Gerrit Imsieke

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Husband, dad, physicist, managing director at le-tex publishing services (@letexml), XML developer, standardization guy (XProc, NISO STS, …), liberal (in any sense), staunch anti-fascist.
Lives in Leipzig, Germany.

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le-tex 🇺🇦letexml@fosstodon.org
2025-06-07

Our Christine Windeln and @xporc presented a TeX-powered PrintCSS formatter at @markupuk . Great achievement by Christine who developed this tool as part of her bachelor's thesis.
markupuk.org/webhelp/#ar08.htm #printcss #texlatex #xproc #markupuk

Christine Windeln and Martin Kraetke presenting at the MarkupUK
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2025-05-11

I've watched this several times and laughed harder each time.

Have no idea what either is saying but it's hilarious!

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Einar W. Høsteinarwh
2025-05-02

In Norwegian we have the phrase "pest eller kolera" ("plague or cholera") which signifies a choice between very undesirable options. I am impressed by Microsoft for coming up with this cunning trap.

A pop-up box presenting two options: "Chat with AI" or "Chat with a sales specialist".
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2025-05-02

Europe isn’t just following — it's setting the standard.

Thanks to the Digital Markets Act, big tech companies must play fair, become more competitive and more user-friendly.

We're making major progress towards fairer digital markets:

✅ More freedom to choose services
✅ Improved data portability tools
✅ Launch of alternative app stores
✅ Greater interoperability with third-party services

The message is clear: in Europe, the digital economy must work for people.

#DMA

A graphic promoting the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA), showing a tic-tac-toe board over a purple binary background with digital icons in each square. Three squares are marked with blue checkmarks (indicating compliance) showing icons of a hand selecting, a chat bubble, and a shield. The other squares show red X marks (indicating non-compliance) with icons of euro coins, a warning on a laptop, facial recognition, and more. The EU flag and text “In Europe, we play by European rules” and “Digital Markets Act #DMA” are included.
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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖christineburns@mastodon.green
2025-04-28

Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

The Crowdfunder for a legal challenge is now up to £209K.

Justice isn't for the meek since billionaires got into the business of overturning liberal order by sheer might.

goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder

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2025-04-27

Zur Masterarbeit "Nachhaltige #Mobilität für Geschäftsreisende aus Deutschland: Potentiale und Herausforderungen von #Nachtzug-Verbindungen ab Deutschland" an der Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde gibt es folgende Umfrage:
limesurvey.hnee.de/index.php/1
Macht gern mit.

2025-04-24

“What surprised me most was that despite my revulsion for what my new associates said and did, I often felt myself becoming friendly with them.”
Harry Shukman: “A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right”
theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/
#HopeNotHate #TheGuardian

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2025-04-22

With the screening today @ Saxony Energy Days 👉energie.sachsen.de/saechsische , the film on my #slowtravel "The Researcher" reaches 11 countries & 22 locations of public shows. Screenings in Ecuador, Czechia, UK are coming up.

📍 Updated event list👉google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?m
📍How to watch👉produzionifuorifuoco.it/portfo
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World map showing locations where The Researcher was publicly screened.
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2025-04-21

papa getting offed by a couch fucker is not the strongest evidence for the existence of god is all i'm saying

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2025-04-17

404 Media has obtained a leak from inside #Palantir describing the company's plan to help #ICE find people to deport. It includes peoples' locations.

Palantir is expecting a backlash and has prepared comments for employees to tell their families describing ICE is a "mature partner".

If you've ever wondered how Germans could go along with the dehumanization and genocide of Jews, Roma, gays, disabled people, know they were exactly like the everyday Americans working for Palantir.

404media.co/leaked-palantirs-p

2025-04-16

Jana Stobinsky, Anne #Brorhilker und andere Frauen sind die Heldinnen bei 3sat.de/film/dokumentarfilm/sy
Das heißt nicht, dass nicht auch Männer auf der guten Seite waren, das waren sie zweifellos. Aber bei der ganzen Geschichte war keine einzige Frau auf der dunklen Seite. Die Unerschrockenheit dieser Frauen insb. gegenüber der Herablassung der Täter ist bemerkenswert. #cumex
3sat.de/film/dokumentarfilm/sy

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Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-04-13

#humor #ornithology #birds #photography #alt

Checking for errors
Just to be clear, not my photo…so to whomever took it,,hats off

Checking for errors.

An open ornithology book against a green lawn. Open to a book on black capped chickadee.  To the left print about the little bird, to the right diagrams for identification.  Sitting on the upper left of the book is a Carolina? Chickadee looking down at the page as if checking for errors, which if it is a Carolina chickadee, is incorrect,  the chickadee has a grayish buff chest, a bit of a black band showing beneath the chin, white cheek strip and black cap, black bill.  Apology bird watchers if I got the id and terminology wrong.
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2025-04-09

If your CEO wants to force you to use "AI," perhaps you can take a page from Renaissance accountants who were forced by their clients to keep books in Roman numerals. They simply kept two sets of books, one where they did the math in Arabic numerals because positional notation was basically mathematical black magic, and one where they copied all the calculations and so forth into Roman numerals to show their clients.

So pull up an "AI" and ask it questions. Copy down the code it provides. Commit and then ignore it. Write your own code, then, when they ask, tell them you had to do a bit of refactoring to get the "AI" code to work. You get the idea.

Obviously it would be better if you didn't have to work for assholes who want you to burn the rainforest to power a plagiarism machine, even if you don't use what it creates, but we've all got to eat.

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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyrk@well.com
2025-04-01

Lines should end with

#programming

2025-03-25

#MarzahnMonAmour beste Serie – vermeintlicher Alltagsstoff absolut berührend und auf den Punkt inszeniert und gespielt. ardmediathek.de/serie/marzahn-

2025-03-14

Sehr gut, was @katdro und Britta Haßelmann im Interesse des Landes, des Klimaschutzes, der Wahlgeschenkvermeidung und der Ukraine durchgesetzt haben. Bündis 90/Die Grünen sind aktuell die Verantwortungspartei, noch vor der SPD.
zeit.de/politik/deutschland/20

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2025-03-12

Sure, eggs are expensive but Trump has made stocks affordable for everyone.

Gerrit Imsieke boosted:
Thibaultmol 🌈thibaultmol@en.osm.town
2025-03-04

If you're ever taking trains in Europe, please checkout Chuuchuu:
chuuchuu.com

It's a great site that uses historical train delay data to better estimate good train rates and realistic transfer windows between trains and such.

It seems like a must have to me but doesn't seem to be that popular yet

EDIT: they're on fedi now! Go follow: @chuuchuu

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2025-03-01
(2 panels)
(top) Two Polar Bears standing in a field. One bear asked the other "Hey Greg, wanna play Hooman?"
The other answers "Sure Steve".
(bottom)
One bear is now looking out a window in an abandoned house, the other is standing on the outside step.
Inside bear says "I have so much depressions"
Other says "I have to drive to work only to afford gas to drive to work again tomorrow, lol."
2025-03-01

Es geht wieder los. Diese Stadtwerke-Schnellladesäule war im vergangenen Juli bereits entkabelt worden. Die Täter von letztem Jahr sind inzwischen hinter Gittern [1], es gibt folglich Nachwuchs bei den Arschlöchern [2]. #kabelklau #leipzig
[1] electrive.net/2025/01/27/ladek
[2] so übersetze ich „gemeinschädliche Sachbeschädigung“, § 304 StGB

Schnellladesäule der Leipziger Stadtwerke in der Blochmannstraße in Gohlis. Die Kabel der beiden Ladepunkte schauen nur noch 15–20 cm aus dem Gehäuse heraus und sind abgetrennt/verschwunden.

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