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Another test the ATmosphere

"The implications of all this are profound. First, our understanding of political risk has to change. We are no longer dealing with actors who are constrained by norms, expectations, or even basic hum…

2d ago·1 min read·197 words

Test ATmosphere

"The implications of all this are profound. First, our understanding of political risk has to change. We are no longer dealing with actors who are constrained by norms, expectations, or even basic hum…

2d ago·1 min read·195 words

Clinging on to sanity

"The implications of all this are profound. First, our understanding of political risk has to change. We are no longer dealing with actors who are constrained by norms, expectations, or even basic hum…

Apr 9·2 min read·233 words

The Iran economic shock is coming. How to protect yourself

https://youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI?si=xFJEEFLBd3XMjGUg "Here's me in the UK, which is probably the least prepared country in the world for an energy price crisis, right? Massively dependent on imported ener…

Apr 6·2 min read·243 words

Social media’s dirty secret: they don’t use it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ebMm8stexM "But when you frame it that way, you understand that social media isn't the problem: the extractive profit motive is the problem. And then, banning under-16…

Mar 10·1 min read·121 words

AI isn’t people

"Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people. The motivated muddling of categories so prevalent in writing and thinking about AI, be…

Mar 1·1 min read·154 words

How to install Espanso on Debian or Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi OS

edafe.de/espanso "Replace ':poke' with 'Pokémon,' or save some time by replacing ':greeting' with a stock email template. That's the basic idea, but Espanso goes much further. It's one of the most pow…

Feb 13·3 min read·524 words

Install Syncthing 2.x for continuous file synchronisation on Debian or Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi OS

edafe.de/syncthing Syncthing is an open source tool that synchronises files continuously across multiple devices. It transfers data between two or more of your computers, without uploading any informa…

Feb 9·3 min read·459 words

AI and the corporate capture of knowledge

"A society cannot meaningfully debate policy, science or justice if information is locked away behind paywalls or controlled by proprietary algorithms. If we allow AI companies to profit from mass app…

Jan 31·1 min read·132 words

Der Plan von der Abschaffung des Asyls

"Das Asylrecht setzt voraus, dass wir das Leid anderer als rechtlich relevant anerkennen. Wenn Empathie politisch diskreditiert wird, verliert das Recht seine Basis. Die Asylpolitik der Gegenwart lebt…

Nov 19·1 min read·188 words

Install OneDrive Client for Linux on Debian or Ubuntu

edafe.de/onedrive The OneDrive Client for Linux connects your Debian or Ubuntu system to Microsoft's OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive for Office365, Sharepoint and other such deploym…

Oct 30·2 min read·289 words

The mad king’s digital killswitch

"The very worst-case speculative scenario for Huawei-as-Chinese-Trojan-horse is infinitely better than the non-speculative, real ways in which the US has killswitched and bugged the world's devices." …

Oct 26·1 min read·101 words

Install Cockpit on Debian 13 trixie

edafe.de/cockpit Cockpit provides an easy-to-use, web-based interface for administering Linux systems. It simplifies tasks such as monitoring logs, controlling system services, configuring networks, a…

Oct 21·3 min read·406 words

Configure nullmailer with a relay host

"If you want to receive status updates from your Debian or Ubuntu system, you need to employ the help of a mail tansfer agent (MTA). nullmailer is a relay-only forwarding MTA that can be used as an al…

Oct 14·2 min read·388 words

Darth Android

"Tech bosses are fundamentally at war with the idea that our digital devices contain general purpose computers. The general-purposeness of computers – the fact that they are all Turing-complete, unive…

Oct 9·1 min read·152 words

How to install Debian 13 Trixie with a GNOME desktop

edafe.de/debian Debian GNU/Linux was first released in 1993 and has been under active developement ever since. Today, the Debian Project unites thousands of contributors from across the globe with the…

Sep 3·12 min read·2277 words

Curate your own newspaper with RSS

"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watc…

Aug 1·1 min read·127 words

Delta’s AI-based price-gouging

"It's a scam. AI agents aren't going to replace human labor. The only way we'll replace human labor with software agents is by redesigning all these heterogeneous, competing systems owned by people wh…

Jul 31·1 min read·145 words

When we get komooted

"Digital enclosure is the continuation of the physical enclosure of land. This sophisticated form of digital extraction is so common that it’s almost unremarkable. But there’s a wrenching contradictio…

Jul 27·1 min read·149 words

Shrink, optimise and expand an existing QCOW2 image

edafe.de/qcow A virtual disk image is a block device in a file. There are a number of different disk image formats to choose from when setting up a virtual machine. QEMU Copy On Write version 2 (QCOW2…

Feb 1·5 min read·918 words

Can passkeys replace passwords

"Passkeys and the WebAuthn specification were intended to make public key cryptography accessible to average users, rather than just the domain of the tech-savvy. If done right, they could seriously i…

Dec 21·1 min read·118 words

Was Griechenland wusste: das tödliche Geschäft des Abu Sultan

"Eine monatelange Untersuchung unter der Leitung des griechischen Investigativmediums Solomon und des Netzwerks Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Zusammenarbeit mit El País und der taz er…

Dec 11·1 min read·133 words

Viele gute Gründe für das Fediverse

"Die vor uns stehenden Umwälzungen der digitalen Transformation sind von historischer Dimension. Sie sind in ihrer Bedeutung vergleichbar mit den Veränderungen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, die die Gru…

Nov 16·1 min read·120 words

Use the Zyklop Pocket for bicycle maintenance

These days, the Wera Zyklop Pocket ratchet is my go-to tool for any kind of bicycle-related maintenance. With a length of 140 mm and, in my specific case, a weight of 209 g it is small enough to fit i…

Aug 6·1 min read·142 words

Linux in 2024 – charting its own path to innovation

"Why do people take the path less traveled and choose an operating system based on Linux over the proprietary based ones from from Microsoft Windows and also the Apple Mac OS? So welcome to the intrig…

Feb 19·1 min read·109 words

Stephen vs Sabrina full 3-point challenge

Stephen Curry is considered the greatest shooter in basketball history. Sabrina Ionescu set the WNBA record for most three-pointers in a single-season and holds the WNBA and NBA records for most point…

Feb 18·1 min read·102 words

Hausmeister Klaus

Ganz großes Dankeschön an Wiebke aus der Schweiz, ohne die ich selber bestimmt nie auf Bummelkasten gekommen wäre!

Feb 1·1 min read·38 words

A hacker’s perspective: social media account takeover prevention guide

"If you watched the SEC Twitter account hack that moved markets yesterday and wondered how to prevent account takeover for your personal, business, or high profile social media account, here's an Acco…

Jan 11·1 min read·122 words

Monitoring storage devices with smartmontools on Debian or Ubuntu

"The acronym SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology and is a monitoring system built into most modern storage devices. The package smartmontools includes the utilities sma…

Jan 7·4 min read·721 words

Letter from Birmingham jail

"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat t…

Jan 2·1 min read·138 words

Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’

"Nothing simply is itself, outside the matrix of relationships in which it appears. Instead, being is an act or event that must happen in the space between the self and the world." Abeba Birhane does …

Jan 1·1 min read·127 words

European Comission gives EU-US data transfers third round at CJEU

"This third attempt to pass largely the same unlawful decision also raises questions as to the larger role of the European Commission being the guardian of the EU treaties. Instead of upholding the 'r…

Dec 27·1 min read·140 words