@[email protected] @[email protected] ...and have the scars and the tears to prove it
Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
Fedi, a good friend needs to find a place to live in Padua (Padova), Italy. He has citizenship, but doesn't speak the language well. He's not wealthy but he's able to afford a small place. He's currently in the UK.
Can anyone help me find him a letting agent or any other source where he can view and apply to rent an apartment? He's tried calling a couple of places to no avail.
@[email protected] Although she's not based in Italy right now, @[email protected] might know some groups it would be good to pass this on to?
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Fedi, a good friend needs to find a place to live in Padua (Padova), Italy. He has citizenship, but doesn't speak the language well. He's not wealthy but he's able to afford a small place. He's currently in the UK.
Can anyone help me find him a letting agent or any other source where he can view and apply to rent an apartment? He's tried calling a couple of places to no avail.
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And the other Royal Navy tradition: Captains are inviolate commanders, at all times in all settings. They present "serious". They eat and drink separately from the crew. They have only three or four other officers that they ever get to, comparatively, relax with.
So, you have a comedy officer, and you have a captain, and the captain simply looks the other way when the comedy officer is up to their hijinks.
He *knows* the hijinks. He *sees* the hijinks. But he pretends not to.
@[email protected] Fun fact: my mother has expert card shuffling skills because as the daughter of a merchant navy captain she was one of the only people the sailors trusted to deal for money games in or out of port (she would have been around 10 at the time and didn't normally travel with the ship). The captain, of course, couldn't be involved but the crew preferred having relatives of the captain run the game than the local casino.
The first thing that people see when visiting https://codeberg.org is the following: "Software development, but free!"
However, projects hosted on Codeberg are not necessarily by developers of software—on the other hand, deciding on a new slogan can be difficult and contentious, as first impressions really matter (and there's not a lot of space there).
So, one of the people controlling the social media account decided to ask the fediverse: Any good ideas?
@[email protected] it feels like the only common point across everyone using Codeberg will be version control and the usage restrictions set by server policy. "Shared history for open projects"?
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Probably mostly not my audience here, but I'm currently looking for a business-side/CEO cofounder for an encrypted radio startup. There are solid funding options, but while I can build the team to make the product happen, I'm not the person to navigate the money side of things. I'm looking for a cofounder with previous startup CEO experience and executive-level experience (although not necessarily CEO) in a hardware startup specifically. EU citizen and resident, although it'll be a remote team, so where is less important.
The next train on platform 2 is going to Errore XSLT @[email protected]
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In a bunch of kung fu movies, there's this very specific trope, of this one dude who's watching the fight and explaining the styles being used to his fellow audience members.
Functionally he's basically a Mr. Exposition, but he always kinda comes off to me a bit like a sports color commentator, and I really wonder whether the vibes of each influenced the other.
@[email protected] In Jackie Chan's Gorgeous the character in this role actually states he's now a commentator for sports matches; he likes being behind the microphone because with his knowledge from training 'he sounds like he's invincible' but he fell so far behind the lead character's skills he now hires people to fight him and comments on the fight instead of trying to fight him himself. So I think the film makers are pretty aware of the similarities!
I'm not quite sure how, but somehow this video manages to be a mind blowing display of skill, a hilarious display of grown men making fart noises into microphones, and an absolute banger of a tune all at the same time. Well played, Hiss and H-has. Well played.
Hiss, H-has - Feedback (Official Video)
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@InsiderTreat can recommend. there's a reason I say getting diagnosed and medicated was the second biggest moment of my life.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I second this message, and basically everything else in this thread. Realising you're badly dehydrated and need to pee and then going back to what you were doing before you manage to do anything about it is... well. It is, I suppose.
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We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now. So we've done just that: https://x.com/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158 – Welcome to all our new followers here 😊
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it's also not just breaking captions when you seek, either: you can jump forward and see captions, jump backward and see captions, you just can't see any caption you've seen before. Like they're getting "used up" by watching them
@[email protected] vlc added its very own anti memetic?
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The moral of the story of the Meta AI person getting their email deleted by clawdbot is not “haha, so funny” or even “haha, so irresponsible in their position” but “it’s normal to be reckless with AI and it screwing up” in order to get you more comfortable giving these programs access to your most personal data. Do you think it would have gotten past Meta PR any other way? Don’t fall for it.
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Brutal political commentary from a madlib generator.
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Even great stories start from humble beginnings. In the first session of a new round of Coding Games with a Story, some of our authors (9-11 year olds) successfully got a story up and running with a scene, background music, images of the person speaking... and a decision point.
![VAR speaker = "Narrator"
VAR scene = "Cafe"
VAR music = "Piano"
-> start
=== start
~speaker = "Elly"
What would you like to drink?
+ [Coffee] -> coffee
+ [Tea] -> tea
-> END
=== coffee
~speaker = "Eddy"
I'd love a coffee!
-> END
=== tea
~speaker = "Eddy"
A tea, please!
-> END](/data/uploads/01KADR90Y8MARZA72STN46Z1W2/images/01KJ5RCTX4KXVKKD97EN8A0PG9.png)
@[email protected] @[email protected] arrrgh. That would have made a vastly superior punch line and I missed it. tips hat
Disagree. Victims blaming is a sophisticated mechanism of moving regulatory responsibility away from centralised and well resourced organizations in the government and company and distributing it amongst the poorly resourced and fragmented general public.
This Victorian attitude is unwise and unsound.
@everton137 @KimSJ @EverydayMoggie @noodlemaz @Ivovanwilligen
@[email protected] yeap. Unless you think that young children should be responsible for reading and perfectly understanding the implications of the t&cs, and the elderly, and the people learning the local language, and the expert carpenter who happened not to get a formal education, and... oh, anyone who's vulnerable in pretty much any way, and everybody who isn't better at lawyering on the fly than a corporate legal department with as much time as they want @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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"See, the Staircase of the Monarchs!"
"So if you make it to the top it proves you're the rightful heir?"
"No, no. But we gave it a name that makes it sound like that to filter out the stupid and those vulnerable to peer pressure. And it's pretty."
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@simoncropp @kurdiumov but as a rich person, I agree, give me more
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Isn't there basically no mathematical difference between GMI and UBI if you have a means based income tax system (which nearly everywhere does)? It seems like as long as you're calculating both things at the same time, you'd end up with the same answers. The only "bad" option would seem to be assessing income given and income taxed with two different systems which might be politically necessary in the short term, but is self-evidental more expensive to manage.
