stefan (stefbun)
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82I do stuff with taxes for a living and occasionally touch server-stuff for a hobby (when I am not banging my head against it and want to throw it out the window)
I love dressing girly occasionally, call me crossdresser. All future pics for that will be posted on my picdump-account on my sharkey-instance: https://shark.lightnovel-dungeon.de/@stefan (I will vet the followings there)
I also love sewing and reading (Light Novels especially)
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Fiber was laid now into the house now. Now have a little passive ONT in the house...
So yeah gotta buy that Fritzbox 5530 after all. Atleast the ISP sells you that Fritzbox pretty cheaply. Its 130€ with installation. So yeah soon gonna have two fritzboxes at home. A 5530 for terminating that fiber and the 7530 for Wifi I guess? (Why buy a new access point when I can use what I have lol.
So yeah gotta buy that Fritzbox 5530 after all. Atleast the ISP sells you that Fritzbox pretty cheaply. Its 130€ with installation. So yeah soon gonna have two fritzboxes at home. A 5530 for terminating that fiber and the 7530 for Wifi I guess? (Why buy a new access point when I can use what I have lol.
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@lyli I really love it very much as well 
The Boots are not my absolute favorite but fit the cosplay and are not terrible to walk in like the cheaper boots you could get. I might need some black paint though to hide some scrateches in them ( I tend to scratch my boots on the inside of such shoes since I walk a little weird I guess?)
I am just not the biggest fan of such style of boots thats so rigid. They have a PU shell and a lining inside so they are rather stiff. There is a reason I like my CAMEL-300 Overknees so much more than these. They use a lovely soft-PU on them since you kinda need that for overknees. Looking forward getting those cuties out again for Dokomi this year (and sweat ass off in them)
I needed to redo those snap buttons the fabric was to weak to hold them in and I had one fall out during dokomi last year. So I remade and they were solid on another con last year no problem. But yeah the tool really helped make them last.
The fake leather was actually fine all in all. It was of the rather cheap, thin, fabric-backed variety.
There is also this post with way more info on this cosplay specifically: https://write.lightnovel-dungeon.de/a-long-way-to-my-first-proper-self-made-cosplay
A longer read for sure. But maybe interesting to you?
The Boots are not my absolute favorite but fit the cosplay and are not terrible to walk in like the cheaper boots you could get. I might need some black paint though to hide some scrateches in them ( I tend to scratch my boots on the inside of such shoes since I walk a little weird I guess?)
I am just not the biggest fan of such style of boots thats so rigid. They have a PU shell and a lining inside so they are rather stiff. There is a reason I like my CAMEL-300 Overknees so much more than these. They use a lovely soft-PU on them since you kinda need that for overknees. Looking forward getting those cuties out again for Dokomi this year (and sweat ass off in them)
I needed to redo those snap buttons the fabric was to weak to hold them in and I had one fall out during dokomi last year. So I remade and they were solid on another con last year no problem. But yeah the tool really helped make them last.
The fake leather was actually fine all in all. It was of the rather cheap, thin, fabric-backed variety.
There is also this post with way more info on this cosplay specifically: https://write.lightnovel-dungeon.de/a-long-way-to-my-first-proper-self-made-cosplay
A longer read for sure. But maybe interesting to you?
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They are coming to the flat to lay down some fiber today. So I need to be home and I hate doing home office. So I rather took a day off.
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re: can tax policy
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@epsi @partridge They ARE the economy after all. And lots of lobbying. Some "eat the rich" (aka a tax on wealth) could be a solution. Won't ever happen though.
The world isn't really too different in some regards...
The world isn't really too different in some regards...
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@epsi A yeah that thread is kinda gold tbh. DON'T YOU SEE THAT PEOPLE ARE LEAVING MASTODON?!
Had a semi-interesting discussion there as well about journos trying to establish the fedi as a further channel for their stuff.
And man analytics really kill the deal here seemingly. The fediverse seems to be hard track in terms of click-through.
I have an NGO seem use a simple "utm_source=mstdn" in the URLs they share to get a hint where users might be coming from.
I was met with "this does not work" since people on fedi tend to use extensions that remove these things and stuff.
And also google analytics seems to (atleast in the past) have no real way of tracking stuff like traffic from the fediverse that is becoming the problem to actually measure the reach that the links have. capitalism sure is fun!
But tbh (as I also wrote there) its so much a sign of "skill issue" on the side of publication as well as well as a bit "learned helplesness" and cost cutting. Imagine having actual specialists in IT and marketing on your teams in publication and not having the journo needing to do all that ontop which they are not qualified for.
But capitalism is what it is. But I kinda like the idea of fedi being kinda inherently incompatible with "metrics".
Its what makes this place different and unique from the usual tech-bro algo-driven social media stuff. People instead of consumers a little bit.
Had a semi-interesting discussion there as well about journos trying to establish the fedi as a further channel for their stuff.
And man analytics really kill the deal here seemingly. The fediverse seems to be hard track in terms of click-through.
I have an NGO seem use a simple "utm_source=mstdn" in the URLs they share to get a hint where users might be coming from.
I was met with "this does not work" since people on fedi tend to use extensions that remove these things and stuff.
And also google analytics seems to (atleast in the past) have no real way of tracking stuff like traffic from the fediverse that is becoming the problem to actually measure the reach that the links have. capitalism sure is fun!
But tbh (as I also wrote there) its so much a sign of "skill issue" on the side of publication as well as well as a bit "learned helplesness" and cost cutting. Imagine having actual specialists in IT and marketing on your teams in publication and not having the journo needing to do all that ontop which they are not qualified for.
But capitalism is what it is. But I kinda like the idea of fedi being kinda inherently incompatible with "metrics".
Its what makes this place different and unique from the usual tech-bro algo-driven social media stuff. People instead of consumers a little bit.
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@vozercozer Just your most normal ragebait I gues... Just not watch such videos and move on
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@pixx @spiegelmama @JMMaok that is an obvious flaw with unintrusive tracking but so be it. Never said it was the most reliable method anyway.
Though I would argue thats more of a "desktop browser"-problem.
As much more traffic is mobile even on fedi pretty sure this might be less of a problem than it might seem?
But you will surely have to do more work to determine if fedi is "worth it" or not, like looking at other forms of "engagement", like comments, boosts and favs as well.
Like doing actual analytics work.
In the end I don't know too much about the professional side of this anyway
Though I would argue thats more of a "desktop browser"-problem.
As much more traffic is mobile even on fedi pretty sure this might be less of a problem than it might seem?
But you will surely have to do more work to determine if fedi is "worth it" or not, like looking at other forms of "engagement", like comments, boosts and favs as well.
Like doing actual analytics work.
In the end I don't know too much about the professional side of this anyway
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@snow Drowning them alcohol seemed to have worked. 
please not make it a habit. But you seemed to have enjoyed yourself!
Maybe you need some sort of "Snow has fun and people like her" corkboard at home.
Like taking pics with your friends you meet there, print them and have the other person write something on the back if they want?
I know it reminds me all the time that people care about me
please not make it a habit. But you seemed to have enjoyed yourself!Maybe you need some sort of "Snow has fun and people like her" corkboard at home.
Like taking pics with your friends you meet there, print them and have the other person write something on the back if they want?
I know it reminds me all the time that people care about me
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@JMMaok @spiegelmama It is very much a skill issue. But it is one that people running these sites made for themselves.
I agree that journalist does not need to know that stuff. Their job description is different. They are there to write stuff that people might find interesting. But cost-cutting made them do marketing as well. A vastly different skill tbh.
In a perfect world a publication would have a person doing marketing and knowing their shit as well as a technical person who knows off stuff like this.
Cutting costs does not help with this. as well as giving away control over such things to cloud providers and stuff. Learned helplessness.
The last paragraph is a networking (as in social context). But random fedi commenters should not be the way to do that. But visiting Foss-adj. Events and the more boring stuff like lectures is. Or just asking some other publication you see on fedi on what they do. Maybe you get an answer. I dunno.
(I hope this post does not come off as too brazen... not my intention)
I agree that journalist does not need to know that stuff. Their job description is different. They are there to write stuff that people might find interesting. But cost-cutting made them do marketing as well. A vastly different skill tbh.
In a perfect world a publication would have a person doing marketing and knowing their shit as well as a technical person who knows off stuff like this.
Cutting costs does not help with this. as well as giving away control over such things to cloud providers and stuff. Learned helplessness.
The last paragraph is a networking (as in social context). But random fedi commenters should not be the way to do that. But visiting Foss-adj. Events and the more boring stuff like lectures is. Or just asking some other publication you see on fedi on what they do. Maybe you get an answer. I dunno.
(I hope this post does not come off as too brazen... not my intention)
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@JMMaok @spiegelmama tbh it does not seem tooo hard to me to measure "engagement" atleast for the number a link is clicked (which could be used as a measure on how much "traffic" a presence on masto brings you).
You can do analytics like this in a very unintrusive way not even much needed.
A german publication and NGO that fights fake news uses a simple UTM parameter in the links they share here by attaching "utm_source=mstdn" which could give you a hint on where visitors are coming from when they click a link. Should not be to intrusive tbh. And analytics software can track this.
> by measuring traffic that mastodon drove to our site. Because this is a respectful space, there was no real way to track clicks, so I couldn't justify it
So tbh this seems more like a skill issue more than "there is no way to track this stuff". using a simple parameter is not intrusing privacy all that much tbh and may be deamed acceptable.
Obviously a discussion with the community of where the account posts if this is fine.
You can do analytics like this in a very unintrusive way not even much needed.
A german publication and NGO that fights fake news uses a simple UTM parameter in the links they share here by attaching "utm_source=mstdn" which could give you a hint on where visitors are coming from when they click a link. Should not be to intrusive tbh. And analytics software can track this.
> by measuring traffic that mastodon drove to our site. Because this is a respectful space, there was no real way to track clicks, so I couldn't justify it
So tbh this seems more like a skill issue more than "there is no way to track this stuff". using a simple parameter is not intrusing privacy all that much tbh and may be deamed acceptable.
Obviously a discussion with the community of where the account posts if this is fine.
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