A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.

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Cake day: August 21st, 2021

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  • Vielleicht sucht man das auch besser jenseits des Internets. Also abgesehen von Linux-Foren und den Leuten die ihre Hobbies diskutieren, geht es im Internet ja meist um Aufmerksamkeit und dementsprechend ist vieles negativ und substanzlos. Aber… Man kann auch die National Geographic abonnieren oder ein anderes nettes Magazin. Mal wieder ein Buch lesen oder sowas. Oder vielleicht interessiert man sich für Sport, Musik, andere Hobbies. Wahrscheinlich ist eh alles erfüllender als Nachrichten lesen oder Doomscrollen. Edit: Gibt auch gute Podcasts. Vielleicht eher darauf achten das es nicht tagesaktuell ist, dann ist es meist nuancierter und besser ausgearbeitet.


  • Tja… Ja ich erinnere mich an die Artikel, dass sie einmal 99 Kinder mit dem Hubschrauber aus dem Kleinwalsertal gerettet haben. Und die ganzen Leute die mit Turnschuhen in alpinen Gebieten angetroffen werden und dann in Bergnot geraten, teils nach ausdrücklicher Warnung… Hatte da auch nichts mit OSM (oder KI) zu tun, teils aber mit Touren die andere Nutzer irgendwo beschrieben haben.

    Die Leute mit seltsamen Schuhwerk hab ich auch schon gesehen. Und hier bei mir im Ruhrgebiet ist es natürlich schwieriger in Bergnot zu geraten. Dafür kann man den Typ dummer Mensch dabei beobachten wie sie über das Geländer vom Hochofen klettern um ein nettes Instagram-Foto direkt am Abgrund zu machen. Stört die auch nicht, dass das Metall jenseits der Geländer nicht gewartet wird und seit 40 Jahren fröhlich vor sich hin-rostet und schon komplett verwittert ist… Aber hey.




  • If you just want something simple that does the job, you can try a turnkey solution like YunoHost. There’s several other ones out there. Some with containers, some with more or less pre-packaged software… If you want to learn more during the process, maybe don’t and do it yourself because these things don’t teach you a lot. There’s some resources like the awesome-selfhosted list in the sidebar of this community. But I think for installing services you’d mainly look at the specific documentation of the specific service you’re just about to tackle. And maybe read up on Docker containers etc to judge whether you want to do it that way.


  • Very good point. I mean they’re also not against the Second Amendment. Just every other one. They’ll come up with some “logic” though. It’s probably someone’s LGBTQ+ neighbour’s dog at fault or the immigrants. War crimes are fine if committed by someone with a MAGA hat and they’ll demand death penalty if it’s a democrat. And before we get to discuss the logic behind this, there will be the next fresh fuss whipped up and burying this. Like this one is probably again some bullshit to cover the Epstein files or whatever.


  • Well, that’s the thing with these people. They’re against the constitution in any and all regards. That’s why they want to abolish free speech, due process, the congress… And it’s more than that. They want violence and expedite the apocalypse. That’s why they escalate violence, send masked men to spread terror on the streets. Do more illegal stuff every day than any legal system can cope with. The goal is doomsday and to make the system collapse. Motivation for that is different between the current politicians, billionaires, people full of hate and plain evil people… But the constitution is the first and obvious thing which has to go - for all of them. And currently there’s a broad coalition of powerful and rich people manifesting it for the USA.





  • Lol. Why isn’t Forgejo in Development but some predecessors are? And Gitea is listed twice. And why is a tower defense game listed under Automation? Also I think a few projects I use are missing. Why isn’t the most common content management system there? The second most common password manager? The reverse proxy everyone uses? And who on earth needs customer live chat and a lot of business-scale website analytics, webshop systems and CRM and ERP in their homelab?? I’m sorry but this looks like slop.


  • Maybe first check if it’s even legal to robo-call the police emergency line. I suppose with off-the-shelf systems that’s done by people in some callcenter who read the notification. In this case that’d be you. Or they’re somehow certified or have some agreement with the police… I don’t know the details. Technically it’d be possible. I’m running an Asterisk PBX server and hook into the dialplan with the REST API (that’d be ARI on the Asterisk side). That way Home Assistant can call me and make my landline phone ring twice once the laundry is done. And Asterisk can do arbitrary things. You could make it call you, play back some announcement, wait for your answer and process it and then call the police line and play back some pre-recorded message.

    But you’d really need to talk to police and ask them about how to interface with them.




  • I’m not sure if this translates to the content creators. There’s many of them whom I really like to watch who do (or did) Youtube as a business model. Tom Scott being one example or Derek Muller (Veritasium). I’m subscribed to many more. Simplicissimus and their yet better second channel (in German). We wouldn’t have those without monetization. The platform of course went shit over time. Fortunately my Ad blocker still works and thanks to Sponsorblock my experience is fairly alright… But personally - I’m split on this question. We had quite the amount of entertainment before monetization but I think a large amount of quality content also arrived after that, and because of it. Those people would be working some office job today if it wasn’t to Youtube. And I (and the world) would miss out… On the other hand we got MrBeast, a lot of fake cooking videos…