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by nicbou 10mo ago
In 2026 I will focus on tenant and employee rights for Berlin's immigrants. I will create guides with help from experts, tools to check if your rent is too high, template generators to demand a rent reduction, and a network of vetted l
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I loved that post and especially your watercolours. EDIT: Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong person? Here's the link: https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list And the discussion: https:/
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by nicbou 10mo ago
Starting a comment with honey does not prime the reader for polite conversation. Mind the HN guidelines.
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I struggle more than ever to get Google to recognise my query and not a watered down interpretation of it. It was bad before and now it’s even worse. Yesterday I struggled to find the most popular salary tax calculator in our country. From
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What does this have to do with the discussion?
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They produce the goods that we consume. We are the ones working in their marketing department, building their online stores, streamlining consumption. Then we go home and buy stuff we don't need.
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You should aim for the size of a single network packet instead
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Syncthing is also great
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It's really that simple. I run a website that's primarily text-based. When I change the base template, I still check that it works without CSS. This just means semantic HTML. That being said, CSS is rarely that large. Even after a
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Vaguely related anecdotes: - I got caught in the mountains for a few days due to landslides in Nepal. The only available information was relayed by phone between locals. People had no idea of what was going on and their vacation ended on th
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How do you feel about the whole thing years later?
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This is why I'll never move back to Canada. A cafe will be a few red lights away on these ugly wide roads, in the middle of a parking lot surrounded by box stores. It's not just the driving that sucks, but the ugly environment it
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Being alone in cafes is common and normal in Europe too. So is working there. It's just a nice break from being at home, and often your only option on the road. Cafés can be both of those spaces.
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You can do all of these things outside the hour you spent at a cafe. Constant availability is partly self-imposed.
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You can puy the phone in silent mode and put it in your bag. I'm not blind to how addictive these blavk rectangles are but they're not the One Ring. The can be used like a tool then put back in their box.
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The US work culture was always insane though
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Where do you live? I've travelled quite a bit and cafes and pubs are constantly filled with regular folks enjoying an idle moment. Why would so many cafes exist if only that tiny demographic patronised them?
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Coincidentally, Quebec uses "we" a lot in their ads, especially as a way to say "this is how things ought to be done". For example, "this December, we vote". German also has "man" which almost directl
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Personally I found the writing style unpleasant, because people on LinkedIn write the same way. I associate it to a specific kind of low-value content. In this case, the use of "we" is also funny, because the opening sentence is s
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Usually you go to a cafe in the morning, and to a pub in the evening. I could wax poetic about the joy of having a beer in the late afternoon, before the place fills up. I was born and raised in Canada. I manage to keep up my routine just f
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Is this a post I'm too European to understand? That writing style is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I love lingering in cafés. In the summer, I bike from café to café, catching up with my reading and slowly getting to a productive s
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It feels like the average LinkedIn post, down to the paragraph breaks used as emphasis. I find it incredibly grating.
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I disagree. Japan is the ideal place. Kissaten are a cultural treasure. Craig Mod has written at length about them and why they are so precious. I go to cafes strictly for the vibe, and I have fond memories of Japanese cafes.
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I can confirm. I post across 5 platforms and each has its own regulars and its own vibe. The tone of my posts is slightly different on each. The general idea for me is that I crosspost short messages about what I am current working on, but
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A single-binary static site generator would be my approach now. You can trust it to run in a few years. I wrote my own SSG because I operate a website for a living and had specific needs. Prior to that I ran Craft CMS on the professional we
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I started POSSE microblogging. My website has an “etc.” section for tweet-like posts. It relieved the pressure to create HN-worthy posts every time. It also gives me a place to share art and links.
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To be fair, it benefits a platform’s users to reduce automated posts in favour of real contributions.
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Ideally it should be both. I could not read the text because it was too small. The message was more important than its shape.
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This is my approach and I fully recommend it. My personal website is my canonical home address on the web. It has outlived a few platforms and many rounds of enshittification. A few caveats: - You will have different communities on each soc
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Germany has a tendency to wish something into existence with a law, and stop there. No guidelines, no tools, no enforcement. Often not a thought about feasibility. Nothing past the press release. Sometimes a law will be in effect for two or

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