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Wenn deine Tante stirbt, und dir 100.000€ vererbt, zahlst du 16.000€ Erbschaftsteuer. (20% für alles über dem Freibetrag von 20.000€) Wenn Milliardär Klaus-Michael Kühne stirbt, und ein Vermögen von ca. 42,5 MILLIARDEN Euro hinterlässt, zahlen seine Erben darauf etwa 0€ Steuern, dank einer Stiftung in der Schweiz. Eigentlich wären nach deutschem Recht knapp 12,75 Milliarden Euro fällig. Dafür könnten wir locker Klimaanlagen in alle Schulen und Krankenhäuser einbauen. #erbschaftssteuer

On this day in 1973, the Chilean army, backed by the CIA, overthrew the democratic government of Salvador Allende. They installed a dictatorship that lasted until 1988. Thousands were killed and disappeared. Keep this is mind when you hear USians talk about freedom and democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

@johl@mastodon.xyz @_elena@mastodon.social Congratulations on your decision to learn German! As a speaker of Latin-based languages, you’ll probably be annoyed by the absence of structure and order. My advice would be to learn the basics, but after that, not to spend too much time on grammar and the gender of nouns. Hardly any foreign speaker gets these right, and you’re perfectly understandable either way. Have fun!

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553 Mullvad is all about freedom of speech, e.g. giving lots of money to Nazis. You may exercise your own freedom by not giving Mullvad any money, because you know they’re gonna give some of it to Nazis. It’s not complicated.

Update: the #kombucha got 4 out of 5 stars from my wife as an accompaniment to our sushi dinner 🍣 She suggested using apple juice next time, because the orange juice was fairly dominant. But it was good!

@smveerman@zug.network I appreciate the precision, but I’m afraid the minister thinks in headlines, and headlines only. Anyone who’s ever used a train station knows this is bullshit. German transport ministers have sell-by dates in the range of lettuce, so the parties aren’t sending their best.

Love to see people posting about the Odyssey while declaring “no spoilers”. It’s pretty much the oldest story we have! Have you been living under a rock for the last 3000 years??!

RE: https://chaos.social/@algorithmwatch/117003758999575725 Hab dann mal meiner Schufa meine Daten beantragt. Der Prozess ist von @algorithmwatch@chaos.social super smooth umgesetzt. Kompliment!

Had my closest friend over last night. It’s perhaps the least urgent of all problems, but we talked about how middle age, for family men like us, is a new phase in life, and needs to be approached as such. The most urgent needs are addressed, and the big decisions are taken. Now we need to decide what we’re going to do with the rest of our lives. It’s a solvable problem. But if we act like the solution will come by itself, we’re asking for trouble.

Falls ihr in Bayern / Süddeutschland ein Wildwasser-Kajak für Kinder oder Jugendliche sucht, sagt mal bescheid. Ich verkaufe gerade ein paar. #wildwasser #kajak

Erfreuliches aus dem ländlichen Oberbayern: Gestern Schulabschlussfeier für eins unserer Kinder. Schulleitung, Lokalpolitik, viel Tracht und Lederhosen. Ganz normale Leute, von „schon immer hier“ bis „noch nicht lange da“. Eine der Jahrgangsbesten nahm ihre Auszeichnung stolz im Kopftuch entgegen. In ihren Reden haben alle durchgehend gegendert. Und die Mitschülerin aus Kenia hat eventuell mehr fürs Englisch-Niveau der Klasse getan als der Unterricht.

@futurebird@sauropods.win at this point we can just skip the hospitals and the qualifications theatre entirely, and go back to paying back-alley dealers cash in hand the care should be no worse, and at least we cut out the middle men

@lechimp@mastodon.pub.solar there’s an old saying that in academia, the fights are so vicious because there’s so little at stake. That feels relevant here. This carries echoes of 10-15 years ago, when we argued about codes of conduct for FOSS communities. Everyone with a job at a reputable company had already signed on to far more restrictive terms; but somehow not being sexist in FOSS was still a step too far for some.

@AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social Leute öffentlich feuern, aber Stilkritik nur im privaten Rahmen? Kann da etwa jemand besser austeilen als einstecken? Irgendwie ist es immerhin beruhigend, dass Merz nicht nur benachteiligte Einzelgruppen herablassend behandelt, sondern auch seine Parteifreunde.

@robz@toot.robzazueta.com in an act of poetic justice, the owner of the Segway thing died when he backed his off a cliff (Edit: later owner, not founder)

I’m wondering how the customer is going to disprove compliance on this one, unless someone starts a document with “you’re absolutely right”

@malcircuit@thingy.social Great description! I would just add that anti-problem solvers exercise power by choosing which (and whose) problems they allow to be solved. It follows that being an anti-problem solver isn’t a character trait. It’s a technique, and deploying that technique is a choice.

@cR0w@infosec.exchange WHOLE DICK BOTH BALLS

By useful, I mean stuff like “summarize the main points from these 300 excruciatingly boring tender requirements, so I know what to look for in a detailed analysis” or “read through my inbox and highlight the 5 most important topics from the last month, along with their corresponding action items”. I’m a product manager, not a coder or engineer. I rarely operate on stricter criteria than “mostly correct”, “good enough” or “probably wrong”.

@cstross@wandering.shop @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz just get a 2019 (or later) Microsoft Surface Go off eBay or whatever. They run Debian just fine, and the keyboard in the flip cover is good enough. Sufficiently powerful for writing and email. Encrypt the hard drive during install, natch.

@bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org doesn’t this tie back to the Encyclopedia movement of the 18th century, trying to assemble and catalog all human knowledge?

@benroyce@mastodon.social @sandorspruit@mastodon.nl @Sassinake@mastodon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space I’ve spent most of my life in poop-shelf-happy Central Europe, and I swear that I only learned about the shelf’s purpose a few years ago. While the shelf itself is omnipresent in older toilets, I don’t think it’s widely known here that you’re supposed to check your turds.

@AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social autsch 🥴

@ancient_catbus@jorts.horse including the stock market. Come to think of it, *especially* the stock market

Update: this was from 2019. no LLMs involved, just good old bumbling. @masek@infosec.exchange

Only four working days left until our summer vacation 😊 Those are gonna be tough buggers though.

@rightsprung@c.im @robz@toot.robzazueta.com fixed, thanks!

@futzle@old.mermaid.town advertising millenicule

@lechimp@mastodon.pub.solar yeah, probably not. Unlike codeberg’s TOS, this is a multi-million $$$ project. Which in theory means that disputes are resolved through litigation; and in practice, that both sides put all their various disagreements on a big pile, and then the lawyers look at who’s got the bigger pile, and money gets moved until it’s all evened out.

@rahmstorf@fediscience.org Damn. I know the area from previous vacations. It must be absolutely apocalyptic right now.

@futurebird@sauropods.win Good thing that nothing of consequence depends on these jobs being done well, by teams rather than individuals 😤

@davep@infosec.exchange at a summer camp in my youth, a young English lady once said to me: “I really admire your witticisms in the morning.” Took me years to figure out that she didn’t mean it as a compliment.

„The LLM is thinking” is the new “my code’s compiling” 🍹🏖️

Ich bin traurig und erschrocken über das feige Attentat auf queere Menschen in Berlin. Lasst uns alle - und besonders Cishet-Männer wie mich - diese Tat zum Anlass nehmen, jeder Homophobie und Queerphobie lautstark und energisch entgegen zu treten. Das ist auch unsere Verantwortung. #csd

Hmmm...

1. I write lots of things in Markdown.
2. Reveal.js can turn Markdown into a presentation.
3. Can I just turn any docs file in our internal git repo into slides? For shits and giggles?

@mkpaa@mastodon.social impressive speed on pretty gnarly gravel

@theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk Nice! Have a great time. Don’t forget to have a Fischbrötchen while you’re there!

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online followed. Thanks!

@drehumdiebolzen@social.cologne Hm. In der Konstellation würde ich als Vater auch vorne fahren - vor allem, damit wir rechtzeitig an Querstraßen etc langsamer werden oder anhalten. Das packen Kinder noch nicht zuverlässig. Bei uns fährt das jeweils älteste Kind am Schluss, um etwas Sicherheit zu geben; die jüngeren fahren in der Mitte.

Yay! I've finally got my little Raspi Zero set up as a webserver, reachable from the internet. I've even managed to enable https (LetsEncrypt being awesome as usual). Now, er... it looks like I need to start thinking about a use case 🙃

@davep@infosec.exchange same. A very bon jour to you!

@th@social.v.st The gloves look like something a Hanse sailor would wear on a cold day

@ravachol@social.vivaldi.net this is beautiful work!

@masek@infosec.exchange “what if we just generate all policy documents with LLMs, and never proofread any of them before publishing?”

@EvoScale@c.im are you implying that we should give money to Nazis (via Mullvad) in order to have more Tor nodes? That does not strike me as a stringent argument, to put it very mildly.

@_elena@mastodon.social @johl@mastodon.xyz A friend’s father once told me this story about a simultaneous translator at a UN-like international gathering. The speaker, in German, launched into a sentence that grew increasingly complex, and just didn’t seem to end. The translator grew increasingly nervous: he couldn’t translate the sentence without knowing the verb! Finally, he opened the window of the translation booth and shouted at the speaker: “The verb, asshole!!!”

@ana_krchdrfr@hessen.social Anders als bei der Tour de France gibt es beim TCR nichts Materielles zu gewinnen. Ich würde mal annehmen, dass das die Zielgruppe, die sich durch Doping Karriere und Sponsorengelder sichern möchte, weitgehend rausfiltert. Anders gesagt: wer so scharf auf Gewinnen ist, dass er dafür dopt, sucht sich Rennen, bei denen es mehr zu holen gibt als ein Schulterklopfen.