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Kristian Köhntopp.
German, living and working in the Netherlands.
1x engineer (https://1x.engineer).
I *am* the brute squad.
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Updated my mail server a week ago, had some troubles and installed firewall DROP rule for 25/tcp for IPv4 and IPv6. Once everything was fine again, I believed I removed both rules.
I got mails, and everything looked great!
Today, I was informed, that my MX did not accept mails from an AWS relay, and turns out, I only enabled IPv6 again, and forgot about IPv4. 😅
MX goes brrr...
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Die #AfD hatte Presseausweise von rund tausend Journalist*innen öffentlich zugänglich auf ihrer Webseite gespeichert.
Erst nachdem wir AfD und Berliner Landesdatenschutzbeauftragte informierten, wurden sie entfernt.
Glücklicherweise enthält das AfD-Datenleak nicht die Pressausweise selbst, sondern nur Verweise darauf.
Die Presseausweise entfernte die AfD gestern nach unserem Hinweise. Deshalb war auch afd[.]de über mehrere Stunden nicht erreichbar.
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/afd/2026/10/29/afd-leak-presseausweis-daten-journalisten/
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AI and the Subscription Trap: Karma Is a Bitch
AI is making software cheaper to create. One does not have to love AI to appreciate the irony of how the software industry's own business decisions are now coming back to bite it.
A Photoshop Clone and a Much Bigger Question
A recent commentary on Heise Online, titled "Photoshop Recreated with AI: Copying Is Cheap, Deciding Isn't", discusses the implications of recreating commercial software using AI. The title makes a distinction: Reproducing functionality is one thing. Deciding what to build, how to build it, and whether the result is useful is quite another.
A friend of mine responded with a more fundamental question. He argued that discussions about cheap, AI-generated clones of expensive software stop thinking far too early. What if the implications go beyond software pricing and competition? What if, as we approach the end of an industrial era dominated by human labor, we also need to renegotiate our understanding of ownership?
After all, the familiar cry of "Keep your hands off, this belongs to me!" is not merely a legal statement. It is an expression of economic power. What happens when the scarcity that made those arrangements valuable begins to disappear?
This reminded me of @cstross 2003 science fiction novel Singularity Sky. In the novel, the Festival, an alien civilization, arrives at a planet governed by an authoritarian regime. It introduces technology capable of producing practically anything people ask for. The resulting abundance undermines an economic and political order built on controlling access to scarce resources. The authorities respond as authorities tend to do when their power is threatened: They try to preserve the existing order, with increasingly absurd consequences.
Stross explores what happens when technology destroys the economic assumptions on which a society is built. We are not quite at the point of having cornucopia machines, but AI is beginning to do something similar to software.
And the implications may go considerably further than the question of who owns Photoshop.
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Ein Entwickler baut Photoshop mit KI nach und erklärt die Softwareentwicklung für beendet. Das ist falsch, meint Golo Roden.
Ihr werdet in 2027 und 2028 kein RAM kaufen können, denn alles RAM für diese Jahre ist schon verkauft.
Heute kommt die Meldung rein, daß auch die RAM-Produktion für 2029 verkauft ist.
Wenn also nicht ein CXMT-Wunder passiert wird mindestens bis 2030 kein RAM zu bekommen sein.
Das paßt gut zu Flash ist auch alle, und GPUs gibt es nicht.
Golem.de
RAM: SK Hynix hat Speicherproduktion für 2029 schon verkauft - Golem.de
SK Hynix hat seine Quartalszahlen vorgestellt und sich zu langfristigen Lieferverträgen geäußert. RAM bleibt wohl noch länger knapp.
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Here’s the stream link for this song:
https://ffm.to/darlin-where-you-been
Elle Cordova - Darlin' Where You Been?
Choose your preferred music service
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The year is 2040.
You see another traveler, wandering towards you across the arid wastelands.
"Like 'n' subscribe," he mumbles, nodding to you as you pass.
"Like 'n' subscribe," you reply.
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There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
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Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
Critical flaw in EDK2 allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/code-execution-flaw-in-uefi-firmware-threatens-most-servers-on-planet-earth/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Ein tolles Tool von Energy-Charts zeigt, wieviel günstiger und stabiler die Stromversorgung in Deutschland mit Speichern wäre:
https://energy-charts.info/charts/price_spot_market_simulated/chart.htm?l=de&c=DE
Preisspitzen würden massiv entschärft. Der Börsenpreis für #Solarstrom würde steigen und damit die EEG-Kosten sinken. Bringt finanziell mehr als jede Kürzung und ermöglicht weiteren Ausbau
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Energieversorger haben die grössten Gewinnmargen in Deutschland. Im Energiepreisschock verdreifachten sie sich...
In allen Branchen sank der Lohnanteil am Umsatz. Die Gewinne trieben deshalb die Inflation, obwohl ihre Margen im Schnitt der Gesamtwirtschaft konstant blieben...
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Gestern ist in London Historisches geschehen! Nach jahrelanger Planung wurde die prestigeträchtige Oxford Street in eine 1 km lange autofreie Fußgängerzone verwandelt. Wo früher tausende Autos fuhren, kann man ab sofort ganz entspannt spazieren. Mit der neuen Oxford Street will die Stadt die Lebensqualität erhöhen und den kriselnden Einzelhandel wieder stärken. So schön zu sehen, wie der lebenswerte Stadtumbau in London immer weiter vorangeht❤️🥰
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Für den US-Markt: Audi stellt neues Firmenlogo vor https://www.der-postillon.com/2026/10/audi-trump.html
Der Postillon
Für den US-Markt: Audi stellt neues Firmenlogo vor
Washington, Ingolstadt (dpo) - Audi-Chef Gernot Döllner hat am Wochenende auf Donald Trumps Wahlkampfbühne den Bau eines neuen Werks in den USA verkün
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Discover how the open-source RTX 30 GPU Unlock tool unleashes hidden Ampere architecture performance, significantly boosting local AI compute capabilities.
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#UsPol
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Die AfD steht nackt da: Was ihre eigenen Mails über sie verraten
Eine Woche vor Halloween, und ich habe eine Gruselgeschichte für dich.
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On 26 October 1991, grindcore/death metal legends and lifelong anti-fascist punks Bolt Thrower beat up violent, Sieg-Heiling Nazis at their gig in Pennsauken, New Jersey, while on tour with Immolation.
Members of a nearby Nazi biker gang had previously turned up at gigs and caused trouble by harassing people. That night would be no different:
Singer Karl Willets: "I remember throughout the support bands these nazi pricks had started to do that stupid arm streching routine a lot...I got on stage and told them to stop..(no suprise they didn't...but they'd had a warning....)"
A fan in the crowd recalled: "About a half hour into the set, a circle pit opened up, but it wasn't for moshing. The skins were brutally beating and kicking a guy who was lying on the floor in the fetal position, trying to protect himself from the boots.
A tall, skinny skinhead ran off to the back of the club, and when he came back, he had a baseball bat, which he used to pound this poor guy's head into mush. The crowd erupted into a proper riot. Bolt Thrower's singer, Karl, jumped into the crowd to pound on skinheads, god bless him."
"I looked out the corner of my eye to see this huge Neanderthal coming right at me, with Adolf Hitler tattooed on his chest- at this point our Tour Manager intervened with the German slugger!
I saw the nazi monster collapse to the floor with blood pissing out of his head, the backswing to the bat almost killed one of the skinhead kids whom must have been about 12.
The place descended into chaos, the security guards were related to the skinheads, it could have got bad... We loaded our gear out superquick thanks to a more together Immolation and high-tailed it out of there. As we left, Baz remembered we left the baseball bat in the venue, he went back in to retrieve it just as the skinheads returned to the venue for vengeance... I have never seen a man move so quick through a melee of flailing limbs!
We drove off and we then thought that we were being followed by carloads of nazis after our blood, so we pulled over to confront them, yelling as we approached the stopped vehicles, until we realised it was some fans just making sure we got away ok..."
20 years later Journalist Kez Whelan concluded: "As you’d expect from anyone with at least a rudimentary grasp of history too, Bolt Thrower have been defiantly anti-fascist since day one. In stark contrast to the apathetic “apolitical” leanings of many war obsessed metal bands, Bolt Thrower’s principled ethics have seen them get into some scraps over the years"
"As vital as Bolt Thrower are to the fabric of death metal, it’s stories like this that demonstrate the punk mentality that has always underpinned the band."
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"Usually, the GDPR permits processing for specific purposes (e.g. retention for tax records or fraud prevention). However, the agreed Article 88c (or Article 88bis) legitimises an entire technology. Regardless of the purpose for which it is used, any AI system could lawfully take any personal data by default. For example, the proposed Article would also permit the training and use of AI for manipulation, disinformation, the generation of nude images or killer drones, and indeed any other questionable purpose. Many processing operations that were so far illegal could suddenly become legal – just because they are done “in the context” of an AI system. For example, data processing for personal advertising purposes (without consent) is currently illegal in the EU. Now, however, advertising could suddenly become legal if it is personalised using AI technology.
Max Schrems: “It’s like saying anything goes – no matter what you do – as long as it’s done with AI. If something is illegal in an Excel spreadsheet, it's legal if done with an AI agent. It’s utterly absurd to give preferential treatment to a high-risk technology over every other computer system.”"
https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies
#EU #GDPR #AI #BigTech #DataProtection #DigitalExpropriation #DigitalOmnibus
noyb.eu
AI: EU Member States approve “digital expropriation” of Europeans for AI companies
On Wednesday, EU Member States passed a highly controversial change to the GDPR, creating massive loopholes for AI
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👁 ✔️ - Daniel Pontzen scheitert sehenswert mit seinem offensichtlichen Plan, die Grünen als linksradikal und gewaltbereit zu diffamieren an einem Felix Banaszak, der sich nicht einen Zentimeter auf das Minenfeld von Vorverurteilung und verlogener Verdrehung von Aussagen treiben läßt:
➡️ https://www.zdfheute.de/video/berlin-direkt/berlin-direkt-clip-2-818.html
ZDFheute
Interview mit Grünen-Chef Banaszak
Grünen-Parteivorsitzender Felix Banaszak zu den Koalitionsverhandlungen in Berlin: Linke muss Probleme in den eigenen Reihen lösen.
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Dafuq Booking? Nach 10+ Jahren und 30.000+ € an Buchungen müssen die jetzt meine Identität verifizieren?
Derzeit geht nicht nur Booking den Bach runter, auch bei Buchungen über Hotel-Websites kann man nicht mehr buchen, wenn man nicht Daten angibt, auf die sie keinen Anspruch haben und die sie dann nutzen, um einen vollzuspammen.
