Suggestion, #note2self In all future European Commission consultations:

1. Promote Open Source strengths
2. Remove DRM and Anti-Circunvention Laws

https://have-your-say.ec.europa.eu/index_en

#Europe #EC #Law #CitizenParticipation #NoDRM #NoVendorLockIn #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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I found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUWRyhsutL8 to be a quite good explanation video on the general working of the electrical grid

#Note2Self

The Electrical Grid and Electricity Supply | A Simple Explanation

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#Note2Self: Always. Update. The. Version. Number. In. Bind. Zone. Files. After. Any. Change.

(written after removing dozens of tmp-* files in /var/named that suddenly showed up, together with weird permission denied entries in the log files ;)

#ItsAlwaysDNS #SelfHost #SysAdminLife

#FediPower
Some time ago I saw an article here, were a professor or teacher described their experience with using #AI in the classroom.

Edit: Found it
https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/

One experience which stuck with me was students creating titles for their term papers. While the individual students generally found the AI generated title better than their own, the events took a surprising turn when all titles were presented. While the individual titles looked were unique, the AI "unified" the titles. The AI generated titles were reduced to essential three different titles with slight variations

Does this ring a bell? If yes, please share the URL with me. I can't find it any more 😠

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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…

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25GB are not big enough for a #Linux VM (e.g. Kali) you are really using.

And resizing isn't done with resizing the virtual disk, the partition, but also the luks container*, the physical volume, the logical volume, and the filesystem
(I seemed that I left out one or more steps, but now my data can roam free in the VM ;-)

  • if you are using luks on a VM

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/320957/extend-a-luks-encrypted-partition-to-fill-disk

Extend a LUKS encrypted partition to fill disk

I recently upgraded my disk from a 128GB SSD to 512GB SSD. The / partition is encrypted with LUKS. I'm looking for help extending the partition to use all the free space on the new disk. I've al...

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Solarzellen, Batteriespeicher, Wärmepumpe. Nur für den Eigenbedarf. Muss ich mal durchrechnen. Nachtspeicherofen 2.0, sozusagen. #Note2Self
#Note2self conference pack list
Bring two (USB C) chargers.
One to leave in your room charging stuff you leave behind.
One to take with you and chard your or others stuff during the conference

@slothrop
Thanks for the recommendation of cycle.travel

An app for picking nice, quiet routes sounds great. Sadly i share your fear of the pending enshittification of Komoot.

And i wished for the feature to add stops (like cafes)

Link for myself (to not fall victim to auto deleted posts 🙂)
https://cycle.travel/map/difference

#note2self #cycling

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