A quotation from Wendell Berry

There is, thank God, no teacher-meter, and there is never going to be one. A teacher’s major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student’s grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1985), “Wallace Stegner and the Great Community,” What Are People For? (1990)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/37016/

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Berry, Wendell - Essay (1985), "Wallace Stegner and the Great Community," What Are People For? (1990) | WIST Quotations

There is, thank God, no teacher-meter, and there is never going to be one. A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

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📢 Reminder: Next #Hackergarten is in one week! 📢
Join us on the 02.04.26 at 18:00 at CSS ICT Campus Zentralschweiz in Rösslimatte 52, 6005 Luzern.

More info: https://www.meetup.com/hackergarten-luzern/events/313553910/

#OpenSource #Community #Contribution #DevCommunity #FreeSoftware

Hackergarten Lucerne, Thu, Apr 2, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

A Hackergarten is a friendly, hands-on event where developers, designers, and open source enthusiasts come together to contribute to real projects. No talks, just hands-on.

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Lars Klingbeil, Germany's finance minister from the SPD, announced at a policy address at the Bertelsmann Foundation on Wednesday that future pension calculatio... https://news.osna.fm/?p=39642 | #news #aims #boost #contribution #klingbeil
Klingbeil Unveils Pension Reform Tied to Contribution Years, Aims to Boost Long‑Term Work and Offer Tax Relief for 95% of Workers - Osna.FM

Germany's Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil announces that pension benefits will increasingly be linked to the number of contribution years, promising a fairer retirement system.

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英國、法國、德國和日本等六國表明,已做好準備「為確保船隻安全通過霍爾木茲海峽(Strait of Hormuz)的適當努力作出貢獻」。據法媒報道,這四國
https://www.hk01.com/即時國際/60332368/英法德日等6國發聲明-願為確保霍爾木茲海峽安全通行做出努力

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Que vous soyez contributeur ou curieuse, venez échanger sur la langue et le libre. 🌍

📍 Lyon, au KoToPo
📅 28 et 29 mars 2026
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📢 Reminder: Next #Hackergarten is in one week! 📢
Join us on the 26.03.26 at 18:00 at Quatico Solutions AG in Förrlibuckstrasse 220, 8005 Zürich.

More info: https://www.meetup.com/hackergarten-zurich/events/313127324/

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Hackergarten March, Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

We're planning the next Hackergarten Zurich 🥳 We're looking forward to see some familiar faces and share knowledge within the open-source community. Spread the word — ever

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Even if you can't see it, digital technologies, products & services also cause emissions. 🏭 Data centers, cloud storage, streaming services, AI tools, and the like may run quietly, but they consume a lot of electricity. ♻️ We are doing something about this and support myclimate with our annual climate protection contribution: this year, it was CHF 4,326 to compensate 173 tons of carbon dioxide. 👉 More info: https://nine.ch/en/infrastructure/ #climateprotection #contribution #offsetting #myclimate #nine
Heidi Reichinnek, the chairwoman of the Left Party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag, called on Monday for the contribution‑assessment ceiling of Germany's... https://news.osna.fm/?p=38394 | #news #calls #ceiling #contribution #doubling
Heidi Reichinnek Calls for Doubling Germany's Pension Contribution Ceiling to Strengthen the State System and Protect the Elderly - Osna.FM

German left‑wing Bundestag member Heidi Reichinnek pushes for a double increase in the pension contribution ceiling to revamp Germany's pension system.

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I don't know for sure but I think I just lost a #friend over being too #forgiving in the moment.

Sorry not sorry. I don't stand for what I can't #become as such.

I do what I can to #embrace all #people who #appreciate who I am. It's all I can do, and if that #means my #contribution towards #friendships isn't meant to #last then so #be it. But if it does, they're really #rare and I #cherish them because they're very easy to #lose over #something you thought you could #understand at the time.

I'll #say this.

All #echo #chambers are the #primary #reason as to why a #friendship falls apart. Because I've seen this #effect everyone to the point of no #return possible, and honestly...you can't get along with people who spend more of their #time invested into something other than what you are doing with that person together. And I don't think I'm alone in wishing that at times, such an #investment cultivates #familiarity over #routine on a continuous basis.

But you know what? I still appreciate the chance to #care for all it is #worth as such. I do my best to live #life with no #regrets to count on #growing without me there to #manage them.

It's my own #fault for putting a bit of my #soul into everything I do alongside my #heart and #mind accordingly. And as afar as I #know there's no #changing that, at least in a very easy way.

If you ever truly #need #friends by your side, you'll know whether they're people you can #count on or not, by the way they #treat your #ambitions as an #individual person.

You can still #respect someone if they do not #acknowledge that you have any. But the chances of you becoming #close, are not as great.

With that being said, you do not need to #support the same #ambition someone else does, in order to be friends. You just need to set your #ego aside so that such a person can fulfill their #desire the best way they know how to.

That's what I do, and I carry a lot of #weight because of it. All of the #memories set aside because the soul wasn't ready to let go of the ones #entrapping their #conscious #focus throughout seemingly more #important issues outside of my #control in all of the #moments they last.

Putting my best #self forward, means respecting that and not forcing the #matter at hand. It doesn't make that #feeling go away, born of lost #opportunity at the #core of #potential #reciprocity as such.

But yes #indeed I know #hope is not so easily broken by #fragile #futility alone. Which is why I continue to #forgive but not #forget all of the ways life makes a different #path #unfold into #being by the #presence of #purpose for everyone.

📢 Reminder: Next #Hackergarten is in one week! 📢
Join us on the 18.03.26 at 18:00 at Karakun AG in Elisabethenanlage 25, 4051 Basel, Switzerland.

More info: https://www.meetup.com/hackergarten-basel/events/312253273/

#Basel#OpenSource #Community #Contribution #DevCommunity #FreeSoftware

Hackergarten March 2026, Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Get ready for the **third** **Hackergarten** in **Basel** in **2026**! **March**! Join us for an afternoon of coding, open source and pizza!! it’s a community event! Bring

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