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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  • I think there’s a lot of nuance here. I mean the Fediverse isn’t super efficient. But it manages to do what it’s supposed to do. And it really depends. Which Fediverse software. How many people are on those servers, how are they distributed. Do groups of people mingle on certain servers. Do they all subscribe to all the same content out there. Are there really big groups on servers with happen to have a slow internet connection… And then of course can we come up with improvements if we need to.
    I think we’re going to find out once (or if) the Fediverse grows substantially. Some design decisions of the Fediverse are indeed a bit of a challenge for unlimited growth. Oftentimes technical challenges can be overcome, though. With clever solutions. Or things turn ot differently than we anticipated. So I don’t think there’s a good practical and straightforward answer to the question.


  • I mean Retrospect is kind of an episode about date rape. Implying something about false memories in assault victims. And it ends on: Maybe the main thing behind the story never happened. The End. Which are the endings that often feel very disappointing to me. And we don’t even learn if it was an illusion. I get why that episode isn’t cherished by people.

    I think the pon farr episodes are weird as well. And I don’t think I particularly enjoyed that episode. But at least some of the good guys are trying to do the right thing? And even if the Vulkan gets away unpunished, I don’t think he’s portrayed in a positive way. As far as I remember the crew unanimously thinks sex is unacceptable. Minus the people who are out of their mind. And Tuvok. But he has kind of a weird role with arguing logic in that situation. And the episode ends on a happy end. They’ve averted danger and death for the moment, and nobody had to have sex. And as a viewer I’m glad it turned out they didn’t need to follow through with Tuvok’s “logical” plan, either. That feels a bit more right to me.

    But the entire set up of pon farr and biology or tradition just causing violence, is a bit rapey. I guess from a storywriting perspective it’s a bit difficult to bring up that topic in a creative way. But movie or TV is a lot about violence and sex. So I can see how storywriters make it part of stories.

    Some Voyager episodes were just a bit weird in my opinion. I think it’s okay if it provokes thought. And less so, if it makes the audience start to confuse right and wrong.


  • Good blog post.

    I couldn’t think of a clever response to that. I still can’t.

    I think it’s central to the issue they’re talking about. There’s demand for quick, cheap stuff. There’s also demand for quality stuff. But they’re not the same.

    I mean, I’m sometimes sad nothing lasts anymore. Or means anything. We buy clothes, appliances, software, phones… just to throw it out a year later. Same with AI. We could do intricate art. Commission someone to draw our company logo or come up with a good advertisement video. But why? Everyone has a attention span of 30s these days and pretty much anything will do for Instagram. So rubbish it is. And we’re done in 5 minutes.

    I think it’s more that society doesn’t value quality and sophisticated things any more. We rather have plenty cheap and superficial things. And for a lot of applications, it’ll do. Same with art, same with some software and webdesign. Also works the same way without AI. The consumer will do the beta test. And any random messenger uses 150 dependencies and Electron, and two Gigabyte of memory. That’s hardly artistry either.




  • It wasn’t really clear to me where you want to go with this. I mean judging by conversations with my friends, there’s a 3h conversation to be had about every nuance of health. The diet, how to work out, how much to eat and drink. There’s rules of thumb. But in reality it’s a very individual thing. And also changes with the situation, for example if you go to the gym or running and want to progress, it’d be an entirely different story a few months later. Also some people have office jobs, some do 18,000 steps each day… And don’t get me started on mental health.

    Diagnosing medical conditions is hard for AI. We got some news on that a few days ago. It’s good at exam questions. But doesn’t perform in reality. So I wouldn’t call it health agent considering those kinds of questions. More a shaman. Or alternative practitioner / healer. (Or it’d need to stick to specific things. Or we need a few more years of progress in AI.)

    I mean, I think the available tools aren’t even half bad? There’s smart watches with all kinds of features, apps, dashboards… Training modes and advise. They can help you define goals, track your period if you have that… Water intake, activity levels. It’s not AI, but there will be summaries, achievements, reminders…
    Just the privacy part is a bit tricky, as most of these ecosystems come as cloud services.


  • I feel you can’t just dump in the CSV values from your Xiaomi Scale and Garmin watch… And hope AI will figure out the correct math on your body… And then also come up with good recommendations.

    As far as I know, there are a few local, selfhosted health trackers available. It’s a bit tricky to own the correct gadgets that connect to it… But I don’t think there’s anything with AI.

    I mean to give proper recommendations, you’d need a very elaborate setup. It needs all the sensor values. Then correlate it with what you’re doing all day long… What you eat and how much you drink… The AI (or traditional algorithms) can’t see. So maybe it can calculate your BMI in a thinking step. But it’s a whole lot of math to then figure out if your too fat, or have muscle mass… And then find out what that means for your diet. AI won’t figure that out along the way. So you’re probably looking at a few thousands of lines of code, after reading a few textbooks on biology.

    I mean you can try to vibe-code some agent. But I think your best bet is to look for some open-source software cloning Google Health, or something like that. (And then maybe you can write some MCP server for that. And an agent to interpret the aggregated results.)



  • Ja ich wohne auch nach wie vor im Pott. Gut, die Gerichtsverfahren sind etwas die Nachläufer davon. Ist klar, dass die 2 Jahre nach irgendwelchen Taten mit Medienberichten abgeschlossen werden.

    Die Automatensprengungen halte ich übrigens für sehr dämlich. Also alle Nachbarländer hatten ihre Geldautomaten ja abgesichert. Nur unsere deutschen Banken haben gesagt das ist zu teuer die nachzurüsten, und sich lieber dafür entschieden die Bankräuber ihr Ding machen zu lassen, und sich dann von der Versicherung auszahlen zu lassen… Ist irgendwie logisch, dass man sich damit die umliegenden Verbrecher ins Land holt. Gerade auch wenn man verkehrstechnisch so gut angebunden ist, wie das Ruhrgebiet. Da konnte man recht einfach was klauen und sich ziemlich gut aus dem Staub machen, es war halt leichte Beute… Und das ist dann auch passiert. War auch kein Geheimnis, ziemlich so stand es in jedem Zeitungsartikel.

    Inzwischen hat sich das aber auch etwas geändert. Die Banken haben dann doch etwas getan, bzw sind auch noch dabei. Und wir haben genug Stau und Baustellen auf der Autobahn hinzugefügt, so dass hier niemand mehr wegkommt. /s



  • HA isn’t the only option. I think there’s two other open source smarthome solutions out there(?) And you could probably do with just an MQTT broker and a Python script, or something like that…

    But HA isn’t a bad choice. They’re doing a phenomenal job. And related projects like ESPHome make it really easy to integrate microcontrollers. And if you want to do more smarthome stuff, it has a plethora of features, integrations, an app…

    Extra hardware isn’t absolutely necessary. I have one server at home which does NAS, and I use 4GB of it’s RAM to run a virtual machine with Home Assistant. That’s enough for it, including a bunch of Addons.


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    As far as I know fewer active parameters means faster. There’s less arithmetic calculations to be done per pass. But all parameters need to be kept in memory, because they might become active the next pass. So it won’t save any RAM.

    They have a short paragraph in the description. It has 80B total parameters, 3B active each pass. It achieves performance like a 30-60B model (10-20x, their claim). But is way more efficiant than that with only 3B active parameters.


  • Yes, that will be an issue. I guess not a technical one, Linux is perfectly able to fetch a token and connect to network shares etc. Not sure how that works with Email and the modern cloud office stuff. But likely, the IT department will have to enforce that policy as well. That’s why I asked if OP has to use software on Windows (11)… Otherwise, if it worked 4 years without issues… maybe there is no issue with Active Directory…





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    You could try to debug the permission issue… Like take a note of the current permissions, chmod the certificates to 666 and the parent directories to 777 and see if that works. Then progressively cut them down again and see when it fails. And/or give caddy all the group permissions ssl, acme, certwarden… and then check which one makes it fail or work.


  • Ja. Ich glaube vor allem brauchen wir clevere Lösungen… Also die machen hier knaller Sachen. Alte Bahntrassen zu Fahrrad-Infrastruktur umbauen, und dann kann man schön auf direktem Wege durch’s Grüne fahren, fern ab vom Autoverkehr, maximal 1,5% Steigung… Aber dann machen sie auch wieder richtig dumme Sachen. Spuren umwidmen, aber das ist richtig ätzend dort zu fahren. Manchmal sogar baulich getrennt, aber nach 800m verschwindet dann der Radweg sang und klanglos und man endet erstmal inmitten einer riesigen, vielbefahrenen Kreuzung… Irgendwie enden Radwege gerne genau da wo es kompliziert ist… Manchmal nehmen sie den Autofahrern etwas weg und das bringt etwas, manchmal ist aber auch niemandem damit geholfen, weil irgendwie guter Wille da war, aber sonst nicht so viel.

    Also ich denke worauf es ankommt ist, dass man fitte Stadtplaner in den Behörden sitzen hat, die sich da was sinnvolles ausdenken. Gerne auch maßgeschneidert für die spezifischen Gegebenheiten. Und man die tatsächlichen Probleme ausmacht und die mal mit Geld bewirft… Also ich denke letztendlich ist es das, was wirklich hilft.

    Letztendlich muss auch was in den Gesetzen stehen, das ist klar. Ich finde es nicht falsch was hier gefordert wird. Ich finde es trifft aber auch nicht so wirklich.