Monat: April 2017

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Article note: Mal schön das PPA umstellen …!
The KDE Connect Indicator (fork) PPA maintainer is not available any more, and I was asked to create a new PPA. 

KDE Connect Indicator

Since I'm a KDE Connect Indicator user myself, I couldn't say no, so I created a new KDE Connect Indicator PPA, which provides packages for Ubuntu 17.04, 16.10 and 16.04 / Linux Mint 18.x.

I didn't upload packages for Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux Mint 17.x because I couldn't build the latest KDE Connect for this Ubuntu version due to newer dependencies, and Ubuntu 14.04 has a pretty old KDE Connect version.

The KDE Connect Indicator (fork) developer is also looking for someone that can create and maintain Flatpack and Snap packages. If you can help, see THIS bug report.

In case you're not familiar with KDE Connect Indicator, this is an indicator / tray for KDE Connect. Using KDE Connect, you can mirror Android notifications on the desktop, easily send and receive files from an Android device to your desktop (and the other way around), control desktop media players from Android, share the clipboard between your Android device and desktop, and more.

Check out our KDE Connect Indicator fork article for more information.


Install KDE Connect Indicator fork in Ubuntu or Linux Mint via new PPA


As a reminder, KDE Connect depends on quite a few KDE packages. You may want to save the KDE package list that's installed to make it easier to remove in the future, in case you want to remove them ("apt autoremove" won't remove all of them, at least in Ubuntu).

To add the new KDE Connect Indicator fork PPA and install the app in Ubuntu 17.04, 16.10 or 16.04 / Linux Mint 18.x, use the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/indicator-kdeconnect
sudo apt update
sudo apt install indicator-kdeconnect

You can also download the latest KDE Connect Indicator deb from GitHub, but you won't receive updates through your system's update manager. For Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 / Linux Mint 18, you'll also need a newer KDE Connect version for the indicator to work. KDE Connect 1.0.3 is available for Ubuntu 16.04 / Linux Mint 18 and Ubuntu 16.10 in the PPA.

If you encounter bugs, report them @ GitHub.

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Article note: +1 Das gilt für alle eierlegende Wollmilchsauen, die sich so manchmal gewünscht werden …!

Plug in any dataset into a magic box and it spits out a lovely visualization you can show all of your co-workers, friends, and family. That’s the promise of a lot of startups, but it doesn’t quite work that way. Ian Johnson explains by comparing visualization the medium to other forms of communication.

I want to take a deeper look at why this pursuit of automation is misguided, and in the process hope to point out potentially more fruitful paths. I intend to do this by looking at how other communication mediums have come about via technology, what the authorship tools look like and how they evolved. We will start with the most recent medium and go back in time, getting deeper into the essence of augmenting human communication with technology.

Some (many?) might argue that automated visualization is a worthwhile pursuit. And I would agree that some parts of visualization certainly should be automatic, such as standard chart types and recurring geometries. Pieces of visualization, such as annotation and axis construction can be automatic. There are plenty of tools to make our lives easier.

But full on automation where insight fountains out from any dataset is farfetched at this point, because this requires automatic analysis. Analysis is context-specific and requires more than boilerplate statistics. The most interesting visualization is context-specific.

Tags: automation

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Article note: *stimmtjaauch!*
"Wenn wir das Netz nutzen, sind wir so verletzlich." CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 Jonan Basterra—

Der WWW-Pionier Tim Berners-Lee sprach in einem Guardian-Interview vom Dienstag über die Abschaffung einer Regelung der US-amerikanischen Telekommunikationsaufsicht Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Diese verbot Internet-Providern, den Browserverlauf ihrer Kunden ohne deren Zustimmung zu verwenden.

Nun dürfen die Provider die Verläufe auswerten und die daraus gewonnenen Informationen verkaufen. Berners-Lee bezeichnet das Gesetz als „abstoßend“, da Nutzer im Netz so verletzlich seien.

Deshalb bin ich so sehr schockiert, dass die Republikanische Partei […] vorgeschlagen hat, dass [die Privatsphäre] weggeworfen werden soll.

Die durch die Trump-Administration eingeschlagene Richtung und Attitüde ist Berners-Lee zufolge beunruhigend und abstoßend. Sollte dieser Weg weiter verfolgt werden, müsse und werde es massive Gegenwehr geben. Das gleiche würde auch im Falle der ebenfalls thematisierten Abschaffung der Netzneutralität gelten.