I run headscale on my VPS. The tailscale clients are already open source, though by default they connect to the companies servers for coordinating the net. Headscale is open source and replaces the companies servers with your own. Best to not rely on some corporate service, which could cease to exist or be enshittiefied.

A while ago we had an interesting situation at work. At regular intervals our team has a call with our direct boss, for communicating how the business is going and to give little talks about out current technological challenges with our customers. At that time the results of the employee survey were published and our team had low levels on the statement “My work fills me with meaning” (not sure about the translation here). Our boss was curious about why. We had a few moments of silence until one of my senior coworkers said honestly, that at least he is not searching for his lifes meaning in work. Which is also true for me. Wasn’t a big thing after that. Our boss is totally fine with that.

That being said, one important thing for our boss (and also for me, when coaching new coworkers) is seeing, that we have at least some fun and interest in our work. If you don’t have that, then both the quality of your work and the relations to coworkers can suffer quite a bit. Then maybe doing a different job is better for you.

You can be honest about being there for getting money AND being passionate about your job (or at least part of it) at the same time. So show that to management. If they are still pissed, then they are in fact shitty. If you have other good opportunities, it might be time to head out then.

Maybe someone has more history knowledge than Wikipedia in this case: Were the Young Pioneers inspired by the Scouts movement, which was startet 1908 by Baden Powell? Or more by nationalist youth groups that followed them (like the Hitler Youth in germany took the traditions of scouts and the wandervogel groups and contorted them into violent nationalism)? Is there any connection?

Relevant xkcd: Average familiarity

You severly overestimate the average persons tech literacy even when you try to correct for it. Booting from USB is already a really advanced topic.

Though creating a lemmy account is not that complex. Typically all you have to do is fill out a form on the websiten instructions included. The problem there is not the tech literacyn but the willingness of the people to even interact with systems they don’t know, like finding a home instance or understanding the concept of the fediverse. Most people could create a lemmy account, though also most people wouldn’t.

Ahh, for one moment I was excited seeing an open source washing machine project. Then I opened the post and now I’m sad…

More like the other way round, as trans people aren’t the perpetrators. Trans people are more like Harry in relation to the Dursleys. Being different without it being his “fault”, trying to conform but it resulting in psychological and physical harm to him, not being able to conform as he is supposed to. Being shunned and punished for every “abnormality” (especially the public ones) one the grounds of what-would-the-neighbours-talk-about-this. Finding a more accepting place but being forced to return to the abusive household again and again.

Its abhorrent, how tonedeaf Rowling is towards the obvious parallels to her hate in her own work. Some live long enough to see themselves becoming the villian out of their own fault I guess

There is a really good comedy skit from the german youtube channel Bohemian Browser Ballet, about what if heroin was used like beer in germany. Including the social stigma of not consuming. That really speaks of my experiences not drinking. Youtube Invideous

Though helicopters are not what was envisioned as flying cars most of the time. Including their usability.

I should have mentioned, where I got this from. I’m not an AI researcher myself - so AINAAIR. I’m referencing this youtube video from TheMorpheus (News and Informations/Tutorials about various IT stuff, including AI research)(Video is in german). For example the diagram at 3:00.

The german government had an interesting idea for that. Collecting all the emission taxes into a common fund (like sales tax on each item) and then paying that back to the citizens, the same amount to everyone. If you get the emission pricing right, then rich people (who emit more through their life) will pay more tham they get, while poor people will profit from it.

Though the system is not yet active (because of shit financing tricks that got stopped by the courts and the current inability of the government to actually pay that money out to the citizens)

The optimization in mass production should meet chickens at least roughly for this to work out. Though also interesting would be the health of the insects. I know nothing about that, but maybe we wouldn’t need that much antibiotica as with meat mass production.

I don’t think banning meat will ever happen. Thats not really how that usually works. Though it will get more expensive. And actually currently the meat industry is heavily supported by governments to keep meat cheap enough for poorer people.

And we won’t solve climate change just with eating insects in the same way we won’t solve social justice issues just with keeping meat prices low.

We need to do multiple things at the same time. Finding and developing good food options, that are not as taxing at the climate as meat (especially cattle) is one good step, while doing other things against climate change. And we can work towards social justice by heavily taxing the rich, using that money to fund public goods and services mostly used by the workers.

Eating meat vs insect based products is not the socialist hill to die on, I think. There are better ones.

The hallucination rates with current models are quite high, especially the reasoning ones with rates like 70%. Wouldn’t call that accurate. I think most times we are just not interested enough to even check for accuracy in some random search. We often just accept the answer, that is given, without any further thought.

Pretty much like everyone expected flying cars to have taken off by now (pun intended)

Eh, I’m pretty sure it is. Haven’t had Kodi running for a while, but I used it on a Raspberry Pi with an USB HDD with my content long before I had Jellyfin. Though it cannot stream the content over network, just display it on the machines video output (which is what media PCs do)

People also trust other exchanges enough, despite big problems/scandals/crisies. In that Russia doesn’t seem so different from the USA, especially now, that both are getting close and mor similar again

The bee die-offs, that one typically hears about, has nothing to do with honey bees. Honey bees don’t show any signs of going extinct. Its may of the other bee species, which are dying off. And that is bad because of the species liking different specific plants, which often rely on this bee species to be pollinated.

Surely, this is a this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things situation. Fuck Putin

Surely not relevant in this case, but in the german novel “The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear” (by Walter Moers) a Bollock is a giant, very dumb creature (as in multiple km high), who at some point in his life takes his head of, puts it on the ground and spends the next centuries searching for his head. I think that is funny.

You are just assuming, that MS actually knows and cares for what users want. In my experience its the other way round. MS will introduce a change/new behavior and user have to adjust their own behavior, because most are not willing to switch to a competitor program.

I remember very well how much my father sweared at the computer because MS changed the UI to the ribbon bar. It wasn’t at all what he wanted and MS didn’t care to ask users beforehand.