Posts by toni@zug.network
(DIR) Post #ArCxgu8WW4MFhCJrVY by toni@zug.network
2025-02-17T11:29:20Z
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@futurebird Does AWS count? If yes, then work uses Amazon *a lot*. If it doesn’t, then not at all.
(DIR) Post #ArD5hDP7g8E35Rk6y0 by toni@zug.network
2025-02-17T12:59:06Z
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@futurebird How I do my taxes:Go to the state website named after the stealing bird. (Elster, magpie)They already have all the income data.I go through the form and check if I can deduct any contributions to charities, insurance fees, etc.Hit send, probably get back a few hundred euros two months later. Could I have gotten fifty euros more? Probably. I don’t care.If I had a company or were a freelancer: Pay an accountant to do the taxes for me. There’s a reason for job specialisation.
(DIR) Post #ArD6IFSN0j4AAOv7nE by toni@zug.network
2025-02-17T13:01:01Z
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@futurebird How the heck would you teach that in school? Do it once, so the students have seen the forms? Maybe. A waste of time, if they have any capacity for independent thought.
(DIR) Post #ArD8IxEuQWW9ri5YHY by toni@zug.network
2025-02-17T13:27:42Z
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@henryk @futurebird Yeah that’s true. The first few times use training wheels in the form of an independent tax software, which explains in plain language what that approximately means. After doing that a few years, I had enough self confidence to get by without it and be sure enough I won’t land in jail.What you need to teach is the ability for problem solving and becoming confident in your skills. Not an easy job, but much more useful than tax code.
(DIR) Post #ArD991P8BeiPqBhINE by toni@zug.network
2025-02-17T13:37:38Z
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@futurebird “The pensions are safe” has been a meme in Germany since about the same time I became aware that I will need to live off pensions and savings one day. I never really believed in it and for multiple reasons my savings are much lower than they should be.These days, a fascist takeover seems about as likely as being able to retire with healthy financials.
(DIR) Post #ArosVZNjfeMhs2GtEW by toni@zug.network
2025-03-07T18:30:05Z
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@foone Is that because DOS 3.0 and later have a larger memory footprint?
(DIR) Post #ArzX5Bhx6fGOcSrjjE by toni@zug.network
2025-03-12T12:13:09Z
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@riley “The IQ test doesn’t test intelligence, it tests how well you do in an IQ test” is still one of the most underrated tautologies. I think my psychology professor was the first person who I’ve heard it from.
(DIR) Post #At6wk73W7P0ST6D8Qy by toni@zug.network
2025-04-15T09:34:42Z
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@futurebird Does it have a connection to Hebrew? I have no idea but it might.
(DIR) Post #AuqnuDyj1g2Vnzg7uq by toni@zug.network
2025-06-06T10:24:27Z
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@futurebird EH! EH! :blobcathearts:
(DIR) Post #AvBoTP6v6WQMbbAXZY by toni@zug.network
2025-06-16T13:39:48Z
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@futurebird Even here in Germany, where the cops are usually not quite as trigger-happy, I’d never assume someone did anything wrong if they come out of a police interaction with injuries or if they get arrested. Especially if it happened at some kind of protest, but even in a “routine” control or something. I’ve seen cops unnecessarily escalating the situation more often than keeping their calm.At one big event ten years ago toilet brushes became a meme, because cops had classified one someone had sticking out their backpack as a dangerous weapon and a reason to pull him out violently.
(DIR) Post #Ax60OUGDFPgAJ7JO2i by toni@zug.network
2025-08-12T14:09:16Z
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@cobalt123 @AudioHospital031 @futurebird And the few bots that are here are like „hello, I’m a bot, I do goofy things!“like @glitchbot, for example.
(DIR) Post #Ax6B5XC1DhZZOaW0Mi by toni@zug.network
2025-08-12T16:09:09Z
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@futurebird Thank you. I use the kettle (without the lid) to evaporate water in winter, for some humidity.
(DIR) Post #AxWf9Lp3UAee1YT67U by toni@zug.network
2025-08-25T10:48:28Z
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@futurebird @ephesossh There’s also some state government threatening things(?), which made them change some rules. Not really anything new going on, just back in the news.Imo it’s the same story that’s been around since the internet has been around. Yes, there are predators in spaces where children are. Parents and schools need to talk to their children, so they know how to deal with the situation. They probably won’t ever meet one of the predators.I’m 43 and I remember being warned against predators on IRC and other chat rooms.
(DIR) Post #AxYtuzUdb0iWLTRsO0 by toni@zug.network
2025-08-26T12:43:21Z
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@futurebird It’s never about crime and safety. Here in Germany the current hype is knives. More and more cities start declaring "knife free zones".Some even admit that "of course we can’t stop someone from stabbing people with this, but we can give police a reason to do 'random' searches."
(DIR) Post #AxmvR6nwlenQSHnYA4 by toni@zug.network
2025-09-02T07:06:17Z
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@futurebird @micahflee In my experience, talking back and forth with the users during development is the actual fun part of software development…I don’t get those “hack something together alone in a room” people.
(DIR) Post #AyhE86W3LTLvgWJgcy by toni@zug.network
2025-09-29T10:31:19Z
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@jon But for how long, now that DB Fernverkehr is under increasing pressure to become profitable. :blobfoxnotamused:
(DIR) Post #AypRKn3jqiQhm48Drs by toni@zug.network
2025-10-03T10:05:17Z
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@futurebird C-suite always promotes that AI will make us more efficient and everyone should be “empowered” to use it. I have no interest, and I’m not (yet) forced to do training or anything. I do sometimes watch presentations, so I can make fun of how bad it is later.
(DIR) Post #B1Cp36ZZgiyS6U007k by toni@zug.network
2025-12-13T12:33:34Z
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@futurebird I know an advertising person and I do a lot to avoid the topic when we meet. We could have been better friends, if she worked in a less predatory creative industry.At one point she told my friends, she was convinced I was jealous because she made more money than me? Nope, I just don’t like what she does.I once talked to her about how fucked up targeted advertising is, and that it probably doesn’t really work better than the old method of advertising in spaces related to your product. She didn’t see the problem.Well, most tech people don’t see the problems in the tech industry either. Which is more annoying to me, because that’s who I have to work with daily. :neocat_laugh_sweat:
(DIR) Post #B1CqEIHka77HZKYqNE by toni@zug.network
2025-12-13T12:46:47Z
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@futurebird I remember a few years ago professors complaining that their students "don’t even know what a directory is anymore."Yeah, then, teach them that? If they mostly interacted with operating systems that hid file and directory structures from them, you can’t expect them to magically know those things.When I started studying in 2002, one professor showed us how to find his website from the university‘s homepage. Because that was a relatively new skill. Now you need to show people how to find a file, when they aren’t indexed and shown per app. What’s the difference?
(DIR) Post #B2NTHQ177hPrX1Ri64 by toni@zug.network
2026-01-17T13:43:34Z
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@futurebird She pays in cuddles, probably. You get them for the food, he gets them for the services.