Carsten

I still think about your paper on the Granhammar man occasionally, and I wish I still had access to scientific journals so I could read more papers on the daily.

2025-12-12 17:31:10 GMT

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I'd love to read the paper when you're done!

2025-12-10 08:53:07 GMT

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See also topics such as "ǃXóõ is the hardest language to learn".
I mean, yes, for your average English-speaker, perhaps. Probably not hard if you're speaking another Khoisan-language.
The western European bias in science is enormous.

2025-12-09 06:58:59 GMT

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I mean, no. I was never in the market for that type of purchase. If I ever decide to get a record player I'll check them out though.
Everyone claims adverts don't work on them, but if it's a product they're in the market for all studies show they do, regardless of what people say.
It's a bit like language, people will claim that they never say this or that or use this construction or pronunciation, when they absolutely do - sometimes in the very sentence where they're denouncing the practice.
That said, anti-consumerist contrarians and nerds like you and me are hard to market to. I am pretty happy about that.

2025-12-09 06:51:16 GMT

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I saw an ad for the Danish stereo specialist 'Hifiklubben' which said:
"It's not a midlife crisis, it's your comeback!"
I quite liked that, shows a sense of humour and plays with the stereotypes about people who buy 50K sound systems in 2025.
It was on their store window too, which is less intrusive than when it interrupts my TV-show or invades my online life.

2025-12-04 15:44:51 GMT

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sounds frustrating 😬

2025-12-03 21:08:46 GMT

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would make sense, though. In nature, most animals are quite risk averse and will flee long before risking death. Unless they're rabid or had the obvious upper hand.

2025-11-18 10:14:54 GMT

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I was asked a few times if I'd like to pursue a PhD and all I could think was "I've seen how the university works and how you treat each other, no thanks!"
Not saying I would have made it, but I definitely wouldn't have made it through the political games with my sanity intact.
Good luck!

2025-11-16 09:36:10 GMT

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"Vi skal fange deeeem", iirc...

2025-11-11 18:08:12 GMT

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what was the fad?

2025-11-11 09:41:18 GMT

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My sister had a secret room behind a bookcase in her previous apartment which she rented out to an American fellow and his dog.
It was pretty amusing to visit her and see people's face when the bookcase swung open and a man and a dog emerged.

2025-11-10 07:41:44 GMT

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Goodness, LinkedIn is the worst kind of social media. It should simply be some kind of CV-database, instead it's like instagram for boring people.

2025-11-01 11:56:34 GMT

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Scandinavian man in his 50s starter pack

2025-10-27 21:12:07 GMT

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it's absolutely possible to create complicated non simulationist rules. Now, I have no intention of using simulationist rules, especially for combat, but I like to read them none the less. It's almost like a separate intellectual interest almost totally divorced from actual gameplay.
I also like to write a lot of background stuff for my own rpg scenarios, even if I'll never actually use it for anything. I recently created a whole fake UN convention on space law based on shipping law just for fun, which I guess says a lot about what I find fun...

2025-10-27 20:59:48 GMT

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I read RPG books for fun, but I don't necessarily internalize all the rules. I just find it fascinating to see how people use rules to simulate the world.

2025-10-27 07:19:25 GMT

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I suppose I have to do some work, but I'll also be playing some Cthulhu ttrp (first session), and try to learn the rules to a boardgame I'll try to play wednesday - Caesar; Rome vs Gaul.

2025-10-24 06:42:10 GMT

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I don't know why this shocks me so much, but it does. Like, I've seen the images from Bucha, why would this surprise me?
But I guess my inner 11-year-old who saw corpses floating around in lifevests face down live on TV wasn't prepared for this level of callousness anyway.
Bless him, inner-child Carsten, he seems like an innocent soul.

2025-10-21 07:28:09 GMT

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absolutely, but are monolingual quechua speakers immigrating to Spain? Portugal has the same sort of arrangement with Brazil, but I have never met any indigenous Amazonians making use of it.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing at all, I'm for a more open migration policy, but I wonder if it's the whole story. It's one thing to welcome Spanish speaking migrants from elsewhere, another to just open the border for whoever. I doubt Spain does the latter.

2025-10-21 07:05:20 GMT

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I don't know if that's a directly open migration policy, they're basically Spanish and must be fairly easy to integrate.
It's not like it's open doors for all the Gazan refugees, is it? Or, I don't know, the people displaced in the Congo-Rwanda conflict.

2025-10-20 10:03:53 GMT

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I find Dickens hard to like, to be honest.

2025-10-20 06:51:30 GMT

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Combat rules seem like the least interesting part of any system to me, tbh.
And you know the GM is just going to tweak things to keep them challenging anyway, right?

2025-10-20 06:37:52 GMT

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Are you the perpetrator or the victim in this case? :D

2025-10-17 13:59:02 GMT

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I'd play it!

2025-10-16 06:35:13 GMT

Hot take: It's borderline a crime that we don't refer to the Roman exit from Britain as the 'Brexeunt'.

2025-10-13 08:55:31 GMT

These days it's hard not to think of the famous words by Tacitus as attributed to the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus:
"Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant."
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

2025-10-10 06:32:35 GMT

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Land - of any kind - seems to be the thing in a historic perspective. What're land prices like in Sweden? I'd guess cheaper than in Denmark, at least...

2025-09-29 17:00:15 GMT

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that's a fun trinket with the anglo-danish coins! What was its purpose?

2025-09-26 19:01:18 GMT

Is life unfair?

2025-09-23 08:51:52 GMT

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It ought to be a simple CV-database with no social media bullshit at all. But it's probably the bullshittest of all the social medias. I actually hate it, but it's where recruiters go to find people so I am somewhat forced to have a profile there.

2025-09-22 20:37:55 GMT

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I miss my kids too and they're just sleeping.

2025-09-17 16:11:38 GMT

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https://media.mstdn.dk/media_attachments/files/115/220/509/805/215/397/original/4cd5d823b79a9fcc.jpg

2025-09-17 08:43:56 GMT

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You obviously don't have kids who are picky eaters :D Or at least not picky in the same way mine are.
Anyway, I will be cooking tofu katsu tonight - probably with steamed rice and a savoury onion-based sauce - and I think it will be a success.

2025-09-17 08:38:15 GMT

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I am going to look into those more, we're generally pretty into East Asian dishes. I have a lot of cookbooks I can consult.
We get plenty of carbs, though. The struggle is typically to get my kids to eat things which are NOT carbs.

2025-09-17 07:52:02 GMT

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I mean, my kids are picky eaters at the best of times, so whatever perspective I adopt one or two are guaranteed to refuse to eat regardless.
I try not to take it personally, but I am also not going to compromise on my own tastes for people seemingly roll a dice every day to decide if they want to eat dinner ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2025-09-17 06:50:20 GMT

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I'm not really a fan of replacing meat with something else in traditional meat-based dishes, I'd rather invent new dishes or cook traditional veggiedishes.
In my personal opinion, only lasagna is lasagna, only a proper bolognese is a bolognese. I suppose it's semantics, but I _know_ what a bolognese is supposed to taste like and that ain't it.

2025-09-17 06:34:00 GMT

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Work, TTRPG prep, and cooking dinner for my kids and mother in law. I will fry, batter, and deepfry some tofu sticks in my latest attempt to convince the kids that we should eat less meat. We'll see how it goes!

2025-09-02 13:41:14 GMT

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An excited face...?

2025-09-02 13:08:30 GMT

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Ah, I see :D Yes, that would grate a bit in Scandinavian cultures, although maybe more in Swedish than in Danish ears.

2025-09-02 12:53:51 GMT

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So, she was displeased at no sorries and pleases?

2025-09-02 11:30:50 GMT

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I feel the same way, with the exception of some tableau-builders. I'm in this to have a knife fight in a phone booth, yo, not to build a little engine while looking at your little engine and hoping my math is better.

2025-08-22 07:48:50 GMT

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Eating people raw would lead to all sorts of diseases spreading.
If I am ever eaten I hope they cook me well, for their own sake, and I recommend slowly braising me pork-belly style.

2025-08-12 06:48:25 GMT

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I will say, though, that my sister used to train and work as a midwife in Stockholm and she says that Swedish people actually actually don't understand Danish.
Most Danes can understand Swedish and Norwegian, if they make an effort, and people talk a bit slower. But according to my sister Swedes honestly don't understand Danish at all. Which is... surprising.

2025-08-12 06:42:23 GMT

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Yes, it's almost like it's primarily a political decision to regard the Nordic languages as separate languages :D

2025-08-12 06:35:23 GMT

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Haha.. A pâte brisée is a kind of shortcrust dough used for sweet and savoury tarts. It's called a 'mørdej' in Danish.

2025-08-12 06:24:21 GMT

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Not much today just work and then I'm cooking Greek zucchini-meatballs (sans meat) for dinner. Might bake a tarte mirabelle if I have time, with a pâte brisée and a creme pâtissière as a bottom.
Edit: I sound really pretentious foodwise here, don't I?

2025-08-10 07:13:28 GMT

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no, that would be something 🙂 they stomp around a protected area and helps biodiversity and then we slaughter them in November and share the meat. We're paid by the local government for taking care of the area, which drives the cost of the meat down.
It's still not environmentally friendly to eat any kind of steak, but if you're not gonna stop completely it's a pretty good way of sourcing the meat.

2025-08-10 06:58:16 GMT

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normal Sunday stuff like shopping and planning the week, but today I will also go cut grass using a scythe in our local cow-coop. Hopefully it will be less warm than it was yesterday.

2025-08-08 09:27:42 GMT

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Yes, I find it a somewhat annoying trait with many of the popular authors from the era.
They write so straight forward and direct that I end up bored. Take Dickens, for instance, all his villains are villains from start to finish, there are hardly any surprises, just the same pretty obvious point delivered with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
Of course, intellectually I know the points seem obvious to me BECAUSE he made them obvious with his writing, but that still doesn't mean I am entertained.

2025-08-08 09:20:53 GMT

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Sounds awfully hurried. What's your impression of Stevenson as an author in general?

2025-08-04 07:13:26 GMT

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Well, when the missus commands....

2025-08-04 06:56:12 GMT

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What'cha cooking?
Back to work today, which is fine, and then later I will apply some coats of oil to some wood.

2025-07-07 10:46:32 GMT

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Jeg tror bare det er activitypub - men jeg er ikke sikker :)
https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt

2025-07-07 09:27:18 GMT

Jeg har for noget tid siden relaunchet https://www.brugt-bazar.dk/ - en federeret markedsplads - efter nogle emailproblemer.
Siden DBA-reworken er elendig og marketplace er drevet af onde mennesker kan i overveje at lægge nogle ting på brugt-bazar.
Sig til hvis i har nogle problemer med at oprette en konto eller andet.
#Flohmark #Fødiverset

2025-06-30 06:32:23 GMT

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Funny. I grew up with three sisters, and I have three daughters. I actually think it does something to you - like, so many of the people* I know who grew up in male-dominated households are sort of scared of women, which to me is prepostrous.
* By people I mean engineers

2025-06-26 07:05:12 GMT

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I agree, but that's because linux tries to be as lightweight as possible.
Phone companies seem to be more interested in how much bloatware they can add to our devices, and also intentionally throttling older devices.
IIRC, Microsoft tried to do the same to the PC market back in the day but didn't succeed.
Maybe the EU will come through and force phone vendors to ship phones with unlocked bootloaders and a way to relock them after installing a new os. But they seem more interested in being able to install backdoors in all chat apps....

2025-06-26 06:22:22 GMT

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The whole situation around phones & software is infuriating, tbh. They're literally small computers, why can't I install a new OS if I want to?
Not to mention; most government apps are so tied into the Google or Apple ecosystemts that they won't work on other operating systems - for "security reasons". Makes no sense.

2025-06-10 13:31:52 GMT

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I grew up in Onsbjerg, Samsø - i.e. Odins Bjerg, presumably a blot-hill.
I now live in Tilst, which is named after Tyr. He seems to have been an important deity here in Denmark with many place names starting 'Tir-'.

2025-06-02 08:08:55 GMT

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While I sympathise with pacifists, I have yet to find a pacifist with an answer when one of the Putins of this world comes a-knocking.

2025-05-21 08:53:08 GMT

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Imagine what releasing all that wealth into the economy would do inflation-wise, though.
I guess you'd have to pretend the dragon was still alive and release it at a controlled pace or use it as an emergency fund of some sort to avoid crashing the local economy completely with hyperinflation, worthless pensions, etc.

2025-05-19 09:12:15 GMT

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I always assumed the word (though not the ingredients) came via indonesian or malay 'kecap'.

2025-05-15 07:12:28 GMT

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Organic Maps is the android app - adds a bit of functionality over the website, I suppose.
There's also a Street Complete app for contributing to the project, it's quite a lot of fun to help out.

2025-05-15 07:10:00 GMT

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I can also recommend Organic Maps - it's based on the open source openstreetmap project.

2025-05-14 08:21:33 GMT

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LinkedIn keeps suggesting I apply to become a Content Creator (Norwegian) or Content Creator (Dutch), which is somewhat hampered by the fact that I speak neither language.
Well, I speak "drunken Norwegian", but you know.

2025-05-09 10:59:18 GMT

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IIRC, the average number of speakers for a language is around 1000, so in a global perspective Swedish is not a small language :)
In fact, it is one the 100 most spoken languages in the world, with Danish clocking in at 160-something.
Out of roughly 7100 languages.

2025-05-08 18:17:36 GMT

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yeah? What's changed today?

2025-05-06 20:16:18 GMT

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jeg havde glemt det eksisterede!

2025-05-06 06:05:28 GMT

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*scuttles off to pray to Bilbo*

2025-04-30 08:46:47 GMT

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Maybe the first lunchbox failure is the reason they're forming a new regiment on Bornholm? To stop your bf from going in a rampage....

2025-04-30 08:39:42 GMT

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See, I dont't know enough about the Chinese cultural sphere to know how significant the cultural differences are between ethnic Chinese groups.
Are people Chinese in the same way they're European? Which is to say, ethnic group first and European second.
Or are they Chinese first and Han or Min or Yue second, like I am Danish first and then Samsing (from Samsø) second?
Are all Chinese cultures collectivist? And to which degree? Etc. etc.
I wish I knew more, and my bet is people in general know even less and think of the Chinese as ethnically monolithic which is vary far from true...

2025-04-30 08:22:17 GMT

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Well, I guess 'they' can't make up their mind about how many meals it takes, then :D

2025-04-30 08:20:34 GMT

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I think intermarrying with other cultures is a strong sign of integration or assimilation. The cultures who stay culturally coherent when surrounded by other cultures largely marry inside their own cultural sphere.
This is especially true for e.g. Jewish and Roma cultures, but also as you say the Chinese. Though, I don't know if it's all Chinese cultures or e.g. mainly Hokkien people?
I have a feeling it's cultures where the communal will is stronger than the individual will. Danes are very individualistic in their approach to life - in the sense that we look for meaning and purpose as individuals, not in a fixed role within e.g. a family unit (like 'father' or 'mother'). If your point of origin for meaning is your own happiness and wellbeing over that of the family or your cultural group you're bound to be more likely to marry someone you happen to like and not e.g. a cousin from back home.

2025-04-30 08:05:22 GMT

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Well, they say that all societies are three missed meals in a row from a revolution, so... in the grand scheme of things lunch IS national security!

2025-04-30 08:02:27 GMT

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It's interesting how some cultures integrate completely - assimilate, really - and some don't.
By and large, the descendants of former yugoslav refugees in Denmark are pretty much invisible in the statistics and also culturally.
On the other hand, in Tilst where I live there's a large Vietnamese community which has been here since the 70s and is still culturally strong. Many people still only speak Danish with thick accents, and they're likely to be at least 2nd generation in Denmark. Of course, others are fully integrated - there's bound to be some confirmation bias at play.
Even within the same cultural sphere you'll have differences. The Danes who emmigrated to the US more or less assimilated completely within a generation, whereas the Finns and the Swedes seemed to cling more to their nation of origin and language.
I find this kind of thing fascinating, especially because the public discourse around it is so simplistic.

2025-04-28 11:42:43 GMT

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Ja, jeg læste artiklen og taggede at du var citeret i den, hvis du husker efter ;)

2025-04-28 11:40:15 GMT

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Vi tager gerne områderne tilbage! Det var jo dansk kerneland...

2025-04-28 06:35:11 GMT

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Joh, men du må tænke på at konsulenterne og de business-uddannede havde nogle meget fine og overbevisende powerpoints!

2025-04-28 06:29:38 GMT

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Man kunne vel i så fald bare kalde det 'Sveriges Tjänestemannaförbund'. Jeg synes det sker alt for tit at man skifter navne til at være uigennemskuelige.

2025-04-28 06:19:07 GMT

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I hvert fald umuligt at vide hvad 'Vision' er - det er mere praktisk når ting hedder det, de er :D

2025-04-22 06:54:27 GMT

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Not a bad way to use these types of media.
I decided against a career in academia because I couldn't see myself working like an academic and not end up divorced, depressed, and disillusioned :D

2025-04-22 06:34:33 GMT

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Back to work from a nice long Easter-holiday, which also means back to Mastodon and feddit :)
I chiefly use social media to distract myself at work, hah...

2025-04-07 13:28:02 GMT

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It's a sacred duty, after all!

2025-03-26 14:56:09 GMT

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Some years back I baked what it called a 'Katrineblommetærte' in Danish, an old type of sweet omelette with plums and almonds. It wasn't very good :D
I expect it was a local version of the French clafoutis where they forgot the flour, but maybe it was based on a tansy instead!

2025-03-26 14:46:44 GMT

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Sounds interesting, at least. Migth give it a try...

2025-03-19 11:44:11 GMT

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Yes, it was a strategic mistake - and a human tragedy. But it goes further back than that, at least to the invasion of Georgia in 2008.

2025-03-19 11:02:30 GMT

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I mean, we let Russia take Crimea in 2014. We'll be lucky indeed if all they get is Crimea, I expect they will keep all occupied areas.
More likely, the US will broker a deal which Ukraine and EU cannot accept, and then use that as an excuse to withdraw completely.

2025-03-13 17:21:29 GMT

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thirty years online have taught me that the best course of action is to simply ignore her. Will report if it doesn't work....

2025-03-13 15:09:18 GMT

Finally been #nicoled - feels like I've made it!
https://media.mstdn.dk/media_attachments/files/114/155/793/708/219/434/original/45b0165825ca8f9c.png

2025-03-12 07:00:28 GMT

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Det gør vi bestemt også sådan bredt set - man siger indenfor lingvistikken at et sprog er en dialekt med en hær og en flåde :)
Jeg tror også at de fleste danskere vil være fortabt hvis de hører to sønderjyder, vendelboere, eller bornholmere snakke sammen internt. Var de regioner nu selvstændige ville vi kalde det et andet sprog.
Jeg var engang i Norge, hvor jeg snakkede med min venindes farmor der talte dialekt, og det var nemt at forstå og mindede en del om dialekten hvor jeg voksede op.
I bred forstand er dansk-norsk-svensk kun forskellige sprog af politiske årsager.

2025-03-12 06:54:07 GMT

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Det er også noget andet når det er internt, vil jeg sige. Jeg forstår og taler rimeligt godt norsk, men jeg er hurtigt fortabt når to sørlændinge eller nordlændinge taler sammen uden jeg er en del af samtalen.

2025-03-12 06:52:55 GMT

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Den største forskel, sagde hun, var egentligt den humoristiske sans.
Danskerne har en ironisk og humoristisk tilgang til snartsagt alt, og det var bare som om at den omgangstone ikke helt blev grebet i Sverige, det brugte man ikke.
Jeg synes det er interessant, for jeg oplever et stort humorfællesskab med nordmænd - og jeg tænker, at det da ikke kan være så forskelligt ovre i Svealand? Men jeg har ikke nok kontakt med svenskere til at jeg selv kan teste.
Den virksomhed jeg arbejder for er dog lige blevet købt af et svensk firma, så måske jeg får muligheden snart :D

2025-03-12 06:44:48 GMT

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Hah, det tænkte jeg ikke engang over :)
Min søster boede i et par år i Stockholm for a læse til jordemoder (barnmorska?), og hun sagde at hun forstod udemærket svensk - men svenskere generelt og stockholmere især forstår intet dansk.
Jeg tænker at det ikke kan passe, jeg tror at hvis man bruger 30 minutter på at tale sammen, så går det nok, med lidt velvilje på begge sider.

2025-03-12 06:39:07 GMT

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Det kommer an på hvordan du konfigurerer den :) Men jeg smed et bundkort med indbygget wi-fi i.
Den største forskel fra for 20 år siden og til nu er at grafikkort koster ufatteligt mange penge.
Jeg har købt bærbare i mange mange år, mest af praktiske hensyn, men for nogle år siden fik jeg en brugt stationær af en kollega, og må konstatere at jeg klart bedst kan lide stationære.
Nu var det tid til at erstatte den, så håber jeg den nye holder i 10 år.

2025-03-12 06:27:27 GMT

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arbejder hjemmefra for at modtage eller hente tre pakker, ellers ikke alverden. Ser frem til at rode med min nye stationære pc, det er mange år siden jeg har smidt rigtige penge efter en maskine...

2025-03-07 08:01:22 GMT

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Productivity was also way lower, which means that those without a strong executive function didn't stand out so much.
I read an account of life in the countryside in the 1700s, and this one farmhand who kept a diary took great pride in not being lazy because he didn't take as many breaks as other people, he would work for 1 hour and then relax for 1 hour, and other people should learn from that he wrote.
Obviously only one source, but it did strike me as funny in a modern context.

2025-02-18 12:28:35 GMT

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Editing EVERY sentence also seems excessive :D There aren't that many humanities-educated bosses in tech, so..
I honestly don't know why people use the LLMs, I have tried to give them a shot seeing as the people who decide if I am paid or not love them, but the texts they produce are not very convincing.
Plus, you have to triple-check everything, even with very elaborate prompts. I don't find them worth the time, nor the environmental impact and the moral issue with them being built on stolen material.

2025-02-18 12:14:04 GMT

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I suspect it's bosses who think they can replace some of their staff with an LLM.
They're probably right too, many translators in corporate settings have been replaced by machine translations despite the translations being of an overall lower quality.
As a writer, I think the texts which are generated are garbage - but if my boss thinks otherwise that doesn't really matter, unfortunately.

2025-02-15 16:32:29 GMT

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If you get that job as a chef at Moesgaard you're welcome to join my gamenights :)

2025-02-14 12:42:35 GMT

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I suppose. Most of my laptops are literally salvaged from the bin at work.
Edit: I call them 'my laptops' but they're used by my kids, mainly. And some ought to just go back into the bin.

2025-01-31 07:34:32 GMT

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No reason to invite these people to a dialogue unless they're in charge of funding, I think.
Many great reasons to engage them in public and refute their drivel, though.