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claudius

@claudius@darmstadt.social

SciFi-Lego-Programmer-Technology-Fanboy. Believes that tabs are better than spaces. he/him

Fediverse'd since 2017 (previous accounts in the links below)

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gsuberland, to random
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I think one of the reasons that I enjoy fedi so much is that it has become a place where people feel free to post their hyper specific jokes that only a tiny niche of people will understand, and those are by far my favourite kinds of jokes.

claudius,
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@gsuberland that Star Trek Podcast, that delivers extremely niche jokes (1-percenters / jokes that only 1% of the audience gets). Where you would need to have seen Crimson Tide (fair) and also that single one Voyager episode with Icheb's brother (OK, I guess?) and then tie it together with a podcast specific in-Joke set to Clarinet music (WTF). If you like niche jokes and you will love @GreatestTrek - make sure to start at the beginning, though.

mattburgess, to tech

NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.
— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards
— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable

https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/

claudius,
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@mattburgess "embrace expand extinguish" applies here, too. Do not fall for it.

claudius,
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@aronkvh @mattburgess The conversation will work like this:

"Hey, I sent you that WhatsApp"
"yeah what was that about?"
"I used a new function in WhatsApp"
"but I'm not using WhatsApp, I'm using <insert different app here>"
"oh, that's inconvenient. Can you maybe just switch to WhatsApp instead?"

Interoperability barely works when all parties have common goals and good intentions. I do not assume meta to have good intentions.

janl, to random
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I, a self-proclaimed Apple fanboy, watched and read a number of Vision Pro reviews and this isn’t for me. At least not yet. It feels a lot like the original Apple Watch felt to me: nothing. I got a watch at Series 4 and I can be convinced the vision thing will then be cheaper and better in a couple of years, but I also have zero FOMO until then. ✌️

claudius,
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@janl I love new tech. But if the first iPhone, iPad and Watch have taught us anything: get version 4 or later.

claudius,
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@janl I would argue that the PowerBook G4 was their Nth iteration of a portable computer (I have no clue how many they did before, but I know it wasn't their first). I would also say the Air is a variation on a theme of portable computer. I don't deny that the first iPhone changed the industry, but at launch it was such a severely limited device. It did not even have GPS (which at the time started to become somewhat common in PDAs and smartphones). Apps and Copy&Paste came in later updates.

claudius,
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@janl Yeah, let's agree to disagree.

claudius,
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@janl let's agree to disagree about agreeing to disagree then?

Lana, to random
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There are currently three types of video games being made:

  1. You are a special shooty kind of shootboy who shoot things

  2. Oh I get it, it's a metaphor for depression

  3. Nintendo

claudius,
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@Lana
There's also
4. 178th iteration of 80s game
5. that sports franchise that just increments the number on the box

gsuberland, to random
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there's a saying in electronics that there are two types of PCB designers: people who make antennas on purpose and people who make antennas by accident.

and having looked at a bunch of designs made by big companies recently, I think more PCB designers should go be antenna designers instead, because they've clearly got some innate skill at it which is currently untapped.

claudius,
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@gsuberland
Where/how did you learn this?

claudius,
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@gsuberland
EMI in particular would be interesting to me. I am probably an internal hobby antenna designer 😭

claudius,
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@gsuberland I finally got around to watching the Rick Hartley talk. Before it, I was like "eh, I'm doing a few hobby projects with cheap microcontrollers"

And now I'm like "I need to restructure my project to a signal+power/GND/GND/signal+power stack!"

claudius, to random German
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Was mich heute in gestört hat: alle Plakate passten zum Thema. Viele hatten Kreatives oder nachdenkliches dabei - Außer die . Die Stand selbstzufrieden unter einem Werbebanner, das einfach nur mit SPD bedruckt war.

Fischblog, to random German
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Michelstadt: >2000 und es kommen noch Leute.

claudius,
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@Fischblog Schön Dich getroffen zu haben (ich war links hinten der mit dem "Nie Wieder" Schild) 😃

mcc, to random
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Oh wow I thought it was weird that the Oldest House in Control is in New York City as opposed to somewhere like DC but this seems to make it pretty obvious they just based it on this actual real-world building in NYC, a 30-story brutalist skyscraper with no windows whatsoever which was revealed by the Snowden disclosures to contain NSA work sites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4EUM8CwT4

claudius,
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@mcc
Here's the Art book, page 41
@lisamelton

rooster, to trans
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    claudius,
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    @rooster I haven't been in that situation, but I probably would have said something equally stupid, too. Do you have a suggestion what would be a "good" or "welcome" response?

    shortridge, to Cybersecurity
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    zealots often shame humans for writing down their passwords, but as someone who just had to excavate the digital remains of a loved one who died suddenly:

    please write down your credentials somewhere a trusted human can find them, especially your phone passcode and any primary passwords (like for email accounts, password manager, etc.)

    the humans who care about you will need that access for many reasons; a "badass" threat model will only add helplessness to their grief

    claudius,
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    @ljrk
    Besides my email provider I can't think of a single digital solution that offers to add a trusted person? My password manager (the thing that would probably be most useful in that situation) certainly does not have that option.

    claudius,
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    @ljrk I wish I had a secure way to share the passphrase later, though. Something like a dead man's switch system.

    Daojoan, (edited ) to random
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    What are your thoughts on blog posts published as threaded toots on Mastodon?

    claudius,
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    @Daojoan I like reading them, but I also would pretty please like to have a stable long-term URL for bookmarking/archiving/citing sometimes.
    @lisamelton

    xahteiwi, to random
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    From the America-is-odd department: what would my European friends say to a USian who told them, unironically, that an Italian restaurant they went to was not at all expensive, when in the same sentence they asserted it was typically $55 (€50) per person?

    I mean, I don't hold it against anyone if they spend €200 on a table of 4, but I'd definitely not call that cheap.

    claudius,
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    @xahteiwi
    Was that including the tip or excluding? Because if you go out in Germany for something decent to eat and a couple of beverages and you tip normally (here that's 10% or more) you can easily spend 30-50 bucks per person. It should be noted that going out to eat has become much more expensive since 2020.
    @amolith

    liztai, to random
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    I wish people would stop
    casually spouting anti-China things at me when I talk about China. (And I talk about it a lot cos I love ). Although I am not a CCP fan, I am STILL CHINESE and it sometimes feels freaking Sinophobic and hurts, OK?

    You complain so much about Nazis but are OK with painting Chinese people in a bad light (namely they are brainwashed, have no agency etc).
    Like, stop already.
    I am tired of this.

    claudius,
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    @liztai here in germany, it's also common that people reply with some variation of "producers of cheap products and/or bad quality" when you bring up products from china.

    GUYS, GUESS WHERE YOUR FANCY PHONES WERE PRODUCED?! HINT: IT WASN'T "MADE IN GERMANY".

    claudius,
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    @liztai We had a very solid solar panel industry in germany 20 years ago. Our pro-coal politicians basically destroyed that whole sector. Now pretty much every solar panel is made in china (I'm not complaining about that last part, but I'm complaining about that first part A LOT).

    whitequark, to random
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    matrix is an incredible way to take your existing conversations and make them more miserable

    claudius,
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    @jason
    Matrix' technology is powering military in France and Germany as far as I know. Have been for a couple of years.
    @whitequark

    tante, to random
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    Usually I don't particularly enjoy horror or survival horror games but Alan Wake 2 is really really good. (Because the fighting stuff that's mostly just serviceable isn't getting in the way of narrative.)
    The narrative is captivating, engaging and Post-modern in the best way.
    Haven't finished it yet but enjoyed the time I got to spend with it.

    claudius,
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    @tante have you played CONTROL, and if so: how would you compare the two?

    lothcat, to StarTrek
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    claudius,
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    @lothcat make it a search image ("where is Waldo?") Book. Kids love that! 🤣

    claudius,
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    @lothcat kids be like "daddy, there's a moopsy under my bed!"

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