt interresant.

Ein Kern-Punkt war: Wenn Deepfakes nicht gesetzlich verboten werden, dann passieren erstmal sehr komische Dinge. Der Titel von dem Talk war “Olaf Scholz greift durch und verbietet die AFD, und anderes über Deepfakes”.

Aber. Wenn Deepfakes gesetzlich verboten werden, dann nutzen nur noch sehr illegale Personen, oder andere Staaten Deepfakes. Und niemand hat eine erlernte Kritikalität, oder Immunität gegen Deepfakes.

In einem Fall wird es halt 2-3 Jahre interresant bis Deepfakes verstanden und erwartet sind. Im anderen Fall gibt es halt das eine unerwartete Deepfake welches die EU zerstört oder anderes.

Welcher Bezirk in Hamburg fände ich interessant, Wilhelmsburg würde mich beispielsweise sehr überraschen, dass es rassistische Gründe hätte.

Das ist mitten in Bahrenfeld. Würde also zu der Hypothese “gehobenes Bürgervolk” passen.

Ich muss mal sehen ob ich sie oder eine der Kolleginnen nicht mal erwische wenn nicht soviel los ist um mal 1-2 naive Fragen stellen. Muss nur mah überlegen, wie ich das formuliere, damit es nicht gleich als Vorwurf “Arbeitet die denn überhaupt?” klingt.

Aber warum geht dann der 2-Teile-Mensch zur grossen Schlange statt die 2 Sachen auf dem leeren Laufband zu erledigen?

Und warum rushen sonst alle sofort zur neu aufgemachten Schlange, sodass es - zumindest in dem Laden - mehr Sinn macht, das nicht zu tun, weil man dann eher dran ist? Nur… net hier.

Jeglicher Sound aus dm Rechner geht über ne Phillips FW-C555 Stereo-Anlage. Meine Feststellung nach einigem Suchen ist: Die 15 - 20 Jahre alte Anlage und die Boxen sind echt ordentlich. Ich hab im Studio nun echte Monitors, und die Monitors können grade im Bass und Nieder-Frequenzbereich nochmal deutlich mehr. Aber die Speaker der FW-C555 sind gesamt betrachtet nen echter Hammer für den Preis damals.

Wenns nur ums Alter geht, hab ich ne Kaffemühle aus den 1800’ern von meinem Opa, der die von seinem Vatter hatte. Altes unzerstörbares Ding, was seinen Job tut.

A former Wagner mercenary in July told Euronews that while he served in Ukraine one of his main duties was to ensure Russian conscripts - “barely 21-years-old” - would not run away, as they were so reluctant to fight.

Doesn’t this compare apples to oranges?

One is an aggressive war. People are shipped into Randomiskan without clear indication what’s going on, why they should be there and they are supposed to die for the glory of the state. Sorry, but that’s when everyone wants to run. That’s also distinctively different from WW2, when concrete evidence of mass murder in occupied europe was available.

The other would be a defensive war. An outside aggressor wants to wipe out your culture and accepts killing or deporting anyone you consider important in your life. Putting it like that, WW2 was very much a defensive war from the allied side. That’s a very different motivation.

The thing is, I don’t have an answer to all of these questions.

On the other hand, I know pagan bands with songs about “Killing all the christian heathens coming to colonize scandinavia”. About “Crushing the roman christians coming to take germanic women with their fairy tales of a weak god”. (BTW, this is explicitly not about german nationalism. There are nazis abusing these terms of skandinavian/germanic origins, many of them, but this isn’t part of that). Those are what I meant when I said: I’m not sure if I want to discuss those with a christian I don’t necessarily trust. Because face it, norse mythology was colonized by roman christians. maybe for good, maybe not, I don’t know.

And in another direction, a lot of metal / heavy metal / rock imagery is based around pushing and prodding and poking christians. Not just subtly. They thrived on this to establish themself as counter-culture. “You are Christians. We are sons of satan. We listen to the other music.” For those, I can very much find a foundation in christian religion. Like, look at denmark. Burning a stack of paper shouldn’t be a big thing, but now they are creating laws against burning the Koran. Not sure how I feel about this.

In that light, I’d very much be in favor of a school uniform, or a specification of unicolor shirts / t-shirts without imagery, I have to say. Concessions are bound to be abused in every way, with that hat on.

The sad thing to me personally is: IMO, we should embrace diversity. Someone wearing a weird cloth on top of their hair should be a source of curiosity. It should be an exposure to something new and an option to grow and reflect and to learn they are just a person, just a bit different. Like the first time you try to cook for a vegetarian, a vegan, or try to date a lesbian.

Hm. Not sure about school, because I have little reason to go there. But I certainly have shirts that are work or grandma unfriendly, or that I would only wear around devote christians I trust. With that, I wouldn’t be opposed with a ban for shirts that are created to offend specific religions. It’s a different side of a very similar coin.

Sennheiser HD 471.

Kenne ich, habe ich, nutze ich für alle Kabel hier. Der Fehlkauf war auch mehr das 2. “Kabel”, weil das nur ein relativ kleiner Adapter von 2.5mm klinke auf 3.5mm klinke war. Der hatte in der Mitte ca 3-4cm sehr filigranes Kabel, welches dann bei normaler Bewegung gegen den Stecker gedrückt wurde. So ist das Kabel dann recht bald am Stecker abgebrochen.

Beim jetzigen Kabel-Kauf hab ich die Lektion mitgenommen und mir ein ordentliches 2.5mm <-> 3.5mm Kabel besorgt. Auf der einen Seite ist der Stecker mit Gummi-Rippen und einer Feder ausgestattet, und ich überleg ob ich an der anderen Seite ein wenig Klett oder Tape drumwerfe, um die Verbindung zum Stecker zu schonen.

I mean to a certain degree, I can understand if people find a problem with Poetterings approach of doing things !CORRECTLY!. Like, systemd-resolved resolving A-records with multiple addresses ina deterministic fashion because it’s not defined not to be deterministic, and because actual load balancing would be better. It’s not wrong, but it’s breaking everything. And it got patched after some uproar. And there are a few things like that.

But at the same time - I don’t think people appreciate how hard doing process management right on linux can be, especially if the daemon to run is shitty. Like, init scripts just triggering the shutdown port on a tomcat - except the tomcat is stuck and not reacting to the normal shutdown port and now you have a zombie process and an init script in a fucked up state. Or, just killing the main process and for some reason not really removing the children, now there’s zombies all over the place. Or, not trying appropriate shutdown procedures first and just killing things, “because it’s easier” - except my day just got harder with a corrupt dataset. Or, just trying soft and “Pwease wexit Mr Pwocess” signals and then just giving up. Or having “start” just crash because there was a stale PID from an OOM killed process around. Man I’m getting anxiety just thinking about this.

And that’s just talking about ExecStart and ExecStop, pretty much, which I have done somewhat correct in a few init scripts back in the day (over months of iteration of edge cases). Now start thinking about the security features systemd-analyze can tell you about, like namespaces, unmapping syscalls, masking parts of the filesystem, … imagine doing that with the jankyness of the average init.d script. At that point I’d start thinking about rebooting systems instead of trying to restart services, honestly.

And similarly, I’m growing fond of things like systemd-networkd, systemd-timesyncd. I’ve had to try to manage NetworkManager automatically and jeez… Or just directly handling networking with network-scripts. Always a pleasure. Chucking a bunch of pretty readable ini-files into /etc/systemd/networkd is a blessing. They are even readable even to people rather faint on the networking heart.

Ich entdeck gerade die Möglichkeiten des Stickens und Nähens. Eigentlich hab ich damit erstmal nur angefangen gehabt um mir ein paar Band-Patches auf einen Sonnenhut zu nähen. Aber nun ist die Feststellung, dass das Thema eigentlich recht unkompliziert ist. Und hier liegen so 1-2 Jeans halb auf dem Weg zur Altkleidersammlung oder zum Müll rum, weil da irgendwo nen kleines Loch ist oder nen Riss an einer unangenehmen Stelle ist.

Das ist nach jetzigem Wissen eigentlich 1-2 Stunden Aufwand und danach ist die Hose wohl wieder in Ordnung. Und es gibt dem Ding irgendwie Charakter. Ja, das ist dann eine Hose mit einem grimmigen, aufgenähten Pinguin mit einem Messer, oder sowas dämliches. Warum nicht? Spart mir Geld und uns allen Rohstoffe.

Ansonsten bin ich mit der Reparierbarkeit meiner Kopfhörer echt zufrieden. Man kann das Kabel separat ersetzen. Das ist nun über die 6-7 Jahre, die ich die Dinger hab, 2-3x vorgekommen, zwischen Kabelbrüchen durch häufige Nutzung oder auch mal wo hängenbleiben. Ersatz für die Schaumstoffteile gabs auch ohne Probleme, nachdem die mal auseinandergefallen sind.

Was mir so fehlt ist nen Löt- und Elektronik-Kurs. Ich hab hier 2 Monitore stehen, die vermutlich gammelnde Kondensatoren haben. Die ersten 2-4 Versuche gehen sie nach 10 Sekunden wieder aus, und/oder flackern dabei. Sobald die aber einmal warm sind, ist ales top. Das Keyboard hat eine lose Strombuchse. Einer der Gitarrenverstärker hat eine lockere 6.5mm Buchse. Wär vermutlich alles kein Hexenwerk wenn ich mich da mal zu nem Kurs aufraffe. Und der rentiert sich dann relativ flott.

And even password based disk encryption can be defeated with 2-3 physical accesses if an organization wants to hard enough. Keyloggers can be very, very sneaky.

At that point you’d have to roll something like Yubikey-based disk encryption to be safe, because this re-establishes control over some physical parts of the system. Until they find the backup Yubikey you had to not lose all data by losing the primary key you’re carrying around to maintain control over it.

It’s not a battle the defending side can win.

Catan just feels weird. The thing is - and I kinda validated that recently by watching highlevel competetive play of the catan base game, but: You only have like 2-4 meaningful decisions in a game. The rest is just follow through and dice.

And these things aren’t that hard to see at a decent level. And when you make these decent decisions, you mostly just win. Even with the robber, there’s limited counterplay to these good initial choices. This makes it hard to play casually as well once you know the good things.

They said they will refund the tickets. They are just working about how. This is tearing me apart to a degree though.

Like, for one, this was entirely unprecedent amounts of rain. Pretty much twice the amount of rain of the worst 4 times of rain the festival received over 31 years.

On one hand, this is at least a tiny drop of salvation on the fans that cannot get into the holy grounds. You at least get these 300 euro tickets back. Though, people have spent 8 - 10 hours arriving in cars per direction, spend hundreds more in festival prep, slept in cars because of nonsense. For nothing, in many cases.

And they are losing out on what’s going to be the biggest vacation they have that year. Money doesn’t fix that.

And on the other hand, festivals are dying at the moment. Corona has killed so many cool festivals, because long-term rent contracts were not met by ticket revenue and on-site revenue. And now, 35000 out of 85000 festival guests of Wacken cannot come and have to be refunded at 300 euros / ticket. That’s a casual million euros gone. And on-site revenue from those guests is gone as well, thirty percent easily. That’s really hard.

The timing here really, really sucks, just being after the corona years. For everyone.

Wow. I’m not particularly sensitive, but that seems like the right amount of very bright strobe that gives me headaches in concerts, especially at night in the dark. That’s very much the level of trying to find out a way to get to the roof to unplug it.

And that skeleton of a system becomes easier to test.

I don’t need to test ~80 - 100 different in-house applications on whatever many different versions of java, python, .net and so on.

I rather end up with 12 different classes of systems. My integration tests on a buildserver can check these thoroughly every night against multiple versions of the OS. And if the integration tests are green, I can be 95 - 99% sure things will work right. The dev and testing environments will figure out the rest if something wonky is going on with docker and new kernels.

Entirely true.

I’m currently working on a little project that’s interesting to me (a low-spoiler walkthrough system for adventure games) and after a lot of back and forth, I decided to cut all of JS out of the picture. Just get rid of all of it, and do good old 90s server-side rendered HTML with modern CSS placed on top of it.

And that’s, honestly, a joy. The first draft of a page looks like the first screenshot, then you add some semantic classes to the html and throw some simple CSS at it and it looks acceptably neat. And I could get rid of so much janky toolchain I just fail to understand.

Inside, I like Abyss, similar to the OceanDeep theme of Vim.

When I’m on the balcony, it’s hard to see anything, so them I switch to Solarized Light.

I just enjoy the scene of the oldtimers strutting in like true chads and showing the youngsters how to take care of the big lady. It’s so wonderfully corny. And it’s such wonderful bullshit, and when you learn how many hands were necessary to run such a ship, it’s even more fun.

It’s a pretty scary rabbit hole to go into. People have used pretty simple machine shops and fairly accessible information to build small caliber automatic weapons and it didn’t even take that long. A week or two of full time work between testing and iterating. Not reliable, or safe, but certainly dangerous.