Bodo @bitboxer@mastodon.green

If you own an Amazon Fire Stick, do yourself a favour and remove the VLC Player and replace it with Nova. Say goodbye to video stuttering and weird UX.

Microsoft Teams: We did it, we created the most annoying software on this planet. It feels nearly usable, has a lot of UX inconstancies, and crashes at the worst moments.

Microsoft Azure DevOps: Hold my beer.

If you click on share in the latest iOS Safari you can click on an option button above and select PDF. That way you can share articles behind paywalls. Thank you apple 🥰.

@kaeff @halfbyte when i was the head of bitcrowd I made sure nobody did overtime. We were billed on daily rates. If someone stayed longer we actually lost money because that overtime was not billed anywhere.

Time tracking is now mandatory in german companies. Trust based systems are now officially illegal. Which is good because most of the time they led to exploitation of workers.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/stechuhr-urteil-gefallen-bundesgericht-entscheidet-fur-verpflichtende-arbeitszeiterfassung-8638423.html

Lazy Sunday german podcast recommendation:

Ehrenwort, a podcast about historic scandals

https://anchor.fm/ehrenwortpodcast

Step 1) making it hard for people to organize a vote for a workers' council
Step 2) fire the people who organized it because “they worked too many hours on organizing the vote”

🤡

Thanks Lieferando

Context: the company has to pay the working hours of those organizing the vote

Now that StableDiffusion can be run on any ones computer with a big enough GPU, we all need to start educating the broader public about this technology and its implications on trustworthiness of images. Journalists, it’s your time to shine now.

Every time I think I have installed all video chat solutions that companies are using, a new meeting invite with yet another software appears in my inbox 🫠

To everyone with a Steam Deck: is it worth it’s price? I received a link to buy it but am not 100% sure if I should click it.

@halfbyte that would be awesome. Please ping me if you did this.

@depfu @halfbyte oh interesting. Is that reproducable? If yes i would love to check this out

Do you need a polyglot developer who can write Ruby, Elixir and Typescript? My current gig working on a React Native App with a Ruby Backend comes to an end this month

I am available for freelance projects starting on the 1st of September. 

Please RT for reach 😊

@JohanEmpa the only problem with this: people reliant on screen readers hate this.

Okay Microsoft Teams, can you please tell me who of the 30 people in this chat exactly is out of office? Maybe a link in that line would be nice? Pretty please? This is *not* helpful.

@moonglum @bonzoesc @thegcat that means you are stuck with the theme you have now 😅

@moonglum @bonzoesc i bought a new car last month and now I am worried if I should start looking for a new editor theme 😅

Climate change example picture. There was water here a year ago. One meter. Just gone. 😥

Another proof humans are stupid: everyone fights for the parking place next to the entrance at IKEA. You all really want to haul the stuff you bought all the way from the exit to there, hm? Meanwhile, I am parking at the exit with tons of space around me 😅

@Nico Meine Eltern haben noch eine Elektro-Heizung weil das damals in der Ölkriese gefördert wurde. Die sind gerade super froh nich vor 10 Jahren das ganze auf Gas umgebaut zu haben.