Ich benutze den Ventilator im Büro jetzt als Entscheidungshilfe. Soll ich ins nächste Meeting gehen? Ventilator schüttelt langsam den Kopf. Sollte ich noch mal meine Mails checken? Ventilator schüttelt langsam den Kopf.

Wenn ich ein:e freiberufliche Übersetzer:in suchen würde mit folgenden Parametern: - Englisch→Deutsch - Anwendungshandbuch einer Software - Gesamtumfang derzeit 40 Artikel viele <1500 Wörter, manche >3500 Wörter, wird schon ein paar Wochen Arbeitszeit brauchen - Hoher Qualitätsanspruch, bitte […]

Several years of Deutsche Bahn business travel taught me something unexpected: eventually you stop fighting the system and start learning its moods, failure domains, and hidden virtues. I wrote down the practical folklore that actually helps: apps, routing habits, delay survival, seat choices […]

In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.

“Don’t rely on responses from Gemini Apps for diagnosis, treatment, or medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Its output is for informational purposes only.” motherfucker what do you think “information” is

This. 👇

This is perfect! (By Amadeo Capelli) #mechanical #craft #art

I love talks that make me, as a 25 year Python veteran, that have the ability make me say to myself “wait, does that even work” with less than 10 lines of code

icelandair is looking for a really bad photographer. i don’t meet all criteria (close tho), but maybe you do? :o #getfedihired

Bisschen Erwartungsmanagement: Peter Magyar und seine Tisza-Partei stehen nicht für progressive Politik. Magyar ist ein Konservativer mit entsprechenden Ansichten zu Familie und Geschlechterrollen. Er ist allerdings kein Faschist, Putin-Enabler und Anführer eines korrupten Regimes wie Orban, der […]

the idea that a "singularity" is possible is just the idea that you can turn "mistaking a sigmoid for an exponential" into a millenarian religion

Eine weitere Gelegenheit, bei uns im Team #pretix zu arbeiten, darf ich noch anbieten: Unser Hardware-Team wächst und sucht eine weitere Person für eine bunte Mischung aus einerseits Routineaufgaben für unser Tagesgeschäft und andererseits Mitdenken und Debugging in einem weiten Spektrum von von […]

NINETY DAYS NINETY INCIDENTS NINETY PERCENT YOU PAID FOR ALL FIVE NINES BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE #github

[astral acquisition take] Little bit of a "told you so" moment, who of you has really thought "let's replace community-maintained tools with ones built by a VC-funded team with no realistic business model" would end well? I dislike OpenAI as much as the next person, but I think this is one of […]

Some regrettable personal news: As of ~45 mins ago I am no longer employed. I'm still trying to find my bearings, but would be gateful for whatever leads y'all have. (I will say more in a bit, once I actually have the time to spare) #getfedihired

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

Google Chrome doing more absolutely horrid default surveillance fyi

Ich suche eine:n Generalist:in, die mich bei @pretix in all den Aufgaben unterstützt, für die sonst niemand zuständig ist. Also genau der Job für jemanden, der zwischen Recherche, Projektmanagement, Papierkram, interne Doku, interner Orga und mehr jeden Tag was anderes machen und dabei alle […]

Ich arbeite seit neun Monaten als bei @pretix und finde es immer noch toll. Seit diesem Jahr gibt es für alle Mitarbeiter*innen pro Jahr zehn kostenlose Therapiesitzungen (plus je zwei für bis zu drei Angehörige). Schön finde ich, dass offen über Einführung und Evaluation solcher Sachen mit dem […]

Das Rhein-Neckar-Fernsehen ist insolvent. Mal wieder… Aber diesmal sieht es besonders düster aus. https://www.rnz.de/politik/wirtschaft-regional_artikel,-Jetzt-ist-Schicht-im-Schacht-Nach-39-Jahren-stellte-RNF-den-Sendebetrieb-ein-_arid,1836631.html Auch wenn Fernsehen überhaupt nicht mein […]

Stark: Der katholische Sozialverband Kolping mit seinen 200.000 Mitgliedern hat auf seiner Bundesversammlung beschlossen, AfD-Mitgliedern künftig von der Mitgliedschaft bei Kolping Deutschland auszuschließen.

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

Normally, one of my boundaries with the open source & Python world is that I already give away so much in terms of code & time, that I do not donate cash. Partially this is out of concern for my family; I am obviously much more embedded in this community than my kid or even my spouse (who does […]

I just boosted a bunch of stuff about this, most of which puts the focus on the PSF's correct moral calculus here, and that's where most the focus should be. But there's unfortunately another, tougher lesson: you cannot be a Republican and support the Python community […]

As a less visible but possibly even worse example, the Python community can no longer meet in safety. International borders have always been an issue, creating expense and risk for many attendees, but the *precipitous* drop in international attendance at PyCon US demonstrates that the actions of […]

for fuck's sake I shouldn't need to say "do not use a browser written by OpenAI" but here we are I guess. do not use a browser written by OpenAI https://mstdn.social/@Hackread/115448122449051028

At least I got the day job to implement a "no AI browsers on work machines" policy. If you CISO has not released a policy forbidding AI browsers at your company they are asleep at the wheel. https://mstdn.social/@Hackread/115448122449051028

It’s worth noting that your employer may match these donations; mine does. So, in the end, this was $2,060 donated to the PSF. https://wandering.shop/@offby1/115448024565488288 It’s what I can spare right now; you may not be able to spare as much, but there are tens of thousands of us.

I have nothing but respect and sympathy for @ThePSF in their decision to withdraw from the NSF grant program in order not to compromise on their mission to keep #python a diverse and welcoming open source community. It's hard as hell to turn down that kind of money. So, here's my .02c for it […]

I need more load, test https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/we-dodged-a-bullet/

Meanwhile, der Hersteller vom Möbelaufzug, der neulich am Louvre stand.

to everyone asking foss maintainers to finally publish a new version: as a teenager, have you ever been asked by someone to clean your room after you decided to do it yourself? 😇

Really good take by the oatmeal about AI generated images: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

the "vibe engineering" version of this — even in the fantasyland scenario where the tools work and produce correct results, somehow, even in the face of all the evidence that they don't — is that you establish a permanent unfixable dependency on *OpenAI's subscription services*, which are being […]

[depol] Ich würd ja meiner Bundestagsabgeordneten wegen der Chatkontrolle schreiben, aber Heidelberg ist ja einer der Wahlkreise, die weder einen direkten Abgeordneten noch einen Landesliste-Abgeordneten einer Regierungspartei haben 🤡 Aber das ist ja kein Grund, nicht 8 Leute von […]

"The Ruby community has a DHH problem" https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-problem Good summary of what's happening in Rails-land for outsiders. I wonder (and this is just an unthought thought) if it would make sense (and a difference at all) to fork the Rails project to […]

Pro tip: if you are in a similar "catching up with a tsunami of shit after being sick / on vacation for a while" situation, and you're looking at your email inbox, try switching your email client to sort by sender rather than by time; bulk / low-priority senders will clump together and you can […]

Yesterday, 10 years ago, Let's Encrypt issued their first #tls #certificate to the domain name `helloworld.letsencrypt.org`. Since then, they issued 7 billion certificates. To quote Borat: "Great success!" Congrats! #letsencrypt #tls #ssl #https

Als Wahlvorsteher habe ich mich natürlich für ein neutrales Nageldesign entschieden. #kommunalwahlnrw #beifunk #kommunalwahl

Die MacBooks haben einen Sensor, der den Winkel des Laptopdeckels bestimmen kann. Sam Henri Gold hat das genutzt, um das Knarzen einer Tür zu simulieren. https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor Cc: @layer8 #apple #macbook

Ich arbeite inzwischen vier Monate bei pretix. Davon habe ich mir knapp einen Monat Urlaub genommen (offene Urlaubsregelung funktioniert). Ich habe schon einige Fehler gemacht und wurde nie dafür verurteilt, sondern bekam Unterstützung beim Lernen und Wiederhinbiegen. Das tut gut. Derzeit wird […]

Psst 🤫 Wir suchen eine neue Kolleg*in für Full-Stack-Web-Entwicklung mit Fokus auf Python + Django 🐍 30-40h/Woche, remote in Deutschland, 55-66k€/Jahr plus Extras, viel open source. Alle Details: https://pretix.eu/about/de/job/webdev Ein großer Teil des bestehenden Teams ist diese Woche auch […]

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz. https://e-mail.wtf

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas. Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented? Here's the actual impact. "AI" is a […]