froh42
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- Comment on ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that. 23 hours ago:
Come on, if you were in Minneapolis, you’d be happy about that.
Ok, ok, I’ll let myself out.
- Comment on Checkmate, atheists! You are going to vagina hell! 1 day ago:
What did the priest say to the - what is Ministrant in English - altar server boy?
“There is a good Christian inside you”.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 2 days ago:
Yeah, but when you DO know the system ia totally fucked.
Calling customer service that have no cmie what they’re taking about either, pushing you through a script. One fun time my internet connection was broken and I called the provider. They walked me through all the windows settings to check if I had set up things correctly. I did run Linux, but hat set up Windows for other people so frequently that I knew how each dialog looked and how it’d respond to the failure, so I just lied. FINALLY in the end of the call that guy scheduled a reboot of my port on the provider’s DSLAM which made things work again…
(And no, not all customer service is like this. I also got amazing support of people who know what they are talking about, but they cost more for the companies than just outsourcing to the cheapest generic call center.)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Last Sunday I ate pasta with olives and got really sick afterwards. I fucking regret eating those olives.
And as this is a shitpost, YES i was shitting all night. And vomiting. But this is not a vomitpost.
Still I really regret eating those olives.
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 1 week ago:
If they knew their vocabulary they’d knew that
- ICE is a fucking train
- ICE is always late
- ICE has broken air conditioning
- ICE arrives in the wrong order, today
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 1 week ago:
That’s hard to find out. When I was in school I was captivated by American movies and music, mostly all blockbuster movies came out of the us.
Before that - I’m from the southern part of Germany, so we had a lot of US influence after WW2, whereas other parts of Germany had French, British and Russian military here.
I suppose WW2 had a big impact in Europe, as English speaking troops came in and saved people from Nazi Germany. Interestingly that’s how it feels in some parts of Germany even (they saved us from the Nazis) - as absurd as it is, when you’re aware how much support the Nazis had in the population.
Nevertheless English was a big positive thing - and the answer probably is “both the UK and the US”. My dad was a huge Beatles fan as a teenager and fans want to understand the lyrics. All you need is love.
Also don’t forget Europe has so many languages - so when we talk to each other we use what the most of us know - English. I do believe that they “EU” with its more open borders also brings people to use more English.
Unfortunately I (unsuccessfully) was taught Latin in school, not French - so English is my only tool in Europe to communicate beyond my native language. It worked everywhere I visited.
In some countries there’s a age gap, with people below 40 or so are much more fluent in English, but AFAIK it’s mandatory as a second language across schools in a big part of Europe.
- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 1 week ago:
English had that role even before the internet. Do you really belive we became fluent in English only in the 90s?
- Comment on company-wide email 3 weeks ago:
This is not a reddit, Sir.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 3 weeks ago:
Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.
What’s the difference between the US and Germany?
In Germany the ICE wilm probably not show up at all to take you away.
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 3 weeks ago:
Also reddit:
My gf didn’t close the tooth paste in the bathroom.
Reddit: Red flag, LEAVE HER
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 4 weeks ago:
I’m living with undiagnosed Adhd for all of my life. My son got a diagnosis when he was 6 or 7 - thus I know the symptoms, and frankly I know too much of the diagnosis method now to get myself an honest diagnosis. (I know how to answer to get the results I want). And I don’t need it anymore, I adjusted my life to play more into my strengths and less into my weaknesses. (And the last 10 years - in my 50s - I feel like symptoms are getting milder)
The complicated thing is: Every single symptom of adhd is being experienced by the majority of normal people. It’s just being “more” of that statistically.
It feels like setting the difficulty level on a video game, you’ll see the same things, you’ll see the same bosses. You play on hard while the guy how got to play life in story mode tells you how lazy you are because you didn’t fight all the bosses, yet.
A big part of dealing with adhd is accepting that my challenge is mine and is different from yours.
And that probably is why “being neurodivergent” is so “attractive”. It gives us the freedom of not being seen as lazy or stupid, and that’s something that I think should really apply to every single fucking human on this world.
We all have our challenges. You are OK as you are. You are worthy of love. And yes, life is hard, you’re not lazy.
If seeing people like this were the norm, “neurotypical” people wouldn’t need to see themselves as divergent. People just use “adhd” or “autism” to say “look, I have my challenges, too”.
- Comment on I can still smell them 4 weeks ago:
Ah reminds me. My dad did smoke. And as tobacco was taxed differently he had once used one of these small sliding machines to put tobacco into “empty” cigarettes, sold separately.
He had stopped using these and was back to store bought cigarettes when I found his cigarettes and the machine.
I carefully pulled out all the tobacco from one of his Camel filters, and put it back in with the sliding machine - adding the tiniest firecracker I had.
Few days later he was sooooo angry. And the angrier he was the more I had to laugh.
It did explode in his ashtray when he was concentrating at his desk.
Oh fuck, thats was over 40 years ago and I still have to laugh like a madman.
Remembering him fondly, even when he was mad as hell at me the worst that would happen was him shouting.
- Comment on 2026 Goals 🥳 5 weeks ago:
I’m taking this as a promise, non-ironically.
- Comment on 2026 Goals 🥳 5 weeks ago:
Every fucking year someone gives me a new year with a lot of promises how good the new year will be. But the only sure thing is, I’m getting older.
I could have gotten a slightly used 1996, but nooo, I got a new 2026.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 1 month ago:
18/20 because waterbeds weren’t a common thing here and I already had internet access and a mail address before AOL was a thing. Whoever made that list should have added usenet.
- Comment on Education is important. 1 month ago:
As a European - does anyone think we give any fucks when a recalcitrant Island exits the Union?
- Comment on Accidental rapture 1 month ago:
I’m atheist who went through an agnostic phase earlier.
So - as a thought experiment - let’s assume there is a god and heaven and a judgment day.
There are two persons in front of the ultimate judge.
One behaved “good” but just out of fear of ultimate judgement.
The other one just he didn’t want to be an asshole out of his own wishes.
Who’d pass?
So i think god is irrelevant. Belief is irrelevant.
Ultimately these ideas led me down the path of optimistic nihilism.
- Comment on 🎄. (Turn on sound.) 1 month ago:
I miss my poop knife copypasta.
- Comment on Teachers never forget 2 months ago:
When I was in 7th grade I had the same teacher in Latin that my dad had.
That teacher was really old. It was hard to cheat in a test, as he had extremely crossed eyes and I never was sure where he looked.
- Comment on Countdown is starting 2 months ago:
Why is everyone ignoring Wham?
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 2 months ago:
In every fucking commercial for a washing machine someone is in their garden and turns on the machine by wifi. How does the dirty laundry get in?
The only interesting thing might be a notification when it’s done.
- Comment on Betrayal 2 months ago:
“Evidence”? What a quaint concept.
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 2 months ago:
As a Bavarian (South of Germany) I agree with the Ch at the start of the word being pronounced like a K (Chiemsee starts with the sound K), but with it depends on the region. I start “China” and “Chemie” with K, but a lot of people start it with “sch” (which sounds like sh in English). But that’s really weird for my ears.
And the father of my ex wife is from Cologne, his “ch” sound quite like “sh” as well. Kirche (church) sounds like Kirsche (cherry) when he says it. Funnily his last name has two “ch”.
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 3 months ago:
German is my native language , so yes. It sounds a lot different from what you might think if you can’t speak “ch”. But if you’re American…
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 3 months ago:
Please read this German sentence aloud:
Ich suche den Koch.
(I’m looking for the chef.)
- Comment on How will YOU choose 3 months ago:
Anything else, sir?
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 3 months ago:
Scripting - creating cross page macros, like you now can do with puppeteer etc. Have simple basic programming capabilities. Stuff like that now shows up with “AI” agentic browsers, but that’s too. much. I just want to set up macros, like “go to my timesheet page, click start, enter current time”. On a “Autohotkey for the web” level. (Power users instead of developers)
Tab management - I’m working a lot with jira and other “wonderful” software. What would be nice would be showing multiple tabs at once (like opening several browser windows) , also maybe automatically creating a conceptual “tree” in the tab overview. That would require some configuration (on top of what normal vertical tabs do). For example confluence has a implicit tree, why shouldn’t the tab overview in the browser track that. A lot of web sites are ordered hierarchically. The only tab hierarchichy we currently have in the browser is a “i opened tab b from tab a” hierarchy
History search - not using it is proof it doesn’t fulfill a desire. “Damn I recently was on a site that talked about how the confabulator works without causing wobbles in the swingmode arm” Trying to find that after you did open a few hundred other pages sucks. It would be nice to have positive and negative search terms, have a “near” operator etc. So that would be a full text search engine (which already exists) about pages I have seen in the past.
Granular permissions: I only allow a page to enumerate the fonts it needs to use, not all of them so it can calculate a hash. I want to forbid it from accessing certain domains (Adblockers can currently do that) etc. You may/may not play video. The permission system is in place, but too coarse.
And yes there are privacy containers, but not in a really helpful manner yet. They’d need to integrate with the above permissions, for example so I can put a web page into a jail of its own.
All these aren’t well thought out features, rather I pulled them out of my butt. Still I feel there’s close to no innovation on the usability of a browser and we could need that. We still have the same interaction model as in the 90s with Mosaic - and while (of course) not every idea would work out in a good way, some things would be worth following up on. I’d expect that out of an organization like Mozilla (less so out of commercial browser vendors).
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 3 months ago:
Progressive Web Apps Modern Tab Management Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”) Improved History Search Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting) Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)
that’s just the first that I can think about in the first 30 seconds
Interestingly other than what you say, under the hood improvements still benefit the user, but Mozilla axed the Servo Engine (fortunately that project is still alive, now outside of Mozilla). I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.
I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.
But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 3 months ago:
Fortunately in English classes (I learned English at school) we read Macbeth. There’s a lot of layers to Shakespeare - for example a lot of allusions which you’ll only understand when you know about the time it was written in. And our English teacher dragged in a native speaker to help out with conversation, who was a student living in my town.
In German (my native language) however, we were presented a poem without not enough context about the author and had to answer “what’s the meaning of this”. Most of the German teachers I had were boring, lazy or both.
Your literature problem - I had that in German, Thomas Mann’s “Der Tod in Venedig”. Yeah, I as a teenager was so eager to read about the homoerotic thoughts of an older man traveling to Venice and lusting about a young boy. Yes, of course it’s symbolic but - fuuuuck me, really? Do I need to read that.
Mark Twain has written an essay about the “awful German Language” (I don’t agree). Amongst other things he complained about long sentences.
Ha! He know NOTHING! He had not seen the works of Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann must have been hugely intelligent. He managed to write a single sentence that is too long for a single fucking book page. With a random number of subclauses in between. Exploiting all the cleartext encryption mechanisms the German language allows! With the most boring content a teenager in the height of puberty can not relate to.
I still have a visceral hate for Thomas Mann. In my 40s I thought I’d give that book another chance. Nope. Still hate it.
Ah, soon I’m 40 years past school and I still get PTSD about it.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 3 months ago:
No no no.
In school in higher education we had to interpret poems.
I am definitely sure, that neither the author’s opinion or my opinion are relevant. It is only the teacher’s opinion that is relevant.
(Do I need the /s?)
