Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

I still wonder whether I should invest the time in putting old photo albums I pulled down from Flickr back up. If I use the exact images I re-downloaded from Flickr, they lack the metadata, timestamps in particular, and thus they order will be all wrong. If I use the original images, I have to find them again in my old folders and iPhoto archives. Gaaah! Not something I look forward to. So maybe in the far future, haha.

I just uploaded a bunch of pictures from Murten, Switzerland and Hamburg, Germany, in case you want look at more than the handful I posted already.
https://alexschroeder.ch/gallery/

"The present moment is one where companies are obscuring the depth of their technical processes to quietly profit off surveillance, oppression, and depression. The future is one where technology is reclaimed by everyone; it is open and welcoming and asking to be built by hand. I want us to grow towards that future with everything we share." https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background%28%29.html
I'm liking this manifesto already.

Damn, those parentheses really do throw off Mastodon. Let's try this: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background%28%29.html

"I find the discussions about technical matters to be liberating and self-empowering, and I identify as “non-technical”. To be sincere, it was in the slow accumulation of technical knowledge and skills that I became excited about the future again. […] This feels antithetical to how people approach the internet today, but I don’t think that’s the case for the future."
https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html

@ckeen Reading it now!

@bluebirch Of course, I still use it. Perhaps not as much development as back in 2007, of course. My site still runs it, for example: alexschroeder.ch

@bluebirch Haha, well met! Looked for your name on oddmuse.org and found a link to http://www.acc.umu.se/~skalman/

@bluebirch I just pasted it into https://www.deepl.com/translator and the result was surprisingly readable. But tricky to do on a phone.

@bluebirch Enjoy lunch!

@hcs @saper I’m still sad that having been born in Iceland did not qualify me for citizenship as I left the country when I was about two weeks old. I wrote them a letter back when I was 18, asking about this. 🇮🇸

And if your interested in the stuff that isn’t going too well in Germany, have a German rant about politicians in parliament that do nothing but complain instead of, you know, making new laws and solving problems. In German, as I said. https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2018-06/csu-asylstreit-cdu-horst-seehofer-populismus-deutschstunde

@hcs @saper hahaha

@hcs I must admit that I thought that Germany had dropped this, but apparently not for everybody! “Seit August 2007 lässt Deutschland die doppelte Staatsangehörigkeit gegenüber den EU-Mitgliedsstaaten und der Schweiz zu.” https://www.aso-deutschland.de/themen-details/doppelbuergerrecht-die-schranken-sind-gefallen.html
Back to Jürgen’s post, though: I think it was also motivated by people being unable to pay for the colleges they wanted to get into, or finding the situation so unbearable dropping the original citizenship was ok.

If you’re interested in moving to #Germany: http://german-eye.blogspot.com/2016/11/advice-for-emigrating-to-germany.html
(Aimed at US citizens but applicable in general.)

@loke @mdallastella Found it! Phew!

@mdallastella @loke I feel for you. Now I'm going to check where my paper thingy is.

@mdallastella @loke Heh!

@QContinuumHypothesis I've had a teenager demonstrate his game written in Scratch, showing me the source code and all that. Scratch is great.

@meena Maybe just a tiny bit, haha. Then again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations
Personally, I'm happy the US helped fight the two World Wars for us. Not sure about the rest, though. 😑