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@FiXato Yeah... In all fairness, at least these recommendations follow my language preference of English.. Their ads still randomly rotate between French and German just because of location. It's almost a game to me by now "guess the language of the ad"

This recommendation on the twitch homepage I just got is just so silly...

@halcy @FiXato Yep, especially for the opening ceremony where they will probably just want as many viewers as possible. It's 2021, who still even has a regular tv ffs

@halcy @FiXato Uhhh ok, that seems very.. Un-Estonian for some reason (I have a couple of friends there). Would have expected a livestream for sure, weird

@halcy @FiXato Well that's just as dumb, where are you located if I may ask?

@FiXato @halcy It's even more ironic that they were just like "imagine if there's no countries" "let's live as one" bla bla bla.. While in the meantime I have no choice but to watch it with commentary in a language I do not entirely master due to stupid geoblocks....

@FiXato It's not like I was planning on actually watching any of the sports either.. Just wanted to watch the opening ceremony.. Ended up watching it with Swiss German commentary now 🙄

It's such bullshit that it's 2021 and the Olympics opening ceremony is still only broadcasted on national tv channels and their own streaming platforms. Why no general youtube or twitch stream... Can't even watch it from Dutch national tv website either of course because dumbass geoblock (no I am not getting a vpn).

TIL. Some job websites reject pdf's for having 'active elements'. After some searching, it was suggested to print to pdf instead. This however increased the size of the pdf by about 200 times. After some more searching I ran into the following snippet
`gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=clean.pdf -dBATCH dirty.pdf`
Which seems to nicely 'clean' up the pdf, without increasing the filesize by 200 times..

Perhaps someone on the fediverse can help me. I am currently looking for work in either Switzerland, or fully remote (within EU timezones preferably). I am primarily a backend developer working with Golang, C++, Java. Have some experience with python, php and rust, willing to learn more. Also small time sysadmin/devops (mostly as hobby for now). DM me for resume etc, boosting greatly appreciated :)

(I speak Dutch and English, still learning German, but learning quickly)

@FiXato That makes sense yeah. What probably also plays a part here is simply people being used to not everybody necessarily speaking German. As there's 4 official languages after all.

@FiXato I actually fully expected an answer from you on this topic. Interesting to hear that it's similar in Norway (compared to CH). But I would also guess this would be hugely different if you were closer to Oslo for example. As some friends on Telegram already pointed out, this is also hugely different in NL outside of the Randstad.

@SuperDicq I am well aware yeah. For just native speakers that doesn't really matter I would say. For someone would tries to learn, it isn't always as helpful imo

I do kind of wonder how this is in other people their experience and in other (European) countries. I personally found it very helpful and especially kind when I was quite literally asked if I understood what she was saying.

Yesterday when I was waiting in line to get my first covid19 vaccin. I once again noticed a huge difference in Swiss mentality when it comes to foreigners compared to the Netherlands. As expected they started to explain things to me in German and upon seeing my Dutch passport asked in German if I understood them or not. While in NL I've heard several stories of cashiers etc, just talking English because they can hear the other person isn't Dutch, even when they tried to speak in Dutch.

@FiXato Write tests when implementing just about any piece of code :)

@FiXato In all fairness, back then and now still I always ran Firefox with super aggressive tab unloading. So sure there's a few hundred tabs in my UI, but almost none are actually active in the background.

@FiXato Which their browser undoubtedly is purely because it's still the same rendering engine as chromium.

@FiXato Yeah, same. Which is yet another reason I just won't try their browser anyway, I don't care for crypto garbage in my browser.

This would imo be a whole lot less weird if it was in response to a recent tweet about the topic.. Not a more than 10 year old tweet, that's just... odd