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  The lack of freedom of speech that is in Germany is insane. If somebody is a cunt, you should be able to call them a “cunt” without being subject to the country’s class justice. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4mzdcf5dzxicy7n4dvlof7p/post/3mm7okzdrvk22

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  What does Mastodon think about the OpenAI Erdős proof?

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  @Erdrandbewohner @isotopp > Wenn du nicht fünf Tage die Woche arbeiten willst, kannst du ja gerne gehen! Also ist genau das passiert. Ich sehe kein Problem.

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  @Erdrandbewohner Ich hatte einen Chef der sagte „Wenn du mehr Gehalt möchtest, gehst du doch woanders arbeiten?“ So gesagt, so getan. Ich hoffe im Endeffekt sind jetzt alle glücklicher.

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  Playing Hero Quest with my kids and Critical Role’s “How do you want to do this?” every time they kill a monster is going over really well. Lots of blades being stuck into the heart or straight down the skull.

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  Type a wrong password and get faced with an immediate 20 minute (!) cooldown. Germans: How else are we supposed to guarantee your Datenschutz rights?

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  Poster for the Berlin car free referendum seen on August 2021 That’s how much time the (anonymous) group had to come up with a proposal that could work and they neglected to do that. Instead they wasted a huge amount of time and energy for a political total loss.

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  Honest question: Don’t they in Germany put aside money as provisions for the renovations of buildings and infrastructure in 20 years or so? This hardly can come as a surprise to anybody. https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/05/Berlin-tu-technische-universitaet-hauptgebaeude-schliesst-bausubstanz.html

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  Het is lastig te beschrijven hoe belangrijk en consequent Karin Spaink en haar schrijven waren voor Nederland en voor de digitale wereld waarin ook ik opgegroeid ben. De beste manier om het te snappen is het lezen van dit afscheid waarin veel van waar ze voor stond bij elkaar komt. https://www.spaink.net/2026/05/08/exit-spaink/

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  "Knowing what to build, knowing when the system is telling you something, knowing when to cut, knowing when the fast path is the wrong path — these were never just “execution.” They were always the harder parts and to pretend they’re solved by AI is questionable, to say the least." https://open.substack.com/pub/hagakure/p/the-bottleneck-was-understanding

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  Strong arguments not to use HTTP to have your reverse proxy talk to your application server. Who knew that FastCGI was so solid? https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies

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  Very funny, instructive and just outright wonderful that it's even possible to build a handheld gaming device for under 10 cents. https://chrisdell.info/using-rust-to-build-a-1-dollar-handheld-gaming-console/

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  I read some stuff by Zitron a while back and even back then it seemed untenable and divorced from reality aiming mostly to score points with an audience that's more than eager to believe him. Another branch of leftism that's found it easier to retreat from reality than to try to actually do the work. https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/ais-biggest-critic-has-lost-the-plot

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  Locality of code, AI friendly and without needless extra tech stacks that force you to jump back and forth. Lots of people will scoff at HTMX but that is often the case with tools that aren't hip but are used to get real work done. https://htmx.org/essays/paris-2024-olympics-htmx-network-automation/

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  It's a fair take but it ignores that it's all path dependence. Any decision whether on the product side or in engineering cements a structure that is painful to change later. Whether you have AI helping you there or not is mostly irrelevant. It handles the more basic things but the hard choices are still hard. https://substack.com/home/post/p-193101671

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  > Railway, a cloud infrastructure provider that is generally regarded to be ‘friendlier’ than the likes of AWS Corollary: If your infrastructure provider is so "friendly" that it's trivial to do all kinds of things, it's also possible for a coding agent to drop your production database. Also this does not look like some kind of fly-by-night, pre-PMF startup. There's no excuse for not having the basic separation of tenants in place at this point....

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  Das mit online Identitäten ist in den Niederlanden schon seit 20+ Jahren gelöst. Der einzige Grund wieso das in Deutschland nicht geht, ist weil Lösungen hier kategorisch abgelehnt werden aus kulturellen Gründen. https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/115586966370273285

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  Podcasts like this one show why Germany is so behind in every digital area. The position of the invited expert and hosts is: “Why digitize anything? Everything is fine just the way it is.” which is stunningly user hostile. It makes me think that nobody in the show has kids or any other real world obligations. https://23.social/@linuzifer/116437508985885138

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  @LeedsPHP Luma should work?

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  In de Albert Heijn zat een meisje het koelschap met een tandenborstel schoon te poetsen. Zoiets heb ik nog nooit gezien in Duitsland.

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  In the ICE heading home with my kids, an employee from a not to be named major tech company was sitting in the family compartment (which is highly inappropriate) next to us, while trying to have a semblance of a work day. Not having a privacy screen and trying to dial into all kinds of calls from a moving German train (not very successfully of course), isn’t very good on opsec, so I can tell you about their EMEA performance down to the numbers in the dashboards.

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  In the train my kids were like: "Dad, what's the ugliest city in Germany?" I had to think a bit and started, "Well, I haven't been to that many places yet, but it probably is somewhere in Eastern Germany… but no it's Mannheim, definitely Mannheim."

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  Hebben we de jaarlijkse “Waarom wil niet naar Turkije op vakantie?-ruzie ook weer gehad.

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  I just saw Project Hail Mary and thought it a waste of time. You’re looking at Ryan Gosling’s face for three hours while he cracks cheesy jokes and does fake science. The runtime isn’t justified by any plot event. Why bother with American movies at all? It’s not like they have anything to say.

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  The nice thing about vibe coding is that apps can be made by amateurs in the literal sense of the word: people who love something. With Strava for instance it's increasingly obvious that most of the people working on the product have never seen a road bike from up close.

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  Mokafe is a cute enough breakfast place in the neighborhood in Amsterdam where I was born. The coffee was lacklustre and not real worth a repay visit. https://maps.app.goo.gl/52gYAMgZr3w75aB29?g_st=ic

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  Coming from Berlin seeing the Rookvrij campaign everywhere is a bit jarring. I’m sure nobody follows these rules but still it’s nice to see that this is something people think is important. Public health campaigns are rare in Germany where freedom trumps all else.

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  I dug up my old Hero Quest set and sent it on to Berlin. Looking forward to playing this with my kids properly. We had no idea what we were doing back then but it still was tons of fun. Also the satisfaction for my mother that all the things she saved are now being used again.

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  After putting the kids to bed I run down the street to Utage most evening for a nightcap. This sake “Kino 2” comes from a brewery in Mie that I seem to have walked past last November. It’s a super interesting sake and a funny coincidence. https://maps.app.goo.gl/SgYZU3RqSkKLUtWv7?g_st=ic