Nicht, dass ich meine Texte von der KI umschreiben ließe, aber:

Mit welchen „Features“ DeepL hier einen Aufpreis für seine neue Abo-Idee zu rechtfertigen versucht, das lässt tief blicken.

Wer nicht draufzahlt, kriegt nur minderwertigen Datenschutz? Spannende Philosophie. 🚩

The detailed story of CP/M, the first personal computer operating system. Happy 50th anniversary!

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system/

#cpm #z80 #intel8080 #altair8800 #imsai8080

Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System - CHM

Fifty years ago, PC software pioneer Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system.

^{hhackford (Computer History Museum)}

EU-Parlament beschließt Recht auf Reparatur und Ökodesign-Gesetz​

Der neue Anspruch der Verbraucher auf Reparatur defekter Geräte wie Smartphones oder Waschmaschinen soll die Kreislaufwirtschaft beflügeln.​

https://www.heise.de/news/EU-Parlament-beschliesst-Recht-auf-Reparatur-und-Oekodesign-Gesetz-9695607.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#EU #news

EU-Parlament beschließt Recht auf Reparatur und Ökodesign-Gesetz​

^{Stefan Krempl (heise online)}

#Forgejo v7.0 was just released! Get it at https://forgejo.org/download/. 🚀

Forgejo v7.0 is available with translations in Bulgarian, Esperanto, Filipino and Slovenian; SourceHut builds integration; support for the SHA-256 hash function in Git; source code search by default and more. It also is the first Long Term Support version. The adoption of semantic versioning is the reason for the version bump from v1.21 to v7.0 and is compatible with existing tools. ✨

Read more at https://forgejo.org/2024-04-release-v7-0/

Forgejo

^forgejo.org

Completely reverse engineered datapacket for Quansheng UV-K5 radio.

Not just schematics, but a complete kicad project, so that one can properly document modifications and make derivates.

https://github.com/mentalDetector/Quansheng_UV-K5_PCB_R51-V1.4_PCB_Reversing_Rev._0.9

#hamradio #reverseengineering #quansheng #uvk5 #homebrew

I cried at the Voyager news today. I also know why.

Because for every techbro out there, there's a talented engineer quietly working to make things actually better.

That gives me hope.

Hope is in short supply these days.

YES!! Voyager 1 is fixed!

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

2024: “We should rewrite everything in Rust!”

2018: “We should rewrite everything in Go!”

2010: “We should rewrite everything in C#!”

2000: “We should rewrite everything in Java!”

1990: “We should rewrite everything in C++”

But hey, I’m sure this time the new shiny language that’s fashionable this year will be the one that changes everything and never gets replaced.

Edit: All of those languages are fine in and of themselves. Use the tools you like. But don't act like you're doing anything new. There has been nothing new in a very long time.

#Microsoft support for #Office and #Exchange without #cloud ends 2025-10:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/exchange-server-roadmap-update/ba-p/3421389

If you're still using their products by then, you have definitely given up digital sovereignty and you're happy to embrace the possibility of industrial #espionage by US companies.

Yes, I know what this means.

And you're then consuming services where an unknown number of foreign/external players has infiltrated and owns administrative permissions: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review_of_the_Summer_2023_MEO_Intrusion_Final_508c.pdf

https://karl-voit.at/cloud/

Exchange Server Roadmap Update

We are now ready to share our long-term roadmap for Exchange Server.

^{TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM}

Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”

https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/19/2024-04-19-Copyleft-is-not-restrictive.html

Inhaltswarnung: alc Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

Habe doch vergessen, dass gestern "Weltamateurfunk-Tag ist" ... ich glaube, ich begebe mich zurück in meine 2 Meter (viel Spaß beim Googeln 😁)

#Cartoon #Cartoonist #Humor #kurioseFeiertage #Funk #Amateurfunk #sandranabbefeld #nabbefeld

Das #VCFe in München nächste Woche wurde _abgesagt_ bzw. in den Herbst _verschoben_ wegen Sperrung der Veranstaltungsräumlichkeiten nach Schäden an der Decke. Neuer Termin ist das Wochenende vom 7. und 8. September 2024: https://vcfe.org/

#VintageComputerFestival #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

VCFe.org

Vintage Computer Festival Event Information

^vcfe.org

Happy 53th birthday belated to FTP! 🎂

It was "born" on 16th April 1971 with https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc114

My friend Evan Henshaw-Plath wrote recently about some concerns with ActivityPub. I want to go over his concerns one by one and give some assessment of how accurate and important I think they are. Rabble’s words in italics; my responses in just normal text.

• User identities are tied to a server. This is only partially true; your user identity is tied to a domain, not a server. But most servers only handle one domain, and most people don’t move their domains between servers. We have a section on domain portability between servers on the ActivityPub Data Portability report.
  Using domains is also how much of the Internet works. Email addresses are tied to a domain; Web sites are tied to a domain. You can move the domain between different implementations transparently. It’s a really robust architecture that has stood the test of time for almost 50 years.
• Users can’t migrate between servers. Partially true. Rabble covers the essentials; you can move followers and not much else. It’s also possible to move your “stuff” between identities; that’s most of what our Data Portability task force is working on.
• On a single server, it is impossible to change your username! Somewhat true. ActivityPub identities are URLs like https://social.example/user/vtles1XgZkPUEulBsFmRX . That identity URL is immutable; you can’t change it. Some implementations include a username in that url, like https://other.example/user/evanp. With that kind of server software, it’s true, you can’t change the username.
  Also, we use a standard called Webfinger that maps an identity string like username@domain to an URL. You can read about it in the ActivityPub Webfinger report. Some servers use that string, instead of the ActivityPub ID, as the unique ID for a remote user. That’s discouraged, but if someone does that, changing your user ID will make you no longer findable for those other servers. I think as we stabilize our use of WebFinger, some of these usages are going to get better.
• Fediverse servers have total control over your account and data. True. This is the “federation” part of the fediverse. It’s how Web sites and email work. Don’t use a fediverse server without a good trust relationship with your server admin; ideally someone you have a business relationship with, or your employer, or your university. Same goes for email!
  It also means that if you control your own server, you have total control over your account and data. That’s a feature, not a bug.
  Another option is using a cooperative server, like cosocial.ca or social.coop. A cooperative is a legal structure in which members pay for and manage their own service. I think cooperatives are awesome.
• The fediverse is a network of fiefdoms, each server admin having total control over their users. This seems about the same as the previous statement, but OK. I think the key strength of the fediverse here is that we can have dozens of different models for server governance — coops, enterprises, city libraries, family servers, individual servers. That level of experimentation is a feature, not a bug. Governance is not baked into the protocol.
• Each kind of fediverse server is isolated. This one is just plain wrong. ActivityPub is based on an open data standard called Activity Streams 2.0 (AS2) which models social data. There is an extensive standard vocabulary that can represent Web content like text, images, video and audio, and the social graph, but also well-known social interactions like check-ins, events, and groups. More importantly, Activity Streams 2.0 is extensible, meaning you can add properties to existing types, or whole new types of objects or interactions. And every ActivityPub server is built to handle AS2.
  What is true is that we have had a lot of servers that only handle a subset of the AS2 vocabulary, and reject content they don’t know how to handle. This is mostly due to mimicking the siloed social networks; we’ve gotten used to thinking of different social networks for different kinds of content. I think this is changing, especially as new kinds of content hit the network. Developers are just learning how to effectively handle extension content with fallback representations. I look forward to this improving over time.
• The fediverse has no privacy; there is no system of end-to-end encrypted messaging. The first part is false; you can mark your posts as followers-only, or directed to a single person, or a group of people. Servers enforce this privacy. You can also mark that you don’t want your public posts to be indexable or your public account to be discoverable.
  However, the second part is true; we don’t have end-to-end encryption. So, if you send a private message to someone on another server, you message can be read by both your admin and their admin. It’s stored in the clear on both servers. This is also how email works, as well as most direct messages on commercial social networks. However, it’s something worth working on. I’ve sketched out an architecture for end-to-end encryption over ActivityPub, and I’ve got a proposal out to work on it for Summer of Protocols. I think it will be good to level this up!
• The fediverse has no system for micropayments. This is true. The fediverse is also first and foremost for social networking — connecting to friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. Most of these interactions are not mediated by payment; in fact, payment cheapens those interactions.
  However, there are other relationship types on the fediverse — supporting creators, journalists, or publishers. The main way to do this today is with paid subscriptions; for example, you can subscribe to evanplus@prodromou.pub to get access to premium content I publish. You have to send me US$5 out-of-band or I won’t approve the follow; that’s the state of play right now on the fediverse.
  I think in-band payments are kind of cool for this kind of work, as well as for marketplaces — buying and selling services or goods over the fediverse. I think the easiest structure is adding payment URLs like a PayPal account, or blockchain wallets like a Bitcoin Lightning address.
• Lastly, and most importantly for me, the culture of fediverse server admins and developers is vindictive. I don’t think this is the case; I love the culture of the fediverse, which is playful, conversational, and collaborative.

I think there are a plenty of good points in Rabble’s critique, but there’s one way that I think he’s extremely wrong. There is still a lot to do in the ActivityPub ecosystem, but we have the architecture and extension mechanisms to make them possible. It’s totally not required to go start a whole new social protocol to build those things in from scratch. In fact, it’s a real mistake; it’s far better to work from the existing standard and build on it. Open standards like ActivityPub have a legitimacy that ad hoc systems like Nostr can never have, and it’s the reason that there is so much interesting development going on in the ActivityPub world.

https://evanp.me/2024/04/14/responses-to-rabble-on-activitypub/

#activitypub

CoSocial

A co-op run social media server for all Canadians. More info at https://cosocial.info/

^{Mastodon hosted on cosocial.ca}

HTMX and the Rule of Least Power

https://blog.gypsydave5.com/posts/2024/4/12/htmx-and-the-rule-of-least-power/

#HTML #HTMX #JavaScript #KISS

The astronauts aboard the ISS were amazed by the April 8 solar eclipse, just like the rest of us, and went crazy snapping photos from orbit.

They got some amazing views of the Moon's shadow sweeping across southern Canada & Maine, seen from 420 km (261 miles) above: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/with/53645140833 #space #eclipse #space #astronomy

xz-Backdoor – eine Aufarbeitung

Von Kollegen aus dem Maschinenraum der @hisolutions 👌❤️

#Backdoor #SupplyChain #Malware #0day
https://research.hisolutions.com/2024/04/xz-backdoor-eine-aufarbeitung/

Totality! #SolarEclipse2024 #TotalSolarEclipse

More to come...

OK, this is cool:

1. Look up a podcast on https://podcastindex.org/
2. Check the number at the end of the URL in your browser. Example: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/270016 -> 270016
3. Follow <number>@ap.podcastindex.org. For example, @270016 .
4. Get podcast updates over ActivityPub! Including audio!

h/t @samsethi

No-Show-Gebühr: Wie Restaurants Verbindlichkeit einfordern

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/no-show-gebuehr-wie-restaurants-verbindlichkeit-einfordern,Tt35kJY

Absolut verständlicher Schritt. Aber traurig, dass es nötig ist. Mir war das Thema neu, bis sich vor ein paar Monaten dann mal die Person vom Restaurant für meine Absage bedankt hat. Es sei leider nicht selbstverständlich, dass angerufen werde.

Wow. Leuten ist alles egal, oder? Hauptsache keine Verbindlichkeiten. Bei der Restaurantreservierung nicht und in der Liebe schon gar nicht, oder? Puuh. 😩

No-Show-Gebühr: Wie Restaurants Verbindlichkeit einfordern

Sie sind ein Ärger für viele Gastronomen: Leute, die reservieren, aber ohne Absage nicht erscheinen. Vor allem in Großstädten sind "No-Shows" ein wachsendes Problem. Einige Gastronomen treten dem mit Gebühren entgegen.

^{Max Gilbert (BR24)}