Dear readers and customers,
for the second time in our 12 year company history I speak to you here directly as CEO. The last time only two years ago because of the still ongoing pandemic. The necessities of our current times leave me no other choice. At the moment, I don’t really know how we should do here “business as usual”.
Currently, there’s a war going on in Europe. It’s now day 9 of this war.
It’s an unfair war, it’s a war built up on lies. That’s the case with any war, throughout human history. We don’t support wars, we never did, never will.
In fact, I’m a member of the German Peace Society. I feel it as my duty to at least inform you about this and provide some help. So please watch the video above carefully and if you want to help I want to provide some links and information today which might come in handy in case you want to join the help.
If you are in the war zone, actions you can take in case of explosion and about clean water:
- lie on the ground and cover your head with your hands
- use available shelter
- help the wounded
- do not enter damaged buildings
In the absence of water supply: - take drinking water from pumping stations, wells, mine wells, drinking water bottling points
- for drinking and cooking – boil for at least 10 minutes
- store water in closed containers
- water from open reservoirs – only for technical purposes
That’s what’s currently distributed through Ukrainian mobile networks. Please also update yourself from time to time through reliable English news sources if possible, like BBC, Guardian UK or CNN, to get news about safe corridors.
If you are in Europe or elsewhere, actions you might take from here:
- organise trips to Polish, Slovakian and Romanian borders. Help the refugees there. What they need the most at the moment: food, clothing, medicine. Bring what you can
- additionally to personal trips, organise these transports in your neighbourhood. In Germany there exist networks, like https://nebenan.de/feed/ukraine-help. You can collect cartons here and plan better
- offer your flat/apartment/house for refugees: https://elinor.network/gastfreundschaft-ukraine/
- donate money to UNICEF to help Ukrainian children and families: https://unicef.de/spenden/ing-nothilfe-ukraine/. German link, bank from the Netherlands. UNICEF offers agencies worldwide
- resources for refugees from Ukraine and supporters (important, updated, no guarantee about updates and manipulations as its an open document): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OlZIz-72A2xI2uUOFE07L5ObQGP4JDcXZ2vdIs2P9BQ/mobilebasic
- updates about status in Eastern Europe: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/lists/1218335925958213633 (Twitter feed, German version. There may exist feeds in other languages)
- contact https://uaks.de/ (German) to offer your help. There exist Ukrainian culture or other associations in your neighbourhood too. You might not know them yet, google them
- join demos and peace gatherings. Check if your city offers them already: https://friedenskooperative.de/ukraine-krise-alle-infos. (German version, there exist overviews for your country too, google them)
With our strength and knowledge combined, maybe we have a chance to prevent the worst. For Ukraine, as well as for the rest of the world.
Be brave and strong,
may peace eventually prevail,
Sascha Schroeder
CEO & Founder
AETHYX MEDIAE
[Update I, 03/14/22]
Added the latest hint about water from the Ukrainian mobile networks; removed the Anonymous hint as our local Chaos Computer Club added that supporting black and/or grey hat hacking is simply too dangerous.
Dear readers and customers,
if you’re unsatisfied with certain circumstances in this world, and don’t feel lucky or have the energy to create something on your own (e.g. a weblog or an Android app like we do), there are more ways to become a part of change.
As a general idea, you can invest in stocks and try to own or change a company and its policy; a little for yourself, or you organise more people through the Internet to do so (the smart girls and guys from “Fridays For Future” sometimes do, for example).
Same goes with newspapers: we don’t know about those in your country but in Germany, for example, it’s possible to own a part of one of the most independent newspapers there, taz, by acquiring a “share”: by paying one time 500€ minimum, from this day on, you literally own it together with thousands of others, which is a pretty clever and sustainable idea here to stay independent.
Maybe you have more ideas how to become actively a part of change? Share them with us and our audience in the comments!
Take care and never give up,
the aethyx staff
Dear readers,
if you want to change the future, if you want to be a part of what lies ahead, now it’s the right time to join artificial intelligence development.
We already are engaged in the following fields:
- semantic web publishing via weblog technology
- cloud technology via giving you the chance to be a part of it via owncloud
- be a part of Android, which will influence the way we communicate & and use technology in the near future. Maybe forever
What is kind of irrational is the fact the we as a company show you the path what you as an individual or company should do: program AI. Program it. Now.
Yes, of course the question will be here: how? It’s incredibly easy.
Keyword: deep learning. Do it as a student would do. Use the tools which are already available. Yes, as a follower of AETHYX MEDIAE for years now, this may sound familiar and logicial. Believe us: it isn’t. People are stupid. People are lazy. Go ahead. Or we will do it, again, on our own.
In Germany we call this Fehdehandschuh. We never made jokes. This is serious business right here.
For those who won’t believe us, here a translated quote from the print magazine DER SPIEGEL, page 19, issue #14 2017:
“May be, but Google published in January the following message: scientists of the company invented an AI software which creates better AI software on its own. A digital perpetuum mobile.”
Welcome to your present! Wake the f**k up, please!
On the page prior to that statement, it starts with what we would like to encourage you with this snippet:
“Deep Learning is a mechanism which is learnable in a simple way. The tools for this technique are downloadable anywhere on the internet”
Geez, we are online since January 2010. This is _exactly_ what we shouted out via our Why? page:
“Secondly, technology is nothing without the human being. We have the tools, we live in the 21. century, it is time to be active. Your life has value. Do not waste it in front of the TV. Be active, forget your passive past”
We won’t say here what tools you should use, you decide. We won’t say here where to find these tools, you should know by now how. But just do! Heck, create this sh*t! On your own! It’s easier as you might think.
That’s it from us about this AI buzz. Stop playing video games, stop being a black hat, start to use and program AI!
We will do the same. We always did. Poor Lenos, who didn’t recognize this by now.
Best of luck to you out there,
the aethyx staff