Kaye @kaye@octodon.social

So I finally got my first scientific paper published! In a scholarly outlet and everything! There was peer review and they asked for revisions and stuff. It's not in a top-tier journal and it's not world-changing and... ah, who am I kidding, I'm currently 60% happiness by volume. 🎉💦👌👏✅✨

However, the town actually owns most of its infrastructure (water pipes, cables etc.) thru a company. So they just had that company put down the cables and set up a contract with a smaller ISP. This turned out to have all kinds of side benefits; the local businesses do better now, but the city also has an additional income stream now. They bought new equipment for the local schools, set up a company to administrate said equipment, offer free public WLAN...

There might be a lesson here guys

So at CEBIT I attended a keynote by the mayor of a small south German town, and I can't stop thinking about it. This'll be long

See, most of Germany outside the large cities has real shitty Internet. The gov't has started an initiative to fix that, and the town got some amount of funding. But, while the large ISPs agreed to lay down some optical fiber, they kept missing deadlines and pushing back the schedule and (as the mayor put it) the local businesses would not stop calling him to complain.

But even as I walk through the valley of the shadow of my tram is delayed, I do not fear, for my podcast and my the fact that this technically counts as work time comfort me

Hey remember when we were all super upset about NSA espionage for like three months, then sort of forgot about it

It's still weird to see a large Bundeswehr presence at trade fairs and stuff, but I guess it makes sense they'd do it since they had to transition to being a volunteer army a few years ago. They didn't need to advertise before, heh.

Continuing my "not wearing a badge or nametag despite instructions" experiment at CEBIT 2018

I guess the dude at this seminar is going to keep saying "data scientisten"

I'm just saying that if there *isn't* a plan, we'll see a repeat of the past few elections, where the Greens and the SocDems and the DemSocs spend all their energy fighting against the SocDems, and we'll get some nightmarish Christian Union/Libertarian minority government.

So, ehm... I don't mean to alarm anyone, but you guys do realise that there'll be another election by 2021? And the former leading party of the centrist left, the Social Democrats, are down to 15% in the polls? Granted, the Greens and the Democratic Socialists are also polling there, so it's not so bad, but... is there an actual plan? Maybe???

New rule: If you want to write a thinkpiece about "the state of AI" but do not have a tech background, you must first spend two hours fighting Microsoft Excel over what is and what isn't a date

I rewrote this toot like five times, but here's what I settled on: "Yo, ace pride, I guess"

I never went there myself but "ASFR" is a great label for self identification because it stands for alt.sex.fetish.robots and picking a Usenet group to describe your sexuality is cyberpunk af

I've been doing slice-of-life shitposting over here and AD stuff on Twitter, but I wonder if I should keep that up. I do want to migrate away from Twitter. I'm already maintaining three accounts.

I accidentally dropped an egg & had to disassemble my couch to retrieve it, ama

There hasn't been any work to do since 13:00, but I'm stuck here until 16:30 because the modern workplace makes a lot of sense 👏

I should probably figure out where my work phone is

Yo, does someone here have experience with Lineage OS and if so how usable is it

The 17th centuey poet Philipp von Zesen argued that "pistols" should be renamed to "murder puffs." This is something that actually happened.