Notices by Bodo Tasche (bitboxer@mastodon.social)

Random frustration:

If you, a writer of a library platform, cannot make your URLs in a way such that:

- I can trigger a search for an ISBN with a link
- copy and paste a link to a book to share with others

You have failed at your job.

The library software ecosystem is sooo bad all over the planet.

I need your help. On https://bookpile.org I want to add as many #Libraries as possible. Please send me your local library and an example link for an ISBN search, or forward this to folks who might be able to help. I contacted many libraries, but most staff were not able to figure this out for their local system 😅.

#Bibliothek

You all know that Bandcamp is owned by Songtradr, who gutted it a lot. But don't fret, we have a new and better alternative now. It launched yesterday:

https://www.subvert.fm/

It is a #CoOp, so it is not in the hands of big money but in the hands of us, the consumers and creators.

✊️

If your uptime monitor alerting needs .de to work, you won't get awaken by .de not working and can sleep through something that you cannot fix anyway 😅.

It has been 0 days since someone suggested, “Let's write all our app logic in my new framework that is ‘stored procedures but with extra steps’”.

Why is this idea coming back every 2-3 years? People somehow always forget that stored procedures are nice on paper but bad in real live.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116137460475754133

As someone who wrote a wishlist service and gets asked a lot about “but amazons wishlist allows anonymous gifting” i always showed them the doxing through tracking instances and other issues the amazon process had.

Now it got worse. The only way to do anonymous receiving of gifts is PO boxes or german “Packetstation” stuff.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/113488282272850633

Important Christmas reminder: download all the manuals from all the devices your family got this year and store them in a folder. Thank me in half a year if you need them 😉

Deutsche Telekom in the 90s: let's lobby HARD to get everyone to use copper lines instead of fiber.
Experts back then: you will regret this, it will be expensive to do fiber later. You will basically pay twice.

Deutsche Telekom now: Oh noes, we now have to put fiber everywhere. That's expensive. Please, German government, can you give us some money? Pleaseeeee?
Experts: 🤦♀️

@Fluse http://chargeprice.app hätte ich gern früher gekannt. Nutzen wir hier und sind extrem zufrieden damit

@getajobmike they also racism together.

@Gargron @ezekiel @tvaziri Can you list things that are practical effects in LOTR? I can't because everything "special" was at least touched by CGI, not only compositing. There are 3D models everywhere in that one.

@vv @lislis the game is out on steam for free:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3775050/DOGWALK/

What are you all using for online banking on Linux? On mac I use #MoneyMoney, what is the equivalent modern thing you are using? Needs to talk FinTS/HBCI with german banks.

A military parade that has sponsored messages through speakers is really an #idiocracy move. You want to have a proud American moment? Never without the ads. 🤣🤣🤣

I have around 3 TB of backup on a Synology and want to have an external backup in the cloud. It should be encrypted and have an easy way to verify that the backup works (single file recovery test among others). It should have a nice web UI so that non-technical people can use it, too. Not only me. The target server should be in Germany.

What do you recommend?

Best line in the latest #DoctorWho:

"A nurse who can't sign? That's against the law"

❤️ 🤟

#DeafRights #SignLanguage

@Gargron i use a plugin that hides all recommendation features and only shows me my subscribed channels. Way better for my ocd 😅

@JohannaMakesGames @jupiter @johl die CDU hat eine “kleine” Anfrage mit 551 Fragen zur politischen Gesinnung von Omas Gegen Rechst und anderen Gruppierungen gestellt. Solche Anfragen sind rechtswidrige, das wissen die auch. Aber die wollten einfach mal einschüchtern mit AfD Methoden.

Look at who got 2nd place in Germany. I know that the situation in the east is more dangerous for people on the ground there...but this is a nation wide problem.

We need to act.

This is what everyone is talking about. The amount of wins of the AfD in Germany in the east. 40% wins. People pointing fingers to the east.

But…