TestUser42

Working in IT project management for the public sector, technology enthusiast, somewhat data privacy aware and desperately trying not to kill my houseplants.

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Dr. Victoria Grinbergvicgrinberg
2026-03-11

Donating! 🩸 If you can, please do, too!

My left arm while donating blood. You see the tube, but not the needle.
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Martin 🪷 Schmitzarti@digitalcourage.social
2026-03-07

@megaphon @NicksWorld @LoganFive
For those who don't now him, John Oliver spent 10 minutes on him in Last Week Tonight:
next.msitc.de/s/Zi8qM25Qzp48a7

TestUser42TestUser42
2026-03-04

Nothing compares to the adrenaline rush, after successfully converting a document to pdf on the fourth try. /s

When did IT became such a nuisance?

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2026-03-01

1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.

So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.

10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.

She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"

#microfiction

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Randahl Finkrandahl
2026-02-27

German satirical artist Jacques Tilly has been sued in Russia by Vladimir Putin for defaming the Russian state by making carnival sculptures in Germany — outside Putin's dystopian jurisdiction — so it would be a real shame, if that made us share his artworks and embarrass Putin even further.

Source: youtu.be/hGzaU6eAsVI?si=SoMPHd

A Putin sculpture pointing to 6 other nations claiming they are all nazis while he himself is wearing a military uniform and a red armband with a Z that also looks a lot like an N.A Putin sculpture taking a bath in blood.A Putin sculpture attempting to pierce a small jester which just continues tapping his forehead with two clubs.A Putin sculpture appearing to be in a sexual act (fellatio) with a sculpture of Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Helena Klara Jamborhelenajambor
2026-02-26

I gave in! After students asked for one for years, I have now made a simple figure design checklist.

To help all scientists w/o graphic design training create clearer, more accessible, and truthful charts!

--> Out in @nature Cell Biology: rdcu.be/erwl4
--> link to blog: helenajamborwrites.netlify.app
(with link to download checklist as pdf)

Thx my reviewers Beth Cimini & 2 anon, and early comments from Tracey, @steveroyle, James Saenz, and Alenka Gucek

The figure checklist written out in point-by-point. With header: from zero to hero, and an icon of a super-woman.
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2026-02-22

We are out here acting like corporations with a profit motive are going to make any effort to protect the future of mankind.

Bottle with Hello I'm a paper bottle on the labelPlastic inside
TestUser42TestUser42
2026-02-22

@selzero
I just mentioned to a friend, that every product today feels like a scam and you have to dive through several pages of data sheets and fineprint to know how you are going to be scammed.
I'm going to use your post as a reference.

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Dr. Victoria Grinbergvicgrinberg
2026-02-18

It's a problem that we only have one Universe. It's very hard to do statistics with N=1.

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2026-02-17

Es könnte das erste Projekt werden, das vom „Bauturbo“ profitiert – und mit dem gleich 200 neue Wohnungen geschaffen würden. Das sehenswerte ehemalige VEW-Verwaltungsgebäude aus den 70er-Jahren am Rheinlanddamm 24 steht schon länger leer. 🏗️ Ein Investor möchte dort einen Nutzungsmix umsetzen: Geplant sind 200 Wohnungen, Arztpraxen, ein Fitnesscenter und ein Quartiersladen. Der Rat muss im März darüber entscheiden, ob er den Bauturbo in diesem Fall empfiehlt. ⤵️
dortmund.de/newsroom/nachricht

Die Fassade des Gebäudes ist durch die großen Fensterflächen mit bronzefarbenem Sonnenschutzglas, eingefasst in eloxierte Aluminiumrahmen, von besonderer Qualität.
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It's FOSSitsfoss
2026-02-04

Legend for a reason 💪

DID YOU KNOW?

Without Linux, we wouldn’t have Git. When the Linux team lost free access to their management tool, BitKeeper, in 2005, Linus Torvalds built his own replacement in just weeks. That tool now powers almost every major coding platform. Linux didn’t just give us an operating system; it built the foundation for how the world collaborates on code.

git logo

Follow us
IT’S FOSS
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2026-02-02

One of them isn't like the other.

Some bars of merci chocolate bars with an XFP transceiver among them. The XFP is exactly the size of the chocolate bars.
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2026-02-02

@nor4 There you go.

A 10 GBit Ethernet repeater with two XFP ports.
A merci chocolate bar is jammed in one of the XFP ports.
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2026-02-02

@karotte @nor4 *nom nom nom*

The same ethernet repeater with part of the chocolate bar now stuck in the port
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2026-02-02

@Error @karotte @nor4 and how it ended:

A 10G Transponder, the front plate is removed. There is a screwdriver in the picture and chocolate chunks everywhere.
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2026-01-24

#IKEA hat einige neue #thread / #matter Smarthome Geräte im Programm!

Ich hab mir einfach mal von allen, die lieferbar waren, je eins bestellt und sie in #homeassistant eingebunden.

🧵👇

Es gab:

ALPSTUGA: Luftqualitätsmessgerät
BILRESA: Einfach 2 Knöpfe
MYGGBETT: Ein Tür-/Fenster-offen Sensor
KLIPPBOK: Ein Wassersensor
und ein Bewegungs- und Lichtsensor namens „MYGGSPRAY“ 🤪

5 Packungen der 5 angegeben Geräte
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Peter :antifa:🧷pludikovsky@chaos.social
2026-01-15

RE: mastodon.social/@BuyFromEU/115

Being the #Danish Foreign Minister is basically Easy Mode for diplomatic visits. Just bring a #Lego set each time, because honestly, which sane being wouldn't want one?

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2026-01-08

Was wollt ihr sagen mit 'Kartoffelauflauf gilt nicht als Sport'? Da ist zwei mal Lauf drin!

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BeyondMachines :verified:beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange
2026-01-08
No, Yes lady meme:
First image (NO), caption: "Prompt Engineer"
Second image (Yes), caption: "Sloperator"
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2026-01-01

"Der Schach-Club Ettlingen fordert in Wagen 1 alle Passagiere zum Schach heraus!" (@perry) #BahnAnsagen

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