hertg

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[–] hertg 51 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Unsere Wirtschaft baut auf dem Wachstumsimperativ auf. Ohne dieses funktioniert die Kapitalakkumulation bei den Milliardären nicht mehr so gut. Auch unsere Pensionskassen sind darauf ausgelegt dass die Wirtschaft ständig wächst. Das ist genau so dumm wie du denkst. Ich kann "Less is more" von Jason Hickel empfehlen. Gute, leicht verdaubare Lektüre zu dem Thema. Und hilft dir dabei die FDP noch mehr zu hassen als du wahrscheinlich schon tust :)

[–] hertg 9 points 1 year ago

Unprompted pro tip: I started running ytdl-sub on my server, added the channels I'm interested in, and now I watch youtube on my personal mediaserver and dont even open the youtube page/app anymore. Because I already know this shit is only gonna get more annoying as time moves on, and especially after the silicon valley growth imperative collapses in on itself. Let's hope we'll have ytdl working for long enough.

You can even configure it to download videos a few days later, after sponsorblock info has been submitted, then it also cuts that out. And you can set it to only keep the last {n} videos if you just intend to watch recent stuff and not keep an archive. It even works for non-youtube. I added Neo Magazine Royale from ZDF Mediathek, and it just worked (shout out to the germans who know what that is)

Cons: I don't get yt recommendations Pros: I don't get yt recommendations

But I still find good new stuff via other feeds, so 🤷‍♂️

[–] hertg 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most email providers will automatically put emails coming from .xyz to spam. I'd advise against using any "new TLDs", if you can. But if you must, avoid those that are frequently used for spamming. A lot of spam detectors will already score your emails as suspicious just for the TLD.

See for example, https://github.com/apache/spamassassin/blob/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/pds/20_ntld.cf

[–] hertg 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And there is htmlq too, if you ever need to scrape some stuff from a website :)

[–] hertg 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, I missed that this thread started on the topic of ebooks. To be honest, I don't fully understand the connection you are making to the tragedy of the commons when it comes to DRM. I think I understand what you mean, if you are arguing on top of DRM, but DRM is itself already a tool of enclosure. So the problem is not really consumer choice, but rather that DRM is allowed in its current form. But I admit that this is a different discussion, I guess in the end we are talking about the same and I agree with you. I think the self organizing part here would be for authors to publish independently, and for people to support independent publishing. But as you implied, that market is already captured to a point where people don't even know about independent publishers/markets. I wouldn't look at that as a tragedy of the commons, where people "selfishly" choose DRM and degrade the underlying resource, rather they are simply consumers of an almost fully enclosed resource.

Glad you find it interesting enough to start reading. The book doesn't necessarily "propose self organizing", although that may be a conclusion one can draw. Rather it showcases different case studies where common pool resources have degraded, and others where they have flourished, and tries to compare the different situations through a few parameters. What I took from it is, that it is pretty safe to say that neither privatization, nor central planning are good "solutions" when it comes to common pool resources, also that it seems important to have some form of rule monitoring and enforcement where actors directly affected by rule-breaking are part of the monitoring. But I should probably read through my highlights again some time, to freshen up my memory :)

Really appreciated your insight.

[–] hertg 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I saw your comment 3 months late 😄 In the blog post I actually mention the tragedy of the commons. The problem with the theory is that it is only applicable in fixed empirical settings. For this reason, I think it is quite dangerous to apply this theory generally. It is actually a key ingredient in neoliberal economics, where it is argued that privatization of commons is necessary, because they are tragic. I had to unlearn this notion myself. I recommend the book 'Governing the Commons' by Elinor Ostrom on the topic, it's a collection of case studies which shows that commons are only tragic under certain preconditions.

[–] hertg 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a good post, that argues the dunning-kruger effect is not real. I guess I am one of those annoying "well actually, ..." types now.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

[–] hertg 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reminds of a stupid filesystem pet idea I had a while ago. Running as a daemon, it walks through your filesystem and sometimes leaves traces (as files), maybe you'll find it sleeping in your downloads folder every now and then. I thought it was a cute idea, but didnt actually think about implementing it, for obvious reasons, it could go so horribly wrong 😂

[–] hertg 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The caption is a reference to "The myth of sisyphus" by Albert Camus. "One must imagine Sisyphus happy". Good book.

[–] hertg 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great video. I actually bought the domain opensource.rip a few weeks ago, just to list the affected projects and explain exactly what jeff geerling did here. Haven't started it yet, and I'm mostly commenting just to make myself commit to the idea.

Intending to create a static site with Zola, lmk if you wanna contribute. Submitting information like I asked for in the following post would already help me out :)

https://infosec.exchange/@hertg/112196322254411560

[–] hertg 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since you are from Germany, simply say "Die Grünen sind Schuld". Everyone will understand and accept this reason.

[–] hertg 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The current bio model does not support PIV (Smartcard) tho, so it cant be used for PGP/SSH. They recently announced a new revision that can, but its not generally available yet.

https://www.yubico.com/blog/introducing-the-expanded-yubikey-bio-series-yubikey-bio-multi-protocol-edition-early-access/

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