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Jens Bannmann ⁂

@tynstar@nerdculture.de

mastodon 4.7.3

Software developer, Marvel (MCU) fanboy, Trekkie, fantasy bookworm, antifascist, committed European, fan of the Fediverse ⁂

Day job: Software architect
Hobby project: @ChronoLink@mstdn.plus (calendar synchronization service)

Note: the ⁂ symbol next to my name is called "asterism" and has been proposed as a symbol for the Fediverse. See https://symbol.fediverse.info/en

416 Followers

769 Following

24 Posts

Joined November 29, 2022

Pronouns:

he/him

Undeserved privilege level:

white straight cis male

Languages:

English & German

Open Source Projects:

https://codeberg.org/bannmann/

Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@miamiworm@mastodon.social What's wrong with listing the *goals* of science instead of the names of the science branches? On the contrary, I find "global challenges in health" to be way better than e.g. "frontier microbiology and medicine". Here's the full paragraph you quote from: »Japanese researchers can now participate on equal terms with EU teams to tackle global challenges in health, digital transition, and climate neutrality.« @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 6mo ago

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@libramoon@mastodon.social @dx@social.ridetrans.it No there isn't. "AI may become sentient and turn on us" is always one if the following: a) a movie/book plot b) a story told by AI companies to distract us and/or get more funding to "keep AI secure" c) somebody who hasn't looked at research believing b) and re-telling the story.

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 5mo ago

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@olafschloesser WTF? Tag der *Arbeit* und *Gewerkschaft* ist doch recht offensichtlich passend... Was ist denn deren Begründung? Und: war das in früheren Jahren (ohne CDU-OB) anders? #Dortmund #ErsterMai #TagDerArbeit

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 4mo ago

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@Larvitz@burningboard.net Great to see more people doing that! Did the same thing for my @ChronoLink@mstdn.plus service.

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 4mo ago

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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange ... and the way these posts capture the essence of coding is beautiful, too. Thanks!

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 7mo ago

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@xgranade Here's an excellent article by @tante criticising that broader rhetorical point: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/ It's really long, but totally worth the time IMO. Somewhat tangentially, the backlash on the fedi along the lines of "Cory considered bad now" prompted tante to write a followup article which really gets one thinking: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/ I recommend reading both.

Acting ethically in an imperfect world

Smashing Frames

Acting ethically in an imperfect world

Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 8mo ago

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@Mastodon@mastodon.social Good point! Just in case your team hasn't thought of this yet, I'd like to share an idea. On the pricing page of my hobby project (link in my bio), I wanted to show the prices of the "correct" country. But I wanted to ensure that I don't get to know the result if someone is just visiting. But sending the user's IP address to a third party geolocation service is not legally possible without first asking for consent. Here's my solution: the web page contacts a tiny endpoint on my server that returns the IPv4 address it sees, but doesn't log it. Then the country lookup happens client-side via a geo-IP database file that the web page has loaded into the browser cache earlier. As the web server itself also doesn't log, I don't have any data on visitors (unless they become customers). 🎉 In the next step, you could list all languages of servers in that country, starting with the most common ones spoken there (e.g. for Switzerland: DE, FR, IT, RM) & let them choose. #GDPR #SaaS

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 12mo ago

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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Great text, thanks! The other day I saw a video on extremely-long-term warnings for the nuclear waste isolation pilot site in the US, and this text reminded me of it. And indeed, this text seems to be based on the other one, flipping it into positive. That's a nice idea! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages#Message

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 7mo ago

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@NetscapeNavigator Great, so you're offending everyone who cannot, for one reason or another, switch to Linux. I'm not one of them, but I find the part about being "Microsoft's bitch" disgusting. For an example reason, search for "linux accessibility". From what I read on the Fediverse, Linux doesn't score too many points there.

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 4mo ago

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@ww@xyzzy.link @emmy@transfem.social Personally, I found "RESTful API" to be good enough, even though it's only slightly better than "REST API": To readers who don't know that a _true_ REST API is not possible, both terms mean the same, so you don't need to introduce an entirely new term. But some readers who know that could interpret "RESTful API" as a subtle clue that the writer knows this, as well, but doesn't want to elaborate.

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 5mo ago

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@mark_and_draw@mastodon.art Ich glaub ich hab die Schriftart gefunden: https://www.fontzillion.com/fonts/blambot/manlymen-bb?utm_source=fontsquirrel.com&utm_medium=matcherator_link&utm_campaign=manlymenbb Hab die Grafik bei https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator hochgeladen und das kam raus. P.S.: Meine Suchbegriffe waren übrigens schlicht "identify font by image".

fontzillion.com

ManlyMen BB | Font Zillion

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 10mo ago

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@tdp_org Looks more like they are trying to throw it off the table. 🤣 Or have I simply seen too much anti cat propaganda showing them throwing things off tables?

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 6mo ago

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@Kurorori@chaos.social Mach ruhig mal eine Initiativbewerbung bei meinem Arbeitgeber: https://www.disphere.com Sind über ganz Deutschland verteilt, fully remote ist der Standard. Es gibt aber auch mehrere Bürostandorte für diejenigen die wollen. Derzeit wird ein angemietetes Coworking in Bochum durch ein eigenes Büro in Dortmund abgelöst.

Engineering Financial Services | disphere

Engineering Financial Services | disphere

Digitale Lösungen für Ihr Unternehmen ► Software ✓ Plattformen ✓ Beratung ✓

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 6mo ago

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@libramoon@mastodon.social @dx@social.ridetrans.it How do these experts earn their money? Working for AI companies? Promote AI products? Promote their own books, videos, newsletters about AI? Also, once you read up on how these LLMs work, it becomes obvious they are not more likely to become sentient than it is for a library building to do the same.

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 6mo ago

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@libramoon@mastodon.social @dx@social.ridetrans.it No, they *say* they are doing that. That's an important difference. Anyway, if you're interested in how that industry works, search for the projected loss for OpenAI this year, or how Nvidia invests into AI companies that need Nvidia products to run.

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 16mo ago

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@gabe_sky@infosec.exchange Great idea, thanks! Bookmarked. As chance would have it, I also built another useful thing, way back in 2015: https://batterystaple.pw/ - generates secure #Passphrases entirely in your browser Like you, I built it because I was not happy with the existing alternatives. Since then, I have been using it quite regularly, but I have no idea if anybody else uses it (nor a way to find out). In any case, I will gladly continue to pay for the domain name!

batterystaple.pw

battery staple

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 7mo ago

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@JuniorsWelt @a_koschinski Mir geht's auch so: Fußball insgesamt interessiert mich nicht die Bohne. Was jedes mal lustig ist wenn ich erwähne dass ich in Dortmund wohne und das Gegenüber begeistert auf Borussia zu sprechen kommt. 😂

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 11mo ago

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@Katti Vielleicht ist https://www.disphere.com/ was für dich? Ich fange da im Dezember an und Freunde von mir sind schon da. Deswegen weiß ich aus sicherer Quelle dass für Bochum/Dortmund gerade Büroflächen gesucht werden. Und Homeoffice ist auch okay. Passende Stellenanzeige gibt es zwar nicht, aber ne Initiativbewerbung ist bestimmt willkommen. (Guck auch bei der Tochterfirma https://disphere-technology.com/ rein - die gehören auch zu dem Standort.)

Engineering Financial Services | disphere

Engineering Financial Services | disphere

Digitale Lösungen für Ihr Unternehmen ► Software ✓ Plattformen ✓ Beratung ✓

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 10mo ago

Please help an independent software creator by answering & boosting this post. Thanks!

Imagine you find an internet service that is useful to you. It's provided by a company in another country, but you find them trustworthy. There's a free option, but you consider buying a subscription. The price is significantly lower than e.g. Netflix or Spotify. You find the service is worth the money and you can afford it.

The question is: do you find it unprofessional / unfriendly / bad if the taxes are included in the price, or if they are excluded?

Example for "included":
»1.23 § per month (includes 0.23 § taxes)«

Example for "excluded":
»1.00 § per month (not including taxes)«
or
»1.00 § per month (not including 0.23 § taxes)«

Note: the question is only about the pricing page. The payment page lists without-tax, tax and with-tax amounts explicitly.

The answer probably depends on how pricing works in your area, so please answer accordingly.

#FediHelp #IndieDev #IndieApps #SaaS

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 5mo ago

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@mark_and_draw@mastodon.art Ich dachte ich hätte eine Website zum Font-Identifizieren in den Bookmarks wo man Grafiken hochladen kann, aber ich finde sie gerade nicht. Das nächstbeste ist ein Fragenkatalog bei identifont.com. Nach dem Durchklicken anhand deiner Grafik meldet es keine genauen Treffer, aber die 9 die dem am nächsten kommen sind hier gelistet. Vielleicht helfen dir ja deren Namen ("ähnlich zu...") als Hinweise bei deiner Suche: http://www.identifont.com/list?1+28-.-1KS-4C-PAE-1QN-J-2ZC-4PV-1TM-26RB-7W-6XA-7S-6ZR-2BT-JPK-8W-42-1KI-1U9-53K-4A-6X5-19-1LA-1QY-7G-9Z+0.9+1RL+4+3EX+4+5E20+4+54A+4+549+5+5XT+5+2PU+5+93Q+12+5VF+12

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 5mo ago

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@Axomamma@mastodon.online @megmuttonhead@mas.to Oh, wow! I have not read the books, but I watched the series twice. There, the James/Naomi relationship did not feel at all like you're describing. And I _think_ I would have noticed if Julie was often or even consistently portrayed / referred to in a mysogynistic way. My conclusion: either the TV series is different to the books in those regards, or I have overlooked/forgotten those things. I'm curious which one it is.

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 14mo ago

Replying to

@yaxu@post.lurk.org For conferences in the USA, add:

People from other countries who have written social media posts disagreeing with Trump and who therefore will not risk entering the USA.
LGBTQIA people from other countries
Non-white people from other countries

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 5mo ago

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Jein. Collien Fernandes bezichtigt ihren Ex-Mann, Täter zu sein. Damit *ist* er noch kein Täter, zumindest nicht gerichtlich festgestellt. Soweit liegst du richtig. Aber ich glaube Collien Fernandes. Jedes Wort. Das darf ich. Und auch @DieFurie@mastodon.social darf Frau Fernandes glauben. Und im Kopf derjenigen Leute, die Frau Fernandes glauben ("Gruppe A"), ist der besagte Mann ein Täter. Andere Leute ("Gruppe B"), offenbar darunter du, @HolgerSchurig@social.tchncs.de, wollen sich kein Urteil erlauben (sie bleiben "neutral") oder glauben Frau Fernandes nicht. Auch das dürfen diese Leute. Und im Kopf dieser Menschen fühlt sich der Begriff "Täter" für den Ex-Mann falsch an. Auch das ist okay. Was meines Erachtens nicht okay ist: das jemand Gruppe A für die Meinungsäußerung, von der Schuld des Ex-Manns überzeugt zu sein und/oder Frau Fernandes zu glauben, angeht oder diese Meinungsäußerungen als Lynchjustiz bezeichnet.

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Jens Bannmann ⁂ @tynstar@nerdculture.de

· 4mo ago

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@ZDF@zdf.social Überfällig.

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