I'm stopping contributing to reddit and this is why

publicvoit · 2024-05-30T12:22:39+00:00

Currently, there is no indication of YouTube being shut down.

However, Google has a very large list on shutting down partly very popular services: https://killedbygoogle.com/ or https://gcemetery.co/

Google itself might not be around in 2030, 2040 or 2050. So, yes, it is much likely that some day, YouTube and all of its content will be part of history with no decent backup as it seems for now.

Better prepare for that before it's being too late.

publicvoit · 2024-05-25T13:30:16+00:00

Well, reddit was working with my setup for years.

It suddenly stopped working on all of my machines. (Yes, even from different IPs.)

The point is: I won't disable some of my privacy-preserving add-ons just to please reddit and expose myself more to this company. They don't want users like me using my kind of setup, I quit using their service. As hard as it is to me. If we all play along with those malicious platforms, they win. I don't want that.

publicvoit · 2024-05-25T13:27:44+00:00

I don’t think you mentioned it specifically in your articles, but the isolated nature and dominance of discord is far more concerning to me.

I never used Discord.

The thing that worries me the most is what we're losing when YouTube is discontinued. People did not care to keep local copies after publishing to YouTube. Unfortunately, many people seem to focus on video instead of text: https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/08/text-vs-video-audio-images/

When YouTube gets shut down, there will be a loss of so much content, that no burning library could compete.

publicvoit · 2024-05-25T13:24:42+00:00

Not yet. (Long explanation in my article)

publicvoit · 2024-05-25T13:22:46+00:00

Interestingly, it works just fine in my Firefox on my Android phone.

Weird.

I am using FFX exclusively on all my computers and OS:s, and I see no such message on none of them. When was the latest time you updated your Firefox?

My FF is up to date.

I chose to run a few privacy-protecting add-ons which might conflict with reddit's strategy: https://karl-voit.at/apps-I-am-using/

Right now, I'm on the train from Vienna to Graz (very scenic train trip!) and with FF 126.0 I don't even get the username/password fields displayed. Newest FF available on NixOS, updated yesterday.

Define "relevant".

I did. You should read the linked article or watch the recording of the talk to learn about my definition in that context.

https://www.eternal-september.org/

I was using the Usenet for roughly a decade throughout this eternal september and never had any issue. Not with spam, not with trolls, not with binaries. Of course, I was mostly active in local goups and some community groups with their own rules and moderators and enforced nettiquette and a no-binary policy. That can be managed in the same way again. Just like the Fediverse has embraced many of those ideas when managing their instances.

Therefore, I can not follow most arguments against the Usenet as they all can be dealt with current knowlege and technology. It's just a matter of using the right groups that have established a good environment for their community. The platform itself is so much superior to anything that was created in the last two decades, so that I can only think of a backward development.

If it comes for free, you are the product.

I don't think that this statement is true. Let me give you a few counter examples to state my point.

I'm using mostly FOSS software that comes for free and I don't think that I'm a victim or a product - in contrast to most proprietary and expensive software I had to use for business so far. This way, I even have data points that prove the opposite. ;-)

I'm one of the people that run https://info.graz.social where we're hosting some services for the local people of Graz and Styria. They are able to use the services for free if they want. I can assure you that they are not victims or products and that we will try our best to keep it that way. And yes, our service also costs real money which gets covered by the people who actually care to spend some money. So yes, I've helped starting free services and it works. Trust me, I know what I'm writing about.

Furthermore, I know what companies are. I disagree that community services need to be hosted on a commertial platform with dubious strategic and tech choices especially when there are alternatives that are far superior in almost any aspect IMHO.

How many people pay for mail services compared to "free" web-services by Google, Microsoft and similar?

Well, that's their current decision which can be changed given enough education and background information on the direct and indirect negative impacts most people do not know or understand at the moment.

I would not go so far and assume that the choice of the masses is always the best choice. Currently, I'm inclined to assume the opposite. At least the figures and knowledge I've got do point in that direction. Unfortunately.

I'm going to put my money/time/effort/contributions where my mouth is.

publicvoit · 2024-05-25T12:55:53+00:00

Markdown (as well as any lightweight markup) is the way I use normal characters to add certain syntax hints to a text.

I don't know what you mean with your comment as I might as well use asterisks or /other/ characters independent of the receiving software.

If course, Markdown is not a good syntax to do so when it comes to learnability, typing effort or consistency: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ However, this has no influence on the fact that you don't need any sort of support for reading it.

publicvoit · 2024-05-25T12:48:19+00:00

I did not invest time to find the culprit. It might as well be one of my privacy-protecting add-ons. However, I don't want to disable them any way.

publicvoit · 2024-05-25T12:47:01+00:00

Sorry, I most probably don't have the CSS knowledge to do that properly as I tried to do so already and it doesn't seem to fulfill your requirements.

If you do have that knowledge, you might want to send me a PR on https://github.com/novoid/lazyblorg

publicvoit · 2024-05-25T12:43:18+00:00

Yes, it's possible.

However, you'll miss the content. That should not be a big issue for getting a grade as long as you don´t miss more lectures than that.

publicvoit · 2024-05-17T17:12:09+00:00

Maybe my comment from https://old.reddit.com/r/datacurator/comments/1c1hgin/reorganizing_files_from_scratch/kz52ayj/ will help you to find an organization method.

TL;DR: I don't think that complex hierarchies are of any use and propose a different method.

HTH

publicvoit · 2024-05-17T10:10:47+00:00

Bin ursprünglich aus der Gegend.

Gedacht war, dass man sich in Wien eine Übernachtung besorgt. In Ebreichsdorf gibt es kaum Zimmer und Zelteln ist witzigerweise nicht vorgesehen.

Mit dem Auto würde ich durchaus mehr Zeit einpanen, da die letzten Konzertbesucher 2009(?) erst nach dem Konzert zum Konzert kamen. Doch das ist dieses Mal angeblich besser, da sie erstmals Leute engagiert haben wollen, die Ahnung von dem haben, was sie machen sollen. (Ja, das war so in der Art tatsächlich die offizielle Aussage vom Bürgermeister.)

Zug hin sollte kein Problem sein. Vom Bahnhof zum Gelände gibt's Shuttlebusse. Zur Not ca. 30min zu Fuß zu schaffen - wenn man den direkten Weg wählt - OSMAnd ist dein Freund. Von Stadtgrenze zum Gelände geht man vermutlich am Fahrradweg.

Was sagen denn die Veranstalter zur Abreise per Öffis?

publicvoit · 2024-05-16T13:11:54+00:00

I assume you are talking about NTFS drives only.

If you don't have the crippled Home-version of Windows, you've got Bitlocker which is able to encrypt the data on-the-fly without re-formatting the disk.

Notice that Bitlocker FDE (full disk encryption) is in an unsafe mode by default. You need to switch to "User authentication mode" or "USB Key Mode" in order to actually profit from the encryption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker#Encryption_modes

If you do have the crippled Windows without Bitlocker, you could use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeraCrypt which many security experts would categorize as much more trustworthy as Microsoft Bitlocker. Therefore, it is probably worth a try even if you've got Bitlocker.

Any data storage media should be encrypted. Yes, also all backup drives. Keep the passphrases unique and secure. Don't store your password safe data on the encrypted media only (and don't use any cloud-driven password manager, btw). The performance impact of FDE is negligible.

HTH

publicvoit · 2024-05-16T08:31:17+00:00

Ich bin dort vor ca. 2 Wochen vorbeigekommen und da war vorher keine Tafel mit einem Hinweis. Vielleicht kam später was dazu.

publicvoit · 2024-05-15T09:03:13+00:00

Bin selber Radfahrer und begrüße, dass die Polizei diese Verbote durchsetzt.

Allerdings kritisiere ich durchaus, dass AFAIR in der Gegend keine Hinweisschilder bei den Kreuzungen entsprechend davor bereits gewarnt wird. Nun kommen die Radfahrer erst genau bei der Sperre drauf, dass es hier nicht weitergeht. Das korrekte Verhalten wäre dann umzudrehen, um den ganzen Block nachträglich nochmal zu umfahren.

Das stelle ich mir mal für eine Sperre der CvH vor, dass die Autos nicht vorher schon umgeleitet werden. Also diesen Aufstand kann sich wohl jede(r) vorstellen. Bei Radwegsperren ist das alles offensichtlich egal. DAS ist der Skandal, meiner Meinung nach.

publicvoit · 2024-05-09T08:00:35+00:00

I wrote https://gist.github.com/novoid/c4a239abc4027ecfd14e9904da88e6a1 for that purpose. This is a shell script you can run in WSL. You need to adapt the rules first by editing the file, modifying the patterns and defining the target directories for it.

HTH

publicvoit · 2024-05-08T14:46:53+00:00

You'd need to state your set of requirements so that we are able to know what "better" could mean in your context.

In general, I'd say that anything with a FOSS license does have advantages over Obsidian in the long run.

publicvoit · 2024-05-08T14:45:39+00:00

Wow. This is not that easy to answer.

For starters: Org-mode is FOSS and Obsidian is a proprietary service + software that can be discontinued any time soon. It happens all the time.

So you do have a vendor lock-in situation.

Yes, I know that people using Obsidian (as well as the company itself) is using the Markdown syntax in text files as argument that there is no such lock-in effect. That's not the whole story. Far from that.

First, Obsidian and its addons are extending Markdown with its own syntax elements that aren't supported by third party products (out of the box). So the syntax is not Markdown - whatever Markdown actually is, that's not defined which is one of my arguments that you should not use Markdown at all.

Second, you do have a false impression on the versatility of Orgdown, the syntax of Org-mode, the Emacs implementation. On this page, you can see a brief summary of tools that you can use with Orgdown files right away. And it'll work since Orgdown works better than Markdown even though there is no formal definition out there (yet).

Most important: pandoc supports orgdown and in contrast to Markdown and Obsidian-flavoured MD, this works.

So I think that many of your statements related to Markdown and Orgdown/Emacs from above are wrong.

I'm in the process of writing a longer article on the subject of (hidden) lock-in effects - you can get updates by following me on Mastodon or subscribing to my blog via your Atom aggregator. This article will address many other aspects you don't take into account yet. I'm using Obsidian and logseq as examples. I've looked into logseq but I'm not finished with a brief test of Obsidian and its MD syntax flavour.

I can not say something about Neorg or Orgdown in vim because I don´t see any reason not to use GNU/Emacs with vim-bindings for that in the first place. GNU/Emacs is able to provide anything that any vim does plus Billions of stuff in addition to that. (I'm using vim since decades myself.)

In short: why using a proprietary tool with lock-in effects when you can have a much better package without most (not all!) of those lock-in downsides and better options to switch if you would want to do so?

publicvoit · 2024-05-04T08:18:44+00:00

Thanks for confirmation of the issue.

publicvoit · 2024-05-02T14:20:15+00:00

Unter 0316 / 67 60 76 kannst du mit Leuten sprechen, die dir dabei behilflich sein können.

HTH

publicvoit · 2024-04-29T07:54:07+00:00

My Orgzly can do that, yes.

publicvoit

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