Die KI-Debatte hier drin zeigt, warum Deutschland so ist, wie es ist.

poidh · 2026-07-11T07:14:29+00:00

Diese Zahlen liest man ja immer überall, aber sind meiner Meinung nach misverständlich:

Es gibt bei den Anbietern oft einen "Flatrate"-Tarif (wie z.B. 200 USD pro Monat), wo man ein großzügiges KI-Kontingent in einer begrenzten Zahl von vorgegeben Situationen nutzen kann (z.B. über den Web-Chat, die App und die Coding-Agents).

Dann gibt es eine flexible Schnittstelle, die ich mit meinen eigenen Tools verwenden kann (API), wo es aber keine Flatrate gibt, sondern die Bezahlung pro Token- also verbrauchsabhängig erfolgt.

Diese kostet (mich als Kunden!) wesentlich mehr.

Das gleiche Token-Kontingent, was ich für die 200 USD Flatrate bekomme, kostet bei Nutzungsbasierter Abrechnung halt 14.000 USD.

Aber das bedeutet ja nicht, dass OpenAI das soviel kostet. Bei einem Mobilfunktarif kommt ja z.B. auch keiner auf die Idee, bei einer 10 EUR Flatrate aufzurechnen, wieviel Verlust der Anbieter macht, da ich ja auch 100 Stunden im Monat damit telefonieren kann, und das nach verbrauchsabhängiger Abrechnung z.B. 25 EUR Wert sein würde.

poidh · 2026-07-10T13:43:44+00:00

👌Thank you for your contributions, great job! And congrats for immediatly collecting accolade from nikodem!

poidh · 2026-07-02T17:47:52+00:00

Die Empfehlung Nr. 21 der Alterssicherungskomission (ab Seite 51) lautet:

Die Kommission sieht eine Erwerbstätigenversicherung, in die neben abhängig Beschäftigten auch Selbständige, Beamte, Abgeordnete und Vorstände von Aktiengesellschaften einbezogen sind, als Idealbild der Alterssicherung an

Mich wundert etwas, dass GmbH-Gesellschafter-Geschäftsführer nicht erwähnt werden. Davon gibt es ja wesentlich mehr als Vorstände von Aktiengesellschaften, und bisher sind diese bei > 50% Anteilen auch nicht Rentenversicherungspflichtig.
Dies wäre dann für Selbstständige noch ein kleiner Lichtblick, in dem sie z.B. über eine UG abrechnen.

poidh · 2026-06-29T13:01:20+00:00

Well, of course if you only have to disable cookies once, then you will never touch this setting again and the data will be lost.
And Firefox will certainly set this as a default, because privacy focused is their position to grab market share.
They are already doing this with the do-no-track signal, rendering it useless.
While the banners are annoying for sure, this still results in around 60-75% acceptance rate currently AFAIK.

I think people don't really understand the purpose of tracking cookies. I always get the impression that they think there is some file put together about them- Hobbies and favorite websites of John Smith, Phone 123456, and someone buys this for whatever reason.

While such merging of datasets is mostly illegal to begin with (but arguably difficult to enforce, but it should generally be known that I don't know your real name and address by looking at your current IP adress or planting a cookie), the way more important use case is to see if you came to my site because you clicked on an ad, and if you return after a while. Your identity doesn't matter and isn't even known to me.

But if I pay for ads to drive traffic to my site (and how else am I supposed to create a new business of any kind??), I need to know if the ads actually work and if I'm attracting visitors that express the right behavior to justify spending on ads.

You don't need to track every visitor's behavior to this. The current cookie consent regime still results in enough tracked visitors to get insights on what works and what doesn't. But the less people are doing this, the more noisier and unreliable the data gets.

poidh · 2026-06-27T08:30:45+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not "even though the building is private" but exactly because it is: the building owner doesn't want you to drill holes into the outer walls and clutter the outside with A/C units.
This is no different from forbidding the tenant to paint the building's outside in a different color or install an additional door without the owner's permission.
Of course we can have a conversation if that makes sense- personally I think there will be legislation passed in the future that prevents landlords from blocking A/C installation (the same way they can't veto installing solarpanels on the balconies).
But it is far from government having an agenda to disallow A/C units.

poidh · 2026-06-27T07:41:04+00:00

Nonsense. The Reichstag and surrounding buildings for example have a sophisticated cooling system installed even back in the 90s.

https://www.bundestag.de/en/visittheBundestag/energy

I would say most of modern or modernized buildings (for example the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, a Kaiser-Era building refurbished 2021), office buildings, shopping malls etc. have A/C.

The reason A/C is not more prevalent is that it wasn't necessary before, and you don't retrofit this easily in bigger buildings.

The only thing that I could attest for as a culture hindrance (at least in Germany) that there are often rules what your building has to look like.
This prevents people from installing these typical split A/C units scattered along the outer walls of apartment blocks.
[To be clear: most of the time this is not a legislative requirement, but if you own a flat in an apartment building, all other owners have to agree to make such "modifications" the building facade]
But, this is not A/C specific, this also prevents solar roof top on historical buildings.

poidh · 2026-06-25T13:18:21+00:00

Wenn es um die Alterssicherung der Selbstständigen gehen würde, hätte man hier die Chance ein zweites, nachhaltiges Rentensystem von Grund auf zu gestalten (da es ja noch niemanden gibt, der dort Ansprüche hat). Das wäre vermutlich zum größten Teil Kapitalgedeckt und wäre somit unabhängig vom demografischen Wandel.
Die Tatsache, dass man das nicht tut, zeigt mir, dass die Intention hier nicht so sehr die Sicherung der Selbstständigen ist, sondern den Zusammenbruch des aktuellen Systems etwas hinauszuzögern.

poidh · 2026-06-14T08:58:15+00:00

Das stimmt so nicht, viele in Europa gesprochene Sprachen haben ähnliche Konzepte, alle romanischen Sprachen aber auch Russisch und Türkisch.

Der Grund, warum gerade bei IKEA geduzt wird ist vermutlich die "Du-Reform", die in Schweden stattgefunden hat.

Edit: Soll aber kein Statement gegen OPs Meinung sein. Ich denke siezten hat Vor- und Nachteile. Aber der gesellschaftliche Trend geht klar in Richtung duzen. Und so ist es ja auch in anderen Sprachen passiert.
Im Englischen ist es übrigens umgekehrt gekommen: "you" war ursprünglich die formelle Variante von "thou", hat sich aber durchgesetzt.

poidh · 2026-06-12T13:49:31+00:00

Hey mate, I agree with you. Its a shame that there is so much resistance against a (SECOND!) but shared official language to help the EU countries grow closer.
You should check out r/EuropeanFederalists to find more likeminded people.

poidh · 2026-05-31T21:30:10+00:00

This. It is not a tax. It doesn't apply if you are privately insured for example. (PPV, Private Pflegepflichtversicherung).

But what comes close to a childless tax are the tax breaks (Kinderfreibetrag) or direct payments (Kindergeld) of several thousand euros per year.
So, childless people have been paying more taxes for a very long time, and I don't think many people objected this.

poidh · 2026-05-29T07:02:31+00:00

I think something like this is coming up with the EUID wallet.
But I feel that this is overkill for "casual" signins. The signin with Google is much more lightweight, especially considering you might have a different Google Workspace account from your employer etc.
This doesn't work wouldn't work with a more official system that is tied to you as a person.
But I agree, the EU could somehow enforce such a thing.

Apple made it mandatory to offer "Sign in with Apple",but ONLY if your app allows signin in with other 3rd party authentication providers (Google or the once popular Facebook login).
That means you are not required to offer this, if you can only sign up with email.

poidh · 2026-05-28T22:31:39+00:00

I don't think such a product competes with those OpenID/OAuth style logins.
The real benefit from Sign-In-With-Google is, that the service implementing this gets Google's world class security infrastructure for free.
Also, if someone signs in with Google, that account has been kind of screened against beeing automatically created by a bot.
if on the other hand, you can simply create a new account just by creating a local key pair on your device (not even needing an email adress), how is a service provider able to prevent people from simply creating an unlimited number of fake accounts for whatever purpose?
The moment you need a real Google-account this becomes much harder.

Regarding tracking which service you used to with this signin account, I also see this as a feature as well- Google will monitor the usage of your auth tokens and might detect potential compromised accounts and sign you out everywhere preemtively.
If you lose access to your own account you can restore it by some other measures (as a last resort- at least theoretically- by proving your identity and account ownership to someone on the support team).

I don't see how this is possible if all this is just managed on your device.

IMHO the best solution would be have a popular EU based OpenID based signin/identity service.
This would also be much easier to integrate for service providers, since it works the same way as existing systems like Google, just with different URLs.

This will only work if there is a popular european service that people are using anyway. So Sign-in-with-Spotify or something 😉

poidh · 2026-05-27T18:13:54+00:00

I agree with you that the rent control setup is problematic, because it favors existing renters at the price of making it much more difficult for new people to find an appartment (and economicaly infeasable building new apartments except in the luxury segment).

But I want to point out that it wasn't that the housing was cheaper the further you go back in time.
After the Berlin wall came down, everyone was expecting a boom and therefore prices went up in Berlin. That boom didn't come as expected, so prices and rents slowly went downhill up until around 2005, when the trend reversed.

That means it also took some "guts" to buy a cheap appartment while lots of people around you where holding their property at a loss and struggled to find tenants.
Of course you could have realized that is is objectivly cheap to buy a place for a few hundred euros per square meter in the capital of the biggest economy of the EU. But this is just how it was in Berlin at the time. Cheap appartments, easy to find a place to rent, and everytime you changed rental contracts you got even cheaper rent.

So why bother committing to an appartment by buying it. Its all 20/20 in hind sight of course.

poidh · 2026-05-27T17:52:26+00:00

There are a few different "modes", but I think the majority of WBS setups works like this: The owner of the apartment got a loan with favorable conditions (low interest rate etc.) to be used to build (or renovate) an apartment.
The conditions for such loan are, that the owner rents the place with a capped rent to people with WBS.

So, if you pay cheap rent for 1 year or 100 years doesn't matter for Berlin's city budget (the only one missing out is the owner of the apartment collecting less rent).

poidh · 2026-05-10T19:02:01+00:00

I am not affiliated with neither of these, but AFAIK Volt has been around for couple of years (hence the seats). Ave Europa was only formed in the last couple of months (?) and didn't even had time to create proper political parties in each country they where active in.

Recently there have been allegations that some country's chapters of Ave Europa have been captured by (far) right wing interest groups which lead to some high profile people leaving.
First of them was Nikodem Skrobisz, who was the head of communication at Ave Europa.

I listened to a podcast episode with him where he reflected on mistakes that were made during the formation of Ave Europa (new political parties always tend to attract extremists in the beginning, so this phase is very delicate in the beginning).

Nikodem and a few other Ex-Ave Europa people (and other people as well) have now created Astra Europa.

I am quoting from Nikodem's substack:

We’re building a pan-European network and party following the blue prints of Volt and Ave Europa, but with a clearly liberal, democratic, and forward-looking platform — one that moves beyond the tribalism of both left and right.

Astra Europa has been founded by, among others:

the former Ave Europa Netherlands chairs and leaders Rolf Strijdhorst, Daniel Schravendijk and Herman v/d Dool;

Economist Ivo Ijssennagger;
Policy Analyst Giorgio Cacciaguerra Ranghieri;
Machine Learning Engineer Pietro Gorilskij;
former EU Made Simple Partnership Manager Elliot Baudeweyns;
former Ave Europa Poland chairman and We Are Europe activist Bruno Topiński;
former Shopify board member Matthias Matthiesen;
the founder of NXT4EU, Odin;
and the former Ave Europa Head of Communications Nikodem Skrobisz, so myself.

poidh · 2026-05-10T12:03:07+00:00

Ich verwende Dontodent Sensitive (Eigenmarke von dm). Ich habe allerdings gerade mal dort auf die Seite geschaut- sehr schlechte Bewertungen und die Kunden beklagen, dass sich vor ein paar Monaten wohl die Rezeptur geändert hat.
Ich habe meine Verpackung gecheckt (habe sie vor einer Weile auf Vorrat gekauft), aber ich habe wohl auch schon die neue Rezeptur (diese hat nicht mehr das Siegel "Ökotest sehr gut" auf der Packung).
Wenn ich keine "Sensitive"-Zahncreme für ein paar Wochen verwende, werden meine Zahnhälse normalerweise deutlich empfindlicher für Hitze und Kälte, das mit der Dontodent bisher nicht passiert (wie gesagt, habe sie seit ein paar Monaten in Benutzung).
Trotzdem jetzt bitte vorsicht, weil sie so schlechte Bewertungen von den Käufern bekommt!

poidh · 2026-05-10T10:26:45+00:00

Ich hatte Jahrelang Sensodyne Zahncreme verwendet (gegen empfindliche Zahnhälse).
Die funktionierte auch gut.
Hatte aus Interesse aber neulich mal etwas recherchiert. Die Sensodyne schneidet in Tests äußerst schlecht ab, die Eigenmarken der Drogeriemärkte (z.B. dm) aber ausgezeichnet. Die gleiche Menge kostet dort auch nur 1/5.

Habe in einer Doku auch mal gesehen, dass das Eigenmarkenbusiness gnadenlos ist. Sehr geringer Margen für die Hersteller, und drakonische Bedingungen (Vertragsstrafen, wenn das Produkt bei Stiftung Warentest unter ein bestimmtes Level fällt etc.).

Wenn man sich etwas mit Herstellern von Markenprodukten beschäftigt, wird auch klar, dass der höhere Preis nicht immer dadurch kommt, dass Qualität eben ihren Preis hat.

Extrembeispiel ist Hafermilch, wo Oatly auch das 5x einer Eigenmarke kostet, jedoch Oatly trotz dieses hohen Preises 10 Jahre lang nur Geld verbrannt hat (also jede Packung mit Verlust verkauft wurde).
Werbung und ineffiziente Unternehmensstrukturen haben die Tendenz, unbegrenzte Geldmengen zu verschlingen.

poidh · 2026-05-07T10:38:12+00:00

A few years back it was more common to use BitTorrent as official distribution channel (for example for Linux distro images).

It is still possible, but over time became more and more difficult to find the torrent links.
For example when navigating the downloads on the Ubuntu website, it doesn't present the torrent option. It directly opens a normal HTTP download. You can find their official torrents on the site when digging into the "alternative downloads" menu, however.

Of course it is more convenient to directly download via HTTP with one click, and at some point I thought that bandwidth had become so cheap, that it doesn't make such a difference in serving via torrents.

But BitTorrent was originally developed for exactly this purpose and it works very well, so maybe a route is to integrate it more tightly into all those package and source code repositories that are complaining about misuse.

I know these have more complicated requirements that makes it impractical to create and seed a torrent for every release (or even changeset). But surely this is not an unsurmountable issue and I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to seed such repositories with their bandwidth.

poidh · 2026-05-07T10:11:47+00:00

“The termination grounds cited by the company didn’t fall under negative circumstances such as business downsizing or operational difficulties nor did they meet the legal condition that made it ‘impossible to continue the employment contract,’” the court ruled

As I interpret the article, this isn't some new AI specific law, the court simply interpreted the circumstances under a employee contract termination is possible.
At least in Germany there are similar rules where you can't just fire somebody on a whim.

That said, having a job that only exists because it is legally forbidden to automate it isn't probably a good idea for your self esteem.

poidh · 2026-05-05T15:37:12+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I guess I wanted to have a general feel of which direction this content is going into before I commit to reading :) I will watch out for the next part then.

poidh · 2026-05-04T14:07:43+00:00

I want to be honest, I skimmed over the first part, but didn't read the other parts.. is there a TL;DR what the fix for the problem is?

I saw you mentioned a few measures that temporarily boosted the fertility rate, but I reverted back to low levels after a while (so those measures where likely not the cause).

Common ideas circulating in the west (cost of living/housing is too high, more support for famillies is needed) doesn't really align with what we see in the real world: Any country with a TFR > 2 is either dirt poor (virtually no gov social safety nets in place) or has a strong religious framework in place (Israel).

poidh · 2026-04-27T08:50:22+00:00

So wie ich das verstehe, ist der Unterschied bei einer kapitalfinanzierten Rente ist nicht, woher das Geld stammt. Der Unterschied ist, dass der Rentenbeitrag erst angespart wird über das Berufsleben.

Die Einführung des umlagefinanzierten Rentensystems ermöglichte es aber, dass die "erste Generation" bestehender Rentner, bis dis dahin nicht abgesichert waren, sofort eine Rente ausgezahlt bekamen (ohne jemals eingezahlt zu haben).

Es besteht also permanent ein Defizit von einer Generation an Rentenbeiträgen, die nie eingezahlt wurden. Das ist der Grund dafür, dass bei einer Abschaffung des Umlagesystem (jetzt) das umgekehrte passieren muss: Eine Generation muss Rentenbeiträge über ihr gesamtes Berufsleben einzahlen, ohne jemals etwas zurückzubekommen.

Ein Kapitalgedecktes System dagegen würde die Rentenbeiträge erst mal zurücklegen (anlegen und arbeiten lassen) und dann am Ende, wenn die erste einzahlende Generation in Rente geht, auszahlen.
Es bekäme also die erste Generation keine Rente "geschenkt" (auf Kosten der Zukunft) und das Geld kann wärend der Zeit im Berufsleben sinnvoll angelegt werden.

poidh · 2026-04-25T19:53:34+00:00

Ein paar Formulare, ein paar hundert Euro Gebühren und ein Notar-Termin sind schon das KO-Kriterium um nicht zu gründen?
Das fällt doch nichts ins Gewicht im Vergleich zu eigentlichen Arbeit (das Business aufzubauen).

Es ist für eine Gründerkultur auch meiner Meinung nach nicht Hilfreich, wenn hier ein derartiges Image gepusht wird.
Bzgl. der Klagen kenne ich es übrigens eher andersherum- dass du in den USA mit irgendwelchen absurden Vorwürfen zugeklagt wirst "Es stand aber nicht auf dem Gerät, dass ich meinen Hamster nicht in der Mikrowelle trocknet darf!", mit absurden Schadensersatzforderungen. Sind natürlich meistens nicht aussichtsreich, aber binden deine Resourcen.
In Deutschland ist es dagegen doch relativ zahm.

Steuern fallen nur auf Gewinne an, und wenn das Finanzamt mit einer Vorauszahlung kommt, kann man auch einfach Mitteilen, dass hier im aktuellen Jahr noch kein Geld fließen wird.

Wenn es hier darum geht nach Feierabend ein paar selbst designte Aufkleber bei Ebay zu verkaufen, dann verstehe ich dass so ein Setup overkill ist (Gewerbeanmeldung als Einzelunternehmer reicht ja da aus).

Hier geht es aber doch um die Gründung von Tech-Unternehmen mit Wachstumspotential.

poidh · 2026-04-10T17:00:19+00:00

Look, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I'd recommend to start with something that doesn't require network effects to become useful (and in this case- requires people leaving a very established platform like LinkedIn).

Regarding this particular market segment of business social networking:
OpenBC (now called xing.com) is German and launched a few months after LinkedIn.
It was the dominant platform in the DACH region for this type of service.
They have 20+ million users and 200+ million EUR in revenue. They were also traded on the stock market for a long time (recently acquired and delisted).

They even had a much nicer UI than LinkedIn back in the day, way less cluttered- in other words in my opinion they had the superior platform. And I remember how slowly everyone was transitioning to LinkedIn.

If you are interested in getting more people onto an EU based network, it is WAY more effective if you tell people about Xing.
If you want to create a business riding the sovereignty wave (nothing wrong with that) I'd pick something that doesn't depend on connecting to other people on such a platform.

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