Stefanie

How do working women handle period or pregnancy exceptions?

Many work environments are sexist and discriminatory around these topics. Not fasting would announce your cycle or an early pregnancy to coworkers/your boss and in today's world it's better to keep any health info as private as possible.

Nobody believes anything except the threats because that’s the only thing the US follows up on.

A reminder: this is an Irishman with valid papers speaking about how he's being held in US concentration camps. If you don't have to go to the US, do not go to the US. "GDC" is not "have to go". One denial at the border is going to mark you for life, and that's the best of the bad outcomes.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off

www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

Als Arbeitskraft in diesem Land erreichen mittlerweile fast 50% von deinem Gehalt dein Konto nicht, wegen der hohen Sozialabgaben.

Die Gegenleistung dafür ist, dass du ALG I oder Bürgergeld erhältst, wenn du in Not gerätst.

Die "Gegenleistung" wurde schon lange vorher von jedem von uns erbracht.

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue ‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.

www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

a picture of a vault with the words got you a gift below it Alt: an animated gif of two Fallout franchise Vault Boys carrying a nuklear bomb out of a vault. The caption below says "got you a gift"

Nintendo lawyers right now

Ich hätte jede Menge sehr teuren Datenmüll, da fast alle meine Libraries von anderen Anbietern Abhängigkeiten zum Kontakt Player haben.

Wenn Native Instruments verschwindet, zieht das vermutlich noch viele kleine Unternehmen und deren Produkte nach sich.

puh... das wird interessant, so viele Libraries haben Abhängigkeiten zum Kontakt Player. Producing ohne Native Instruments Kontakt ist fast undenkbar.

US sending ICE unit to Winter Olympics for security, prompting concern and confusion in Italy News that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit will be present at the upcoming Winter Games has sparked confusion and concern in Italy.

So a foreign imperialist country, namely the USA, are sending their ICE thugs to Europe? Fuck off! We don't want them.

This is a disgusting attempt at overreach. US jurisdiction ends at the US border, they have no business here and I hope all of them get detained in Italy.

TikTok has been under US jurisdiction for just a couple days now and it was less censored under Chinese ownership. That is telling.

We need EU alternatives to everything.

so ziemlich Alle mit „Streit um Grönland“ und „Trumps Ansprüche“

Es ist kein Streit und er hat keine Ansprüche. Es ist eine unrechtmäßige Bedrohung durch einen imperialistischen Staat.

Nur Deutschewelle (DW news) hat es in geschafft, es zumindest in den englischsprachigen News beim Namen zu nennen

The only bad actors I see are publishers and AI companies grifting work they should pay for in order to make any kind of profit from it.

So the public funds the research, the scientist does a lot of work for usually not great pay, then needs to pay to hand it in at conferences and in case of acceptance pay to visit them.

And then a publisher might pick it up, will not pay the scientist at all, and lock the work behind a paywall.

What is so bad about access to knowledge for people who can't afford arbitrary high prices?

It's not scientists who demand or get money, it's publishers who paying scientists nothing because scientists need published work for credibility.

Science publishers (especially big ones) are the grifters.

As the old saying goes: fuck cancer! Hope you're doing okay.

The announcement of EU Inc is probably the best news coming out of Davos today. Real fuel for the EU start up scene.

This actually eliminates a lot of time consuming and expensive bureaucracy.

I've been screaming about the terrible UX of MacOS Tahoe since its release.

Here's a lovely deep dive into Apple's "icon conventions" or lack thereof.

at least for the streamers all you need to do is disable hardware acceleration in the browser settings and you can take screenshots as much as you want

Pioneers of Pagonia might scratch that itch

Tech hiring, but especially the UX hiring circus is reaching a new level of insanity. Came across this gem for a senior role:

"Record a 10 minute video of yourself, telling us why you are perfect for the role..." In addition to an 80 question questionnaire and providing all usual documents.

WTAF.

s-tier design, especially the one on the middle finger! Every time I see something as cool as this I'm a little sad that I have to keep my nails short

EU folks, remember that initiatives like @goeuropean.bsky.social have resources that help you to find out about non-US alternatives to products you like or to products and services you believe you need to run your business.

Everything can be replaced with a non-US made solution.

there’s also a big cohort of YouTubers who read r/aita and r/relationshipadvice posts alone in front of a cam and do nothing else. They have millions of views and subscribers.

Am I getting this right? Bluesky put in a "live on Twitch"-feature for a hand full of users instead of an edit button, accessibility or moderation features for everyone?

How much did Amazon pay them for that?

das ist Blödsinn, da die Datenbasis von Menschen bestimmt wird. Selbst wenn die Nutzergruppe links ist, wird das Feedback keinen Einfluss haben, wenn die menschliche Kontrollinstanz rechts ist.

Es ist alles kontrollier- und manipulierbar. Du gehst von dem Fall aus, dass KI ungestört lernt.

mal ganz davon zu schweigen, dass Höflichkeit oder Rollen auch nicht den Inhalt beeinflussen.

Davon abgesehen schreien dich Faschisten auch nicht an, manipulation passiert oft auf einer ruhigen, scheinbar sachlich nüchternen Ebene, damit du falschen Fakten eher glaubst.

Das Feedback bestimmt nicht den Inhalt und die Bewertung wird beim Training nur berücksichtigt, wenn ein Mensch es in die Daten einpflegt.

Außerdem: nach der Logik wäre es für die Faschisten ja noch einfacher Content zu manipulieren, weil sie ihn einfach nur massenweise liken müssten.

Time context probably matters. In 2004 this was peak awe striking quality and many players didn't find it funny until years later when there were better games to compare it to.

Lore wise the theory with the hole is still the most fitting explanation, but of course Konami never confirmed anything.

Back in the day we speculated they are victims of the women hating antagonist Walter who took their organs, specifically the uterus. And the sound is made by ejecting the gasses of rot through that hole in the belly.

Makes unfortunately sense design and lore wise, look up high res "patient SH 4."