TobiasG

Software developer from Germany, blocks crypto bros on sight. #NoBot

2025-05-30

@soatok Hi, I'm late to the party (cue dad joke).

I'm a software engineer who somehow found himself on the slippery slope towards an IT security career a few years back. That ended up with me now in an IT security architecture role.

I don't know *when* I first found your posts, but they were insightful and had cute furry art in them, so I stuck around.

One of my interests? Oh I don't know, I might have fallen into a *teeny tiny* rabbit hole when I picked up Elite: Dangerous early this month.

A screenshot from my Steam library showing that I last played Elite: Dangerous yesterday, and have logged 163 hours in game so far.
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2025-05-23

Announcing: justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

2025-05-17

@saramg Ah, the Travel Void. I've been there. 'Tis a silly place.

2025-05-06

@caseyliss
Oh shoot, should I have held back on that post until the final episode was out as well? Have I broken bootleg etiquette? Sorry if I did.

That being said, my ATP membership and my Ubiquiti gear have something in common: Zero regrets about the money I spent. ❤️ So unfortunately no leftovers to re-home at this time, and also I'm not sure if you wanted to be on the hook for shipping them across the Atlantic.

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2025-05-06

LOL – @caseyliss on the latest @atpfm:

"Never, ever get Ubiquiti equipment, because you'll send all your money to them! Just be blissfully ignorant, I made a terrible mistake by signing myself up for this! Learn from my mistakes, don't ever look at anything that Ubiquiti does, because it's all so cool."

*Eyes home rack with the 48-port 2.5GbE PoE switch*

No idea what the strange man in my phone is talking about. 🙃

2025-05-04

OH: "Darf ich mit Ihnen über Physik reden?" - "Nein. Physik sorgt dafür, dass mein Schiff kaputt geht!" #EliteDangerous

2025-05-02

OH: "@ChaosPost, aber mit Raumschiffen!" (Wir sprachen von #EliteDangerous)

2025-05-01

@Crell
I was 95% sure what I would find when I clicked that link and I wasn't disappointed.

2025-04-30

Hachja. Auf der letzen Etappe meiner Bahnfahrt dann noch was für die Zugnerds: Zugfahrt mit besonderem Auftrag, inklusive diktiertem schriftlichen Befehl. Der Tf war hörbar genervt. 😕

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2025-04-30

TIL: The European Union Public License.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European

Looks pretty decent actually!

• OSI and FSF approved
• copyleft
• SaaS clause (like the AGPL)
• explicitly compatible with several copyleft licenses to allow EUPL code to be integrated into GPL, AGPL, LGPL, OSL, MPL etc. projects
• based on European law
• available in 23 languages, all with the same validity

#EUPL #EuropeanUnion #software #license #FLOSS #OpenSource #licensing

2025-04-28

@derf oh heck yeah, congratulations!

TobiasG boosted:
Holger Hartwig 🚴‍♂️HolgerHartwig@ruhr.social
2025-04-28

Unser #THW Helferverein möchte zur Reduktion unserer Stromkosten ein Balkonkraftwerk installieren.
Dafür gibt es Fördergelder von den #Stadtwerke n #Düsseldorf.
Wer uns helfen möchte:
swd-ag-vereinsfoerderung.de/pr

Vielen Dank für Eure Stimmen.

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2025-04-27
10 LESSONS FOR STRONGER MOVEMENTS
- Imperfect allies aren't enemies -
Critique to build, not tear down
Organize, don't just argue
Movements win, not individuals
Perfection is the enemy of progress
Ego kills movements
Plan for the long game
Meet people where they are
Power doesn't care about feelings
Division is a weapon used by elites
Don't play along
- -
#activism #antifashism #art #courage #democracy #freedom #humanrights #poster #resist #solidarity #union
A poster titled '10 LESSONS FOR  STRONGER  MOVEMENTS' features a drawing of an otter carrying a protest  sign that says "Imperfect  allies aren't enemies". The  picture is followed by a  list of ten more lessons:  
- Critique to build, not tear down
- Organize, don't just argue
- Movements win, not individuals
- Perfection is the enemy of progress
- Ego kills movements 
- Plan for the long game
- Meet people where they are
- Power doesn't care about feelings
- Division is a weapon used by elites
- Don't play along
2025-04-26

Heute habe ich nach längerer Zeit mal wieder an einen Ex-Kollegen aus dem Ausbildungsbetrieb gedacht. Von ihm habe ich viel gelernt. Nachdem ich wegzog, hatten wir noch eine Weile Kontakt, man schreib sich SMS. Irgendwann riss der Kontakt ab.

Wie das halt so ist: Auseindander gelebt, ohne böses Blut. Jetzt fragte ich mich, was wohl aus ihm geworden ist, googelte, wollte mal ne Mail schreiben.

Ist aber zu spät. Er ist letztes Jahr verstorben. Ruhe in Frieden, Bernd. Danke für alles. 😔

2025-04-26

OH: "Der kleine Tod." - "Ah, die Umsatzsteuererklärung." #culturaldifferences

2025-04-25

@bagder
But think of the exposure!!1 /s

2025-04-23

@ocramius Higher hourly rates for meetings, or bill prep and follow-up time on top of the scheduled meeting hours. It's not unreasonable to bill 30 minutes prep + 30 minutes follow-up for anything up to 90 minutes, and double those times for anything beyond that.

2025-04-22

@sashag Tom is probably best known for playing Spider Man in the Marvel cinematic universe, but he's also an accomplished stage actor (and it fuckin' shows). Back in the Twitter days, this Lip Sync Battle regularly made the rounds, and the "rules" were to share it around when you remembered about it, just to brighten other peoples' days. 🙂

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Holl

2025-04-22

I got to educate a friend about the #tomholland #lipsyncbattle performance today. Which means I also got to watch it again myself... and we all know the rules about the Tom Holland Lip Sync Battle clip. youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJIB1f7j #TomHollandUmbrella

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