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.

#lifehack

After some time the brackwater between glass and knob gets really annoying. Some models of lids already bring some openings already in their design. If not…

#deskhop now uses a different serial number for each board. This allows to use the same notebook on two different desks each installed with its own deskhop and different keyboards.

#udev now can distinguish between the two keyboard/mouse combinations connected to deskhop. This allow for different setting/keymappings on the two different keyboards.

I added my solution to the original issue.

Due to the discussion around #deepseek and the #privacy aspects of using it I read about #KeystrokeDynamics.

Imagine - each time you fill a form on the some website you're actually leaving fingerprints on it by the way you type. If the site reads your keyboard through a websocket connection and thereby knows the rhythm you have clicking your single keys, the time you hold down each key and the pauses you make thinking, this is a biometric that might even reveal the mood you're in.

There's tons of literature out there about various aspects of using keystroke dynamics.

I'm using a #deskhop* to connect my keyboard and mouse to my notebook and #Librem5 mobile phone to use both seamless like a multi-monitor setup.

Reading about a failed indiegogo campaign to build a usb device changing the metrics of typing in a way to cloak keystroke dynamics I had the idea that this maybe could be an extension to deskhops functionality.

Sending and receiving large or confidential files via #email is difficult: the size often is not accepted by the recipient and confidential content might be transported unencrypted and via any number of relaying smtp servers.

I used psitransfer for #filesharing for a while, but it doesn't offer an upload protection for multiple users and it doesn't support handing out upload tickets to people that I'd like to invite to send me a file.

I'm now testing lufi on a #yunohost. #lufi offers the integration into an existing user database (like in the case of yunohost openldap) and it allows users to invite third parties to send them files using a time limited upload ticket.

“Our ultimate ambition is to transform the overall Google experience, making it beautifully simple,” Larry Page said, “almost automagical because we understand what you want and can deliver it instantly.”

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

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy