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Unpopular opinion: I like the concept of daylight savings: 😅

What’s written on a clock is entirely artificial, made by humans to use as needed in everyday life; It doesn’t matter what it shows, just that it shows the same for everyone

I think we should decide what we want it to mean (e.g. sunrise always at 07:00, middle of the day at 12:00, move the sunset based on concrete statistics that prove it would minimize energy consumption, or anything else we want), and implement it in small increments

In a world where 99% of clocks are digital (phones, smartwatches, computers), no one will care or notice if for 6 months every day they lose 42 seconds of sleep, and then for the next 6 months gain them back again; (computers that need a stable reference point usually use UTC anyway)

Heck, even without modern technology: Germany was broadcasting the time on a specific radio frequency with DCF77 like ~50 years ago, for synchronizing train station clocks, so today it should be more trivial than ever to make this change in the clocks and software that people use 🤔

https://docs.libre.space/en/stable/operation/it-infrastructure-operations.html (archive)

Most notably:

• Cloud (for some things): Nextcloud
• Forum: Discourse
• E-mail (some domains): mailu
• Conference planning: Indico
• Short URLs: YOURLS (Although I’ve set up Shlink at home and it’s a lot better)
• Websites: Wordpress
• Status page: Cachet
• ELN: elabftw
• Inventory management: Inventree

employees and how you are managing that

We use gitlab.com in general, so we also use it for support tickets if that’s what you mean 🤔

I’m always baffled when I read news about unethical things that a piece of software does; I can’t comprehend how software engineers, people who probably have the ability to do critical and structured thinking, program such software and feel ok with it - they can’t just plead ignorance and say they’re just doing their assigned tasks or sth, they actively make the decision to participate in this.

The managers, I think it makes more sense: they may be evil about coming up with these decisions, but may not have much exposure to the product to understand the consequences of how it works so they just get money and handle they contracts etc.

But the people who write the logic, they’re the ones who are sitting down days at a time focusing on their task to think how to design the algorithms, from killing people, to simply tracking people online and exploit a user’s behavior, data about their personal life and relationships etc

“Hmm yes if a user seems to spend much on microtransactions in games, we could maybe lure them to an online casino! Lets now work on the algorithm that recommends betting games based on their online behavior. Oh did they lose their job recently? They now have more free time to sink into our platform! We may be able to lure them with games that have small bets 🤔 I’m so good at my job I might get a raise now!”

And I guess now with vibe coding this can only get worse 😕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTdbpoQkR4U

With a 5-year lifespan and a conservative estimation of 200.000 folds, I count 110 folds per day, which comes out at around 1 fold every 6 minutes for 16 hours straight every day

TIL https://headamame.com/

3d-printed headphones (the kit is €110)

Not OP, but at least for me when I tried it:

There was no way to use or even just mount and migrate my existing storage (btrfs+LVM). LVM wasn’t even installed, and when I tried to install it, I got an error saying that apt was disabled on the system, which means I was basically locked out of doing anything more than what they allow you to do on your own hardware.

It seems like it’s technically open source, but having all the vendor lock-in features and lack of control of a proprietary solution

The only use case seems for it to be used as a black box appliance:

• on a new system
• with empty hard drives
• only with ZFS
• without having any control on your own system, except enabling samba etc and maybe installing the predefined Docker containers that they allow you from the web interface

I knew it is supposed to be only an appliance, but with how much people recommended it, I didn’t thing it would be this closed of a system; I think I’ve read about people doing more things with even just their Synology hardware