ontologically impaired

  • 3 Posts
  • 206 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: August 1st, 2025

help-circle

  • Ontimp@feddit.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Team Effort
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    7 days ago

    Is that actually true through?

    I heard an analysis on election day, that the Democrats actually achieved the largest swings in states where they ran with centrist-conservative “purple” senate candidates that had a good platform to appeal to Republicans. That’s just second hand information though.






  • Actually, in the Matrix ecosystem it’s going quite ok I’d say since so many of the large users are European governments. Various parties are funding the research and development of additional features which are then fed back into the Matrix spec or become important FOSS components in the ecosystem. It’s not perfect yet, but it works for the most part. So there is money, bit is usually does not flow into Matrix foundation membership but into the standard or the software.



  • Yea Synapse is very resource hungry. Element built a much more performative enterprise server implementation, but though it’s open source it comes with a proprietary license, which kind of defeats the point when it comes to digital sovereignty in the public sector. From what I heard they unfortunately concluded that this is the only way to prevent organizations from freeriding, but it still sucks for the ecosystem. I’m working on one of the larger European Matrix public sector projects and we’ve been trying to mobilize funds for upstream contributions for some time, but it’s not easy to convince the policy and finance people to approve sustainable contributions to an open source ecosystem; they want to see procurements where it’s 100% clear what you get for your money. Also, public sector communication use cases frequently have high user count, low message volume and a high number of federated instances; so the current Synapse implementation has mostly been workable as you can feasibly scale horizontally. So there is currently not really that much financial incentive and pressure from the public sector to improve the efficiency of Synapse.









  • Wenn Worte alles Bedeuten, bedeuten sie nichts mehr.

    Strafgesetzbuch §94:

    § 94 Landesverrat

    (1) Wer ein Staatsgeheimnis

    1. einer fremden Macht oder einem ihrer Mittelsmänner mitteilt oder
    2. sonst an einen Unbefugten gelangen läßt oder öffentlich bekanntmacht, um die Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu benachteiligen oder eine fremde Macht zu begünstigen,

    und dadurch die Gefahr eines schweren Nachteils für die äußere Sicherheit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland herbeiführt, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe nicht unter einem Jahr bestraft.

    (2) In besonders schweren Fällen ist die Strafe lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe oder Freiheitsstrafe nicht unter fünf Jahren. Ein besonders schwerer Fall liegt in der Regel vor, wenn der Täter

    1. eine verantwortliche Stellung mißbraucht, die ihn zur Wahrung von Staatsgeheimnissen besonders verpflichtet, oder
    2. durch die Tat die Gefahr eines besonders schweren Nachteils für die äußere Sicherheit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland herbeiführt.

    Das ganze findet sich im Abschnitt zur Gefährdung der Äußeren Sicherheit und hat als Straftatabend schlicht nichts mit Korruption, Vetternwirtschaft, etc. zu tun.

    Vgl. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/BJNR001270871.html#BJNR001270871BJNG003902307


  • I know and what I’m sayin is that this is by design. It’s not only about competence, competence can be bought. It’s structurally difficult because various different ministries and independent bureaucracies would need to decide to cooperate and do tedious work to combine data sets like this. It’s not a magical antidote but a structural impedance that is supposed to make abuse more difficult, obviously not impossible.

    And BundID does not entirely change to his. BundID does not assign you a unique identifier either. You get a temporary process-based ID that is generated as you apply for a government service and that is forwarded throughout the process. BundID itself only has a basic user name that you pick yourself and that is not used or stored anywhere outside it. The actual authentication is done via the eID, Elster certificate, etc. which all don’t leave cryptographic traces.

    Don’t get me wrong, this system is still kind of broken. BundID still bundles important information in a central location and urgently needs modernization. And it’s authentication amounts to ‘trust me bro’ from the POV of any other government service. But it does not introduce a global unique identifier either.


  • Depends how much you trust the state. After the Nazi period, the German state is actually not allowed to keep persistent identifiers on people. You can only identify any. given citizen through a domain ID that may not be shared or used beyond a specific domain (e.g tax ID) or a combination of changeable attributes (address, name, etc.).

    In practice this can be annoying, but it’s also a useful precaution to prevent the government form easily pooling and linking information on citizens across domains and levels of state.