Notices by Felicitas Pojtinger 🌊 (pojntfx@mastodon.social)

Can US media stop pretending that the tarrifs are "reciprocal"? Or that the numbers Trump shows for what e.g. the EU charges on US imports is anywhere close to what it actually charges? There just simply is no 39% tarrif that the EU charges on US goods, it's completely made up

On a #viarail train for the first ti.e today! Funky boarding procedure but really great station design here in Toronto tbh!

The best workspace

The self-destruction of the US that is happening right now is so much more chaotic than I would have expected it tbh

My big goal for 2025 rn is to become truly independent from US imports and services as much as possible. With the weak CAD I locked in a fixed exchange rate in a US bank account for remaining US obligations (hopefully to shield against an even weaker CAD post-tarrifs), but for homecooked food and digital services I still need to find solutions ...

Maybe this century really will be the one that makes the Euro the reserve currency

International tax law for individuals is truly a wild thing

That ... that's even worse

Now that TikTok will be banned in the US, it will be the first truly international social media network that the US can not control, and one that will not be under the influence of US creators. That will be extremely interesting to watch.

https://claudio.uk/posts/epub-to-audiobook.html

Gosh I wish we could use a modern text-to-voice model like this for the screen reader in #GNOME

@thibaultamartin Gapless (https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.neithern.g4music) is incredible - I love that one in particular because it supports m3u files for playlist, so it's enough to pull your music from Spotify to it :)

@HistoPol Yes, visiting friends! Happy holidays to you too!

Small town Germany is beautiful but damn I miss Vancouver

I don't understand how multilingual people live on OSes w/o a compose key ... seriously nothing beats being able to use accents and umlauts while having an ANSI keyboard for software development

Thinking about going one step further from the GDPR requirements on data export for this new reference project I'm working on by adding data import capabilities too. Being able to export to a future successor system is already cool but this way it's also possible to switch between different instances very easily which is just nice in general.

The US is the Apple of countries. Everything it makes is ridiculously overpriced, it's a closed system that uses its monopoly to prevent any kind of real global competition, has thousands of "intuitive" quirks like the imperial system that only make sense to it's subjects, and it has a cult-like following that will defend it's flaws and exceptionalism no matter how irrational.

We need better GPDR policy generators for OSS projects smh

Copyright law enforcement is the closest thing we have to book burning in our age

Sometimes I straighten my hair and I get transported to the 2010s, except this time it's a #AlmaLinux shirt instead of CentOS

Seriously incredible how the US will do absolutely anything but innovate. It is so time for other world markets to be actually viable for exports again