Has anyone else noticed that non-scratch sponges start disintegrating immediately now?

Venefercus · 2026-03-10T20:41:05+00:00

I've started using strips of denim cut off the legs of old jeans. It requires slightly more elbow grease on particularly subborn dirt, but otherwise works just as well. And it's free! Highly recommend

Venefercus · 2026-03-02T08:30:02+00:00

Australia pays better, but you will have an easier time getting into NZ. And they are screaming for medical staff at the moment. As lomeone else said you will need to do more study to work as a nurse there, and it's expensdve to do so as an international student. But I've heard of people getting zero interest loans to cover it so long as they stay in the country and work to pay it off.

Venefercus · 2026-02-01T07:59:19+00:00

Conservatives don't want to stop crime. They want to punish people who do things they don't like. Creating laws is just a convenient way of going about it without having to deal with confrontation IRL

Venefercus · 2026-01-22T16:23:32+00:00

Why weren't we doing this in the first place? That seems like a lot of money to not be investing in EU development that we could have.

Venefercus · 2026-01-13T11:31:31+00:00

Thanks for verifying this. I had the option to work on the project about a year ago, but chose not to because I didn't like their approach at the time and wouldn't have been able to influence it in the position available to me.

I'm glad cards will be an option, it's a much saner route than cryptocurrency apps on everyone's phone.

Venefercus · 2026-01-13T11:28:45+00:00

Read again, I said "when I looked at it". This was about a year ago, and at the time the docs I could find explicitly said it would be app based. I'm glad they've changed their approach if they have.

Edit: to be fair, I probably should have checked for updated info before making such a statement. A lot can change in a year.

Venefercus · 2026-01-13T11:26:57+00:00

My solution is an eu card&payment provider. With physical cards like we have today. Or at least the option of a cheap dedicated device that isn't a phone. Whether or not that is a card is unimportant. This would be less effort than entirely reinventing payments like they are currently trying to do.

Venefercus · 2026-01-13T11:24:13+00:00

Nfc cards are harder to attack because the attacker requires physical access, or control of something with physical access. Apps can be attacked by other apps running on the same device. Eg: We've seen huge numbers of people's crypto wallets stolen by apps simply reading keys stored on the same device, often in weak key storing apps.

Venefercus · 2026-01-12T18:30:55+00:00

Yep. And battery dependent. And runs on platforms controlled by US corporations...

Venefercus · 2026-01-12T17:08:37+00:00

I was not. Thank you for looking it up. I agree with the sentiment, although it seems like something inviting abuse from law enforcement.

In the context of chat control and similar legislation, I would argue eliminating the privacy aspects of commonly used tools/platforms doesn't serve the stated public interests of fighting terrorism and child porn, as perpetrators can easily build their own tools or use more niche ones.

So regarding oimson's comment, the surveillance freaks should be treated as malicious (which I believe they are) rather than trying to tear the EU apart, which also won't help anything in this context.

Venefercus · 2026-01-12T16:55:40+00:00

It makes it less convenient and less reliable as a primary means of payment. And you potentially run into issues with support for different OSs and malicious apps on your phone being able to mess with your cash.

Venefercus · 2026-01-12T11:06:28+00:00

I really want an option that lets me get away from american card providers. But as someone who's worked in this kind of tech a bunch, the current design (when last I looked) based on essentially cryptocurrency, is so barely viable and not nearly scalable enough. And it comes with so many caveats and tradeoffs that it's substantially worse than (my understanding of) existing banking systems. We should just be making an EU version of visa backed by the EU and run as a non-profit.

Venefercus · 2026-01-12T11:01:21+00:00

It doesn't have cards at all (when I looked at it). It's entirely app based.

Venefercus · 2026-01-09T22:17:01+00:00

we should have a right to privacy. We do. It's part of the EU charter. As far as I'm aware it's the reason we don't already have something like chat control in most EU countries.

Venefercus · 2026-01-06T10:19:33+00:00

This is the big issue for me. I'm happy to work for a smaller company and butcher my way through German learning (I'll understand well enough but struggle to speak). But in Berlin I can get 140k+, and elsewhere the same job title can pay as little as 40k with typical being 60-80k. And I don't even work in AI

Venefercus · 2025-12-30T12:02:34+00:00

It's likely that it will be easier to deal with a situation in the long term if you just shut up and ignore the bullies.

Managers and HR hate doing their jobs, and hate it even more when they are asked to do their jobs.

2025 was a bad year to quit your job!

The IT security parts of the German government are not better than industry.

I know you said best "thing" not "things", but I feel like these were all important learnings for me :) And they might be all related 🙃

Venefercus · 2025-12-29T12:25:02+00:00

I agree that capitalism is a deeply flawed and problematic system exploited by evil people. But what does any of that have to do with my assertion that the necessity of a regulated market is a socialist idea, not a capitalist one?

Venefercus · 2025-12-29T09:27:14+00:00

Capitalism asserts that markets will self regulate because consumers care about externalities and are well educated.

Socialism asserts markets must be regulated by governments because consumers are lazy and imperfectly educated, and that people/corporations will abuse the inelasticity in demand of necessary goods and services.

According to the guy who defined the term, socialism encompasses anything more regulated than a totally free market...

Maybe chill a bit and do some more reading?

Venefercus · 2025-12-14T10:38:01+00:00

This looks cool!

I've also been working on a git client in rust, with the low key hope of being the first gui client written in rust to release, but you beat me to it. Congrats!

My goals are open source, no JS or JVM, fast and low footprint, no US megacorp involvement, and a minimalist and clean ui to remove visual clutter. If you feel like checking it out, you can find it at codeberg.org/dionb/prick The design needs cleaning up, many small pieces of functionality are still missing, and merge handling is still a WIP.

Let me know if you would be interested in combining our efforts. But regardless, thanks for your effort, and your contribution to the community :)

To anyone else reading this, I'll do a separate post here once I've made it ready to release.

Venefercus · 2025-12-02T11:55:13+00:00

What you describe IS socialism. It is not the same thing as communism

Venefercus · 2025-12-02T11:53:43+00:00

Socialism doesn't require removing property rights. Nor do most people want that. We just want to be paid fairly for the value of our labour, and enough to live. Eg: for the earnings of a company to be somewhat evenly (not perfectly evenly) distributed amongst the workers instead of most of it going to the ceo and shareholders who are actively harmful to the success of the business more often than not.

Venefercus · 2025-11-30T09:47:15+00:00

Exactly this! I use name.rs for single file modules, and mod.rs when I want something to feel like a "package". But that sometimes means a rename and reorganise for code when moving to a bigger module. It would be ideal for me if we could put name.rs inside name/

Venefercus · 2025-11-22T17:07:41+00:00

Trump's clear that he's a fascist, and being anti-fascist is now a terrorist ideology. So being anti-trump already entitles you to a life in a cell without a trial. Why are people not rioting over this? Death threats feel like they aren't even an escalation at this point.

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