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  Family tradition: never serve sweet OR sour skittles. Mix them in equal parts in a large bowl, only distribute from there.

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  Gotta love when people skim a text, fill in the gaps between the words with their own assumption, and then argue against those assumptions. I mean, at least *ask* before you argue.

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  I'm having a strong Knuth moment, in which I want to get shit done, but before I can get shit done, I first have to make the tools to get shit done. Why Knuth? Because it's about documentation. It always is about documentation. I don't know why all the documentation related tooling we have is kind of shitty. I suspect it is because too many developers treat knowledge transfer as a *secondary* objective. /me grumbles in old man

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  K1 just observed that Nesquik's choice of making their chocolate cereals with the bunny mascot little brown balls is, uh, well, certainly A Choice. Now I saw, I can't unsee.

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  The other day, I was reflecting how Rowlings' TERFiness blends neatly with her support of fascist politics. The reason I was reflecting on that is that there is a whole generation of people who grew up with the HP franchise, and have consequently opted to get tattoos with the Deathly Hallows symbol. I realize that having such a tattoo in no way implies supporting Rowlings' shitty politics. Nonetheless, seeing that symbol, especially as a tattoo, now gives me very icky vibes. So... too...

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  The other day, we went to a book shop. A young woman walks in to employee A, and says she'd read this book, gives the title, and goes on about how much she loved it. Now she'd like recommendations for similar things, because she doesn't want to be disappointed by the next purchase. Employee A, a little dazed: uh, I wrote that book. Young woman: wait, what? YOU are the author?? Employee B, from the other side of the shop, yells: YES SHE IS!! Then, to employee A: AND I CONVINCED H...

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  I got triggered by recent discussions about #FOSS and #LLMs. They tie into much more broad concerns I have about the communities, and so I finally caved and wrote... well, not a manifesto. https://finkhaeuser.de/2026-06-21-not-a-manifesto/

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  When I met my wife, I taught her how to count in German: eins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun zehn elf dwarf orc goblin ... She married me anyway 🤷

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  Rain and cool. Nice. I needed that.

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  ... could not figure that out from the docs. Not important, rebuilding the VM was not hard. Anyway. A bunch more basic system setup to go through, then I'll be ready to try hardware.

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  @harrysintonen@infosec.exchange @signalapp@mastodon.world @Mer__edith@mastodon.world might care.

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  @dianea@lgbtqia.space this picture is totally unrealistic! Computers are well known not to run without at least a cm of sticky fluff buildup on every surface.

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  @blogdiva@mastodon.social @gwynnion@mastodon.social I once dutifully listened to an episode acquaintances produced, only to realize that the first half hour of their creation was just faffing about with greetings and banter. It's been years, but I want those two hours back.

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  Weiss ja nicht. Branding ist schwer... aber #WirVerlassenX ist doch boring, wenn #IntoTheFediverse so nahe liegt.

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  @fiend_unpleasant Funny you mention web 2, because web 2.0 (as we olds used to call it) was explicitly about re-use and re-mixing. It started out with snippets you'd publish on one site and include on another. Structured data. RSS is actually very much a web 2.0 technology. REST, while originally relating to HTTP/1.1, is also very much a web 2.0 thing because the RESTful hype that followed it was all about somewhat standardizing interaction patterns between ... @jdp23 @stefanie @haubles

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  @jpm @benno Here I was thinking it got the date wrong. There's also https://ipv8.es/en/

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  @Blort both relate to executive dysfunction. I had a longer discussion about how to know the difference from the inside, when both result in demand avoidance. The difference, I suppose, is that ADHD demand avoidance revolves more around the fear of failure. Autistic demand avoidance is more... that the demand feels like a violation? It's not really about the thing itself so much? Of course, being asked to put yourself in a situation with an increased likelihood of failure can feel like...

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  @peterw Still the best scifi show.

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  For a little side-project, I have wrangled pandoc into HTML-formatting a series of linked articles. It is half a step away from being able to generate an entire book out of those, and a small step away from being a decent static site generator for a series of articles ordered and linked by *date*, aka a blog. GUESS WHAT URGE I AM FIGHTING ALL THE TIME NOW!

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  A lot of Germans are posting in German about #Giessen today, and since many of our friends overseas may be confused, here's a summary: The current iteration of the Nazi-Party, the AfD, is holding a summit in the town of Giessen today. They announced the formation of a youth org (Hitler-Jugend?). A ton of people came to protest. The police are busy protecting the Nazis, and politicians in the current government see fit to attack the protesters. This needs international attention. #depol