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  Austrian bureaucracy is a thing of beauty.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nativedialogscs/117098732154134512 It's never příliš brzo to start thinking about Vánoce.

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  I like things that I can download and run on my own laptop. https://restofworld.org/2026/open-source-ai-infrastructure-mozilla/

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  America: We invented this disruptive new thing! China: We reinvented it as a cheap thing. Europe: We civilised it so people can actually live with the thing.

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  Bücher sind billig, die Zeit, sie zu lesen, jedoch nicht.

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  I mitched from job 1 today and worked for job 2 instead.

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  “I shouldn't fucking be here! I fucking hate students! I just wanted the fucking affiliation!” — Sigmund Freud at University of Vienna

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  Someone wrote a book about naming things in software engineering and I’m seriously considering buying it, that’s how badly the problem is bugging me. https://www.namingthings.co/

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  Das andere "Proplem" mit der Rechtschreibung lösen wir später.

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  What does it mean when some name is the “official" name of some place? Is everybody required to use that name? No. In most countries it just means the public administration is legally required to use it. Everybody else is free to call the place anything they want. Unofficial names aren’t illegal. Google did not have to relabel Lake Ontario for US users, they decided to do that voluntarily: yet another example of anticipatory obedience from the once-free US of A. https://en.wikipedia.o...

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  Today I learned that the constitution of Germany contains a clause which says that certain rules about how the state is organised can *never* be changed, not even by a large majority in parliament or in a referendum. https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/lexika/das-junge-politik-lexikon/320258/ewigkeitsklausel/

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  RE: https://mastodon.ie/@helvick/117293749739311510 The original AI.

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  Next time somebody asks me a question that requires some thinking, I’m going to ask them to perform a short unnecessary computation first to prove they are serious. Yes, I am implementing #ALTCHA in my user interface!

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  When somebody asks you what your nationality is feel free to make something up because frankly they all are.

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  A mind-blowing idea indeed.

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  I wonder if the source code behind early rule-based chatbots would still be "simple" if the language in which they chatted had not been English. https://spectrum.ieee.org/eliza-chatbot-source-code

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@DamnInteresting/116601842868877312 My favourite person from Brno wants to fry your brain.

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  Don't let anyone talk you out of starting a PhD. It's only 3 years, and those 6 years will be the happiest 9 years of your life.

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  “The concept of ‘cost rental’ is summed up in the name. The rent for a home should only cover development and maintenance costs. The goal is not to make a profit.” https://www.thejournal.ie/affordable-rent-scheme-price-cuts-analysis-7022981-Apr2026/ This shouldn't really be such a radical idea. Non-profit housing is the only obvious way out to bring rents back into human proportions.

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  @psneeze Probably a skiing holiday, this time of the year.

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  We used to worry about accidentally training machine translation on badly machine-translated texts from the Internet. Oh we had it so easy.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nativedialogsde/116249393692401140 By the time you finish trying to pronounce Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum it is already überschritten.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nativedialogsde/116258359127099534 They: Guten Morgen, wie geht's? You:

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  Me in Ireland: You can't make me say Dia dhuit as a greeting, what am I, some kind of religious fanatic? Me in Austria: Grüss Gott! Gott sei Dank! Um Gottes Willen!

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  When everything reminds you of Czechoslovakia...

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  If you think your website needs a chatbot, it probably doesn't. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/site-ai-chatbot/

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  Search and you will find something else.

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  "Maybe I like the misery!" – Mrs Doyle #fatherted https://spectrum.ieee.org/frictionless-ai-psychology

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  If vibe coding exists, then maybe machine translation should be called vibeslation.

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  If you believe that “all languages have words for yes and no” or some poppycock like that, then this will shatter your naïveté. https://www.lexiconista.com/falsehoods-about-languages/