Moritz

@preya
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⚓️ Unpopular opinions from Hamburg, Germany

👨‍💻 Fullstack Dev (running my own company
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🧙 Open Source, Self-Hosting, Federation

📝 Former tech writer (t3n, Golem, etc.)

🛠 Builds things (physical and digital)
🔩 Helping at @welcomewerkstatt
Websitehttps://netchild.de
GitHubhttps://github.com/pReya
Workhttps://bitbetter.de
Matrix@moritz:bitbetter.de
Unser Hallenpartner möchte diesen Richttisch bzw. Schweißtisch loswerden (verschenken). Ist aus massivem Stahl und ca. 100x100x85 cm groß. Müsste nur abgeholt werden (wiegt sicherlich einige hundert Kilogramm, steht aber schon auf einer Palette). Jemand Interesse? #Hamburg #Barmbek #Flohmarkt #Schweißen #Stahl #Handwerk #Kleinanzeigen
Der müsste was für @dickenhobelix sein ...
Ich wurde mein Leben lang angelogen.

RE: https://chaos.social/@afelia/116781563517586082

Highly frustrating that Germans just don't care about various fixable problems.

For example, they don't care that so many people suffer health issues from the unnaturally intense annual summer heat. Installing air conditioning in public institutions would be one straightforward partial solution. Replacing urban concrete surfaces with green spaces and planting trees there would also help.

Instead, Germans make fun of Americans' omnipresent AC, build more roads and remove trees from cities.

Tried to set up a #NixOS VM under macOS (on ARM) to give it a try. Failed miserably after about an hour. On VirtualBox the machine is not recognized as virtualized, so I can't install guest tools (it's a known systemd-detect-virt bug). On VMWare Fusion, the Guest OS shows it's not connected to the Internet (DNS seems to be not working). I hate these situations. This is SO annoying.
Hey @jospoortvliet do you think it'd be possible to add repo descriptions to the #EuroOffice repos? It's very hard to to distinguish them currently.
I think it's great that #Mastodon is delivering features at a constant speed and many changes in 4.6 look great. But limiting collections to 25 accounts and not offering a "follow all" button makes this feature useless for me. I have been yearning to use proper lists/collections for years b/c I have a ton of use cases for them. But in this current implementation they're not helping me at all. Hope they'll eventually loose the limit and offer this button.

We are looking for an experienced, strategic thinker to lead and develop our communications work.

In this role, you will shape how the Sovereign Tech Agency is understood and perceived, and ensure our issues are visible, politically relevant, and land effectively with the right audiences. It combines strategic communications work with hands-on execution and offers significant room to shape things in a growing public interest organization.

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Edit: Update: y'all are amazing and I'm talking to several people now! So while I appreciate more emails, as y'all are lovely, I'm probably good!

Hi internet friends. I have a bit of a weird request.

I am looking for a German technical writer/translator who knows their Web Development basics and would be able to translate @bw 's excellent https://htmlforpeople.com into German (casual edition). Here are some of the facts:

  • All the markdown files are ~31k words in total.
  • I will pay for your time, I don't expect free labor. However, that also means you need to be able to send me an actual invoice ("me" being a German legal entity with a business license who just so happened to get frequently audited by the tax office).
  • The contents will be available publicly to everyone under the same original license. My goal is just to make that content available to German speakers. I'm not entirely sure if getting paid for a translation is a violation of the CC's Non-Commercial clause, so I checked with Blake before posting this and he's fine with me doing this (thanks again!)
  • I will host the contents, you don't need to worry about any of that.

If that's something you can help out with, please say hi via email to [email protected]. And if you know someone who you think would be a great fit, feel free to forward this post!

 

Oh, and also: This post is only applicable to you if you are a human and you will use human translation skills and your human brain to translate the text with the love and attention it deserves. If you want to pitch me using an LLM for the translation, I will block you. Sadly, this also means I can only consider working with you if you have a public website or profile or anything that demonstrates me you actually do technical writing stuff, because I really don't want to pay someone just to throw the text into an LLM. If you think you could scam me into paying you to then just use an LLM, you will learn that I have a less-friendly personality, too. Don't be a jerk, please.

HTML for People

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.

Ein Reminder, dass Larry Ellison näher an der Obdachlosigkeit ist als an Elon Musk