@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The sun makes it look nice and cosy and warm, but it wasn’t, right? 😅
@kiwu@twtxt.net doing great. It’s new year! Happy new Year of the Horse to you, and everyone!
how are we doing today
There was an endless coming and going of sun, clouds and rain. Not to forget about the wind. I called it quits a bit earlier and went into the woods.
Towards the end I was completeley surrounded by rain curtains in all directions. This looked super cool. I thought I might make it home just in time without having to use my umbrella, but the rain clouds were way quicker than I anticipated. Just after the rain hit me, I met an acquaintance who just started his walk. The wind picked up hard and rain hammered down, mixed with snow. Holding the umbrella was a workout. Shortly after I returned, the rain stopped again.
I didn’t notice the kestrel sitting on the tree when I took the last photo. That was a nice surprise when I sorted through the nearly 300 pics.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de There are always some folks who would appreciate that. But I fear they are the minority. The rest just doesn’t give a shit.
The selfcontradiction is that those who proudly use and promote AI also claim to be sustainable and green and so on. I’ve no clue how this is not considered fraud, but there we are.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Our ads are one of these rubbish ones, unfortunately. They just speak about “an attractive salary”. I reckon I will tell my boss about this talk tomorrow (even though I doubt that any of them are from our department).
I’ve got the impression that salary is amongst the most top secret topics in Germany in general. My conspiracy theory is that companies don’t put any numbers in job ads because that would just reveal that most employees are underpaid.
@kiwu@twtxt.net it was OK. Entertaining, for sure. How about you?
@kiwu@twtxt.net Since I’m not living in the US, I haven’t seen it. I’ve only witnessed all the “outrage” about it through shows like Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. 🤣
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice talk indeed.
Interesting to see that his ideal job ad talks more about the company than the required qualifications of the candidates. That alone is what 99% of companies get wrong. They just have a long list of “you must know these 500 things”, yeah, great, goodbye then. 🤷♀️
Just checked our job ads, some of them actually do list the salary. I’m surprised. 🤔
TIL: If you’re trans in Germany and you want to start hormone therapy, you still need to be officially declared “trans” first (Indikationsschreiben, page 18: https://www.transinterqueer.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Hormontherapie_DE_barrierearm.pdf) and then you can try to find an actual doctor to get the meds. All with super long waiting lists. This takes forever. 😩
Changing your legal name is surprisingly easy in comparison, at least since 2024: https://www.bmbfsfj.bund.de/bmbfsfj/aktuelles/alle-meldungen/anmeldung-zur-aenderung-des-geschlechtseintrages-jetzt-moeglich-243056 (From my perspective, that’s the less relevant part, though, because there’s a good chunk of people that you can just ask to call you differently (friends, cowokers, …) and then do that legal stuff later. But you want your body to change, like, now.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They certainly don’t. 🫤
Had an idea earlier: How about going all in on sustainability and saving money/energy, so how about telling your customers “AI is a bad idea $because_long_list_of_reasons, here are our alternatives, you’ll thank us in 5 years”? (I bet the customers wouldn’t listen either … 🙄)
hi guys! how did we like bad bunny’s halftime show?
All gray the last few days, but there was one morning exception: https://lyse.isobeef.org/morgensonne-2026-02-12/
@prologic@twtxt.net he didn’t. The embedded video show the speaker he was referencing to, on the German video.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh! 🤔 Did you link the wrong video or something? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net Sorry if I raised the wrong hope. Only the German talk is about the “why good people don’t want to work at your company” subject. Among the key points are the absolutely terrible job adverts, team leads not themselves looking for people to hire but letting other dudes do that, company cultures and communication.
@thecanine@twtxt.net Love the classic canine 🤩
Bit of a remake, of a chubby-looking, quick meme doodle, from 5 years ago.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I just watched this. And whilst it’s very good and insightful, good history of MySQL and how Martin helped built a good solid Open Source + Commercial model, I’m not seeing the “why people don’t wanna work at your company” bit? What am I missing? 🤔 In any case, he does talk to great length on the importance of Culture and the insane notion of “centrlaised office working”, which I 100% agree with.
A mate just recommended this German talk why people don’t wanna work at your company: https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3321-es_es_ka_em_warum_gute_leute_nicht_bei_euch_arbeiten_wollen It’s really good. I fully agree with most parts.
The speaker referenced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmEgtRhw7o (Mårten Mickos: Believe in Something Bigger Than Yourself) which is also very interesting, if you make it through the first bit. He talks about his CEO role at MySQL AB.
Ah, nothing quite like a cold beer after a day of moving house without the use of a vehicle.
I am still alive, I just can’t multitask several online places at a time, in other news, we (as in my organization and Prometheus) have forked Funkwhale
how are we doing over here on yarn!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh nice find, thanks. i am a copy-paste admin, no wonder
@bender@twtxt.net congrats, you are now in sudoers file
Gerade verschlinge ich die Hologrammatica-Reihe von Tom Hillenbrand. Für mich ein grandioser Mix aus Blade Runner, Qualityland und Neuromancer - aber trotzdem etwas eigenes.
Ich lese dann mal weiter …
Raise your hand if you have extremely noisy and annoying neighbors.
I’ll raise both my hands because they’re my relatives, and they’re BLASTING THROUGH MY WALLS RIGHT NOW
in a camp mood battitude
@movq@www.uninformativ.de as far as moving feeds go, I tried and (miserably) failed.
Better to start from scratch
hell.com redirects to mybible.com lol hahaha
My favorite group released a song today! I love it very much :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOjG-70-D5o
@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net going through a lot of family and personal things. I’m doing better at this very moment, but who knows how I’ll be in the next few days. trying to stay positive!
Did a double take at the headline 😅
Why Go is Going Nowhere
Go, the ancient board game that China, Japan and South Korea all claim as part of their cultural heritage, is struggling to expand its global footprint because the three nations that dominate it cannot agree on something as basic as a common rulebook.
When Go was registered with the International Mind Sports Association alongside chess and bridge, organizers had to adopt the American Go Association’s rules because the East As … ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net it works fine under jenny. Maybe it is a bug on Yarn?
haven’t been doing too well yarn. how r u guys?
@quark@ferengi.one 👀 Happy New Year! 😊
@mckinley@mckinley.cc ohai, long time!
But hey! The read-eval-print-loop works!
Shin'ya M. > grep bridge.twtxt.net /var/log/pleroma.log
14:01:33.937 path=/api/v1/accounts/B26ukWUhEh8kKl0oPw/follow user=shinyoukai [error] Follower/Following counter update for https://bridge.twtxt.net/users/c350a5e5fb9d9457 failed.
14:01:35.541 path=/users/shinyoukai [error] Could not decode user at fetch https://bridge.twtxt.net/keys/bridge, :not_found
14:01:38.286 path=/users/shinyoukai/outbox [error] Could not decode user at fetch https://bridge.twtxt.net/keys/bridge, :not_found
Targeting just Mastodon will get anyone nowhere
@zvava@twtxt.net and the year of the Linux desktop, I swear! No more procrastination, this year is it.
@rrraksamam@twtxt.net down, boy! :-D
how are we doing yarn!
2026 will be the year of twtxt
2026 👀
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Watch out for dragons!