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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • I’m already hosting something similar I think. I am hosting a Immich instance for me and my wife to back up our photos from phones and computers and I also host a PeerTube instance for videos and some audio (I don’t have so much audio only).

    What would make me trust a special software for it is things which validate it from outside like stars on github or other people blogging about it what they’re using it, and history which is at least a year so I can see that it’s not just a quickly vibecoded project which will be abandoned soon. Also if there would be a export to HTML or so so that I could get a static archive if the project really stops being supported.














  • I’m from Silesia which is now part of Poland after the WWII. All my grand parents were born in Germany and then the borders moved and the land became polish.

    But it’s more complicated, because my ancestors were fighting against both the polish and the Germans to make Silesia an independent nation, but they failed. Two of my great grandfathers ended up in concentration camps because of that, one in Auschwitz and another one in Dachau.

    When my dad started going to achool he spoke Silesian, a mix of polish and German which was usual there. His parents were called to the principal countless times that they have to do something about it because German was not allowed in school.

    When my grandfathers sister who lived in Germany because she fled there - came to visit him they spoke German at the bus station because she didn’t speak polish. Someone called the police and my grandfather spent two weeks in jail for this.

    When I started to go to school, it was still forbidden to learn German, so I was supposed to learn Russian instead.

    My parents finally had the possibility to flee to Germany and only there 1989 we all started to learn the language of our ancestors, two generations later.

    Still to this day the polish government is afraid of the separatistst movement in Silesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_independence

    China has the exact same problem as Poland. Before Xi they have been quite relaxed with it. My wife was born into a Korean family in north east China, she didn’t speak Chinese until middle school. They had their own identity, Korean schools, Shops, etc, no integration needed.

    But separatism is dangerous for countries, it brings a lot of problems, fighting, security concerns, etc. It’s just easier and more harmonic if everyone pulls to the same direction. Poland crushed the German identity by constantly putting people into jail and making it impossible to live a normal life and by mixing the rest of the german population who for whatever reason couldn’t flee to Germany after WWII. And they did so very successfully I might add. Now Xi is learning from this success and doing the same with their minorities.


  • Damn, I’m in the same boat. I didn’t attend one meeting because ut was too late in My timezone and the others chose this moment to vote me to become the lead of the AI acceleration initiative where we have half a year to come up with and implement things on each step from requirements, through architecture and development to testing on all levels.

    And yeah we better come up with something useful because I already know they have to reduce the work force because there is no money and the people who will be left can’t do all of it alone without help.