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Elixir/Ruby/TypeScript Freelancer. Creator of the 🦥-Emoji. Organizing https://papiberlin.de . Dyslexic. Coda. Living in Berlin, Germany. #freelancing #parenting #fatherhood #fullstack #elixir

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@bitboxer@mastodon.social avatar bitboxer , to random

The important thing you should understand about the maglev plans of the :

There is a planned tram line that is beeing cancelled for this. The Maglev is the distraction that keeps the cars going. They know the maglev makes no sense. The tram would be the cheaper and better solution. That plan will be canceled in a few years. And then we end up with no maglev and no tram.

This is exactly like the hyperloop Musk playbook in the USA that killed tons of train projects in California.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/113488282272850633

Important Christmas reminder: download all the manuals from all the devices your family got this year and store them in a folder. Thank me in half a year if you need them 😉

@bitboxer@mastodon.social avatar bitboxer , to random

The @ now added the possibility to give memberships as a gift. If you know someone who does not have a Berlin library card, get one for them. It's the perfect gift.

They will get access to

  • the library for physical books, art, music instruments
  • filmfriend.de
  • Libby/Overdrive/Onleihe ebooks
  • and way more...

https://www.voebb.de/aDISWeb/app?service=direct%2F0%2FHome%2F%24DirectLink&noRedir&sp=SPROD00&sp=SWI01000135

@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social avatar nocontexttrek , to random

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Ok so we're off starship here and we're in a older style structure/setting, like concrete walls with inlaid designs and some stained glass maybe in the background. Centered on camera is a guy. He's wearing a white turtleneck shirt under a ruffly sikly black robe, but it all looks formal and fancy. He's a redhead, his hair is buoyant, and he has a thick and spongy red beard. Could easily be a yacht rock artist from the 80s. He's looking forward with a 'manifest destiny' kind of fire in his eye. Closed caption reads, "I am the anarchy of lust."
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@nocontexttrek Howie Seago is also one of the main actors in a favorite of mine: Beyond Silence. Everyone here who hasn’t seen it yet: go do it.

https://boxd.it/2aCi

@bitboxer@mastodon.social avatar bitboxer , to random

I really love by @grumpygamer . If you haven't tried it yet, please do. Amazing price, funny dialogue, and great game play.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3773590/Death_by_Scrolling/

@bitboxer@mastodon.social avatar bitboxer , to random

I am working for a larger TV network atm. And let me share something you might suspect, but haven't heard directly from the source.

Linear TV usage is dropping fast. In August we had a record low of 93 min average watch time per day in Germany. The year before, it was at 106. This fact, together with the shrinking ad spend on linear TV, practically means that linear TV is already dead. Meaning: linear TV might be a cost negative for the big players sooner than they hoped.
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The age group that generates the most ad revenue (14-59) simply is gone. Switched to streaming.

Before these new numbers the big private networks already prepared to shut down the linear TV in 2030. Yes. Shut it down. Pulling the plug on the whole distribution system.

The market is shifting hard. And it worries me a lot that we might end up with a media market that is 90% owned by big US money here in Europe. How can local TV networks compete online against Silicon Valley money?

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are malicious compliance by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then you must have their consent to do so. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

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@aral @geeksam @codinghorror also: there was a Browser Setting. It was misused by the tracking industry and because of that worthless and removed 🤬

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , to random

What lets you travel freely across 29 different European countries?

It’s Schengen, of course! So, you’re free to live your best European Summer!

Schengen is one of the world’s largest zones of free movement. It has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work, and travel.

It’s a symbol of freedom, collaboration, and opportunity, turning the promise of Europe into an everyday reality!

Wherever you are in Europe, we hope you’re having a great summer.

More 👉 https://europa.eu/!k7Gykf

Mountain landscape in the Pieniny National Park at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. Pieniny Park is located on the border of Poland and Slovakia © Adobe Stock, proslgn
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Lake Konigsee on German-Austrian border © Adobe Stock, Michal Rezny

Lake Konigsee on German-Austrian border © Adobe Stock, Michal Rezny
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@EUCommission can you tell that to the German government please?

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

It should be illegal to sell "half and half" that is mostly skim milk and corn syrup. I generally don't do the shopping b/c I always get the wrong thing, and yesterday I grabbed what looked like a regular half-n-half off the store shelf but when I woke up w/ today's coffeine found it tasted like ass. What is the point of low-fat half-n-half? Doesn't the name itself suggest it's at least half cream? What a scam.

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@briankrebs Holy Hell. I reeeeally hope l no company in Germany tries to sell this here. That’s disgusting.

@tvaziri@mastodon.social avatar tvaziri , to random

Jim Cameron on digital and physical effects: “It’s really the higher question of what are you trying to show, and what are you trying to say? I don’t attach some kind of dogmatic aesthetic around in-camera or practical... It’s really just a means to an end.”

source: https://youtu.be/v_x3OZlnkwM?si=jt9Hs3GCP820Hg0C&t=231

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@yiningkarlli @Gargron @tvaziri this is a really good series about the “no cgi”.

https://youtu.be/7ttG90raCNo?si=GINIVSyp_OWhLIP_

Btw: the most memorable scene in Jurrasic Park, the Trex fence/car scene is nearly 100% cgi and holds up really well. The few parts of practical Trex in that scene sadly don’t (the eye through the car window thing). Rewatched it last year.

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@Gargron @ezekiel @tvaziri Can you list things that are practical effects in LOTR? I can't because everything "special" was at least touched by CGI, not only compositing. There are 3D models everywhere in that one.

@forgefed@floss.social avatar forgefed , to random

PR reviews are now in the specification! I'm excited!!

PR creation, discussion and review are perhaps the core activities of code contribution. And now ForgeFed specifies how to federate them all.

https://forgefed.org/spec/#s2s-mr-review

I'll do my best to support Forgejo in implementing this.

--fr33

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@forgefed Thank you all for the hard work on federated code hosting

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de avatar Codeberg , (edited ) to random

How much of Codeberg's logged-in users are connecting via , in percent?

Send your guess as a comment and optionally include a link to your favourite project on Codeberg.

First closest guess will get boosted.

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@getajobmike@ruby.social avatar getajobmike , to random

European 👍🏼
Non-profit 😍
No commercial repos ❌

If @Codeberg won't host my commercial repos, I can't use them. I'd be happy to pay for private repos.
https://ruby.social/@katafrakt/114552866803921523

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@getajobmike @Codeberg @katafrakt Yeah, we need a non profit that also does commercial repos for money. In Germany you could do a gGmbH for that, a company for social good, among other forms.

If I had the spare time and money, I would run at that 😢.

@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

Anyone else's YouTube home page suddenly full of giant thumbnails and channels you've never heard of before? It suddenly became almost completely unusable.

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@Gargron i use a plugin that hides all recommendation features and only shows me my subscribed channels. Way better for my ocd 😅

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

HAHA. Tesler is on a roll!

"U.S. safety regulators on Thursday recalled virtually all Cybertrucks on the road, the eighth recall of the Tesla-made vehicles since deliveries to customers began just over a year ago.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recall, which covers more than 46,000 Cybertrucks, warned that an exterior panel that runs along the left and right side of the windshield can detach while driving, creating a dangerous road hazard for other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.

The stainless steel strip, called a cant rail assembly, between the windshield and the roof on both sides, is bound to the truck’s assembly with a structural adhesive, the NHTSA report said. The remedy uses an adhesive that’s not been found to be vulnerable to “environmental embrittlement,” the NHTSA said, and includes additional reinforcements."

https://apnews.com/article/cybertruck-recall-tesla-elon-musk-nhtsa-8c517e21aa1119d74b9db39f6aca01b7

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@briankrebs so the next obvious step here is that trump recalls the saftey regulators and closes that agency because it “does not serve the people well”.

@bitboxer@mastodon.social avatar bitboxer , to random

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.

We don't want to be on any list.

And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.

I am afraid what they will do with that.

@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

I have not researched Blu-rays enough before buying my first one. You can't even play one on Windows by default, and VLC and MPC both require following arcane instructions from user forums to make it work. That's the last time I bother. DVDs were the superior format.

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@Gargron once again pirating sounds like the better option 😅

@bitboxer@mastodon.social avatar bitboxer , to random

If you are living in , please vote for “anything that is not AfD”. And please do not simply ignore this and don’t vote. Not voting makes you complicit in the AfD numbers. My suggestion is always to vote . I know they are not perfect. But politics never is.