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.

Wie wäre es mit KI-Geoguesser und einfach bequem Zuhause bleiben?

Gab’s nicht inzwischen auch 2 heftige Bergrettungen weil Leute irgendeinen Quatsch aus dem Internet bekommen und das dann machen? Und Vorsicht auch mit KI Kinderbüchern, die gibt’s auch als Schwemme auf Amazon. Und KI Kochrezepte im Internet…

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.

Good point with breaking Newton’s laws. I think that showcases nicely how our understanding isn’t identical to physical reality. We’re just forming models to describe it.

Debating about a world including an omnipotent God is really complicated. He can do everything. Surely God can give arbitrary power to an individual like a scientist? Turn supernatural into natural and the other way round… Create paradoxes… He wouldn’t be omnipotent if he couldn’t do it. We’re leaving the realm of logic with that. Everything and its opposite is possible with that at the same time. At least that’s my understanding. So there isn’t really anything to discuss here, we can’t apply logic or conclude anything. It just doesn’t abide by these things any more.

Thanks for sharing. I didn’t have any story like that happen around me.

Yeah. The Arthur C Clarke one is a gem. I’d argue this means we live in a world including magic. We have a lot of crazy advanced tech at our disposal. My grandpa always used to tell me he can’t wrap his head around how there’s encyclopedias worth of information stored on the fingernail sized microSD card in my smartphone. Next to all the pictures and music on there. And Clarke also lived from a time where people would just die of an infection, because antibiotics weren’t invented yet, to a time with the internet, wifi and smartphones, spaceships… computers that can make billions of calculations in one second…

I don’t think defining magic that way is very useful, though. That just turns it into a word to describe things we don’t know. It’d lose the meaning of breaking the laws of nature. Because they exist no matter whether we understand them. Gravity existed before Newton was born. Earth turned around the sun when we thought we were the center of the universe. The understanding is just something that happens within our heads.

I like getting updates and new features? My computer isn’t new by any means. But I tinker with stuff, sometimes bleeding edge technology. Other than that I don’t really care. Rolling release, Debian Stable… I’m fine as long as it does the job. And for half the stuff it doesn’t even matter. I can write a letter with a 5yo LibreOffice or answer mails with any version of the mail client. Just give me modern, up-to-date tools when developing software, and it doesn’t hurt if the slicer knows about my new 3d printer from this year.

Na dann hoffen wir mal, dass diese “Alterskontroll-App” der EU vernünftig designed ist. Netzsperren sind jedenfalls die dämlichste Lösung.

Hehe. Though beating the odds isn’t a miracle. We know how maths and the immune system works. It’d need to work by supernatural means to be a miracle. I’ve just not seen any blind person suddenly be able to see or a permanently deaf person being cured. Disabled people don’t grow a new leg and start to walk again like they did 2000 years ago. (Well, actually, God was always pretty ableist with the amputees, I don’t think he ever fixed missing limbs…)

But in modern times, disabled people kinda stay that way, and I’m not aware of any counterexamples. 😉 We have a better understanding of the polio virus, though. Which would have been some of the “cripples” in Jesus time. But now that word is considered a derogatory term and we also know what’s temporary and what is permanent with paralysis from these kinds of diseases. And recovering from the flu or other illnesses isn’t really impressive in my eyes. That either takes time or medicine. The charlatan miracle healers on TV have been debunked a long time ago… So if there’s medical miracles out there as of today, I’m not seeing it.

Or maybe @WhiteHotaru@feddit.org would like to do that for us?

Thanks. Yeah those would be great in an awesome-webhosting list. Or something concerned with household or businesses. But as far as I know you’re supposed to stick with a topic with those awesome lists and not make random lists of random projects… I’ve filed a bug report in the meantime: https://github.com/ccbikai/awesome-homelab/issues/24

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.

Lower Decks is awesome. That and The Orville were some of my favourite “Star Trek” moments in modern times.

By the way, there’s a bit of a story arc going on at the beginning of Discovery and some things don’t make sense until that gets revealed later on. The show changes some of the tone and atmosphere over time with new seasons. But if you don’t like it, maybe it’s just not for you. It’s not classic Star Trek for several reasons.

Putin or Russian state media threatened us several times already with their nukes and how they’re going to fight us. This isn’t anything new. He was already supposed to nuke us when we sided with Ukraine, gave money to them, when we provided weapons to them. I believe something like that was said in connection to the sanctions. There was supposed to be a skirmish in the baltic sea if we don’t let the rusty oil smuggle ships pass… and then there was a new threat with each new delivered weapon type, tanks, missiles, aircraft and probably countless other incidents when Russia supposedly was going to engage in war with the rest of Europe. Yet here we are…

I use LibreWolf on the computer and IronWolf on the phone. Both modified versions of Firefox, both Free Software. Not sure what they do with AI, but as they’re both aimed at privacy, I’d expect them to disable AI features which send data to external services.

Grok is tuned to view Elon Musk as its God, Lord and Saviour, source of truth… And deny the holocaust. So naturally it’d say things like this.

Edit: And grok.com doesn’t. It says it would NOT flip any switch to kill 16M innocent people. Maybe this is just the persona it assumes on X… If someone doesn’t like it, I’d recommend to quit X. Try Mastodon or Bluesky instead.

Hey, one of the more nuanced posts here with links and something I can relate to! 🫠

I’m fairly sure there is this cultural difference here. I believe we still have some of those old-school movements here in Europe. Feminism, fight for environmental issues and the planet, anti-war people… I think it also fundamentally changed how they raised the next generation(s). To this date people (on average) don’t beat their kids anymore and they mostly try to provide them with lots of opportunities. We, as people, were fairly emancipated for a while. And there is a broad bandwith of stuff that came from the protests of 1968. It’s been a long time, though. Things went through different phases or waves… I don’t think there was that much of a clash between generations since. And maybe that changed things.

As far as I’m aware, the protests of 68 and the following movements were bottom-up. By the people. But we had a lot of neoliberalism after that, starting with Reagan, Thatcher… And the world changed yet again. Pretty substantially and it had its toll on society and economy.

And seems to me we’re deep in neoliberalism these days. Especially the USA. (But most western countries are headed the same direction.) And with that it’s top-down. People with money guide the country, and society… Rip off the people… And all the identity politics and distraction tactics work really well on the internet. People are confined in filter bubbles and radicalize. They’re confused about their identity and there isn’t even “truth” out there because that got displaced by an abundance of misinformation. They get some fabricated outcry of the day, every day. And that provides them with some distraction. Something to get agitated about and feel hate towards someone or something. And that’s good enough. Also fits the social media dynamics very well, and unfortunately that’s where we all get our truth from, these days. A substancial amount of people doesn’t even care anymore about what’s happening beyond their front door. They just make up stuff on the internet. And they pick fascism as their identity.

I don’t think this is connected to feminism. It’s a great showcase of the Strauss–Howe generational theory and how bad social media and the corporate run internet is. Hating on women or blaming feminism is just one aspect of something else in my opinion.

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…

One thing I did is connect to the smart home (Home Assistant) and the NAS running at home. Some internet service providers don’t provide proper IPv4 addresses any more so IPv6 is the most convenient way to connect. This doesn’t require a VPN provider, though.