twitterfluechtling

twitterfluechtling , 10 months ago

If the employee’s gross pay works out to less than $7.25/h, then the employer is obligated to make up the difference.

I imagine the result it that any employee demanding the employer to fill the gap is fired because obviously they provide bad service, otherwise they’d get more tips. Right?

twitterfluechtling , 10 months ago

Since it’s not Twitter anymore, we should replace “tweeting” by “Xcreting”. (It’s not mine, saw it on Reddit, but I think the idea deserves more exposure!)

twitterfluechtling , 10 months ago

1. It’s not a visa but an ESTA. The visa is still granted on the fly on entry.
2. The U.S. require the same the other way around, only the one granted by the EU is $10 cheaper and valid for 3 years instead of 2, so still U.S. citizens get an advantage
3. EU citizens (like all other non-immigrants) have to, as far as I understand, disclose all their social media accounts when applying for a US visa

Sources for (3):

For VISA applications, …state.gov/…/CA - FAQs on Social Media Collection… should apply.

What if applicants participate in multiple online platforms? Are they being asked to list all of their handles, or only one?

Applicants must provide all identifiers used for all listed platforms.

I reached that document via www.ustraveldocs.com/de/de-gen-faq.asp#qlistgen21 (“Apply for a U.S. Visa in Germany”) and didn’t find any hint for exemptions for German citizens or E U citizens, so I assume it applies. (But I might still be wrong.)

twitterfluechtling , 10 months ago

⁸I don’t know what data they have at hand to work with, the following is mainly guesswork / how I would do it:

As far as I know, US authorities have quite liberal access to data stored by US companies (due to the cloud act even if the data isn’t originally stored in the US), especially in case the data is about non-citizens where some of their protection laws don’t hold. Most social media accounts are tied to phone numbers and/or email addresses.

If I was in their place, I’d have a relatively small database with all (or at least all non-US) phone numbers used for social media accounts, with the email addresses tied to those accounts. If a visa-applicant applies and I get their phone number (email address),

1. I’d query a list of all accounts for that number (email) to get the associated emails (numbers).
2. With those new emails (numbers) I’d repeat step 1

If you call the office or enter your number in your application, they might get some accounts. If you associated an email address to that account, they might get additional different accounts by that email. If those different accounts have a different phone number associated to them, they use that new phone number to get more accounts. rinse, repeat.

[Edit: This process would be completely automated, of course. Not manual.]

The consequence of being caught lying might be to get your visa revoked / denied once you are already in the US at the airport, which would be highly inconvenient. Or, if they get suspicious, find something else, and get annoyed, maybe it could even be punished? I don’t know.

You could maintain a separate phone with a separate phone number and separate email addresses for accounts you want to keep secret. Or maybe get a fresh phone number / email address just for the trip. But that’s quite a bit of effort to maintain consistently.

twitterfluechtling OP , 10 months ago

That is why I like this targeted actions over the gluing themselves to the road ones. This is targeted to people destroying the climate. I don’t think there is any good reason to drive an SUV or a sports-car in a city, and it is actively harmful. To pick up your equivalence: Feminists fight misogyny and inconvenience those guys actively showing it without necessarily alienating average guys.

twitterfluechtling OP , 10 months ago

They target SUVs and alike. In what area do you live that a much more affordable and less gasoline consuming car wouldn’t work for you?

twitterfluechtling OP , 10 months ago

Well, if they want to go shopping right now, chances are for this one trip they’ll take their spouses smaller car, public transport or maybe even walk. If SUVs become generally unreliable (because you never know if you have air in your tires when you need it), people will look for something more reliable. They’ll bitch about it, they won’t act out of conviction or so, but who cares.

twitterfluechtling OP , 10 months ago

I live on 7 acres of mostly heavily wooded land

Well, the activists target SUVs in the middle of Hamburg. That’s not really a comparable situation. I agree it would suck if you visit a big city and get targeted there, but I would hope the activists can decide between a polished up city-only SUV and an actual working-vehicle and act accordingly.

twitterfluechtling , 10 months ago

Only “they” is actually “us”. We voted those clowns into office. We knew (or should have known, the information was available) better at least since the 1970s.

twitterfluechtling , 10 months ago

Not yet, but I already elected ultra-capitalist parties to make sure not to stop the exploitation, so I can become the exploiter eventually :-)

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Most religions try to impede the rights even of nonmembers of that religion. That is disrespectful as well. Burn any book or other goods you want, if you want to protest any of my convictions. TuX-puppets, books about string theory, the FSM, my national flag, I don’t give a shit as long as you own those things and you don’t physically harm others.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Controversial opinion of an atheist:

Most religion is incitement to hate-crimes. While I think Sweden has probably bigger Christian societies and should probably rather burn bibles, the guy burning the Quran is an Iraqi, and therefore choosing the Quran is understandable. Afaik, he protested against his own former repression by Muslim religion whe still lived in Iraq.

Religion is notoriously used to reduce other people’s freedom. Be it fundamental Christians e.g. in the US or Poland denying healthcare to pregnant women, be it the atrocities committed by the “moral police” in Iran, be it other religions killing people for their sexuality. I support the idea that religious law should be limited to followers of that religion, and no person should be forced in any way to follow or keeps following any religion. Those are fundamental human rights principles in my eyes.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

If we went back to that, I’d probably immediately miss the days when objects in our day-to-day were attainable for one Euro or so :-)

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

We’re going to be the first species to go extinct due to stupidity.

Because we act global. The mechanism isn’t new at all, though. We as a species are just as stupid as yeast: Watch a slice of bread mould. It starts with a tiny dot, within a day or two the whole slice is green and the bread already unrecognisable, after a couple of days the yeast will die because there isn’t any bread any more.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Currently kinda controversial, but currently it’s still Fedora, the xfce4 version.

I had Debian for some time before, but had my apt packages messed up a couple of times to the point I had to entirely re-install. In stable, I was missing sufficiently recent versions, in testing I had other problems.

With Fedora dnf I had less problems recovering, usually more recent versions.

Xfce4 is just more suitable for my needs than Gnome.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

I think that’s a fundamental problem: A tool like faceit takes freedom from the user away. If it was open source (i.e. modifiable), it could lie in favour of its owner. Since Linux is open source, a good programmer could probably get Linux to lie to the tool to send the wrong data and therefore allow cheating. Controlling the user requires a system the user has no control over :-)

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Pretty SUS,eh?

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Sounds like “screen”? (I never heard about tmux until today, I work a lot with Linux on a daily base, maintaining servers etc. I use screen a lot.)

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

I wonder which of those appliances will stop working if I drill into the LED with a micro drill… Tape is good, but not perfect. I have a bluetooth speaker in my bedroom, and of all colours it has to use bright blue LEDs as a power on indicator :-( I have the speaker now in a leather bag at night, which does not exactly improve the sound quality.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

The case is waterproof, I’m not sure that’s still so once I temper with is.

My other concern is I’m not 100% sure, if LEDs are always on a separate path or maybe part sometimes part of a signal path, i.e. if the LED is removed and that current can’t flow anymore, could the device stop working.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

If the LED is more or less on the surface, it works, although I don’t like the look much. If the LED is somehow deeper inside, to give an “elegant” shine spread through a bigger area of the casing surface, tape doesn’t work well…

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

I had a Brother printer, the costs were prohibitive. For over a decade now buy discarded office laserjet printers, chunky as hell, but for 100€ you get tens of thousands of pages out of them. And for those 100€, often a duplex unit is included. Am currently on my 2nd printer over 15 years.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Not at all, the old, chunky office printers you get for cheap work even without any special driver or so, just postscript. (You might get better quality for pictures with the original driver, but for simple letters it just works.)

Edit: Where HP really sucks is the consumer market.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

He’s consolidated the military under the MoD umbrella,

Has he? He lost capable military leaders from Wagner, and those forced to fight alongside Russian troops fight now alongside troops which bombed them before. I hardly imagine there is much trust or comrades between Russian military and Wagner troops.

his comradery with Lukashenko likely improved,

It strengthened Lukashenko.

the West is admitting that Ukraine is running out of ammo (thus the cluster ammunition)

… which has nothing to do with the attempted coup

and he (or rather Lukashenko) has a strong private army close to the Ukrainian border, about 90km from Kiev

It really depends if that army still fights for Putin. The smear-campaign against Prigozhin wouldn’t make sense in this scenario.

Putin looks like messing about, trying to make the best of the situation, with no clear plan. He looks weak, and maybe worse, plan-less.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

As an example, in Germany, the age of retirement is now 67 (actually it’s 65.7, but will be gradually increased until 2029 to reach 67. So, for anyone born after 1964, it is 67.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_in_Europe

twitterfluechtling OP , 11 months ago

President, specifically. The prime minister of Ireland is also openly gay (I think he has a husband), and Elio di Rupo was the first openly gay prime minister in the EU, Belgium to be specific.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

I think the Ryzen CPU just gives more bang for the buck, as well considering purchase price as energy consumption. That’s not Linux related, but I think Linux users generally tend to care less about “market leader”, sometimes even as far as consciously supporting the underdog.

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Fully agree! Let’s focus on posts complaining about posts complaining about users complaining about Reddit instead ;-)

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Came here to write the same, you beat me to it 😁

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

They are trained to give answers which sound convincing on a first glance, for simple questions in most fields that strongly correlates with the correct answer. So, asking something simple on a topic I have no clue has a high likelihood to yield the answer I’m looking for.

The problem is, if I have no clue, the only way to know if I exceeded the “really simple” ralm is by trying the answer and failing, because chatgpt has no concept of verifying it’s own answers or identifying its own limitations, or even to “learn” from it’s mistakes, as such.

I do know some very similar humans, though: Very assertive, selling guesses and opinions as facts, overestimating themselves, never backing down. ChatGPT might replace tech-CEOs or politicians 😁

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

Interesting…

“2. A sustainable economic model” […] It [the EU] should also consider how to reduce the tax burden on labour and to shift it to other tax bases less detrimental to growth

"5. Too much inequality […] More redistribution,

This sounds like a strategic decision for wealth tax?

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

tl;dr:

• It’s significant because the EU has phosphate on the list of critical raw materials
• Norway deposit is estimated 70b tons at least, the biggest in the world
• Phosphate is essential for fertilizers, car batteries and solar panels
• The new reserves are supposed to last for a 100 years

twitterfluechtling , 11 months ago

“Read” means they are displayed in your browser. I used to have Twitter open and hit reload once in a while during work, I definitely loaded more than 300 Tweets per day, especially when clicking on an interesting one once in a while loading all the replies automatically.

twitterfluechtling , 1 year ago

As far as I read recently, currently the liquid to provide the cells with nutrition is gathered from slaughtering cattle. I couldn’t find the link, will keep looking, but if anyone has information to the contrary, I’d be happy. I love the idea of meat-taste without animal cruelty and I think it is the way we have to go if we as a species want to survive.

EDIT: gemeinsam-gegen-die-tierindustrie.org/…/clean-mea…

In any case, it is important to bear in mind that the production process regularly relies on fresh muscle tissue and continuously on growth serum.

The growth serum is usually obtained from the heart of a calf embryo, for which the calves and sometimes the mother cow are slaughtered.9b Some companies state that they have replaced the calf serum with an algae nutrient solution.10 It also remains to be seen whether this alternative will prevail.

As the domain name already suggests (“Together against animal industries”), this article seems heavily biased, however. If tissue of a calf embryo is required for the serum, that’s not a calf, but an embryo, which is slaughtered. Just like abortion is not murder.

Nevertheless, I hope the mentioned algea nutrition solution will prove a viable alternative.

twitterfluechtling , 1 year ago

So does my lemmy instance :-) (unfortunately, I’m no good as an artist, it’s not that obvious it is supposed to depict a stamped reddit logo)

twitterfluechtling , 1 year ago

I started my own instance and do currently not intend to open it for others (besides, maybe, close friends and family).

My intention are

• to learn more about the concepts
• evaluate how reliable the replication of comments and posts works
• maybe create my own pseudo-community just for myself, as kind of a simplified blog

Reading other posts in this sub, I saw it is still seen as offloading the main servers, as the replication of the data is a low load compared to serving the UI. Maybe one of these motivations apply to you, too? Or you find another one? At the end of the day, host your own instance if you want to :-)