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  Casual reminder that if you need a basic voice training app that * is guaranteed 100% free of any LLM-output * absolutely paranoid about your privacy * runs in any modern browser on any operating system that supports one on any hardware that can display a light web-app fluently * Is 100% free to use * Is AGPL-licensed, with no single person holding sole control over the current state of the code. * Can be downloaded and run locally from a file:/[…]-url Then there is this project of mine, which...

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  FOR FUCKS SAKE! Stop this nonsense of reimplementing file-open dialogs in your software and use the ones provided by the OS! Those have the bookmarked folders, respect my system’s theme and font-size and are generally far more advanced because they are a major component in a file-browser, but only a minor thing in whatever you are most likely writing!

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  Looking more for housing in Luxembourg and about the living conditions there and it just really seems to be a horrible hellhole without culture that is too expensive to live in. 😞 Like: We are currently looking at spending up to 3000€ a months of housing and housing related bullshit! And then people have the guts telling you that you at least won’t pay taxes, which isn’t even true, but in any case, all you end up doing is working for some fucking corporate ass landlord that takes over half of...

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  There needs to be a new salary index: Purchasing Power adjusted Net Salary after Housing and Healthcare (PPNSHH) That is, how much stuff can you actually buy after paying for housing and healthcare. And yes, there are differences in how nice apartments are and how good a health insurance is, but at the end of the day the difference in housing between 30 m² and 100 m² still seems to be far less relevant than how fucking bad of a job governments and municipalities have made at...

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  This section from the second book of the inheritance cycle (#Eragon), has probably shaped my world-view to a very disproportional amount and I still agree with almost all of it. (I’ve had to learn that there are people who know that they are evil and choose to be evil regardless, but that is also my primary disagreement.) Transcript of the relevant part (Eragon was asked by his teacher what the most important tool of the mind is):»Weisheit«, erklärte er schließlich. »Weisheit ist das wichtigste...

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  #SelfOH: “That’s the dysphoria-laziness tradeoff. And I’m very lazy.”

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  Blahaj.zone will be down for the remaining day, so I will post whatever I will post on one of my alts until then. Just FYI.

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  Leaving hackalot. Notice that my phone is not in my handbag... Upon request, Senna calls me and the phone rings from very close. Me: confused Senna: "pockets!" I guess it really goes to show how much I'm used to not having them anymore. 😅

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  @Pixtxa@chaos.social @sofie@blahaj.zone It’s something independent and different.

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  Here is the deal: If you want to dogpile on me in the name of spreading a fascist talking point (like the anti-Jewish conspiracy theory that Jews are responsible for Israel’s crimes, including by suggesting that condemnations of that genocidal ethnostate are anti-Jewish!), I will not be shamed into silence but name and shame you! I sometimes see people complaining about harassment on Fedi without providing any concrete examples, which makes it hard to develop an opinion on. I will not do that....

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  Okay, so @Moire@mastodon.social felt the need to respond and the block me so, that I couldn’t directly respond to said post. Well, here it is:Oh really? You want to compare Israel in 2026 to Nazi-Germany that in 1944 had invaded Poland (1939), Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France (1940), as well as Yugoslavia, Greece, and the Soviet Union (1941) with millions of dead people, gased jews and endless massacres? Dumb, stupid antisemite!And this is what was meant to be my...

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  Took some nice pictures after today’s membership meeting at #Hackalot. I can’t say why, but those kinds of clouds REALLY are impressive!

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  From earlier today/(chronologically yesterday): @sofie@blahaj.zone: “You are slower than a snail.” Me: “Well, I’m still faster than the Ruzzian military in Ukraine.” Sofie: “That depends on what.” Me: “Hey!” Sofie: “Like at loosing people they are faster than you.”

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  It’s kinda fun watching @sofie@blahaj.zone trying to figure out alt-texts… ​:blobcat_giggle:​

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  Okay, it looks like I will actually get that job offer in Luxemburg and they were willing to increase the gross starting salary (I hinted at 15K more, they now offered 5K more, indicating that what I indicated was definitely outside the budget, which I guess is fair, there was definitely a negotiation buffer in there). Technically they have not made an offer yet, but they might do so today and I was explicitly their number 1 candidate…

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  In the end the new #Datenschleuder made it here, and yeah, the cover looks the way how others have posted and indeed has the completely unacceptable sexist message on it, basically saying that only a dead man is a good man. That’s the direct implication, there is no other way to read this! As I’ve said before: Imagine this the other way around! You’d have to go to ultra-fringe incels to see this about women. But somehow this is supposedly okay in club whose charta has always condemned all forms...

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  The one gaming youtuber I regularly watch is #Perun (of weekly-hour-long-powerpoint-presentation-on-defense-economics fame), not least because of gems like this one:Which means we need a plan. And what better way to present the plan for the first phase of our operation than using a medium custom designed for the tradition we’ve already developed of getting around bureaucratic hurdles, making things go fast, and reflecting budget constraints? Let’s break out the Powerpoint quickly. [Interrupts...

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  If I get that job in Luxemburg it would be kinda a case of “we read your PhD thesis and designed a position specifically for you”, except that it’s 60% in office in fucking Luxemburg with a salary that might, after adjusting it for housing prices, be worse than a certain teaching position in Essen, which would at least in a major metropolitan region from which getting to NL would me much faster…

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  Any moment…

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  Finally done! I think this is the most complex dress I’ve ever made, in that it consists of a figure hugging top with slim sleeves, a skirt made out of six panels and most notably two very deep pockets (I managed to put a 2l cola bottle into one!). I’ve made skirts with pockets before, but this is the first dress and I’ll say that I didn’t exactly enjoy the experience of sewing them in, and that there are things I could have done better, but for the time being they are still going to be quite...

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  How about we play a game: The first person names a chemical substance and gives an overview as to all the ways in which it is dangerous. The next person then has to come up with something even more dangerous. Physical dangers (usually stored in pressured containers, inert gas that presents a danger of asphyxiation, …) don’t count, and the same holds for anything regarding radioactivity. Also: Huge bonus for diversity and practical danger: A lot of substances can explode, but ones that do it w...

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  For those who have any use for it: Trans Rights Are Human Rights! :root { color-scheme: light dark; div[popover] { background-image: linear-gradient( #5BCEFA calc(0 * 100% / 5) calc(1 * 100% / 5), #F5A9B8 calc(1 * 100% / 5) calc(2 * 100% / 5), #ffffff calc(2 * 100% / 5) calc(3 * 100% / 5), #F5A9B8 calc(3 * 100% / 5) calc(4 * 100% / 5), #5BCEFA calc(4 * 100% / 5) calc(5 * 100% / 5)); color: black; border: 0.2em solid light...

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  In case anyone knows anyone that is looking for a computer scientist with a background in cryptography (PhD) and programming experience in C++ and a bunch of other languages, (I’m a quick learner and can pick up other languages, though I’d strongly prefer something statically typed), I’m available for hire immediately. My previous work includes designing and analyzing security protocols, in particular post-quantum key-exchanges, and includes PQWireguard, PQNoise, and an extension of the Space D...