Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Please boost. A dear friend of mine wants to move to Germany ASAP and we can use all the help we can get.

How does a language learning visa actually work?
How does one prove financial stability to the government? Especially, in case my income doesn’t suffice to take financial responsibility for her, where do we get the money for the locked bank account option?
Which organizations can help us get more information and answer questions? The official government websites give a good overview but lack depth in critical aspects.
Have you moved from the US to Germany or know someone who did? How did that go? What unexpected things did you encounter that we should be aware of?

Anything helps. Please dump all leads and ideas into the replies. And boost this far and wide. ETA (estimated time until her arrival in Germany) is 3 weeks from the time I’m posting this. She can come to Germany and stay for 90 days without a visa. Until then, she needs all the paperwork to be done and over with and her visa approved. Please boost this! It’s kinda urgent.

If you ever wondered what one of the Elizabeth line COS wall panels are made of (glass fibre reinforced concrete) - there’s a broken one in the Northern line connecting corridor at Liverpool Street

question (boosts okay): has anyone successfully redeemed an International Reply Coupon with the United States Postal Service?

I tried a few months back and was told that local post offices can choose not to accept them

Some assembly required

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

I made an awful bird joke at work today and got glared at by my coworker. I’m counting that as my win for the week

Looking for a job in IT is a fucking paradox where it is implicitly expected you do some cool personal projects on the side to impress potential employers, but can't dedicate time to cool side projects, because you should be looking for a job.

Fantastic talk by @mntmn about open hardware!

As I reported yesterday, the airflow in Hall H is bad :( #38c3 #38c3novid

Hall Glitch not doing great. Packed, closed room for iOS exploitation talk
#38c3 #38c3novid

i don't know who needs to hear this, but you can turn off the autoplay on mouse over on YouTube by going into your account settings

My new coffee machine wants to be connected to the internet. I am not letting it connect to the internet. If it’s bored, it can read a book.

Hey tech folks. Real talk. What companies do you know that seem to mostly avoid sacrificing long-term quality for a fast bottom line?

I'm talking about this tendency people have been noting for decades now, where companies rush for a big feature announcement and build something that barely holds together, and when it doesn't make enough money they rinse and repeat.

Who do you know that doesn't do that, or that does it less?

Please boost; I'd really love to hear broad responses.

I love that with #GoToSocial, I can do full-text search on my toots (and toots that are replies to mine), without running an external indexer.

I love that it doesn't try to encourage opting into a public index. It doesn't even support that. And that's great.

honestly the world of league of legends/arcane is so amazing and stunning. it has so much potential. it's giving magic the gathering and shit. it's just so sad they wasted it all on a videogame populated by white incels who have the patience of a grenade without a pin

i guess arcane saved that potential, in a way, though

There was a point in my life where I felt like being a man was bad, where being masculine was something inherently wrong, I must admit that Fedi did a great job at making me feel worse about it…

I guess that the reason of why I vibe with trans men so much is because… they were there for me, they taught me that being a man was good, they were extremely supportive of me, no cis person was ever able to make me feel this happy about my own gender, and I feel like that is something important that has to be mentioned.

Trans people make my existence better, I love you all.