Follow-up to this note:

I decided to test whether #GotoSocial would work on the #RockPro64 using the current instead of the legacy #Armbian kernel before risking problems upgrading my production #yunohost.

I have a similar testing setup: old mechanical drives instead of SSDs, a different PCIe SATA controller, an additional eMMC.

The additional eMMC I need to boot from, because for some reason the PCIe SATA ctrl didn't work, when u-boot initializes the controller before the kernel.

Installing the current kernel on my testing setup I found it not working: no console on hdmi, no network. Forgot to install the newer dtb (device tree binary) as well.

With currrent kernel and dtb from #Armbian installed the system booted half of the times I switched it on. Asking around on the rock64 chat I met Dragan Simic who greatly helped me to get further down the #RabbitHole…

On my #yunohost I tried to update #gotosocial from 0.17.4~ynh1 to 0.18.1~ynh1 and the update failed.

GotoSocial just showed some cryptical error messages when started.

@dumpsterqueer@superseriousbusiness.org traced the problem back to a changed lib version used in the new GotoSocial version and the developer of the lib answered my #linux kernel would be too old.

The old #armbian legacy kernel is running, because … I don't remember.

I need a kernel update for my #rockpro64.

Down the #RabbitHole…

unobtrusive good, mild, low on acid

Good to drink black without sugar.

#espressi by @QuijoteKaffee@mastodon.social

Inevitability rhetoric is a cunning fraud designed to render us helpless and passive in the face of implacable forces that are and must always be indifferent to the merely human

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

A led light bulb (230V~) went dark in a room. By dark I mean that it dimmed down to very low light. No, I do not have a dimmer nor is it a light bulb with some fancy build-in iot stuff.

Two classic halogen bulbs didn't work in that socket. Testing the led bulb in a different socket it worked. I looked for contact problems and cleaned the contacts and the lamp seemed to work again using the led light bulb.

Then it went dark again and I decided to exchange the socket in the lamp. Opening the socket I found that in-between one of the cables and the socket an electronic part had been placed by soldering it to the end of the power line and fastening it to the socket.

I took out that part having never seen a stupid simple lamp coming with some small electric part build in. The lamp worked again with the all the bulbs I had tried.

Looking at for the specs I found this datasheet. It seems to be a resettable fuse or polymeric positive temperature coefficient device. I didn't know about these, but obviously the one I took out of the circuit seemed to have broken in a way that it switches too fast to a high resistance that only allows the led light bulb to glow dimly and isn't sufficient to drive a classic light bulb.

I guess the pptc has been put into the plastic lamp to protect it from heat: If a certain amount of power would be exceeded the light bulb used probably would emit too much heat for the lamp case. Still the lamp came with the usual label saying what light sources are allowed, but not stating any hint that it would not work with non-spec light sources or would contain active electronic parts.

The solutions once concocted by scholars of elk herds, sea turtles, and geese have been refurbished by surveillance capitalists and presented as an inevitable feature of twenty-first-century life on Earth. All that has changed is that now we are the animals

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

but the surest way to predict behavior is to intervene at its source and shape it

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

Marese Bio Espresso

60% Arabica - 40% Robusta. Intense, low acid, dark, strong. Just ordered another batch and am waiting to open the first bag. #favorites: I bought it again and again after trying others.

We grow numb to these incursions and the ways in which they deform our lives. We succumb to the drumbeat of inevitability, but nothing here is inevitable. Astonishment is lost but can be found again

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

moccafair Espresso El Rubio Bio

It's one of my #favorites. Sometimes it tasted just a tid too bitter, but usually very balanced.

#espressi

People habituate to the incursion with some combination of agreement, helplessness, and resignation. The sense of astonishment and outrage dissipates. The incursion itself, once unthinkable, slowly worms its way into the ordinary. Worse still, it gradually comes to seem inevitable

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

I need to reclaim some space on the wall of my office and decided to transfer my notes about #espressi I tried into my blog to be searchable by their tag for future reference.

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My preference is strong #espresso with little to no acid and a good balance of bitterness. I care a lot about the source and try to find beans that are traded in a way that values the work of the people growing the coffee.

Nearly all of the coffee I buy is labeled to be grown ecological and I'd strongly prefer beans grown in the shadow. So far I couldn't identify #shadegrown #coffee easily in Germany.