Intranet

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More and more regularly, one is reminded how time flies. Recently, a few nice people retired, which I also noted quite casually. In the meantime, I was reminded, quite nicely but also firmly, that I set up an intranet a few years ago—something I had almost forgotten.

In any case, my infrastructure architecture was consistent, because after a short training phase, I didn't have to think about it any further, let alone take action myself.

Now I'm faced with the challenge of not only having to remember the system's architecture and access details, but also, quite simply, removing the old users from the system and replacing them with the new ones — for security reasons, I had made myself the sole super administrator.

My readers already know that I'm not big on backups and logs. For me, a system needs to be self-explanatory and operate as unnoticed as possible. This is even more exciting for me now because the system is based on Microsoft products and hardware that I haven't used myself for a while.

I should have now proven that the intranet I created functions as if by itself, but I must have determined by Monday whether it is also self-explanatory.

And to keep me from getting bored, I've already planned my week and the coming weekend for other things. Even better, two days ago, for reasons I can't fathom, I lost all my access data to my own digital infrastructure. And somewhere in there are my little helpers to help me with my memory lapses.

It's also interesting that I no longer have access to my external Zettelkasten server and thus also to my Zettelkasten, because that's where the little helpers might be that allow me to find and activate my little helpers in my own system. And so I have Detlef Stern, I asked the architect of my filing cabinet to help me here — otherwise Monday would probably not happen.

If everything goes well again, all systems will be up to date, all access data will be recreated, and the new employees will be integrated into the corresponding intranet.

What this boils down to is that technology that doesn't work on its own is, at best, mere technology. And any system that consumes more time than its predecessor is a complete failure.

Perfection is achieved only by taking something away until there is nothing left to take away, not by constantly adding something.

And technology must make life easier for people, not the other way around.

That's why you have to avoid all technology that only steals your time, like social media. And so I ask myself, since I have to set everything up again anyway, why don't I just delete my last remaining social media accounts?

In short, bad technology makes people addicted, otherwise it would have no chance of survival. Even worse, as has recently been seen with Cory Doctorow can readBad technology is even malicious and inhumane! — or at least its architects are, even those who later seek to ease their conscience as whistleblowers, but probably just want to make more money.

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