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pino

@pino@social.cologne

Kölner seit kurzer Zeit, knappe 40, Softwareentwickler, Linuxfreund, steht auf Männer und Frikadellen.

Politisch Links, kann aber wenig mit all denen anfangen, die ihren 'Freiheitskampf' in den Walled Gardens von Zuckerberg&friends führen.

Rest später. :)

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kaffeeringe, to random German
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Wo findet ihr kritischen Journalismus zur Tech-Branche?

pino,
@pino@social.cologne avatar

@kaffeeringe theregister.com kann man ruhig schonmal lesen. Kritisch, hm, najaaa.... Eine Frage des Anspruchs. Ich persönlich finde es nicht so enttäuschend wie @heiseonline - wobei ich deren Heftabos aber auch schon vor vielen Jahren gekündigt hatte, weil mir eine wirklich kritische Haltung dort immer mehr gefehlt hat.

Ansonsten vermutlich eher Blogs, und auch dort oft eher die Kommentare tatsächlich. Da ist viel Dreck bei, aber es gibt auch Perlen zu entdecken.

pino, to bluesky
@pino@social.cologne avatar

Question to everyone who uses as well as :

Is there a chance that conversations are more exciting and more vibrant there? I was sceptical for some time, mostly bcs it's a commercially driven service (right?), but atm I'm considering it, iff it's a little bit more interesting than here.

Is it worth trying in that regard?

All opinions are welcome.

philbaker1, to til
@philbaker1@fosstodon.org avatar

There is an option in to turn on rounded lower corners. Type about:config in the address bar, and search for
widget.gtk.rounded-bottom-corners.enabled and double-click to set to true.

I think it makes Firefox appear a little less out of place next to GTK4 apps on the desktop.

pino,
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@philbaker1 When things were a little less broken in Linux land, this wasn't something that I needed to configure on application level.

pino,
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@bragefuglseth Again: This should not be on application level. This should be something that I can set up globally in system settings, and then it gets automatically applied to all applications (unless they explicitly decide against system-level window decorations in some corner cases - but the browser's main window is definitely not such a corner case).

pino,
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@bragefuglseth I always hope that you just pretend to be convinced of those design weaknesses around theming that came with GTK3 and later versions, and that you silently plan how to solve that in a GTK7/Gnome5 or whatever... ;)

There's always hope.......

Look MacOS. People appreciate a common look and feel. They don't want to see a different design language for app X and Y, just because X came from you and Y not.

briankrebs, to random

One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.

Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866

pino,
@pino@social.cologne avatar

@briankrebs I would like to be able to just create Signal accounts, with username and password, like for my mail address (and, well, everything else that I use on the internet), and then have the option to link it to my phone number.

pino,
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@wjmaggos @briankrebs @signalapp No no, when the big departure from WhatsApp happened a few years ago, all those freedom fighterz (all 5) had no better idea than Signal. Of course. Because that was the most disappointing decision they could make. And if there is one big unwritten rule... Anyways..........

Nowadays they probably lament about it at RedditTube. (And of course are all back at WA, because their mother, or whatever lame excuse, ...)

lcamtuf, (edited ) to random

I spent more than 25 years in tech. If you asked me for advice today, I’d open with a warning: don’t let a corporate job, no matter how great, become your whole identity.

My view isn’t rooted in resentment or anti-capitalism. I am immensely grateful for my career, I’ve always taken pride in my work, and I strived to do it well. My point is different: losing an argument in the office shouldn’t feel like an attack on your entire self.

The allure of getting lost in work comes in part from the mythos of Big Tech: the idea that we’re changing the world every day, even if it the bulk of corporate life is just grind. The grind is important but it has no end; in ten years, nobody will remember or care about the all-nighters we put in to refactor some code, flesh out a policy, or nail an OKR.

It doesn’t help that many tech companies recruit fresh out of college and ask people to move hundreds or thousands of miles. This severs our social connections and forces us to rebuild them around the workplace. When doing so, it can be difficult to draw clear lines.

I’m not arguing for nihilism or mediocrity. But by the end of the day, your corporate employer is not your family. The pastel-colored interiors, the board games, the lounge chairs conceal an uncomfortable truth: the company will not hesitate to fire you if you bring the wrong “whole self” to work, if they lose interest in your project, or if they need to send a specific message in the quarterly report. You might have a caring manager or wonderful colleagues, but your work identity is just a row in someone else's spreadsheet.

My advice is simple. Be ambitious, but find ways to disconnect every now and then. Save some of that true passion for hobbies, family, and friends.

Edit: also posted at https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/on-corporate-life

pino,
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@lcamtuf Do such people actually exist? I mean, yes, of course, some handful... But are they common?

What is definitely common: You spend your time in friendships that just suddenly get completely pointless at some point in their life.

Yesss, that's still not the same as my employer's HR spreadsheet, sure, but it's not as black and white as it is often romanticized. Good and deep friendships can turn out to be equally pointless than the refactored JavaScript in the end. Not nice. But true. :-P

pino,
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@lcamtuf ... maybe I just had back luck, but whenever I discuss it with somebody (not with those who already disappeared in the family blackhole - they never understand), everyone just frenetically agrees with that observation and remembers some of those disappointing friendships that she/he had.

pino,
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@lcamtuf I agreed, it's not the same. But in the end, both situations have a lot in common imho.

You 'work' together for some time, and at some moment X, priorities get remixed, and instead of meeting multiple times a week, it's a phone call every some months before the dinner, where you get the latest infos about what sicknesses the child had, how their vacation was, and so on.

Then I can also hack some JavaScript (or Python in my case) instead.

Yes, not the same. But has similarities.

bastianallgeier, to random
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Reading the latest thread by Mastodon‘s CTO @renchap made me realize once more how small the team behind all this is and how they really try to listen to feedback and get it right.

It’s incredible what they‘ve achieved. It’s literally David vs Goliath compared to other social media platforms.

We should always keep that in mind when some things are not 100% smooth.

We get an ad-free, algo-free, tracker-free, lunatic-billionaire-free space in return 💛

pino,
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@bastianallgeier @renchap Technically, yes, not bad.

... but then there was the 'Meta wants to join' discussion, which surprised and scared me a lot, tbh.

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Pretty sure that most of these railway projects in Germany don’t get done because the people supposedly advocating for them are so dull that everyone else has totally lost interest before you reach a stage where a decision can be made.

pino,
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@jon And also (?): Nobody really fights. The good guys are stupid and/or uninterested and/or uninformed and/or naive. If you want to see things suceeding, watch for not-so-nice projects driven in the dark by some clever guys with enough money and influence (and FDP friends ^^) to keep the sleeping masses on safe distance from it.

Fischblog, to random German
@Fischblog@chaos.social avatar

Mich haben ja Leute angemault, weil ich gesagt hab, 2023 ist das Jahr, in dem der der Klimaschutz endgültig tot ist. Heute sind es noch genau vier Wochen bis zum COP28. In den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten. Präsident der Konferenz ist der CEO der Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.
Wir schnacken noch mal nach der Abschlusserklärung, OK?

pino,
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@Fischblog Für einen 'endgültigen Tod' muss man aber erstmal zumindest ein paar Sekündchen gelebt haben, oder? ^^

Daojoan, to random
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How it feels to be a journalist in 2023

pino,
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@Daojoan Wasn't that clear since a large part of journalism is copy&paste from twitter and friends?

A typical article:

Blabla. John twittered:

[...]

Then Jane twittered:

[...]

Then Elon twittered:

[...]

Now we are waiting for the next tweet.

Share this exciting story: [twitter] [fecesbook] [toktok] [washing machine]

feditips, (edited ) to mastodon
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Hello new people, welcome! 👋

You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon!

All links in Mastodon posts count as 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how long they actually are.

Also, the links are preserved in their original form. Unlike commercial social networks, there are no trackers of any kind inserted.

More info about this and many questions answered at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon/

pino,
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@NatureMC @feditips In another but similar universe:

People who don't like fart smell come with gas masks to the restaurant anyways. So we fart here.

SCNR

lucas, to cycling

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    pino,
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    @lucas Is that because car drivers are less careful at this particular day, or is there something else going on? Should we maybe discuss social media driven stupid ideas from the children? About parents who just let it go, i.e. rejecting to actually provide actual education? Who lost control a long time ago? Who were never actually able to educate children but just 'got' them?

    pino,
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    @peterbutler @lucas I'd say they are protective in many ways - sometimes targetting rather obscure and artificial topics - but they completely lost control about some things, in particular: digital things - since they lost the control regarding themselves years ago already...

    But well, if it's since 1975, it's not a social media phenomenon, I admit.

    Anyways: If it's about more safety in general, go ahead. Great. But if it's about that particular day, you can't blame car drivers for being bad.

    pino,
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    @peterbutler @lucas

    "While four additional deaths might seem like a small number in a country with a population of 325.7 million, any non-zero number of preventable deaths is too many."

    Okay... If that's the rule, let's stop all kinds of things. What is 'preventable' exactly?

    Let's make a list of things somewhere that we do not have to stop then. ;)

    georgetakei, to random

    Fascinating. https://www.comicsands.com/tiktoker-genz-millennials-dont-work-2666095045.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    pino,
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    @georgetakei

    "Gen Z and Millennials just don't want to work nowadays."

    Completely true, but incomplete: They are also completely uncapable. For anything but TikTok.

    ... and that's why you don't call them humans or people, but 'TikTokers', right?!?! You haven't invented those stupid words completely without a reason, have you?

    Ask them anything beyond their smartphone and they will fail _ instantly_. Hopelessly.

    kuketzblog, to random German
    @kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de avatar

    Eltern-WhatsApp-Gruppe in der Schule: Meine Reaktion

    https://www.kuketz-blog.de/eltern-whatsapp-gruppe-in-der-schule-meine-reaktion/

    pino,
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    @kuketzblog Boa schon nur allein wegen solcher Themen hätte ich komplett keine Lust auf Kinder... Das ist ja wirklich der Horror. Und vermutlich ist es beileibe nicht die erste WhatsApp-Gruppe, in die du im Eltern-Kontext eingeladen wurdest, und auch sonst nicht die erste digitale Ärgerlichkeit in dem Zusammenhang. ^^

    Blind im Voraus: Du wirst krachend scheitern. Mit Pauken und Trompeten.

    Aber ich mag den Versuch. :)

    Tattooed_mummy, to random
    @Tattooed_mummy@wandering.shop avatar

    I'm being mansplained to on Facebook and it's the funniest thing ever. a guy is telling me how watches can't work without electricity, it's not possible even if they're wind up, that power needs to be stored in a battery. I'm trying to explain to him about springs, but he doesn't understand I'm dying 😂.

    pino,
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    @Tattooed_mummy I would be sooo happy if that was a particular surprising and striking example of stupid people today. :D

    He is actually a clever guy: He understood that the clock does not work without any way of resource consumption.

    That's not nothing nowadays. And he understands all 52 legacy emojis that you call the Latin alphabet (i guess). :)

    josephcox, to random

    New on 404 Media: verified Twitter 'OSINT' accounts are destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem. What used to be a network of reliable experts has been taken over by profit and click driven verified accounts. Everyone loses out. "Unprecedented" levels.

    I spoke to multiple respected OSINT experts who have been tracking conflict on Twitter for years. Now after Musk's changes on verification, profit:

    • "all hell broke loose"
    • “this entire space is 90% grifters”
    • “It just creates more noise and less signal

    https://www.404media.co/twitter-verified-osint-accounts-are-destroying-the-israel-palestine-information-ecosystem/

    pino,
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    @josephcox And whose problem is that? Whose fault is it? 'Musk' is the answer for neither questions, right? ;)

    HelenG, to random
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    pino,
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    @HelenG He's probably right, no? Who has voted for that party?

    Maybe you underestimated how malicious and ill ppl around you are?

    (or, maybe, just stupid... Although they could at least prove that they were able to read NHS related promises printed on buses ROFL - better than nothing ^^)

    kuketzblog, (edited ) to random German
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    Ich halte ja Versuche, Microsoft-Produkte über Verträge datenschutzkonform nutzbar zu machen, für absolut unsinnig. Das ist so, als würde man versuchen, ein Sieb als Wasserdicht zu verkaufen - weil es vertraglich so vereinbart wurde. Was zählt sind Fakten und die lassen sich nicht aus Verträgen entnehmen, sondern bei der Prüfung des Produkts in der Praxis. Aber anstatt das zu tun, werden Juristen engagiert, die das Produkt dann auf dem Papier datenschutzkonform aussehen lassen. 🤦‍♂️

    pino,
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    @kuketzblog Es ist vielleicht gar nicht unsinnig, bloß weil es nicht in unserem Interesse ist. Ich hielte es für hilfreicher, das Kind beim Namen zu nennen: Raffinierter Lobbyismus. Und eine Gesellschaft, die es auf Gedeih und Verderb nicht schaffen will, mal substantiell für ihre Interessen zu kämpfen. Eine Gesellschaft, die genau weiß, dass sie im Alltag eigentlich nur Mist macht (Datenschutz, Umwelt, Gerechtigkeit, ..., ...), aber es einfach aus Bequemlichkeit und Desinteresse trotzdem macht.

    rysiek, to mastodon
    @rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

    " is failing" so hard that just crossed 4mln monthly active accounts (based on the-federation.info). :blobcatgiggle:

    This is already slightly more than Nov and Dec waves' peaks. And it is still going up.

    What I find particularly important is that it seems like a lot of this is not new accounts, but people returning to accounts created before and then left unused.

    I expect this to be a more resilient kind of growth. Less of a drop after it peaks.

    pino,
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    @rysiek Yes, you phrase it in much nicer words than I could. But admittedly, there is no strong contradiction between my toot and your other toot. Let's agree on that. ;)

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