How I archive my favorite TV show to get rid of Amazon Prime
I’m a fan of the German TV series “Notruf Hafenkante”, which is shown on the public broadcaster ZDF and is also available on their website. New episodes are released weekly, and older episodes are also made available on a regular basis. After a few months, however, they are no longer available for free. At the moment I have to buy an extra subscription for a Prime Video Channel to be able to watch all the old episodes. But that makes me dependent on Amazon, and I d … ⌘ Read more
New German Cinema – Being Dead
We were entranced by the excellent debut single from New German Cinema -- the solo project of Fear of Men’s Jessica Weiss -- almost exactly one year ago, and today Jess graces us with another new one, and it was worth the wait… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Forgejo
A few weeks ago, it came to light that Gitea has been owned by a for-profit Gitea Ltd. for several months. The lack of transparency has disturbed the trust of many contributors and users. That’s why Codeberg (a German based non-profit association - disclaimer: I am a member of the association) has now started a soft fork: Forgejo. ⌘ Read more
DeepL Write
I’m a big fan of DeepL for translations. Before trying to write more blog posts directly in English to improve my skills, I wrote many blog posts in German and then translated them. The texts were probably better than my non-native English. ⌘ Read more
Sauerkraut: The German Kimchi
@mckinley@twtxt.net Being German I naturally don’t care for flags, but I have to admit the colored version on your website looks even nicer than the black and white one here. Are JGS at the very end the true initials of your name? And I can’t resist to ask which two states you left out? ]:-> Anyways, enjoy your holiday!
Under Xi Jinping China-Russia ties are defined by global interests and unity in opposition, report finds
A German think tank sifted through joint communiques issued by Beijing and Moscow over decades and found they increasingly opposed the West-dominated status quo. ⌘ Read more
‘My mum was a bit worried’: reality show idea to bring German mother-in-law to China to live with couple sparks national debate
A reality show situation where a couple in China suggested moving the German husband’s mother to live with them sparked a national debate. ⌘ Read more
Ukraine war: German, French, Italian leaders in Kyiv to show solidarity
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi have arrived in Kyiv on their first visit since the Russian invasion. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast – May 09, 2022
Listen now (27 min) | The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays. ⌘ Read more
The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays.
And then punished the Jew who objected to that action. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: “The Hungarian and German constitutional courts refused the ratification of the agreement on a Unified Patent Court. What’s next?” Katalin Gombos is […] judge at Kúria (Supreme Court) of Hungary https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/article/17/1/35/6516025
“The Hungarian and German constitutional courts refused the ratification of the agreement on a Unified Patent Court. What’s next?” Katalin Gombos is […] judge at Kúria (Supreme Court) of Hungary [academic.oup.com/jiplp/artic…](https://academic … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire Message of the Day (MotD) plugin version 1.2.3 released
Earlier today, version 1.2.3 of the Openfire Message of the Day plugin was released. This version adds a German translation to the admin console (thank you, Stephan Trzonnek, for providing the translation)!
The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin dir … ⌘ Read more
One down! More to go.
BREAKING: Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s super yacht, one of the biggest in the world, seized in Germany - Forbes
Why I renamed my blogs
After a bit of consideration and a poll on Fosstodon, which shows a clear result even before it ends, I decided to rename this blog from “jlelse’s Blog – Thoughts, stories and ideas” to “Jan-Lukas Else – Thoughts of an IT expert”. Likewise, my German blog from “einGeek – Mehr als nur Internet und Programmieren” to “Jan-Lukas Else – Gedanken eines IT-Experten”. ⌘ Read more
the last twt was brought to you by me listening to a podcast from two old german hackers talking about blockchain
It seems that mobile reception along German high-speed train routes has improved lately (at least compared to 2019). I’m sitting in an ICE 4 between Hanover and Hamburg, and I’ve initiated a speed test via USB tethering. My mobile phone contract is limited to 10 Mbps, but I seem to be able to take full advantage of that. ⌘ Read more
New German Cinema – I Become Heavy
UK group Fear of Men have been one of our very favorite bands for over a decade at this point, so we’re predictably a bit psyched about this one… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
oh my bad.. the official site has a german version..
Maybe I should write down my political views and thoughts in extra posts on my German blog in the future, instead of putting them in the monthly review and then translating them as well. English readers probably won’t get much out of it… Sorry! ✌️ ⌘ Read more
First experience with my new unlimited mobile phone contract while traveling: The phone hotspot works much better than the ICE (German high speed train) WiFi usually does. At most, there are small interruptions in tunnels, but otherwise surfing, writing e-mails, and listening to music work perfectly. Even remote programming works. It was worth it… ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net You linked to the German version. 🤣
Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)
I’ve said on a couple livestreams that the ideal way for an English speaker to begin learning or excel in learning other major European languages (Spanish, French, Italian and German) is to use Michel Thomas’s audiotapes. They can be found for free on Pirate Bay and other sites, but you can also buy them [on his official … ⌘ Read more
Is there a german word for the situation where somebody jokingly asks for the german word for an obscure phenomenon, and some Germans half-ironically half-sincerely trying to come up with words to describe the phenomenon?
German Corona App without proprietary Google libraries is on Codeberg :-) https://codeberg.org/corona-contact-tracing-germany/cwa-android
German article about the new #Conversations update: https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Conversations-Open-Source-Messenger-mit-Audio-und-Videoanruf/
@oevl@oevl.info I don’t live on the #CLI but I listed some CLI and #TUI tools I use regularly: https://blog.mdosch.de/2019/06/06/tui-programme/ (German)
German grammar is really tricky sometimes when it comes down to writing user-interface labels
Woohoo, sent Färjestad Karlstad home with a 2-1 so München is already qualified for the knockouts. 😃 It’s always like winning a trophy when a german team beats a Swedish team. #CHL
The #xmpp newsletter 10/2019 is the first one which got translated to German: https://www.jabber.de/xmpp-newsletter-01-oktober-2019-fosdem-2020-modernisierung-von-xmpp-peer-networks/
@mox@tilde.town I am also using #i3 for some month and really like it. Also I switched to TUI/CLI programs for some tasks: https://blog.mdosch.de/2019/06/06/tui-programme/ (#German). It’s a lot more efficient when you don’t have to change between keyboard and mouse/touchpad so often.
GitHub - historicalsource/zork-german: German-Language Translation of Zork (Unreleased) (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/zork-german
Band name of the day: the west-german sex-comedy
True: #Efail is #EFFail (German): https://m.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kommentar-Efail-ist-ein-EFFail-4050153.html
Created a little helper script for creating blogposts with #Hugo: https://blog.mdosch.de/2018/04/28/hugo-ein-kleines-script-fuer-neue-blogposts/ (german)
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @kas@enotty.dk Uh they are sponsored by German authorities.
Just updated my #debian #dnscrypt blog post (german): https://blog.mdosch.de/2017/07/07/dnscrypt-in-debian-einrichten/
one german word which doesn’t have a good translation (see its root word) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841732332449067012/photo/1
I found a word for this (and “spoiling a joke through explanation”), but the etymology only works in German:↵zerklären (zerstören+erklären)
@david@post.aldebaran.uberspace.de And i thought that was just a thing on the german wikipedia.
Languages can be alloyed like metals: Wordsmiths like to add a little French for elegance, or German for philosophic toughness.
As german speaker i missed the unintended meaning of txtwat. Sorry, if anybody was offended. The project is now called txtnix.
“Bargain Superstore” marketplace Fyndiq entering the German market - Fyndiq AB http://t.co/2KdYKNFMgA via @mynewsdesk_se
NixOps 1.1 released
NixOps\
1.1 has been released. This release brings a backend for Hetzner,
a German data center provider, support for EC2 spot instances and some
minor bugfixes. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more