German mayor stabbed outside home, Chancellor Merz condemns ‘abhorrent act’
Iris Stalzer, a Social Democrat who was elected mayor of Herdecke in the Ruhr region a week ago, is reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries. ⌘ Read more

German chemical giant to release Roundup alternative in Australia
We’ve been spraying it on our farms, gardens and roadsides for 50 years, but the world’s most used weedkiller is starting to run out of steam. But after 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D, Roundup’s owner says it has an alternative. ⌘ Read more

Sieht ganz so aus, als hätte die gute @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz ihre Büchse mit in den Kurort Bad Gateway genommen.

Sorry, this pun only works in German, where “Bad” means spa and is used as prefix for spa towns.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice Jacob’s ladder. ;-) I had to look up this term, I also found Zig Zag. What do you folks call this in your languages? In German, it’s Hexentreppe (lit. Witch’s Staircase).

Woooooaaaahh, that’s bloody amazing! I wish I’d had a teacher like that.

English version: https://youtu.be/wi_q6IythMk
German version: https://youtu.be/2Lv1MMlFDBs

@bender@twtxt.net Sadly, it’s super relevant. It’s a really good sketch. I’m actually surprised you know this German series. :-)

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Completely off-topic, I didn’t know that the English language picked up the German word “Ersatz”. Discovering things like that always brings me joy. It has some interesting other properties, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersatz_good#Etymology

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice picture, this hot air balloon has quite a large basket.

Yes, go for it! :-)

My grandpa went ballooning ages ago and liked it. The balloonist misjudged the height a bit and landed in an open-air pool. Well, not in the water, but on the sunbathing lawn just inside the fence. :-D After the ride, everybody was given a very long personal name that they had to memorize. Decades later, my grandpa still knew his assigned name.

The most important thing to know is that – in German – you don’t fly (fliegen) a ballon, but ride (fahren) it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballonfahren#Fahren_oder_fliegen Judging by the English wikipedia article, this is not an English thing, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_ballooning

A #musiquinta é para músicas ou bandas com nome de cidade, estado ou país.

Laibach é “the Austrian German name of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana” e também p nome da banda escolhida. Tem várias músicas com nomes de países (especialmente graças ao álbum Volk) mas escolho uma música que fala sobre um continente: Eurovision.

https://youtu.be/GOffk1G6OX8

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Sorry shibboleths.org! I get a warning with my ip, even when I use lynx with a german IP from

I bought the “remastered” versions of Grim Fandango and Forsaken on GOG, because they’re super cheap at the moment. Both have native Linux versions.

And both these Linux version crap their pants. 🫤 The bundled SDL2 of Forsaken says it “can’t find a matching GLX visual” and I couldn’t figure out how to fix that. I didn’t spend a lot of time on Grim Fandango.

Both work great in Wine. 🤦

(I do have the original version of Grim Fandango from the 1990ies, but that one does not work so well in Wine. I figured, if it’s so cheap, why not. And I now get to play the english version. 😃 The german dub is pretty damn good, actually, but I always prefer the original these days.)

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz That’s an interesting concept I never heard of before. Though, as a German, my data protection kicks in. ;-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Only 10% of the German population had Internet access in 1998: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Deutschland#/media/Datei:Diagramm_Internetnutzer_in_Deutschland.svg I guess I was lucky in that regard.

(If today’s tech wasn’t constantly trying to track and scam you, I might still be an early adopter.)

What police hope a new search for Madeleine McCann uncovers
The disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann remains unsolved after 18 years. Now Portuguese and German police have launched fresh searches to find her. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz There are two more shops that sell the “classic” Tuxes: https://ixsoft.de and https://www.steiner-plueschshop.de – both German shops, though. 🥴 Anyway, if you can make one yourself, that’d be extra cool. 😃

PayPal Brings Contactless Payments to German iPhones Under New EU Rules
Earlier this month, PayPal said that it would debut contactless iPhone payments in Germany, and German iPhone users now appear to be able to use the feature. According to German site _[iPhone Ticker](https://www.iphone-ticker.de/kontaktlos-zahlen-mit-paypal-nfc-funktion-erreicht-erste-nutzer-in-deutschland- … ⌘ Read more

What do you think I just learned about in this awesome Computerphile video with Matt Godbolt called “Subroutines in Low Level Code”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1su3lAh-k4o

Here’s the plot twist, the phrase “till the cows come home”. Hahaha, I never heard this before, but I love it! It’s always interesting to me to hear English sayings. Sometimes we have the same in German, sometimes – like in this case – entirely different ones. It’s fascinating that even though one hasn’t come across proverbs, it’s typically still clear from the context what’s meant.

Yep, some unexpected language stuff. ;-)

@bender@twtxt.net Saw it this morning and I was like “say what now”. 😂 I certainly can’t beat that. 😂

(Also, cute name. The “-le” suffix is a German diminutive, so it means “little OS”. 😃)

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @bmallred@staystrong.run @ionores@twtxt.net Thank you! Yeah, the yellow meadows look truly awesome.

Watching “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga” in German the evening before, this thing totally looked like a trap to us. So, we decided to sit on another, more rustic bench nearby. :-) Oh neat, it turns out, there is a much longer four part series of the documentary in English on YouTube. Highly recommended! This is part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA

Judging by the surroundings, I think this is actually a forest altar or something of that nature. But it looks like they started with the chappel’s reinforcement steel and then they ran out of money before completing it or even placing the concrete forms. :-P

Yeah, 78 might be photo of the month. It’s one of my favorites.

Polling shows growing number of Republicans identify with the MAGA movement
Ben Kamisar,    -  NBC News

Stephan: What you rarely hear anyone talking about is how many Germans supported Hitler for years after they voted him into office. You may find it hard to believe but that is exactly the same thing happening in the United States, Here are the facts.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-15-at-7.17.08  … ⌘ Read more

American Stasi
John B. Alexandria,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: John Alexander, who has considerable expertise in the geopolitical world, has it exactly right. Our democracy is crumbling into authoritarianism as the Republicans in Congress sit sucking their thumbs listening to Daddy tell them what to do.

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The actions of many government organizations are more like the extinct East German Sta … ⌘ Read more

Some European countries and Canada issue advisories for travelers to the U.S.
Chandelis Duster,  Reporter  -  npr

_Stephan: Over the past three weeks, I have received five emails from SR readers who live in other countries telling me that they are cancelling their plans to come to the United States for vacations or business. A sixth reader, a German medical researcher, told me that she had been offered a research grant that would have required her … ⌘ Read more

It’s extremely surprising to me that younger non-technical people just type in their full name (properly cased first and last name with a space in between) for a technical username in account registration or login forms. I’ve seen that happening several times in the past few years. The field name is “Benutzername” in German, literally “username”. Even adding a placeholder text to signal that they could simply use their nickname in lowercase did not change anything at all. Well, one person used at least an e-mail address.

This wasn’t the case six, seven years ago, everybody had some “real” username. Even non-techies. It looks like some “common knowledge” is getting lost. Strange. Very weird. It trips me every time I see it.

Have you experienced something similar?

Trump pushes annexation of Greenland during meeting with NATO secretary
Brett Samuels,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Authoritarian psychopath Trump is modeling himself on Vladimir Putin and aggressively threatening the takeover of Greenland, territory belonging to another country, Denmark, just as Putin invaded Ukraine.  Just as happened in Germany, when the Nazis were voted into office and dismantled German democracy in less than two months, exa … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s cool! I just can’t justify the amount of space it permanently takes. But it fits nicely with the other gauges you have. And with that in mind, it actually is super tiny.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Interesting, I wasn’t aware that other parts of the world consider them to be a German thing :-)

ah! those german calendars. Somehow I was thinking of something like mine, with spaces to write inside each day.

I worked for a german company and they gave away these calendars to our clients and team every year, but the model you can hang on the wall. Memory unlocked!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You are right. Like I said in my (german only post) to the election results: “It saddens me and makes me think.” …

Trump admin to use military sites for immigrant detention, starting with Fort Bliss
Renne Estrada,  Staff Writer  -  KFOX14

_Stephan: In a further mirroring of Hitler’s takeover of German democracy and his creation of concentration camps, Trump’s takeover of American democracy is now planning to create American concentration camps at military bases both within the United States and outside the country at Guantanamo, Cuba. Tens of thousands of … ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu Here are the results of the german jury:

Known salt (B64): Tb9oj07UhwU= (8)
Known key (B64): MII0yj+MC0mHNx254Voar80bi9P7jmocs0+x+inaxBE=
Known iv (B64): l/PvkDjOKMFZe73KptrvWw== (16)
Shared Key (B64): ql8zvN03p6kroSwNrcKbxk4zSBQFkgQZEumvqVIDMAE=
** DECRYPT **
Encrypted Message: ...
Decoded Salt (B64): Tb9oj07UhwU= (8)
PBKDF2 KEY (B64): MII0yj+MC0mHNx254Voar80bi9P7jmocs0+x+inaxBE=
iv (B64): JanbU1jI30lb6yfjq/adjA== (16)
Decrypted Message: 

😭

Apple Intelligence Support for Eight Additional Languages Arriving April
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the company’s Q4 2024 earnings call that Apple Intelligence will soon support eight additional languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese.

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An update coming in Apri … ⌘ Read more

Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within
Mike German,  Contributing Writer  -  Brennan Center for Justice

_Stephan: I can remember walking down to the Lincoln Memorial with a Black friend to listen to Martin Luther King deliver his I Have a Dream speech, and looking over and seeing two highly conservative attorney lobbyists walking with us and thinking, “Maybe this is really going to be the end of White racism.” Sadly it wasn’t, and part of the reason for White Supremacy’s continu … ⌘ Read more

My German word of the week: der Einfallsreichtum

Read the Bible in German. t1p.de/d0r0x

Apple Podcasts App Rolling Out Transcriptions in These 8 Additional Languages Starting Today
Apple has announced that transcriptions in the Apple Podcasts app will be available in eight additional languages starting today, according to Dutch website iCulture.nl. The transcripts were previously only available for podcasts spoken in English, French, German, and Spanish since the feature [launched as part of iOS 17.4](https://www.mac … ⌘ Read more

The German indie sci-fi movie “Das letzte Land” was an interesting watch.

Actually funny that Germans wish each other a good slide into the new year every year, as if the rest of the year is too high a target to grasp within that wish.

One of these tricky things of the German language I haven’t really gotten the hang of is the difference between: “Ich weiss.” and “Ich weiß.”

There is a lot of Black Friday promotion happening in Germany these days - I wonder however how many Germans really know where it comes from? Happy Thanksgiving to whoever is celebrating today - as it is one of the few US / Canadian festive days where families - really - try to enjoy their time together.

Good german news: gopher://taz. de

And 50% of the people in the USA have german blood.

We Germans are up to 50% christians and not anymore running around with our sax to kill the romans, thanks to the christian kelts from Ireland and Scotland and the christian anglosaxons from England like St. Bonifatius.

Achtung! The Germans have invaded! At least they seem a bit nicer, even if they type like bots.

German News at gopher://taz.de

If you like to learn good german, read the Bible at gopher://sdf.org/1/users/scn/Bibel

Sauerkraut: The German Kimchi

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org correct, I do not know German. :) only a few words.

One down! More to go.

BREAKING: Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s super yacht, one of the biggest in the world, seized in Germany - Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/03/02/germans-seize-russian-billionaire-alisher-usmanovs-mega-yacht/?sh=8b18f5052ddd

the last twt was brought to you by me listening to a podcast from two old german hackers talking about blockchain

oh my bad.. the official site has a german version..

My first attempt of guessing a German word was a close failure:

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@prologic@twtxt.net You linked to the German version. 🤣

Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)

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I’ve said on a couple livestreams that the ideal way for an English speaker to begin learning or excel in learning other major European languages (Spanish, French, Italian and German) is to use Michel Thomas’s audiotapes. They can be found for free on Pirate Bay and other sites, but you can also buy them [on his official … ⌘ Read more

Is there a german word for the situation where somebody jokingly asks for the german word for an obscure phenomenon, and some Germans half-ironically half-sincerely trying to come up with words to describe the phenomenon?

German Corona App without proprietary Google libraries is on Codeberg :-) https://codeberg.org/corona-contact-tracing-germany/cwa-android

German article about the new #Conversations update: https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Conversations-Open-Source-Messenger-mit-Audio-und-Videoanruf/

@oevl@oevl.info I don’t live on the #CLI but I listed some CLI and #TUI tools I use regularly: https://blog.mdosch.de/2019/06/06/tui-programme/ (German)

German grammar is really tricky sometimes when it comes down to writing user-interface labels

Woohoo, sent Färjestad Karlstad home with a 2-1 so München is already qualified for the knockouts. 😃 It’s always like winning a trophy when a german team beats a Swedish team. #CHL

The #xmpp newsletter 10/2019 is the first one which got translated to German: https://www.jabber.de/xmpp-newsletter-01-oktober-2019-fosdem-2020-modernisierung-von-xmpp-peer-networks/

@mox@tilde.town I am also using #i3 for some month and really like it. Also I switched to TUI/CLI programs for some tasks: https://blog.mdosch.de/2019/06/06/tui-programme/ (#German). It’s a lot more efficient when you don’t have to change between keyboard and mouse/touchpad so often.

Yeah, good start for the German team in this years #iihf world champions ship. 3-1 #GERvsGBR

GitHub - historicalsource/zork-german: German-Language Translation of Zork (Unreleased) (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/zork-german

Band name of the day: the west-german sex-comedy

True: #Efail is #EFFail (German): https://m.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kommentar-Efail-ist-ein-EFFail-4050153.html

Created a little helper script for creating blogposts with #Hugo: https://blog.mdosch.de/2018/04/28/hugo-ein-kleines-script-fuer-neue-blogposts/ (german)

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @kas@enotty.dk Uh they are sponsored by German authorities.

Loud Online Laughter. https://www.acronymfinder.com/Lautes-Online-Lachen-(German%3A-Loud-Online-Laughter)-(LOL).html

Just updated my #debian #dnscrypt blog post (german): https://blog.mdosch.de/2017/07/07/dnscrypt-in-debian-einrichten/

@david@post.aldebaran.uberspace.de And i thought that was just a thing on the german wikipedia.

@david@post.aldebaran.uberspace.de And i thought that was just a thing on the german wikipedia.

As german speaker i missed the unintended meaning of txtwat. Sorry, if anybody was offended. The project is now called txtnix.

As german speaker i missed the unintended meaning of txtwat. Sorry, if anybody was offended. The project is now called txtnix.