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• Post #4436992

  RE: https://mastodon.art/@colossal/117054563356539501 This is some outstanding photography, holy shit And none of them is the "creepy shot of a woman while she's not noticing" type of street photography, imagine that.

• Post #4374578

  Please, an enlightened American needs to explain to me, an uneducated European peasant woman from 1572, how an AC unit works outdoors.

• Post #4334481

  I'm not even expecting to make a living off art and research. I'd be totally fine with a part time job that covers rent and necessities but leaves time and energy for art and research. That used to be a thing in my lifetime.

• Post #4275480

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117010680266769328 So uhh, if anyone in or near Berlin wants to buy a used PS5 (disc drive version) with two controllers (violet-red and white), hit me up.

• Post #4247463

  RE: https://ohai.social/@jascha/117007278104048571 Same, but with a much lower cost threshold and for different reasons in addition to the ones already mentioned: I want some friction in my purchases. I know I lack the self-control to be responsible with spending on my phone that's always readily available. Having to boot upy PC introduces enough pause to make me think about what I actually want and need.

• Post #4142605

  Ethernet at my desk!! Finally. Only took me nearly 10 years of living in this apartment before I gathered up the courage to drill through a wooden door frame for this because my landlord might give me trouble for it.

• Post #4134315

  Not even 48h after the attack and all I read in the press is calls for more policing and tougher laws. Nothing about how mainstream society enables violence against queer people.

• Post #4107025

  There's a vigil today for yesterday's attack on CSD Berlin: Pariser Platz, 14:00

• Post #4042716

  You know, if you have set up all your workflows as Apple intends it AND thrown a ton of money at it, then yes, it MIGHT be smooth and convenient (though less so in recent years). But if someone tells me Windows in 2026 is more user friendly than Linux, I call bullshit. Modern Windows is a disaster.

• Post #4042299

  A totally non-techie coworker asked me today if I had heard of "that AI that broke out" and I had to do a little damage control by explaining that it's not like the scifi horror scenario they were imagining after seeing it on the news. (it was the OpenAI/Huggingface security fuckup) I compared it to an industrial chemical spill. Bad, sure, but a spilled toxic chemical won't continue and take over the planet, and I think that metaphor landed pretty well.

• Post #4000783

  Triggered by unsettling news yesterday my brain decided to have flashbacks to pretty much every traumatic event of my life for a few hours. I haven't felt as exhausted and drained as today in a very long time.

• Post #3945195

  Every time a post here does numbers a little bit the weirdest and most annoying people come out of the woodwork. I'm starting to block people just for having annoying takes now but I doubt it'll change anything because there's always new ones.

• Post #3937607

  If we ever make a real AI that's actually conscious instead of slop generators, you can be sure the vast majority of articles will be about how it's definitely not conscious and certainly not a person in order to justify its continued exploitation.

• Post #3835368

  System updates on Linux: take 10 seconds, can be done while the machine is running, reboot soon-ish whenever you feel like it to finalize them. System updates on Windows: your computer is now useless for 20 minutes and you have to stick around because there's no option like "install and shut down"

• Post #3734107

  I think they're onto something there https://ggtribune.com/2026/07/10/opinion-i-think-i-know-how-to-solve-the-video-game-industrys-problems/

• Post #3676609

  Linux guys will be obnoxious even to other Linux users for working at a real world job where sometimes you have to deal with Microsoft. Great job guys, people are eventually switching to Linux despite of you, not because.

• Post #3672468

  This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet: Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice. An absurd design decision imo

• Post #3648538

  Serious question for Windows knowers: Does Windows 11 have anything meaningful that Windows 7 couldn't do? I'm not talking about having a weather widget here, I mean actual OS features.

• Post #3632625

  TIL there's a whole DIY community around repurposing crypto mining e-waste (BC-250 boards) into budget Linux gaming PCs and that honestly rules

• Post #3612853

  I've been getting close to 100 emails from match​.com about men supposedly liking my profile and sending me messages. I don't have an account there and never had. Wtf?

• Post #3543694

  Do any of you know someone in Berlin who's a trained counselor or social worker and can moderate difficult talks around trans discrimination in workplaces? Someone who actually knows what they're talking about

• Post #3031839

  Happy pride month!

• Post #2541383

  Under communism the people will be educated about what techno is.

• Post #2327833

  I maintain: in terms of outright hostility from strangers, nothing has been as bad as here, not even Twitter. Every time I try dipping my feet in again, it immediately turns to shit again. And people here are wondering why so many left again. Fix your damn hearts!

• Post #2235252

  Whoever thought case-insensitive filesystems were a good idea: I hope you always run out of toilet paper at the worst possible moments.

• Post #2076238

  I love Star Trek TNG as much as the next 90s nerd kid, but the computing aesthetic of “talk to it like it’s a person or use a little rectangle with a touchscreen” that it planted into the collective consciousness has done so much damage and we’ll pay for it our whole lives.

• Post #1812000

  Modern camera lenses have firmware updates? What?

• Post #1811999

  People with Android phones: what's the situation these days with exchanging data (photos, or more generic files) between you phone and a PC? I mean without going through a cloud service, I mean directly from device to device when they're on the same network and/or in physical proximity.

• Post #1811998

  Any LaTeX experts around who can tell me how to fix the rendering of this BibTex citation? The parentheses in the author's name seems so not get handled correctly, but I can't find how to include those properly. The parentheses are in the original author listing of the paper so I think they should be included. (bibtex code: https://pastebin.com/cc5C0rLB) #TexLaTex #BibTex

• Post #1761268

  a while ago there was this image generator for making these 80s synthwave things (chrome and neon text, starry background) and I need it for a thing but can't find it anymore anyone got a link? (edit: it was found, see comments)