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• Post #3862814

  I have no idea what the tax structure for gasoline in Sweden looks like, and I believe gasoline is too cheap everywhere anyway, but something must be deeply wrong when this stuff is around 37% cheaper in Sweden. Yip, you read that right. Last price we saw in Germany was 2,24 EUR ish for E10, Price for Swedish 95 (the closest equivalent) is around 15,54 SKr which converts to 1,41 EUR. Again, tax may play a role, so grain of salt etc.

• Post #3309406

  Spent half the weekend in the emergency room with an unclear infection with a short burst of high fever. These sounded familiar and in the end, it indeed points to a bile duct infection. I knew this could happen eventually, as my small intestines are directly bolted on to the bile duct, but the relative calm of more than a year had given me a false sense of security. Everyone was calm but very serious about it. I left with antibiotics and some bubbling up trauma.

• Post #3309405

  Context and perspective are weird things. I've just had a group of people thank me for participating (on short notice, to be fair) in a photoshoot as if I'd saved their lives. That group of people has literally, as in, you know, literally, saved my life at least twice. So, my mangled body may, at some point, turn up in official info material of Hamburg's university clinic. It is, as they say, the least I could do.

• Post #3309404

  I have seen a couple of card heavy international footie matches in my life but I just watched a summary video of the US/Brazil women's friendly and ... wow. No notes. Obviously a complete failure of refereeing. Among other things, let's say.

• Post #3309403

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@lwv_wa/116708433142864682 Because billions are such a hard to understand number, I looked up the USA's population. It's roughly 340 million. So this is 200 USD per inhabitant. For financing, let's face it, Trumps equivalent of the Gestapo. Nice. Or, put differently, more than 8 USD for every human being currently walking the earth. (Sorry, ISS personnel, you're a rounding error)

• Post #3309402

  Still my No1 favourite :depfu: error message, it cracks me up every time. Happens to the best of us. "ArgumentError: Malformed version number string <<<<<<< HEAD" #TalesFromTheMachineRoom

• Post #3309401

  I keep thinking: Who in the world thought that it was a good idea to implement "social engineering as a service"*? Again, I would never claim that word salad machines are never useful in any context, but making unpredictable word salad machines important parts of your infrastructure seems, dunno, ill informed at the best of days. * My own flesh and blood word salad machine has no idea if I've heard this before or not, so forgive me if you feel plagiarized, I'...

• Post #3309400

  Call me a weirdo or call me a nerd, but there is nothing as satisfying to me as a really good sounding, relatively dry rim shot snare. I can't help it, my brain instantly locks to it. Or rather, my whole body. Clack. Clack. Clack. Someone should write a song about that. Oh. (originally this was about dubstep, but I realised that it works in almost any genre. including Erykah Badu songs)

• Post #3309399

  First impression on the Pebble Time 2 that just arrived: A bit heavier than I expected, a bit thicker, too, but that's mainly due to the HR sensor. The B&W display of the 2 Duo has significantly more contrast, but readability without backlight is good. The buttons are really nice, especially in contrast to the sticky mess of the P2D.

• Post #2011024

  "I have a Cryptpad instance running somewhere" he said. 3 hours of debugging later, login finally works again.

• Post #2011023

  Okay, so this seems to be a monday monday. My dual boot laptop doesn't want to boot up Ubuntu, as it can't find the encrypted volume. Do not earn any money, do not advance to next field. I mean we all know by now that computers were a mistake. Still.

• Post #2011022

  Look, I don't *actually* have an issue with being misgendered in a message, but if your email boasts how much upfront research you've done before writing your sales pitch, I don't really know what to say to you. How many female German Jans do exist? I would wager the number is bigger than zero. Slightly. #spam #Sales #underwhelmed

• Post #1886920

  I see that there is a growing need for a GitHub alternative specifically for SMBs and single devs where setting up a self hosted alternative would be a too large investment. For me this sounds like an ideal application of the Coop (Genossenschaft), where the SMBs are the shareholders. Germany specifically has a couple of good working examples of this (a co-op owned by SMBs) I'll need a handful of initial co-conspirators to start a discussion. Let me know if you're interested. #GitForg...

• Post #1738378

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bsletten/116383350980141607 This hit surprisingly hard. I didn't think the English language needed the expression "competency porn" but here we are.

• Post #923431

  Kenne ich hier eine Person die eine Person kennt, die Türkisch spricht und mir für ein Ehrenamt drei sehr kurze Sätze aus dem deutschen oder englischen übersetzen kann? Ich möchte das ungern ungeprüft aus der großen Sprachmaschine entnehmen.

• Post #655944

  If you're into coffee and you have never watched videos from James Hoffmann, you're missing out. If you're into coffee and you have never watched videos from Hames Joffmann, you're missing out. Or you don't share that sense of humour with me, that's also possible.

• Post #541648

  Periodic reminder (mostly to myself) that no, it's not just you who thinks the world has completely and utterly gone off the rails and that it's fine to completely tune out for periods of time if that's necessary to keep your own sanity. (Not that there's much left of it, I feel)