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  • What a pile of bullshit.

    Those “autonomous” AI agents are mostly a publicity gag anyway. And even if they were real…

    I’m responsible when my dog gets away and eats someone’s face.
    I’m responsible if my car kills somebody, whether I’m actively driving or have accidently lost control.
    I’m even responsible when I just (carelessly or willingly) provide the means for someone else to break the law.

    Even discussing if AI “autonomy” (if you believe in that fairy tale and don’t consider it a scam to avoid liability) matters is ridiculous. Are they now trying to tell us that they are not the ones running those AI agents on their hardware, not the ones giving instructions, and that they were completely oblivious to 100% independent actions of AI agents? Then ffs close their companies and take away those tools they are too stupid to use or control in any way as a menace to society.


  • Klar, die CDU wird sich wegen interner Diskrepanzen spalten. So wie sich die AfD jeden Moment selbst zerlegen wird. Genau wie MAGA in den USA schon –wenn man nach derartigen Headlines geht– ca. zwei Dutzend mal zerfallen ist und sich der Kult (diesmal aber wirklich!!!) gegen die senile Orange wendet.

    Egal wie oft dieses Märchen erzählt wird… Rechter Abschaum hat keine Ziele, keine Ideale, keine Moral. Es geht immer nur einzig und allein um Macht. Und da ein Zerfall Machtverlust bedeuten würde, wird das niemals passieren. Es verschiebt sich höchstens intern mal etwas Personal, aber auch da werden die “Verlierer” sich brav ducken und die Fresse halten, um weiter im Machterhaltungsclub zu bleiben. Die nächste Chance dort intern wieder weiter nach oben zu kommen, kommt bestimmt.











  • Is the rise of AfD in Germany a concern, what has the other parties done to slow it down?

    Nothing. All they do is help accelerating the AfD’s rise by parroting any lie the AfD tells. Because the AfD isn’t a problem for them but the chance to finally get rid of that pesky democracy that sets limits on their corruption.

    That’s the common denominator for all “conservatives”. If they have to chose between democracy and power they will chose the latter every single time.

    Their only other option would be actual sensible policies. But that’s not actually a real option if you are deeply corrupt and just looking for a way to implement policies for your ultra-rich donors. So diversion via culture war and right-wing propaganda it is instead. Not a long-term solution when you will be eaten up by far-right parties this way. But who cares for long-term when it’s about money and nice board positions now…

    (And so they are happily abolishing transparency laws already while helping to implement more surveilance and more police powers. Because they are totally not planning to cooperate with fascists soon *wink wink*.)



  • If you use the shortlived profile and your key is compromised, you benefit from the short lifetime.

    Maybe I’m just too stupid to understand how those certificates work.

    But in what scenario is my key compromised but not my server? Because someone getting control of my server can just get an new long-term certificate. That was my actual point in the comment above. I understand the argument of added security if they only issue short-term certificates. But where is the benefit of my short-term certificate when someone compromising my server can just get a new long-term one in seconds?

    Also we are talking about self hosting. I understand the issue of revoking certificates when you have a massive userbase where some might miss the revocation for quite some time. Not so much with the dozen max family and friends.


  • Keine Ahnung… ich überprüfe selten die Halbarkeitsdaten, um zu sehen wie lange Müllermilch Flaschen im Regal stehen bleiben. Aber es gibt wohl genug Leute, die damals bei der Aktion Vorräte angelegt haben, denn ich seh auch heute noch häufiger lustige Aufkleber wie diese hier:

    Und bei Milchprodukten kann man ja dank Kennzeichnung immer gut nachschauen, aus welchem Werk Produkte mit anderer Markenbezeichnung stammen.

    PS: Ich muss allerdings auch ehrlich zugeben, dass ich nicht weiß wer Müllermilch im speziellen überhaupt je gekauft hat. In meinen Augen war das seit jeher überteuerter Mist, den ich in der selben Qualität auch für einen Bruchteil des Preises bekomme.

    Und gerade da seh ich halt auch eher die (nicht politisch motivierten) Parallelen. Die ganzen überteuerten Schokoladensorten haben ja beispielsweise gerade das selbe Problem, nicht mit dem Umsatz an Schokolade, sondern speziell mit ihren Produkten. Aber auch darüber verliert Müller selbstverständlich kein Wort. Nein, das Problem ist der Unwille der Kunden ihre Saucen im Glas zu kaufen.


  • That’s the result of decades of neo-liberal propaganda frying brains: If the current (right-wing) policies are bad for you, voting for the even more right-wing, more stupid, more corrupt alternative is your only option. After all –as your damaged brain tells you– everything further to the left wants to destroy the country (or kill you and replace you with some refugee from Africa or destroy all industry because of their insane ideology or… two dozen of other narratives).


  • As of the manpages systemd-sleep looks for:

    The main configuration file is loaded from one of the listed directories in order of priority, only the first file found is used: /etc/systemd/, /run/systemd/, /usr/local/lib/systemd/, /usr/lib/systemd/.

    Also

    The default configuration is set during compilation, so configuration is only needed when it is necessary to deviate from those defaults.

    So yes, you can use any existing file from another computer as your template (root:root 644 would be the default owner/permissions for it).

    PS: I tried on my PC and setting AllowHibernation=no in the config file produced a different “hibernate is disabled by config” error. Only if I remove the resume=<swap location> kernel parameter do I get the “not set up” error you mentioned but I’m not at home and only have my old (encrypted and able to hibernate) bios laptop with me. So I can’t check this for modern UEFI where systemd-sleep should automatically pick a suitable swap space and save the location in an EFI variable without any additional configuration.

    You can however set the resume=UUID=<your swap's UUID> kernel parameter anyway. Even the automatic systemd/uefi setup accepts this as a way to manually select a location. So maybe you try that. If your problem is decryption of the swap at startup you should not get an error when initiating the hibernation as you do now but instead get problems when you try to restart from swap.




  • Washer/dryer getting their signal to start from an outside source according to electricity price (with a dynamic plan) or weather (with your own solar) actually makes sense. I really don’t care when it does my laundry as long as it’s done between me leaving the house in the morning and coming back in the evening.

    The main point is that even smart appliances barely ever need their own connection to the internet. Getting (meaningful) communication from inside your home network (including from the one device that acts as your access point from the outside that has a connection) is absolutely enough.