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kaffeeringe··on Personal Instagram Clone: WordPress and ActivityPub
I strongly believe, that the Fediverse has so much more potential, than being a Twitter-clone for nerds. Every website can become social. With WordPress or Ghost, that is just a plugin installation. But everybody keeps telling me: "Not another platform!" This is not yet another platform. If you rethink your company website and use a CMS that is as easy an fun to update as you social media app, you can everybody without a login. Pure web! And then you connect that to the Fediverse and people can subscribe, like, share and comment! Free audience added to the website you have anyway. My website shows you, you could every reuse your Instagram images on your website and reach people who are not on your preferred closed platform.
kaffeeringe··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Next up: Greenland
kaffeeringe··on Austria's military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice
They work very much on compatibility, as that is required by and paid for by governments.

But same applies for M365. Good look opening a docx from Microsoft Word in their web app.

kaffeeringe··on The dark side of the Moomins
I literally finished the movie about Tove Jansson minutes before I found this article! Thank you for sharing!
kaffeeringe··on Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
Webhosting
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Uncanny
kaffeeringe··on Ask HN: Hackers, how do you handle the dread and still love computers?
Good questions. I don't have an answer.
kaffeeringe··on What should I do when someone blatantly copy my open-source project on GitHub?
Yes. Don't be right. Be clever.
kaffeeringe··on Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
It also tracks your position all the time. That is the bigger problem to me. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/de/reports/com.azure.a...
kaffeeringe··on Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'
Crime pays, when you are rich.
kaffeeringe··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
Reminds me of my first website, back in 1994/95. I used yellow text on bright blue backgroud and wrote about music I liked. Only I was 10 years older.
kaffeeringe··on Google's best Gemini demo was faked
Everything they say is advertisement. But they show a minutes long video of a conversation with gemini that isn't near possible. That is almost like claiming you can fly warp speed and then it's just a visual effect.
kaffeeringe··on Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
1. Hunans may also never be 100% - but it seems they are more often correct. 2. When AI is wrong it's often not only slighty off, but completely off the rails. 3. Humans often tell you when they are not sure. Even if it's only their tone. AI is always 100% convinced it's correct.
kaffeeringe··on Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup
I am running a meetup for 17 years now and there are some great ideas for me in this article.

I once wrote an article lees on the technical side of things and more about the social aspect of building a community: https://kaffeeringe.de/2018/08/07/wie-man-eine-community-auf...

kaffeeringe··on Ask HN: Where do the smartest people you know work?
The smartest people I know, work for the federal government.
kaffeeringe··on The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore
Myanmar.

USA. They only didn't succeed with their coup.

kaffeeringe··on The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore
What borders? Do you mean the basic rules of good behaviour?
kaffeeringe··on The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can't ignore
Mastodon isn't for everybody just like Twitter never was for everybody. Millions of users joined Twitter and silently left, because they didn't know what to make of it.

But the Fediverse could certainly offer services that fit the needs of the sciences. Wordpress can be connected to the Fediverse. There are other, more long form services.

kaffeeringe··on Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
I was early with Twitter and Facebook and became social media manager. I organized webmondays and barcamps and became a event manager. I blogged about the digital transformation and became a consultant for that.
kaffeeringe··on Writing documentation for your house
Sometimes a friend or my in-laws live in our appartment to watch our cat. I drew some how-tos. For feeding our cat, cleaning the litterbox. But also how to use the remotes to turn lights on and off.
kaffeeringe··on A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much
That is also because they pretend like their text generators are anything more than autocomplete 2 0.

They say that it is "artificial intelligence" - it is their company brain that intelligently answers questions.

If they just called it text generator, it would be up to the user to male things off the generated texts.

kaffeeringe··on Ask HN: Will YouTube Premium subscribers ever be forced to watch ads?
I pay for Amazon Prime and I also get ads. Why should the Alphabet's shareholders miss out on ad profits?
kaffeeringe··on Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun
What does it cost?
kaffeeringe··on Honda begins selling its silly little briefcase electric scooter in the US
Why is it silly? Looks more like future than the average truck.
kaffeeringe··on OpenAI Signals That It'll Destroy Startups Using Its Tech to Build Products
They will put anything on the roadmap that anybody successfully built with their API. Like Amazon copies other people's best sellers.

If you use someone's API to start your own company, you are an idiot who didn't learn a thing from the past 20 years.

kaffeeringe··on AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes
But a Mexican could be a man in a suit.

That is, what they say. If you ask midjourney for the image of a Mexican man it produces this cliche. Most Mexicans don't look like that. Most will be closed to the Mexican in a suit.

I think, the result would be more diverse if you look for stick photos of Mexicab men.

This example only shows, what you can expect from every other prompt: a bias for cliches.

And yes, you are right: that is, what you ask for in Midjourney.

But you should know, that it's always a cliche.

kaffeeringe··on Ask HN: Do you upvote? Why or why not?
I upvote post that I want more people to see.
kaffeeringe··on Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency
Today I tried to travel 80km. By car it's about 1 hour. By train it's almost 2 hours. 10 minutes in the ride, the train stopped because a tree was about to fall into the rails. 20 minutes later we continued and I missed my connecting train by 10 minutes. Next train in 2 hours. I tried to find another route but the trains were cancelled. So I abandoned my plan an decided to go back home. That train was delayed 5, then 10, then 15 minutes. It stopped right outside my home station and waited 5 minutes. Almost 2 hours on the Deutsche Bahn and I was back again, where I started.
kaffeeringe··on Is it fair to say "ls" is dead? No commits in 15 years
Make it also work on blockchains.
kaffeeringe··on Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players
Yes: https://www.heise.de/news/Steam-Umfrage-Linux-ueberholt-MacO...
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