@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

tynstar

@tynstar@nerdculture.de

Software developer, Marvel (MCU) fanboy, Trekkie, fantasy bookworm, committed European

Day job: Software architect
Hobby project: https://corp.social/@chronolink (calendar synchronization service)

I don't post much but boost a lot. Feel free to disable those posts by clicking the "⋮" button in my profile and selecting "Hide boosts from tynstar".

You can view a list of my own, non-boost posts (with the option to include replies) at https://justmytoots.com/@tynstar?public_only=true

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Bundesregierung, to random German
@Bundesregierung@social.bund.de avatar

Im Grundgesetz sind all die Werte und Regeln aufgeschrieben, die Deutschland so lebenswert machen – und seine Demokratie stabil und wehrhaft gegen ihre Feinde. Es ist das Grundgesetz aller Bürgerinnen und Bürger, seit 75 Jahren. Das möchten wir gemeinsam mit Ihnen feiern: Der Kanzler lädt Sie herzlich dazu ein.

video/mp4

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

Liebe Menschen im Fediverse, die an diesem Thread teilnehmen (wollen)!

Ihr müsst die Politik der @Bundesregierung oder den Bundeskanzler als Person nicht mögen. Bevor ihr aber eurem Unmut hier in diesem Thread Luft macht und Beschimpfungen austeilt, macht euch bitte eins bewusst:

Das als Fundament unserer Demokratie kann man durchaus feiern / wertschätzen / bewahren. Quer hinweg über alle Positionen & unabhängig von Kritik an Personal, Parteien oder Politik.

LG

❤️

tynstar, to opensource
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

Any experienced C developers among my followers? .

Expat, arguably the world's most popular parser, is understaffed and without funding. As has shown, situations like this are dangerous.

Last month, maintainer Sebastian Pipping put up a plea for help at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes

(I would help myself, but my C skills barely surpass "Hello, World".)

Found via @timbray - https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/112203547801373427



#C

jikodesu, to mastodon
@jikodesu@mastodon.social avatar

Your Mastodon home feed is populated by:

The people you follow
The boosts of the people you follow
Replies of the people you follow
The hashtags you follow
Replies to the posts of people you follow

Is this correct?

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@eclectech @Heliograph @jikodesu No, following one side is sufficient.

jennski, to TodayILearned
@jennski@sre.masto.host avatar

People ask questions to . I'm at a today and I went up to an exhibitor and asked them about what they do. I'll admit…I was drawn in by their cool logo and nice swag 😅

The person working the table said “you’ve never heard of $foo?!”

I said “no, I have not”

(1/4)

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@jennski
Excellent point! @claresudbery makes a similar one for |s. In her talk "Let's stop making each other feel stupid", she argues that only by encouraging people to ask questions and to never feel ashamed for not knowing something, you allow everybody to thrive and grow.

Also, the talk is really entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwMAADcB1uc

tynstar, to random
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

I boosted this earlier today, but now that I finished watching this great video about in , I feel this needs to be put in front of more people!

One of the main points that @claresudbery makes in her talk "Let's stop making each other feel stupid" is that by encouraging people to ask questions (and never feel ashamed for not knowing something), you allow your to thrive and grow.

Watch this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwMAADcB1uc

Jaden3, to sciencefiction
@Jaden3@mastodon.social avatar

I can't tell yall how gassed I am wit my coursework! Shit when I was in 7th grade my teacher said ' jaden I can't keep up with your work , yall got an imagination ' 😃
Now I got the chance to make this real the only thing I want is to write. A started a time travel book last year but gave up. I gon carry on now , got the inspiration again 👌🏾
Be good to get yall advice to get dis bitch published etc 🙏🏿

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@Jaden3
Great to hear you're picking that up again!

I just found this YouTube channel that gives advice to writers. Maybe there's some interesting techniques and hints for you?

https://www.youtube.com/@savagebooks7482

energisch_, to random German
@energisch_@troet.cafe avatar

Demoschilder malen. Wir streiten noch um die Texte. Mein Vorschlag:

Wo bleibt , Söderin?

findet nicht überall Anklang. Langsam wirds brenzlig. Um 14 Uhr gehts los am Siegestor in .

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@energisch_
Mir ging folgendes durch den Kopf:

"Schluss mit Steuergeldern für Nazis - JETZT"

Habe nämlich den Eindruck dass viel zu viele denken "ein Verbot bringt doch nix". Doch, tut es - dann müssen Nazis nämlich alles selbst bezahlen und nicht die staatliche .

tynstar, to random German
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

hat die faschistische PiS-Regierung abgewählt, klasse. Noch toller finde ich aber das wie:

Dort „entstand eine Allianz von enormer Spannweite, angefangen von proeuropäischen Konservativen und Liberalen über Linke, LGBTQ-Gruppen, Ökoaktivisten und Feministinnen bis hin zu (...) expliziten Kritikern der katholischen Kirche. All diese Strömungen sind, das hat (der neue Premier) säuberlich austariert, nun auch in der neuen Regierung vertreten.“

https://www.rnd.de/politik/ein-voellig-neues-bild-von-polen-32YDZD3X7JHCTJKI7CQ5WQLLMY.html

via @TwraSun

testing, to workersrights
@testing@iceshrimp.social avatar

yesterday, i took ownership of the "workers' rights" magazine on kbin.social > you can find it here:
kbin.social/m/workersrights

since i consider workers' rights to be of international importance, i try to get away from an english-only, anglocentric perspective > attempting to counter english dominance on the fediverse, i added the hashtag "hartal" ("strike" in many south asian and southeast asian languages), aiming at a better discoverability of non-english posts at least on this specific subject

if you send me the term for "strike" in a language other than english, i will add the term as a hashtag to the kbin magazine mentioned above > contributions from the global south are especially welcome!

please boost ❤️

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@testing The German word is "Streik".

simon_brooke, to random
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot avatar

Any website which claims that ANY cookies are "required" to just serve you static text and images is lying. Any website which claims that it needs to "verify the security of your connection" to just serve you static text and images is lying.

The only reason any website needs to do either of these things is if it is logging data about you – data that it almost certainly hasn't asked for permission to log.

Just. Say. No.

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@mkoek @simon_brooke
I'm not familiar with all the details, but one exception I know (that makes sense) is the following:

If you log in to your account on a web site, it may set a cookie to store (more precisely: reference) your session.

In that case, the cookie is definitely required, and if the site doesn't use cookies for anything else, it doesn't need to ask for consent at all.

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@simon_brooke
100% this. Totally annoying!

Especially because if one really wants to, one can totally avoid the need for consent requests, cookie banners etc:

For my spare-time project, I made sure that its website is purely static without cookies. There's some use of "local storage", e.g. remembering dark/light mode. But there is no user ID or anything in there that allows identifying the user.

The corresponding webapp is dynamic and uses cookies for login, but not for tracking.

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@mkoek @simon_brooke
Exactly, I was assuming a same-site cookie for the login example above.

However, the rule is not simply "same-site cookies are always okay".

For example, a same-site cookie with a unique user ID for tracking visitor behavior (e.g. whether people who visit page A on the site later also visit page B and C) is not strictly required for any website, so one would definitely have to ask the user for their consent.

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@mkoek @simon_brooke
Well, AFAIK the EU laws don't even use the word "cookie", even the name "cookie law" is just simplification by the media.

The laws cover any usage/processing of personal data. That even includes random IDs that one can use to identify you as an individual (e.g. by looking it up in a company database).

Therefore, websites can't dodge the requirement of asking for consent for that kind of data processing just by e.g. replacing cookies with local storage or other tech.

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@simon_brooke @mkoek
Yes, and that could be used to track the user across any website they visit that also embed that image.

However, browsers increasingly block third-party cookies, i.e. cookies set by domains not related to the site the user is visiting. I don't know whether that particular distinction is made by any of the laws.

However, they probably don't need to care about either (not-)same-site or (not-)third-party because at least with GDPR, it's about the processing, not the tech.

ryanhoulihan, to random
@ryanhoulihan@mastodon.social avatar

If one side of a war can turn off the electricity and Internet for the other side of the war, I don’t think that’s a war 🤔

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@ryanhoulihan
No. The point about infrastructure access shows it's not fair or symmetrical warfare, but of course it is war.

One could say "it's not war, it's far worse" or "it's not war, it's a massacre".

But saying only "it's not a war" sounds like you're downplaying it, which I hope is not your intention.

MaiKueper, to random German
@MaiKueper@mastodon.social avatar

Wenn gut ausgebildete ITler keinen Job finden, weil sie wegen Family nur 30h machen wollen, ist das übrigens kein ..

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@svenja @MaiKueper
... oder weil sie ein einigermaßen vernünftiges Gehalt haben wollen.

https://chaos.social/@DiabolusAlbus/110627129303631819
Alt-Text: "Bild eines Porsche, darüber: Wir haben eindeutig einen Porschemangel in Deutschland. Ich suche einen neuen für 10000 Euro und finde keinen. — Genau so ist es mit dem Fachkräftemangel."

Sheril, to books
@Sheril@mastodon.social avatar

Knowing so many of you share my love of , maybe you can help me find a new one to get lost in. I just finished “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr which was beautiful.

We haven’t compiled a good reading list together in months…

What stories have you discovered or rediscovered lately? 📚

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

@Sheril
I haven't done much reading these last few years, but finding "Into The Forgotten Forest" by @cyborg_writer surprisingly got me back to it.

The book itself belongs to fantasy / urban fantasy I guess, but it's unlike others in the genre as it has so much mythology, and combines it with the idea of a multiverse. Really enjoyed the world building and all these wonderful character viewpoints! Reading the second installment now.

stephaniewalter, to random
@stephaniewalter@front-end.social avatar

Multi-layered calendars (10min) https://julian.digital/2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars
Interesting concept of a calendar the goes into multiple layers and dimensions. It kind of speaks to me because I use my calendar as a giant todo list and my mail box too
By Julian Lehr

tynstar,
@tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

Very interesting article, thanks a lot, @stephaniewalter!

The bit about using calendars for looking at the past reminded me of something I built for myself and a few of my colleagues: copying work logs from an issue tracker ( ) & from a time tracking app () to one's calendar in order to quickly see gaps or inconsistencies. https://nerdculture.de/@tynstar/110694908227775679

Also, funny that it mentions " to Calendar": I had the same idea, it's down in my backlog - is anybody interested?

jcrabapple, to mechanicalkeyboards

deleted_by_author

    •
    tynstar,
    @tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

    @jcrabapple
    MCC profile in POM by MoErgo on my .

    arstechnica, to random
    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

    Big Tech isn’t ready for landmark EU rules that take effect tomorrow

    Starting Friday, the EU will require more transparency from platforms than ever.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/big-tech-isnt-ready-for-landmark-eu-rules-that-take-effect-tomorrow/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    tynstar,
    @tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

    @arstechnica Could you please to the image? I'd like to boost your post.

    Jaden2, to random

    hey reaching out to yall that interested in Sci fi and time travel.
    I'm trying to write a time travel novel and would be fire to connect with anyone with similar interests.
    Hit me up for ideas . Preciate that frfr!
    Love Jaden ❤️

    tynstar,
    @tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

    @Jaden2
    Not into myself, but here's my suggestion:

    Have a look at , an online Q&A community where authors bounce, discuss and improve their ideas. Even if you're not posting there, you could get some inspiration, or read advice that applies to your story as well.

    There's even a category ("tag") for time travel related questions: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel

    Sheril, to mastodon
    @Sheril@mastodon.social avatar

    I’ve now been enjoying for 10 months & am delighted by the thoughtful engagement here. I’m also increasingly interested to learn more about who I’m connecting with in the fediverse.

    Where are you from?

    tynstar,
    @tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

    @Sheril Dortmund, Germany. A city famous for soccer and beer, though I'm into neither. 😁

    edboythinks, to random
    @edboythinks@fosstodon.org avatar

    deleted_by_author

    •
    tynstar,
    @tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

    @levampyre
    Unfortunately, @edboythinks lives in the US right now, so AFAIK there are virtually no employment protection laws - at least when compared to Europe and especially Germany. 😢

    Sheril, to twitter
    @Sheril@mastodon.social avatar

    A number of bright friends have long been convinced Elon is intentionally bringing down .

    I remain skeptical.

    But every few weeks, he does something that makes me slightly more curious. #x

    tynstar,
    @tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

    @Sheril
    A few weeks ago I read this article that explains a lot. And it also mentions Musk's previous attempts at rebranding something as X.com:

    https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start

    grammargirl, to random
    @grammargirl@zirk.us avatar

    Is anyone still singing sea shanties these days? https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/why-is-it-called-a-sea-shanty/

    tynstar,
    @tynstar@nerdculture.de avatar

    @grammargirl
    A while ago there was this awesome shanty for , a space-themed video game. Does that count? 😉

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EtOAaK19bA

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • Leos
  • GTA5RPClips
  • osvaldo12
  • thenastyranch
  • DreamBathrooms
  • khanakhh
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • mdbf
  • love
  • kavyap
  • rosin
  • megavids
  • everett
  • cubers
  • ethstaker
  • Durango
  • ngwrru68w68
  • tacticalgear
  • modclub
  • cisconetworking
  • provamag3
  • anitta
  • normalnudes
  • tester
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •