Enkrod

https://www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/test.htm

(don’t mind the URL, I don’t know, I can’t tell you why, but it leads to the game)

PARAPLÜSCH! The psyciatry ward for abused cuddlytoys!! It’s such a sweet and at the same time disturbing game (I recommend playing on PC, not smartphone)

(You can select a number of languages, though it is originally german)

Preach!

I want to live today, I wanted to live yesterday and I imagine the most likely state for tomorrow is “I still want to live”. And I’ve absolutely had times, quite recently too, where my state was “maybe I don’t have the drive to live anymore” but I always came out living and being okay with that. And I keep on preferring it to the very final alternative.

Opt-Out immortality is quite good! Opt-Out immortality and eternal youth is better.

The horror of eternal, unavoidable immortality is imho mostly just projection of the absolutely eternal and (likely) unavoidable horror of death. Absolutes are scary. But as long as I have the option to check out, you might find me enjoying living forever in eternity.

Yes please!

Steam actually developed an entire toolkit allowing developers to price their products fairly. Even as far as by purchasing power parity or market strength per country. This was done after Polish gamers complained about their games being the same price as in Germany.

https://partner.steamgames.com/pricing/explorer

But it is up to the sellers to use those tools, Steam does not compell pricing.

And I just looked it up, this might have been broken in the past, but they updated it recently: https://youtu.be/Nz4FOKZRX_8

Still, developers need to use this.

I own a lot of Strauss stuff and am extremely happy with it. Shoes, trousers, shirts. Workwear or casual clothes it’s a bit less fashionable but A LOT longer lasting.

I do however think it’s pretty boring, I love bandshirts and tees with printing on it commenting on coding or roleplay and of course they don’t have that. But i have to say my Strauss polo-shirts are still like new while my bandshirts are losing their prints and starting to get tiny holes.

EDIT: oh shit! They offer prints and even embroidery now! Time to update my wardrobe!

Drummer and Ashford (tv)! Belter idols!!

Vaultwarden is a self-hosted, fully FOSS implementation of the Bitwarden API that works with all Bitwarden Apps and Browser Addons.

Been using it for years and am extremely happy with it. It’s fully client encrypted so the server only works as storage for fully encrypted blobs

Not if boss wants my name (and thus responsibility) on it.

Tried that, result was shitty documentation and as someone who reads other peoples documentation for a living I will NOT subject other people or my future self to that.

I told my boss I wouldn’t use AI to help write code and sign off on the commits with my name. He told me to use it to write the documentation… it was bad. Essential concepts were not mentioned and obvious shit was explained five times in slightly different phrasing. I am now writing our documentation as an obsidian vault myself again.

I only have it compile a change log from the commit messages of commits and merges on the main and development branch. I know our commits are well written (because I established the standards for them in our repo myself) and that’s concrete and rigid enough that it can’t fuck it up enough to matter.

But honestly there are build tools that could do that for me, I don’t need to buy tokens for that.

Loyal, friendly, tired and sad.

The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I am sorry, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s my character.”

Surveillance systems are able to differentiate between identical twins. Even if they look the same and have the same genetic code.

Good surveillance software can recognize you by the folds in your jeans and wear patterns on other clothes. It’s not a good forensic method, but it’s just one of many data-points for a stochastic analysis. And if you try to wear anti-surveillance-fashion (it’s a thing) this is just another data-point on your profile. Anti-surveillance fashion honestly makes you more recognizable to the system, because you are “more different” from other people.

Disappearing would also mean that you never carry any identifiable electronics, (like a cellphone, not even a google phone or a smartphone, ANY cellphone).

Also the LACK of identifiable electronics would in and of itself be a VERY identifiable data point. Or, if you gattaca that too, the person you would try to impersonate would have to stop using their devices while you use them.

Lastly the surveillance system doesn’t even need to connect your profile to your or any real ID, the profile it builds will be build on the things you do, wear, say and how you act. It can be connected to your ID post-factum.

Gattaca relies heavily on a lack of technology that we do have today and the in-story over-reliance on genetics (for example there are no security cameras in that NASA-building, because they rely completely on genetic identification for everything security related).

Unsurprisingly, a movie set in a fictional world is not a good guide to today’s very real privacy concerns.

I think the biggest difference is that many european states have parliamentary democracies vs. the US’ presidential democracy.

This, combined with proportional representation voting systems, that more accurately represent the will of the populace in parliament, leads to a need for governmental coalition building, necessitating a more concilliatory and a little more non-partisan politics. While usually allowing for a more effective government, since the head of government represents a legislative majority.

It does have its own challenges and is far from perfect, but I think the current US government is a fitting contrast of a minority elected, non-concilliatory, highly partisan government that might become completely and utterly unable to do any governing by the midterms.

The US is also a good example that the age of a democratic system doesn’t mean it’s a good system. In fact I far prefer the very young post-WW2 german system to the very old american or british systems, though it could stand to learn some from the nordics, especially Finlands open list voting system.

How… how do you know so exactly my activities and thoughts from yesterday evening? (I’m soooo tired)

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt

Just be aware that The Wandering Inn turns into the absolutely longest rambling mess of dozens of viewpount characters.

It’s often lovely, but sometines it just goes on and on and on… It is roughly three times longer than the entire Wheel of Time series, and its word count surpasses War and Peace, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hunger Games combined and it is still unfinished. Pirateaba writes like a mad person.

A local rendition of “Tratsch im Treppenhaus” in our local dialect in 2009.

I couldn’t really concentrate on the wider play though, everybody kept looking at me when I entered the stage and said my lines.

That’s why Germans mix juices at least half and half with sparkling water… mmmmhmmmm Schorle…

5. it’s fucking Chromium

Go use some Firefox-derivative like Librewolf or Fennec, like a sane person.