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"De 6-jarige jongen die vanmorgen vermoedelijk door een wolf werd aangevallen in de Utrechtse bossen, is weer thuis."

En, zou het weer eens een hond zijn, zoals gebruikelijk?

Tip for all the Germans coming to #WHY2025: Go to DM and buy you sunscreen before leaving home. Sunscreen in the Netherlands is expensive, even on sale it's still 50% more.

Compare DM and Etos:

Also, more generally... if you see me subtooting someone and are wondering if it's about you: it's probably not.

I make a point of telling people when I have a problem with their behaviour, because I can't expect them to change it if I never tell them what's wrong.

If I subtoot about it, either it's *in addition to* doing so (and if it were about you, you'd already know *with certainty*) or it's about someone I've never spoken to personally (and so it's almost certainly some public figure and not you).

"Please don't litter XKCDs on my floor" and other completely normal things to say in this house

"De 6-jarige jongen die vanmorgen vermoedelijk door een wolf werd aangevallen in de Utrechtse bossen, is weer thuis."

En, zou het weer eens een hond zijn, zoals gebruikelijk?

Also, more generally... if you see me subtooting someone and are wondering if it's about you: it's probably not.

I make a point of telling people when I have a problem with their behaviour, because I can't expect them to change it if I never tell them what's wrong.

If I subtoot about it, either it's *in addition to* doing so (and if it were about you, you'd already know *with certainty*) or it's about someone I've never spoken to personally (and so it's almost certainly some public figure and not you).

subtoot, venting (2) 

(Also, for the RSD folks: if you are reading this, then this is not about you, because you're not blocked.)

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subtoot, venting 

I truly cannot stand people who try to make others responsible for their personal guilt.

"Please don't litter XKCDs on my floor" and other completely normal things to say in this house

please note that the talk Building a Robot Visor: How and Why has been rescheduled to 14:00 - 14:25 on Saturday, 2025-08-09. see those ones there! :neobot_floof_cute:

please also make sure to check the other talks one is planning to attend, in case their schedule changed too.

#why2025

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Heya, is anybody driving from Munich to WHY who's willing to take some of my stuff with them?

The people who were going to drive my camping supplies to WHY cancelled. Last time I tried to carry the supplies myself, I got sick from overexertion.

journo adjacent people, I am currently looking for a place where I can publish a piece on how journalism was wrecked and and get som eyes on it.

Anyway, if you have any ideas, lmk

I was just floored and fully impressed that a website correctly detected that I have address protection and offered a simple human readable error message explaining I have to use the alternative login option

And in particular, because it doesn't *look* like it's that hard

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This practice has been obsoleted, by the way, because people consistently kept fucking them up because it turns out that process synchronization is Very Hard To Get Right

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Een virusziekte die álle systemen in je lichaam beschadigt: is het te genezen door gewoon een beetje beter je best te doen? Overheid, verzekeringsartsen denken van wel - lees meer op pagina 31

... wait a moment. Those 'wait groups' in Golang, is that literally just their equivalent of async-callback-counting in JS?! A practice which has been obsolete for like a decade by now?

I really struggle to take this language seriously...

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