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dfyx

@ dfyx @lemmy.helios42.de

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  • More like the careful phrasing of someone who didn't want someone to jump out of the bushes with "Well aaaaactually, if you live in my state, go to a university three states over, are born on February 29th and promise to give the dean a blowjob every Friday, you only pay 1200 USD which, by today's exchange rate is a few cents lower than your upper bound."

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  • We believe that education is a basic human right. The human rights are equal for all humans (listen, Usamericans: humans, not just “citizens”), therefore it must not happen that low income can hinder it. And that’s also the reason why German universities regularly accept a good number of students from all over the world.

    For full transparency, Germany does have tuition fees for non-EU students. Though at 650-1050€ per semester, they are still lower than most US tuition fees. The reasoning is basically that universities are financed with taxes and if you are likely to never pay German income tax, you have to make up for that. In an ideal world we wouldn't need that and I don't really like it but I can somewhat understand that the state wants to prevent people from coming over for free education and then immediately leaving.

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  • One problem seems to be that Americans treat education as a for-profit business. Universities must make money, text book publishers ask for horrendous amounts because they know the students have no other chance than to comply and there are probably many more places where money gets funneled away.

    Many European countries on the other hand treat education as a service to society and an investment into everyone's future. We already have a shortage of well-educated professionals so we want to reduce the number of roadblocks that smart people have to overcome to reach their full potential.

    In Germany, most universities have an administrative fee of about 100-200€ per semester that may pay for things like mandatory insurances, a students union and in the case of my old university, a psychological help service. For a couple of years, we had a 500€ per semester fee on top of that but it turned out that wasn't very popular. I think the first state to get rid of it was Baden-Württemberg when the Greens won the state election.

  • Any good ways to poison videos against AI training?

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  • Please note rule 5: this is not a support community.

  • What country do you live in and where would you choose to live if you could?

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  • Germany.

    If I had to leave (not that unrealistic, considering predictions for the next federal election), it would probably be New Zealand. Seems to be one of the few English-speaking countries that hasn't gone crazy yet and cold enough that I might survive climate change for a few years longer than here.

  • You are given the notebook from Death Note and are time travelled to a time of your choosing, as long as it is more than 150 years ago. What do you do/who do you kill?

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  • Probably not an outcome I would want for the world but out of scientific curiosity I would be interested in what happens if Ögedei Khan dies of old age instead of drinking himself to death in December 1241, just before his army has the chance to completely steamroll Europe. That might be one of the most extreme butterfly effects in history.

  • What do you like about the fediverse and why?

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  • Hmm... let me test something. Does this show up green? If yes, I can select "Speak as moderator" even in communities that are not mine.

  • What do you like about the fediverse and why?

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  • Weird. You also show up green in Voyager on iOS but only for that one comment. Even on your reply, you are unmarked and in the web interface, I don't see any marking at all there is a small red shield icon without alt text.

  • What do you like about the fediverse and why?

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  • They are probably a mod. Most clients show mods in green and admins in red.

  • TIL the country code for Switzerland is CH and is derived from Latin name for Switzerland, Confoederatio Helvetica

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  • The font was named after the country. It was designed in 1957 in Münchenstein near Basel, Switzerland.

  • I really don't get the anti AC fraction

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  • It isn't very funny. (Sorry if my German is showing)

  • I really don't get the anti AC fraction

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  • Celsius. That would be 86°F.

  • Meet Potential Language

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  • Many years ago I read the D book and really liked many aspects of the language. What kept me from using it was the ecosystem. They had three compilers and two different standard libraries, none of which were fully compatible with each other which led to a whole bunch of weird problems. These days it’s probably better. Maybe I should give it another chance.

  • Have I been eating cereal wrong?

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  • We've had this kind of shit for decades. It's a manager's "make it more interesting", no matter if the executing side is a robot or an underpaid graphics design intern.

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  • You asked about lemmy.world specifically. They are on lemmy but not on lemmy.world. People from different instances talking to each other is the whole point of lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole).

  • Fediverse Growth?

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  • Which boils down to „running an instance is hard and thankless work“ and with more users and more legal restrictions it will only get worse.

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  • Based on my income after taxes and mandatory insurances (health, retirement and so on):

    • 25% rent (including water)
    • 15% utilities (electricity, heating, internet, phone plan)
    • 10-15% food (including comfort food like sweets)
    • 5-10% insurance and stuff for my unemployed partner
    • on average 5% other necessities (public transport, clothing, ...)

  • Hetzner prices have skyrocketed (up to 3x); how will this affect your Fediverse server?

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  • Pretty much the same here. I have an old AX41-NVMe for applications (including mail server, mastodon and lemmy) and an even older one from the server auction for files (running Nextcloud with their storage boxes as the backend seems pretty fiddly). Both have increased around 3% so I'm fine.

    They did send out emails with the new pricing a couple of months ago and I saw that some newer servers and especially cloud stuff get massively expensive, though.

  • Fediverse Growth?

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  • Which is good. I'm just annoyed by the constant "What can we do to get all those people over here" threads that have been popping up the last few weeks because I don't think that should even be our goal in the first place, no matter how unrealistic it is.