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aard, 1 month ago

Überweisung auf Papier […] Und Gott bewahre, wenn du Münzgeld haben oder bringen willst.

Das sind Leistungen bei denen ich tatsaechlich auch meine dass das separat abgerechnet werden sollte. Basis sollte eine kostenlose bzw. von der Grundgebuehr abgedeckte Nutzung des Kontos im Selfservice sein - also alles Online oder an Selbstbedienungsterminals, sowie uebliche Kartennutzung im Eurogebiet. Fuer Sachen die man selbermachen kann eine Person beschaeftigen zu wollen ist ein Luxusproblem - und dafuer kann man dann auch zahlen.

aard, 1 month ago

Waren an der Mueritz ist ne fette Chilloutzone.

aard, 1 month ago

Enter und Shift sind unterschiedlich (die Deutsche Entertaste ist doof). Ich hatte Tastaturen ohne staggering getestet, fand ich doof (kann aber natuerlich auch muscle memory als vielschreiber sein - das unvoreingenommen testen wird vermutlich schwierig wenn man mehrere Jahrzehnte blind getippt hat)

aard, 1 month ago

Vanilla teams is a a stinking pile of shit. Corporate policies just add a bit of bonus nuclear waste to that.

aard, 1 month ago

I see you’re not working in any industry having to deal with Qualcomm.

aard, 1 month ago

It starts with them only doing initial talks about buying their hardware for a project with you for a 7-figure payment, and doesn’t improve from there.

aard, 1 month ago

It has been a while since I touched ssmtp, so take what I’m saying with a grain of salt.

Problem with ssmtp and related when I was testing it was its behaviour in error conditions - due to a lack of any kind of spool it doesn’t fail very gracefully, and if the sending software doesn’t expect it and implement a spool itself (which it typically doesn’t have a reason to, as pretty much the only situation where something like sendmail would fail is a situation where it also wouldn’t be able to write a spool) this can very easily lead to loss of mails.

I already had a working SMTP client capable of fishing mails out of a Maildir at that point, so I ended up just doing a simple sendmail program throwing whatever it receives into a Maildir, and a cronjob to send this forward. This might be the most minimalistic setup for reliably sending out mail (and I’m using it an all my computers behind Emacs to do so) - but it is badly documented, so if you don’t care about reliability postfix might be a better choice, or if you don’t just go with ssmtp or similar. Or if you do want to dig into that message me, and I’ll help making things more user friendly.

aard, 1 month ago

It surely is a bubble - so probably a bit different than many other bubbles.

I think OpenAI made the right call (for them) to commercialize when they did - as that pretty much was their only chance to do so. Things has moved fast over the last 1.5 years - and what used to take a decade in tech has happened within months: OpenAI is the dinosaur company grandfathered in, while for already about a year it’s been more sensible for anybody wanting to do something with LLM to selfhost (or buy hosting capacity, but put up own data) one of the more open language models, and possibly adjust or re-train it.

As a company owner I get a ridiculous amount of spam for a year already from all kinds of companies building products on top of OpenAI stack, or are trying to sell training or conferences. All those companies will be left with nothing once all the slower users realize technology has moved on. It’s like somebody trying to build all their product offerings based on VMWare stack nowadays.

If you as a company want to offer something around AI right now the safest option is probably offering hosting, or if you want to do more hands on, adjustment of open models. Both of those are very risky, and many will go bust in years to come - but not as suicidal as building on top of a closed dinosaur.

aard, 1 month ago

A problem of this bubble is that it is making AI synonymous with LLM - and when it goes down will burn other more sensibly forms of AI.

aard, 1 month ago

All my software can be configured using dedicated configuration files (.c)

aard, 1 month ago

He probably needs a comaintainer. We could select one of us and then try pressuring him into accepting that.

aard, 1 month ago

JBOD relies on an optional SATA extension, which most of your controllers won’t have.

That leaves you with RAID in the controller - which is a bad idea, as you don’t have much control over what is going on, and recovery if it fails will possibly messy.

aard, 1 month ago

Because it does JBOD if the controller supports it. Pretty much none of the controllers you’ll find in consumer hardware support that.

aard, 1 month ago

Wie viele Mahlzeiten hat das ergeben?

aard, 1 month ago

I nowadays typically have three outcomes to similare situations:

• I find my own question without solution from a while ago
• I find my own comment or blog entry describing how to fix it
• I find a friends comment or blog entry on how to fix it

aard, 2 months ago

Seit ich Kinder habe haengt ein Kassettenrecorder am Receiver - Kassetten sind ein erstaunlich brauchbares Medium fuer Hoerbuecher fuer Kinder.

aard, 2 months ago

Ich hab das hauptsaechlich bei digitalen services. Ich schreib denen dann immer das ich ab jetzt deren Kram via Torrent beziehe weil sie entweder ihre Infrastruktur nicht im Griff haben, oder Datenverkaufende Arschloecher sind.

aard, 2 months ago

Anbieten ist nicht gerade das Wort das ich waehlen wuerde

aard, 2 months ago

Eventuell I-USB7? Proprietaerer Stecker, unterschiedlicher Pinout je nach Hersteller.

aard, 2 months ago

Bekommen Kunden eigene Builds, oder generische Builds, nur ggf. mit separaten Konfigurationsdateien/Anleitungen pro Kunde?

Beides liesse sich ueber das CI-System erschlagen, nur an jeweils anderen Stellen - bei ersterem Branches in den jeweiligen Software-Repos, bei letzterem eben ein eigenes Repo das die Dokumentation und Metadaten hat um die Buildartifakts aus dem Buildsystem zu holen. Ich wuerde das so loesen dass bei einem Doku/Metadatenupdate in dem Repo CI dann einen Archiv mit dem ganzen Zeug erstellt das dann direkt an den Kunden geht.

Das setzt jetzt allerdings voraus dass ich halbwegs ordentliche Buildablaeufe habt - was leider weiterhin nicht selbstverstaendlich ist. Falls es daran hakt wuerde ich erstmal schauen da was aufzubauen.

(Disclaimer: Ich hab eine Firma die als Hauptfeld Beratung und Implementation von CI, Testautomatisierung, Changemanagement und damit verwandte Felder macht)

aard, 2 months ago

As they just want it temporarily lubed water based lubricants from the sex shop might be a better option. They don’t leave much residue, and are tested for compatibility with various rubbers.

aard, 2 months ago

Here in Finland Fazer fills real egg shells with chocolate for easter, with the 4-pack also sold in egg cartons.

aard, 2 months ago

You still might want to do something like alias pbtar='tar --use-compress-prog=pbzip2 to easily use pbzip2 - unless you have an ancient system that’ll speed things up significantly. And even if you don’t it’d be nice to use it for creation - to utilize more than one core the archive needs to be created for parallel extraction.

aard, 2 months ago

Aufschneiden, und mit etwas Kaese reinlegen.

aard, 2 months ago

They’ve shown over and over again over the last years that they’re happy to push arbitraty lies for whatever reason. NY Times is probably one of the few newspapers where replacing the journalists with chatgtp would increase quality and factual accuracy.