Made Käsekuchen (German cheesecake w/ a sort of cream cheese called Quark) for my colleagues. It’s a thing to bring your own baked goods to celebrate your bday/anniversaries in Germany.
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Gameplay Programmer @ Ubisoft Düsseldorf. She/her
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I hate paying for yet another subscription service, but damn - Kagi is actually worth it.
It’s a paid search indexer and it’s like searching back before Google enshittified. DuckDuckGo is decent but it’s still just an aggregator of other search engines.
I‘m so fucking done with NZ aye? Fucking „progressive country“ my arse. Junk science designed only to hurt trans people and Labour probably won’t give af. Getting EU citizenship became a much higher priority https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595798/nz-first-s-gender-bill-to-be-supported-by-national-act
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"Look, enormous opportunities right across the board, and none of us know what they are yet."
AI-bros in a nutshell. Delusional brainrotted fucks.
I'm not sure I want to go back to NZ in the near future https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360981025/government-wants-replace-8700-public-servants-ai-heres-what-ministers-think-robots-do
My parents are arriving in Düsseldorf tomorrow evening. Haven’t seen them in person for 3 years so quite excited. Probably the last time they’ll be able to come to Europe, especially for my dad, so I’m going to try and make the most of it.
These are some ghoulish changes - queer refugees are often escaping regimes that make any visibility of queerness illegal. Is that "bad faith" by these standards? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594326/is-new-zealand-sliding-toward-a-us-style-approach-to-immigration-and-asylum
Pleasantly surprised that the Preisänderung (price change) from my power company _wasn‘t_ my gas hot water going up but the electricity price going down by 4¢ per kWh (around 10%)
Some good changes (getting rid of homeopathic funding, raising alcohol and tobacco taxes), some absolutely terrible changes (reducing/eliminating orthodontic services, increasing medication co-payment) coming out of Germany's health insurance changes https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-04/gesetzliche-krankenkasse-reform-schwarz-rot-koalitionsausschuss-gxe
Someone tried to break into my apartment building while my landlady and I were both home. Physically tried to break down the front door. Luckily she has a very yappy dog and the main police station is only a couple of blocks away. Not going to be an easy sleep tonight.
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@nerdnz@cloudisland.nz @caitelatte@cloudisland.nz over a decade ago now I tried to get commit metadata changed to be less tied to a name. Sadly it was not received well.