A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.

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Cake day: 2021年8月21日
  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•What sense is licensing operating system on BSD license?English
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    5 小时前

    This is the permissive vs copyleft debate. And it’s old as time. I suppose there’s a lot of nuance with licensing. If you’re a company at the receiving end, you probably love permissive licenses. They’re easy, offer the maximum amount of flexibility and freedom. It’s so short you probably don’t even need a team of lawyers… If you write software, it’s a bit more complicated. Do you want to cater to those people, make it as easy as possible to adopt your software? Then maybe consider BSD/Apache/MIT. Do you want to build a community, stop your competitors from just taking code? Want to try to ensure it stays open? Then maybe consider a copyleft license.

    I sometimes don’t care. Write some stuff for me (as a hobby) but that’s my entire motivation. I don’t care what people do with the results of my weekend of effort. Never plan to hire a lawyer or bother with it in case something happrns with it. Or it’s just a pile of snippets. I’ll dump it for other people to use and release that either WTFPL or some other permissive license. People can do whatever they like with it. With the stuff I’m a bit more proud of, or I plan to return to, I’ll choose AGPL.

    I suppose with operating systems, it’s a bit similar? I mean there is a community for both ideas. Seems there are people who like either of them. They’ll have slightly different ideology, tasks to accomplish and different goals.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What us the best way to add remote access to my servers?English
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    1 天前

    Hmmh. I’m not entirely satisfied with any of them. Crowdsec is a bit too complex and involved for my taste. And oftentimes there’s no good application config floating around on the internet, neither do I get any sane defaults from my Linux distribution. Whereas fail2ban is old and eats up way too much resources for what it’s doing. And all of it is a bit too error-prone(?) As far as I remember I had several instances when I thought I had set it up correctly, but it didn’t match anything. Or it was looking for some logfile per default but my program wrote to the SystemD journal. So nowadays, I’ll double-check everything. I wish programs like sshd and webapps came with that kind of security built in in some foolproof way.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•How do you explain to your co-workers that you use Libre Office Writer and other Linux apps?English
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    2 天前

    “Hey, I never liked Office 365, Microsoft as a company and all the Cloud shenanigans… And have you noticed how their products all become shittier and more invasive by the day? All while they increase subscription price each year now to finance all the AI stuff I rarely use? I’m a long-term fan of this other product, called XYZ which is just better in every aspect. No offense. If you want me to send you a link…”

    (Edit: It’ll become easier after a while. At some point they all know you’re a Linux nerd and disassembled your wifi router at home, dishwasher… To get rid of proprietary spy components. And people will deliberately decide to listen to your opinion and lengthy rant, or make an effort to not bring up the topic 😆 At that point, you’re relatively free to speak your mind… Just read the room a bit. The goal isn’t to annoy people.)

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Which conduit fork would you recommend?English
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    4 天前

    Continuwuity. I’m using it. And contrary to other projects, it’s a community effort. So I have my hopes up it’ll last and not depend on any singular person.

    And I wouldn’t recommend Conduit or Conduwuit. Conduit development is very slow, that’s why we got the forks in the first place. And Conduwuit is discontinued, so it wouldn’t be wise choice at all. So you’re left with 2 choices, Tuwunel and Continuwuity. One is a one-man show and they’re calling it the “official” successor. The other one is a community project… They both work fine.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•What will happen if the Linux kernel starts having AI generated code in it?English
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    5 天前

    That’s correct. I went with OP’s original question, what happens after it happened… Not sure what OP meant, they’re nowhere in the comments… Maybe they’re a bot as well, and we’re subject to the very same thing we’re talking about, right now…

    But sure. All the fabricated pull requests, issue reports etc are massively problematic. We got quite some bot activity. Then we also need to protect our servers and platforms from their crawlers who just DDOS everyone… Documentation went down the drain, StackOverflow, Reddit… The industry is trying to get rid of entry level programmer positions, so you’ll have a bad time entering the job market as any programmer… We’re just drowned in all that stuff. Supply chains also get affected by AI, people need to choose between using existing libraries, licensing, money… Or replacing it with something the AI generated, and we get structural challenges in all kinds of projects…

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Any ideaEnglish
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    5 天前

    Good question! That’s exactly one of the major issues with biometric authentication. And there’s no way around it. You need a second factor. Configure your phone so it only unlocks if you also input something you know. Like a password or pin.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•What will happen if the Linux kernel starts having AI generated code in it?English
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    6 天前

    Nothing? I mean an if/else works the same way, no matter if it’s written by a human or an AI or a cat or whatever…

    The Linux kernel developers are opinionated, though. Everything gets quite an amount of scrutiny. There will be several people having their eyes on submissions. They’re looking for security vulnerabilities. They’re adamant on maintainability. Have a standard on how to phrase things, indent lines… Send in the patches… They generally have high standards. I mean if someone submits some AI slop, there’s a high chance it just gets declined and they’re getting scolded for doing it.

    There’s of course always the chance someone tries to sneak something in. Or it creeps in on its own. But it’s the same for bugs or security attacks. And maybe some of the devs work for companies who push AI and they’ll do silly things. But the Linux community is pretty strong. They’ll find a way to handle it. And maybe in the far future, AI will get as good as human programmers and there won’t be an issue accepting AI code, because it has the same quality as human code. But that’s science fiction as of now.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hoursEnglish
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    7 天前

    Hehe. Sure. I mean it’s both a blessing and problematic at the same time… I think most people appreciate a TV set is a few hundred bucks these days. Or the availability of smartphones and home computers. That’s only possible because of modern pick and place machines. I think our world would look a bit more like the victorian age if we didn’t have those modern perks. Each computer would be hand-soldered by a workforce of hundreds of people. Fill several rooms and be slow and unaffordable for anyone except the government. It wouldn’t have a screen… We couldn’t sustain billions of humans on the planet without all the machines and science in agriculture…

    But automation is problematic as well. I mean we’re arguing about it since the Industrial Revolution. I think they painted a dark picture of the future in the early 20th century. Like the movie Metropolis. I think these days, we’ve solved some of the issues that come with industrialization. But we’re doing stupid things as well. And it’s an everlasting struggle not to end up in some machine dystopia. Not sure if machines are the root cause of everything, though. I mean scientists use them, they’re on every assembly line and in logistics centers. And not even the handyman with a more down-to-earth job renounces their modern battery-powered power tools… I mean sure we could use a handsaw and the hand drill from my grandpa… But I don’t think that’s the point?

    But I value the human aspect as well. I mean I don’t need soylent green out of a dispenser. I’d rather have a cook and waiter.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hoursEnglish
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    8 天前

    Weird article. Is this some domain specific breakthrough? Because I’m fairly sure laboratories and researchers use some ultra precise experimental setups and sampling machines for like half a century now? For example an elaborate machine that loads 200 blood samples at a time and it’ll return the lab results to the hospital within a few hours. For what used to be a time consuming, labor intensive job with a higher error rate before… But we have these machines for quite some time now… They didn’t include any AI in the advertising, though. Same with material sciences, I believe. Either they’re doing something very specific and it’s a lot of manual labor. Or they have to test a lot of samples, or handle things very precisely, and someone is going to build a jig with robots or actuators. But that’s kind of what people always did? I mean they did palletizing robots in the 60s, and the KUKA robot arm was patented in 1973. And this article reads a bit (to me) like the job description of such a KUKA robotic arm… But what’s newsworthy about this in 2026?