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That’s only fine as long as there aren’t coworkers who have to fix all that shit

My phone knows how much I love dividing numbers

Me, telling my Junior devs how shit their code is (they copied the code I wrote 6 months ago)

Calling landlords human sure is a bold move

Today’s the day when too many emails end with “sadly, this is not an april fool’s joke”. Already had my fair share of them today as the coworkers are freaking out about the attack on axios (they’re a day late, but I guess I wasn’t in yesterday to alert them…)

Random side tangent, my favourite coworker got fired last year. The real reason was that she was unhappy (manager has been promising a change to a team that isn't as dogshit as mine, but not delivering on it) so her output of code was pretty low. It took a year for the company to actually go through with the firing, and since "not delivering enough output" is not a valid reason for firing someone here, they had to give "the company does not have enough money to pay for you" as a reason. They gave her 3 months of paid leave (that's the agreed duration for notices of termination, anything less would have been illegal) and wanted her to sign something that says she's okay with being fired. She was smart enough to not do that. Because she could prove that the company did have enough money to pay her (they re-filled her position almost instantly) she could have sued to be re-hired. Well, she went back to the company and was like "okay, how much severance will I get to not sue you?" and she got another 15k on top of her paid leave. It was a pretty good deal. Oh, and she also got an excellent recommendation letter, because you can also sue a company if they say anything negative about you in their recommendation letters (there are lawyers specialized in finding hidden dog whistles in those letters and suing accordingly). German worker's rights really are pretty solid imo. My company isn't even bound by a union, the protections are much stricter for companies that are. My husband works for a company that voluntarily follows IG Metall guidelines and he got a random 4k/year raise recently just because IG Metall adjusted their pay recommendations. And government jobs are even crazier than that, there are some where you literally cannot be fired whatever you do.

Basically any kind of employee surveillance is illegal (here in Germany) unless the employee is suspected of serious misconduct or a crime. An employer is only allowed to check whether an employee fulfills the tasks given to them, not how they spend their time at work.
I make software that other companies use and we aren’t allowed to even build any user -> activity metrics, especially not if that users boss could access them. So i.e. for Datasets, we’re only allowed to show “This Dataset was last edited by User x” and not “User x has edited the following Datasets: […]”.
Here’s a German article about some specifics. Basically these things are very explicitly illegal: Keyloggers, surveilling browser data, surveilling email or phone call contents (unless explicit consent is given) and recording any part or the employees screen or from their webcam. Surveilling an employee with AI would definitely fall into one of these categories. oh, and the fine is around 300k€ or 1-2 years in prison.

I’m pretty sure other European countries have similar laws 😄

Luckily something like that is highly illegal here haha

I don't like having the mouse actually wiggle for teams to stay active. Makes it really annoying to jump back in when you get an impromptu call and have to fiddle with things to get the wiggler back off. There's a program called caffeine that instead simulates a button like F15 (so one that's unlikely to show up on a real keyboard or be mapped to do anything) being pressed once a minute, so you can just set the program to run and it will never interfere with you actually using the computer.

ooh neat, I’ll be putting and new radish developments in the coming weeks there then ^^

Oh, why’d you switch? Not that world is bad, but why world of all places? :0

There's no rule saying that you can't pronounce 10 in binary as ten.

Behold: Metten’s “Dicke Sauerländer Bockwurst” (Thick Sauerländer Sausage - Sauerländer is an ambiguous term that means to say the sausage is from the “Sauerland” region, but a person from that region would be referred to as a Sauerländer as well)

I disagree, because them still searching at least means they haven’t found you yet. Wir haben dich gefunden 👁️👁️

Guy Standing

It’s also completely useless if self-assessed. Literally everybody thinks they’re nice, it takes a third party to verify that claim.

oh, don’t worry, catgut ≠ cat gut. It’s actually made from sheep or goat (and sometimes cattle, hog, horse, mule or donkey) intestines so it’s totally socially acceptable.

fuck that domain made me believe

Ironically, classical and baroque string players are the most likely to use catgut strings nowadays. So uh, the genre may be animal less, but not animal free

You also gotta keep up with the Scrabble patchnotes and look out for new 2 letter words that are added to the dictionary. The day “ok” was added was crazyyy

I think TickTick has that feature!

I really vibe with that first point! I don’t really like my name either, not because it’s a bad name but because it just feels like an arbitrary identifier. So I don’t feel any more connection to it than to my Tax-ID or my Gym membership number. I mean I see why everyone needs to have a name, but I’d rather just … not? I don’t ever want to be referred to anyways, so why would I need one? Or like, if I need one I’d take one of those stereotypical Enby names, because at least it would be funny if people had to call me Rat or Brick or something. Oh, and people who buy mugs and weird touristy paraphernalia with their name on it terrify me on an existential level

Give orange me ~give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you~

They don’t have Heated Rivalry in prison??? Maybe crime doesn’t pay after all…

Don't give Araki any ideas

Now that you mention it, I have never encountered a lesbian horse girl somehow. They're all into art instead

why is that one on a leash? Man, that brought up a childhood memory. As a kid, my siblings and I used to catch this specific species of Russian hoverfly that looks like a wasp on a string like that and walk around with them. Since they could hover, they didn’t even seem to mind it much and just went along with it.

🎉were🎉

I never learned about that was/were distinction in English class (I’m in Germany, so English is taught as a foreign language). Does anyone have some pointers on where to read up on this grammatical rule? I definitely questioned it a few weeks back but don’t remember what the context of that was.

There’s a restaurant chain here in Germany called Frittenwerk, they specialize in Poutine-esque loaded fries. Currently, they’re also offering their usual toppings on baked potatoes instead of the fries and it’s so fucking good

goddamn he’s hot

No, the text never specifies that.

bullshit, she’s still under her 10k Freibetrag

The fucking documentation for the libraries we program with, apparently. Everyone else at work either just vibecodes or goes “aw I don’t know how to do that, it probably can’t be done :c”