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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  • Hmmh. I’ve heard the argument before, that they’re better off almost having nuclear weapons. But it that really the case? I mean North Korea is kind of an outliar. Lots of other countries have nuclear weapons as well, France, China… and none of them is a pariah. So I’m not sure if that’s even true. Usually more weapons is more better. Or so they say.

    Edit: But we’re arguing logic here. And oftentimes politics isn’t as straightforward. I mean I don’t think we know the truth anyway. It’s completely unclear to me as an average citizen if they were close to nukes, if that’s even the biggest issue and reason for this. For all I know everyone could be lying or framing things, including following more than one motive.




  • This is the permissive vs copyleft debate. And it’s old as time. I suppose there’s a lot of nuance with licensing. If you’re a company at the receiving end, you probably love permissive licenses. They’re easy, offer the maximum amount of flexibility and freedom. It’s so short you probably don’t even need a team of lawyers… If you write software, it’s a bit more complicated. Do you want to cater to those people, make it as easy as possible to adopt your software? Then maybe consider BSD/Apache/MIT. Do you want to build a community, stop your competitors from just taking code? Want to try to ensure it stays open? Then maybe consider a copyleft license.

    I sometimes don’t care. Write some stuff for me (as a hobby) but that’s my entire motivation. I don’t care what people do with the results of my weekend of effort. Never plan to hire a lawyer or bother with it in case something happrns with it. Or it’s just a pile of snippets. I’ll dump it for other people to use and release that either WTFPL or some other permissive license. People can do whatever they like with it. With the stuff I’m a bit more proud of, or I plan to return to, I’ll choose AGPL.

    I suppose with operating systems, it’s a bit similar? I mean there is a community for both ideas. Seems there are people who like either of them. They’ll have slightly different ideology, tasks to accomplish and different goals.



  • Hmmh. I’m not entirely satisfied with any of them. Crowdsec is a bit too complex and involved for my taste. And oftentimes there’s no good application config floating around on the internet, neither do I get any sane defaults from my Linux distribution. Whereas fail2ban is old and eats up way too much resources for what it’s doing. And all of it is a bit too error-prone(?) As far as I remember I had several instances when I thought I had set it up correctly, but it didn’t match anything. Or it was looking for some logfile per default but my program wrote to the SystemD journal. So nowadays, I’ll double-check everything. I wish programs like sshd and webapps came with that kind of security built in in some foolproof way.






  • “Hey, I never liked Office 365, Microsoft as a company and all the Cloud shenanigans… And have you noticed how their products all become shittier and more invasive by the day? All while they increase subscription price each year now to finance all the AI stuff I rarely use? I’m a long-term fan of this other product, called XYZ which is just better in every aspect. No offense. If you want me to send you a link…”

    (Edit: It’ll become easier after a while. At some point they all know you’re a Linux nerd and disassembled your wifi router at home, dishwasher… To get rid of proprietary spy components. And people will deliberately decide to listen to your opinion and lengthy rant, or make an effort to not bring up the topic 😆 At that point, you’re relatively free to speak your mind… Just read the room a bit. The goal isn’t to annoy people.)


  • Continuwuity. I’m using it. And contrary to other projects, it’s a community effort. So I have my hopes up it’ll last and not depend on any singular person.

    And I wouldn’t recommend Conduit or Conduwuit. Conduit development is very slow, that’s why we got the forks in the first place. And Conduwuit is discontinued, so it wouldn’t be wise choice at all. So you’re left with 2 choices, Tuwunel and Continuwuity. One is a one-man show and they’re calling it the “official” successor. The other one is a community project… They both work fine.





  • That’s correct. I went with OP’s original question, what happens after it happened… Not sure what OP meant, they’re nowhere in the comments… Maybe they’re a bot as well, and we’re subject to the very same thing we’re talking about, right now…

    But sure. All the fabricated pull requests, issue reports etc are massively problematic. We got quite some bot activity. Then we also need to protect our servers and platforms from their crawlers who just DDOS everyone… Documentation went down the drain, StackOverflow, Reddit… The industry is trying to get rid of entry level programmer positions, so you’ll have a bad time entering the job market as any programmer… We’re just drowned in all that stuff. Supply chains also get affected by AI, people need to choose between using existing libraries, licensing, money… Or replacing it with something the AI generated, and we get structural challenges in all kinds of projects…


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    At least the Christians pretend its wrong.

    Aha, since when? Last time I checked they still had that cover-up going to protect their internal structures. That’s more important to the Christian church than the welfare of the victims.

    And what does the Bible tell us about pedophilia? Well… not a lot, seems it’s not wrong in specific?! And what does Christian culture consider a good age of consent? Oh… Entering puberty is a good indicator for being marriage material… So it’s literally the same root in both Islam and Christianity/Judaism. Puberty makes you ready for marriage to a man. 11-12yo girls are perfectly fine. Some Christian denomination still practice it that old-school way as of today… And first thing some Jews think of, when a boy gets born, is cater to the infant’s penis…

    But yeah its all fucked.

    It definitely is 🤮


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    Yeah. That’s one of the many reasons we sane people don’t support religion. I don’t get it in the first place. Islam has that in history. A way too large amount of catholic priests will be child diddlers. And in US politics it seems to be a bipartisan issue to clandestinely support pedophile crime rings… I mean wtf? Just get your fingers off the children?