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Und das die SPD Fraktionsvorsitzende Katja Pähle dem noAfD Landtagspräsidenten nach seiner Wahl ein Exemplar des Grundgesetzes und eine weisse Rose überreichte — sehr fein!
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mastodon 4.7.3My private account. Posts/Opinions are my own. Focused on #Open and TCP/ID, identity ownership in the real and digital world. 3D printer. Can solder and repair. Antifascist. European. Policy hacker. Rambles around at times. He/Him/His $argon2id$v=19$m=512,t=256,p=1$SWmoDffV/hOu+/Vii5Nxsw$zYZ5n+cXxZLKoLnXZJjll1JWcCFyiRVli7xOPqu63GM Blocks threads.net Works at Red Hat. #nobot #noindex #noAI
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Wo ist mein Überrascht Gesicht?
"Hinweise auf erste konkrete Absprache zwischen CDU und AfD
Der AfD-Landtagspräsident bekam vier Stimmen mehr als erwartet. Nach Informationen der ZEIT beruht das Ergebnis auf einem Deal mit Vertretern der Union."
(paywalled) https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-10/cdu-afd-sachsen-anhalt-landtag-absprachen-deal
When I drive a car without a valid driver's license, proof of insurance or tag/license plate, I get stopped by the police, my car will be towed and I can either walk home or might end up in jail and face severe fines, a probation period and loss of my driver's license.
When Microsoft runs 45 gas turbines without a state permit, they get 45 days to fix it and a $1.07M fine (which is petty cash for an operation this size) and don't even have to power down the turbines.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/25/new-jersey-fines-datacenter-unpermitted-generators
"Lustig" ist, wenn man der Linken vorwirft mit radikalen Palästinensern zusammenzuarbeiten während Dobrindt offen mit den Taliban kooperiert um Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan zu forcieren.
Die Schnappatmung der Konservativen, wenn ein Wahlergebnis dafür sorgt das ein Volksbegehren nach 5 Jahren tatsächlich umgesetzt werden könnte, sagt sehr viel über deren Demokratieverständnis aus.
#Berlin #DeutscheWohnenUndCo
Die mediale Kampagne gegen Links ist die logische Erweiterung der Kampagne für rechts-aussen. Mit dem Ziel uns auf eine CDU-noAfD Koalition vorzubereiten. Und der Springer Verlag ist natürlich ganz vorne mit dabei, die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen aber leider auch. Gute Nacht. Ich bin müde.
RE: https://ruhr.social/@erneuerbarer_ueberschuss/117296060964916045
Hallo Frau Reiche, sie könnten ja auch ein Gesetz erlassen, das Ladesäulen für E-Autos während Überschusszeiten den Strom gratis oder zu maximal €0,10/kWh liefern müssen. Das wäre billiger und nachhaltiger als ein Tankrabatt. Folgen sie mir wenn sie weitere pragmatische Vorschläge sehen wollen :) #LösungenStattProbleme
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Am heutigen Samstag liegt zwischen 08:30 - 17:15 der Anteil der erneuerbaren Energien in Deutschland voraussichtlich über 100%.
Das entspricht insgesamt 8,75 Stunden erneuerbarem Überschuss.
Daten via https://energy-charts.info/charts/consumption_advice/chart.htm
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Age verification is just another way for Big Tech to avoid liability. At the price of privacy loss for all of us.
"Our research produces dangerous viruses and due to bad security they continue to escape from our labs, causing havoc and death. So you really should invest in our IPO. We totally promise to slow down our research a bit."
I am talking about "AI".
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Save the all-consuming "AI" step, just share your prompts! We can talk in prompts. I am Dutch. I understand them better than the gibberish produced by word-extruders :) #SarcasmButOnlyHalf
Friedrich Merz ist über das Scheitern seiner Politik so erschrocken, dass er lieber zuhause bleibt statt zur UN Generalversammlung zu fliegen. Herr Merz, geben sie sich nen Ruck und starten sie endlich das längst überfällige Prüfungsverfahren gegen die noAfD statt von Wahl zu Wahl mehr Rückhalt und Vertrauen zu verlieren. Wir schaffen das :)
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At the core of the global internet are the DNS root servers. These 13 go-to places are at the top of authority when it comes to making sure you can connect to any server with a domain name. What you might not know is that 10 of these 13 root servers are ultimately under US jurisdiction. Should that worry you? I guess not, the current system is quite robust. But I deal in risk assessment and probabilities. And I think this isn't an ideal setup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
#DNS #Centralisation
Startup tip: Make sure to put "frontier" in your company name to secure close to unlimited investments and media coverage. Here are some ideas:
• Four Seasons Frontier Gardening
• Frontier Heavy Metal Construction
• Frontier Car Repair
• Solar Frontier
#SarcasmButOnlyHalf
PIR, the Public Interest Registry ("Based in Reston, Virginia, Public Interest Registry is a nonprofit organization created by the Internet Society to manage the .ORG domain."), seems to have put autistici.org on status serverHold and that is why you cannot resolve their name anymore. This is what can happen to your .org domain name when the Trump administration decides to add you to the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) list.
„Antworten sollten geprüft werden“ ist die „AI“ Version von „Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen sie ihren Arzt oder Apotheker“. Und ganz ehrlich, Bierdeckel mit „AI“ Werbung hatte ich nicht auf meiner Bingo Karte ;) #München
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If you used "AI" for your blogpost or article, please put the disclaimer informing your readers of that at the top of your article or blogpost. Not at the very end. #kthxbai
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Because I notice an uptick in posts about buying used/refurbished mini-PCs in these times of exploding prices for hardware, here is a link to my cute homelab, explaining how I use several of these and have them working and looking nice :)
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/05/Cute-Homelab/
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#Homelab #Selfhost
Something someone said years ago that stuck with me (as a Dutchie living in Germany) because its is depressingly true but also helps to find real friends and allies:
"The Germans’ biggest talent is to be able to find problems in every proposed solution."
;)
"AI" infrastructure investors are getting nervous. Moody's, the rating agency, explains why and suggests to use satellites to check for discrepancies between announcements and reality on the ground:
Power without delivery
Geospatial monitoring, AI infrastructure buildout, and the emerging credit implications for private credit markets
July 31, 2026
https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/insights/credit-risk/private-credit/power-without-delivery.html
For MacOS users (in the EU): Go to Settings -> Screen Time -> Content & Privacy, switch that ON to get access to the settings, go to Siri and now you can disable Writing Assistance and a bunch of other "AI" features. You can even disable Siri altogether. Why is it hidden there? I don't know.
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We have precedent for global treaties against harmful technology. Wouldn't it be a nice twist to take the statements of (US) Big AI very serious in a bigly way and establish the "Artificial Intelligence Convention" modelled after the Biological Weapons Convention [1]?
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention
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I am very aware of the real goal behind all those doomsday scenarios from Big AI. It's the Disney principle: "Don't allow anyone else to do what we did to the Brothers Grimm to make sure we are the only one making money that way". I also know that a global agreement against "AI" is just as ridiculous as what Big AI is telling us. But I like the "what if" way of thinking :)
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So OpenAI is just a malware botnet?
"OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge, according to security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes."
(Gift article, needs e-mail) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFE.xQOp.qyAu1WbOAol0&smid=url-share
"AI with LLMs were a big craze back in the roaring twenties." "Yeah, I heard of that. What happened?" "Well, turned out that they poisoned themselves by eating their own dog food. So now we can only use them to write funny alternative history stories." "And bad music." "And bad music, yep." "Interesting. Well, break's over. Back to my hoverboard to deliver some data units." "Yeah, a shame we can't have networks anymore because those old LLMs would still try to go rogue."
#Microfiction #MicroSF
With a bit of luck, some of those journalists losing White House access will recognise that their true calling isn’t a comfy seat in the chocolate factory and that they can use their new found freedom to connect to more sources in the Trump galaxy that have grudges after being treated in bad ways and we will soon see hard-hitting reports that will finally end his rule.
#AlwaysTheOptimist
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@hpod16@eupolicy.social One concern is that in its current form, this act means that operators of Fediverse instances are made responsible to ensure that children below the age of 18 cannot make public posts. To properly do this, it means we, the admins, must do age checks on every signup and implement features to limit posts and interactions across all parties we federate with.
Trump invited the Russian minister of Finance to the G20 meeting and I ask myself why the participants from the EU didn’t simply walk out. (Gift article) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/31/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.9lA.vkmg.bj3RBhVwMB9i&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Yesterday I updated and rebooted my Linux servers (as I do every Friday), today I descaled and cleaned my water cooker, the ice cube maker and the Moccamaster (as I do every month, we have very hard water here in Munich). These regular chores always give me a moment of peace. No matter what happens around me, some things just have their fixed place in life and that’s a good thing. #PhilosophyMoment
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One of the reasons is that here in Europe I see a lot of the same people in the Digital Sovereignty field that I already know from the National Cloud movement around 7-10 years ago. Still trying to get taxpayers money for their projects that promise a lot but don't deliver. Not going there again!
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Goddammit, cringebot3000. You did deliver on explaining it LinkedIn style. I mean "'digital sovereignty' is just nationalism with a fiber optic cable attached." and "One of these futures has flags on it. The other one has documentation." Damn you, Avian Intelligence!
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And let's be honest (and here, in the Fediverse, I can be ;), Open Autonomy as in digital autonomy based on open source and standards sounds so much better, doesn't it? Now to find out how I can translate that to LinkedIn lingo. Feel free to share your take on that in the replies!
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Bei unseren Nachbarn, die Niederlande, sieht es übriges noch schlimmer aus. Da waren die Speicher im April nur noch bei 5% und aktuell schafft man grad mal 40%.
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This is funny, because Google is known to be very rigorous with self hosted mail servers that are often blocked or rejected for, at times, weird reasons. I would expect them to be able to shut down the spammers that use their infrastructure :)
#SysAdminLife #MailAdmin #Selfhost @homelab@fedigroups.social
Because there seems to be a bit of confusion. Open Weight LLMs (Large Language Models) is just a fancy word for "models you can download and run locally on your machines". Closed Weight is just a fancy word for MaaS, Models as a Service, that run remotely on machines from the vendor. Hope that helps!
Open Source models are a very different topic. It means you not only get the trained model but also (access to) the training data itself. But that is all a bit undefined in reality.
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@ujay68@mastodon.world Nicht unbedingt. Dieser Ansatz würde ja die Netze entlasten, was den Energiekonzernen wiederum Ersparnisse bringt. Der Vorschlag hat meiner Meinung nach mehr Potential als Tankrabatt und Spritpreisdeckel.
Was, wenn es im August/September weiter keine ausreichende Niederschläge in Bayern gibt? Und dann alle aus dem Urlaub zurück sind und das Oktoberfest mit Millionen Gästen in München startet? Geht uns dann das Trinkwasser aus? Was für Sparmassnahmen werden dann auf uns Münchner zukommen?
So langsam mache ich mir echte Sorgen. Dagegen würden klare Informationen helfen. Die finde ich aber nicht. Kann da wer helfen? Bitte keine Prepper/Doomsday Antworten.
Today will be a sunny and warm day again in #Munich, so no rain. We are still missing 64mm just to get back to the long-term average. Not good.
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@darthvader42@sueden.social They will also shower (I hope :)
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Es gab dazu auch eine Antwort auf eine kleine Anfrage der Linken aus 2022 [1], der klarstellt das man grundsätzlich von der Verfassungstreue ausgeht (also nicht prüft), aber bei begründetem Verdacht dann eben doch. Und wann man zu einer gesichert rechtsextremistischen Partei gehört, tja, dann gibt es Gründe ;). Die Antwort [2] sollte man mal in Ruhe lesen. Lohnt sich!
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[1] https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-879236
[2] https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/004/2000453.pdf
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@oxy@social.bsdlab.au Thank you! It seems that the use of EU regulations is global. I wonder if that is related to the EU AI act. Ah, some research work for me over the weekend :) @pitrh@mastodon.social
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Das, wovor jetzt in den Niederlanden von Experten gewarnt wird, steht uns auch bevor: "Dutch households could face “very high gas prices” this winter because the country is falling short of its target for filling its gas storage facilities. Energy expert Hans van Cleef of consultancy EqoLibrium said his main concern is not a physical gas shortage, but the impact of soaring prices."
https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/27/dutch-households-face-high-gas-prices-winter-expert-warns
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Can someone from non-EU countries check https://www.crawlstop.com/robots.txt and post a screenshot of what they get? I notice that I (from Germany) get this EU specific part and I wonder if you get something geared towards your jurisdiction.
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@darthvader42@sueden.social Yep. The big question will be if it is enough to fill the aquifers and depots so that Munich is prepared for the Oktoberfest with up to 7 million visitors, needing more tap water.