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  • “Offene Plattformstruktur” bedeutet noch nicht automatisch echte FOSS-Lizenzen und transparente Entwicklung in öffentlichen Repositories. Das kann auch einfach bedeuten, dass das Protokoll “offen” ist

    Soweit ich das verstanden habe ist der “Deutschland-Stack” eine Sammlung von offenen Standards, Protokollen, und Open Source Software (letzteres auf der Seite “Technologie” genannt): https://technologie.deutschland-stack.gov.de/

    Und wenn FOSS-Lizenzen nicht explizit Teil der Ausschreibung sind, dann kannst du dich drauf verlassen, dass das alles mit Copyright zugenagelt wird und mit viel Glück vielleicht “Source Available”, damit es Auditoren unabhängig durchsehen können (selbst das wird man vermeiden wollen, weil es der CCC sonst wieder in der Luft zerreißt).

    Im Artikel steht das sie Wire als Messenger einbauen wollen, komische Wahl IMHO, aber damit wären sie schon (A)GPL-poisoned.



  • Soll wohl tatsächlich Open Source werden immerhin:

    Update 08.04.2026, 10:08 Uhr

    Das BMDS erklärte inzwischen in einer Stellungnahme gegenüber der iX-Redaktion, dass doch eine Ausschreibung stattfinden solle. Gemeinsam mit T-Systems und SAP entwickele man zunächst einen Prototypen für eine KI-gestützte Verwaltungsplattform, zu der auch eine App gehöre. Fokus sei dabei „ein zeitnaher Nachweis der technischen Machbarkeit“.

    Der Prototyp sei „von Beginn an als modulare und offene Plattformstruktur innerhalb des Deutschland-Stack konzipiert“, führte ein Sprecher des Ministeriums aus. Diese Initialphase sei aber zeitlich begrenzt, das Ministerium nutze dafür bestehende Rahmenverträge. „Im nächsten Schritt wird eine offene Ausschreibung durchgeführt, bei der sich alle Marktteilnehmer für die Entwicklung und den Betrieb der Plattform und App bewerben können“, so der Sprecher.

    Klingt ein bisschen so als wollten sie da T-Systems/SAP mit Steuergeld auf die Ausschreibung vorbereiten damit sie die auf jeden Fall gewinnen.








  • It as only a “bad” strain because there was a massively immunologically naive population exposed to it.

    Yeah no it don’t think it was, maybe “strain” was the wrong word here. Death rates in Europe were also much higher than usual, so there was definitely some major mutation going on. Naive populations will certainly have played a part, but I still think the virus gaining a captive host population to mutate in for several generations on each of those troop transporters, before those incubated populations were then spread all over the country, had an effect on it being more deadly in America than it was in Europe. I mean even the article you linked seems to suggest as much:

    Military transport ships were the likely vector of influenza which was well-established around the world by August of 1918. As the pandemic grew and matured its virulence apparently increased. Mortality rates on the eastern coast of America climbed in newspaper reports, the epidemic seeming to emanate from military bases there. Thus, what had been called the “three day flu” at Camp Funston in March, with a mortality rate of perhaps two-percent, evolved into a much more severe illness in India where mortality rates in some places may have reached ten-percent.


  • Then, the soldiers left the war and spread flu all across the remote areas of the US.

    Nah you are missing the point here. There was an already bad influenza strain, and millions of soldiers moving home on densely populated ships for weeks was a perfect environment for it to rapidly mutate and select for virulence and lethality. These soldiers making landfall then spread several strains of the virus, which led to vastly different mortality rates across the US. Much like we saw with Corona viruses rapidly mutating into different strains among the lockdowns.






  • Yeah the problem is they mutate in either direction, the “evolve to be non-lethal” part is essentially just natural selection doing its thing after the fact. But from time to time endemic viruses may just become way more lethal, as can be seen with the Spanish Flu in 1918-1920 and the Manchurian Plague in 1910-1911 (the latter having a death rate of close to 100% and being the reason face masks are widely used today). And while that could be controlled back then, it would be much harder today, given all the global traffic.


  • Give Ubuntu Studio a try maybe? It comes with a lot of audio production stuff preinstalled and preconfigured, one of the most important ones in this context being low-latency process scheduling.

    Essentially most distros just have default process scheduling options, which means a process might be starved for CPU time, theoretically for up to 2s or so at a time, which is very bad if that process is generating or consuming an audio stream. Low-latency scheduling, while not entirely preventing it from happening, should significantly reduce this.

    You could also just configure most other distros Kernels to do low-latency scheduling of course. Or if you don’t want to muck about with kernel settings try Ubuntu Studio, which has that and more all ready to use.


  • Well that one is pretty obvious isn’t it? Consoles and the like have a single target hardware, or very few at least, so their testing is way more reliable. Meanwhile a random PC will have one of several hundred chip designs, implemented by a few dozen different vendors, ranging over decades. Development for and testing under such conditions is just way more complicated, so all devs can really do is aiming for #worksonmymachine and hope for detailed bug reports and feedback when others have issues.


  • Yeah the law is indeed quite complex, with a lot of caveats and cross-references. One important bit is the continuation of your second quote:

    wenn sie die Bundesrepublik Deutschland länger als drei Monate verlassen wollen, ohne dass die Voraussetzungen des § 1 Absatz 2 bereits vorliegen.

    And §1 (2) says:

    (2) Die Wehrpflicht ruht, solange Wehrpflichtige ihren ständigen Aufenthalt und ihre Lebensgrundlage außerhalb der Bundesrepublik Deutschland haben, wenn Tatsachen die Annahme rechtfertigen, dass sie beabsichtigen, ihren ständigen Aufenthalt im Ausland beizubehalten.

    If you have already lived outside of Germany more than three months than that is a “fact that justifies the assumption” that you will continue to do so.

    One person argued that a headline clarified that it is for people with duties. It’s possible but I am not sure.

    If by duties you mean being under “Wehrpflicht”, that’s just any male 17-45 (during peace) that hasn’t been exempted. If you mean “Wehrdienst”, then no, the paragraph is explicitly about Wehrpflicht. This is intended to keep track of anybody that could be recruited in case of war.