Aaron C.

Aaron C.

@aaronczichon.com

Senior Software Engineer | From 🇩🇪 currently living in 🇨🇦

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A fun fact: During my year in Canada every time I pay with my German credit card the machine switches to French for some reason I don’t understand 😅

Ich glaube langsam die Kallas ist die einzigste aufrichtige Europäerin die nicht vor irgendwem wie Putin oder den USA sich kleiner machen lässt als wir sind. Können sich Scholz und Merz gerne mal anschauen.

How self confident do you have to be to visit another country and talking there about "they loose their democracy" while destroying the state back home? (German article about #Vance talking about EU countries are no longer "democracies" in Munich) www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/l...

tagesschau.deLiveblog: ++ Vance beklagt Demokratie-Verlust in Europa ++US-Vize-Präsident J.D. Vance beklagt auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz einen Verlust von Meinungsfreiheit in Europa. Von der Leyen will höhere Ausgaben für die Verteidigung ermöglichen. Alle Entwi...

That can be applied 1:1 to the discussions in Germany and probably everywhere else. There is no one like a “illegal refugees”

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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I have worked on civil wars and state capture for 25 years. So let me be REALLY clear about this for Americans: Your courts are only as useful as the willingness of politicians to comply with those judgments. And the willingness of police to enforce. And Musk, Trump & Co do NOT care about the law

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If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

If you want to leave the US because of the administration there and you’re into tech, let me know. In Germany we need IT people nearly everywhere!

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By the way, the moment to stop the Nazis is before they do all the Nazi stuff. Before. Not after. But how do we know they're Nazis? All the things they say, all the things they say they'll do, and the way they behave along the way. Oh, and when they start doing Nazi salutes.

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Employee engagement apps, once a booming enterprise trend, now reflect a shift toward dismissive attitudes, with leaders responding to queries with “because I said so.” Social, political, and economic life in the U.S. is increasingly shaped by a backlash from the powerful against recent progress.

forbes.comJPMorgan Disables Internal Comments After Employee Backlash Over RTO PolicyThe policy change, which will impact approximately 300,000 JPMorgan employees, highlights the ongoing tension between corporate leadership and worker preferences in the post-pandemic era.

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seems to me that if your AI thing is so incredibly useful you wouldn't have to opt-in people against their will, they would just uh use it y'know

People complaining about web development tooling but every time I open Xcode or Visual Studio I impressed how bad the performance is there. How do people work with this without getting mad?

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Donations to Biden's inaugural fund in 2021: Meta = $0 Tim Cook = $0 Sam Altman = $0 Google = $200,000 Amazon = $200,000 Donations to Trump's inaugural fund in 2025: Meta = $1,000,000 Tim Cook = $1,000,000 Sam Altman = $1,000,000 Google = $1,000,000 Amazon = $1,000,000 The oligarchy is here.