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politics, personal PSA 

Just a personal heads-up for everyone I interact with: we've reached a point where if I see you in *any* way aligning with Trump or Musk, you are immediately going on my mental 'fascist' list with no further discussion and I will not speak to you anymore.

I don't care if you "didn't know how bad it is". The time for learning that is well past, so if you still "don't know", then I'm going to conclude that you didn't *want* to know and decide accordingly.

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Time for the - I guess yearly by this point... - toot again:

No, I will not be at . I *could* have squeezed it into my schedule despite an upcoming transplantation, but they have *once again* failed to implement any COVID safety measures.

A few days of Congress is not worth the risk of brain damage or (in my case) severe illness or death.

If you want to see me at your event, push for appropriate safety precautions like sufficient ventilation/filtering and (particularly where that is not possible) mask distribution and ideally masking requirements.

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PSA: personal health, surgery and risks, availability 

If all goes to plan, I will be receiving a kidney transplantation on November 12 (2024), followed by an unknown recovery period. What to expect:

After the transplantation, I will not be around online for a while; this could be anywhere from a few days to a few months depending on how well (or not) the surgery goes. Even after I return, I will likely be avoiding stress for a while, which also means I may drop out of things unannounced.

In the time leading up to the transplantation, I will become less and less consistently available, and you may see me around less, as I deal with the preparations for the surgery.

I'm receiving a kidney from a living donor, under pretty much best-case circumstances (no dialysis), so the chance of success is high, and the chance of complications is low, but it is not zero. Likewise, survival chance is high but not 100%.

If the transplantation succeeds, I will be able to live a mostly normal life, but I will be on immunosuppressive medicine for the rest of my life. Among other things, this means that you're probably only going to see me at (hacker) events that take sufficient precautions against COVID and the like.

So if you want me and other immunocompromised folks around at those events, ask organizers to take those precautions! Ventilation/filtering and CO2 measurement is a good baseline.

If you have any questions about all this, feel free to ask, but I may or may not have the spoons to answer them.

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Why I do not like hanging around liberals anymore 

Because they're like oppression lootboxes.

The liberal viewpoint is not one of intersectionality; they might sound very progressive and recognize one or more types of oppression, but do not (wish to) recognize the way these interact, or the structure and patterns that underlie all of them.

This means that it's only a matter of time before I hear them say some extremely shitty and/or bigoted stuff about a topic that they don't recognize as a form of oppression, but I can't know upfront which topic it will be, or when it'll happen.

With my intersectional friends, I could then just point out that it's a form of oppression, and they will take it seriously, introspect, and work (over time) to understand it. Mistakes happen, but they will try to learn. All I need to do, is remind them.

With liberals, however... they do not recognize it as another occurrence of the same thing, and so I am left having to "prove" from whole cloth that yes, it really is a form of oppression, before they are even willing to put in *any* effort to understand the problem.

Every time this happens, it takes hours of my time, and energy that I do not have to spare.

I am already running on fumes most of the time, and I honestly just don't really want to hang around people who put that sort of price on not being shitty.

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I've actually been here for a while already, though mostly inactive! The Birdsite Situation prompted me to pop in here again. And I'm terrible at writing introductions, so I usually just say "I do stuff on the internet".

But uh, I do all sorts of activist-y stuff, work on radical FOSS (see cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.), write (educational) stuff, am more or less a lonely polyamorous gender blob of indeterminate sexuality who likes both cuddles and kinky things, and I always have 10 times as many projects as I have time for, as is customary with ADHD brain :) Sometimes I even finish some of them!

While I'm an introvert and need plenty of time to myself, I *am* happy to meet like-minded people and spend time with them, and as long as you're not a bigot or apologist, you should feel free to interact with me and/or follow me!

Also, I live in Rosmalen (near Den Bosch) in the Netherlands, and honestly would like to get to know more local folks, and I also have some vague intention to start a queer hackerspace around here if I can find enough interested people. Eventually!

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a decentralized backup of deleted research data.
I am happy to report that @SafeguardingResearch 's torrent swarm now has ca 14 TB storage and a Gbit connection more.
#sciop #safeguardingresearch #academicchatter

just got to listen to a long infodump about metalwork. It was riveting

Vandag is weer WEIdag met een belangrijk vraagstuk: kan je een regeneratief landgoed worden zonder de vraag van het privé eigendom te stellen?

Concreet voor ons: mag je jouw huis dat je hier op de Kleverbergh bouwd later met overwaarde doorverkopen? Wat doed dat dan met de groep? Of kies je voor een model waar je als groep eigendom loslaat en je huis op termijn aan de plek geeft? Houdt dat in, dat mensen die al overwaarde hebben, dit dan ook moeten inbrengen voor het collectief?

#vrijkoop

Software devs are so bad at estimation that there is a whole methodology/movement based on refusing to estimate, but devs report the time they have saved by using LLMs, and I’m supposed to take that number seriously?

@why2025camp Outside the hackerspace @revspace , a car is parked with an infrared camera. We assume it is a license plate reader.

So we made a license plate and showed it to the camera.

Was chatting with @FaerieFearal the other day about how anarchist and punk furs are often hyenas, rats, and opossums, but I said there should be more seagulls and they brought the correct energy: why aren't there more pigeon furs?

Pigeons don't give a fuck about your borders.

Seagulls don't care if those are "your" fries.

More punk seagulls and pigeons furries please.

#furry

@helle Basically all of this makes a lot more sense from the perspective that they attempted a hostile takeover, but failed and now have a hard fork at hands, and explaining that fact to their crowd and sponsors is going to be a hard pill to swallow

The irony of Determinate #Nix is that the people in the bubble they cater to spent so much time daemonizing Lix for virtue of being a fork, that now they have to do acrobatic mental gymnastics to not call their not-a-fork a fork

EA, The Sims, racism, transphobia, homophobia 

Boosting with cw and alt text. Sorry missed that the original poster didn't include alt text initially.

Looked it up. Its from this Wired article:
wired.com/story/ea-tried-to-st

some of my favorites so far are "with natural ingredients" (indeed, a subset of the ingredients were natural), "100% selected origins" (I would hope so, wouldn't want anything of unknown origin in there!), but there's so many bad ones and they just keep getting worse.

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as COVID cases start to rise (again) globally:

covid is not over

has never been over

and Won’t Ever Be Over until folks actually use precautions (masking, isolating, and vaccines) consistently and well

Hi

Anyone out there who can make some small changes to an Inkscape image in commons?

Probably 15 minutes tops for someone who knows what they are doing.

I can pay.

UPDATE
Found someone!
Thank you everyone for boosting.

#inkscape #illustration #commons #help

I am nonbinary, and I live in a country where nonbinary isn't legally accepted (but medically accepted, which differs from our neighbouring countries). I don't want a third legal gender, like an X.

Oh, it'd be a good second best, but I want something else. Do away with legal gender altogether. It's a remnant of a time where your gender could make it forbidden to do certain things like voting or join the military or have certain jobs. Leave it in the past. No legal gender marker needed.

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open

However, the title “Wacom drawing tablets used to track the name of every application that you open but now seem to have stopped for some reason” didn’t feel very snappy. I decided to do some more investigating.

This write-up of Wacom's information syphoning scheme is really good, but for me, the best part starts with the snippet I've included from near the end.

Als je de keukens uit andere landen wilt verkennen is dit echt een briljant boek. De vraag erachter is “als in dit land vegan de norm was, hoe zagen de klassiekers er dan uit?” Dus niet “vervang de kip door vega kipstukjes” maar “walnoten horen ook bij deze keuken, dus doen we die ipv gehakt”. (En veel tofu, seitan en tempeh.)

Te “from scratch” voor ons op het moment, helaas.

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Why are we this deep into Covid and 2025 A.D. and you’re getting “would you feel comfortable if I put on a mask” when you’re in the exam room? Like, that whole office should know your respirator and air filtration preferences before you confirm that appointment time. There should have been at least one uncomfortable conversation with the office staff via phone/email long before you roll up to their reception desk.

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Maybe you or somebody you know has a #Windows10 computer, which works perfectly fine, but will lose support on October 14 because it cannot be updated to Windows 11 for hardware support reasons.

Please, do not turn the computer into unnecessary e-waste but keep using it and give it a new life by installing #Linux on it. There are plenty of advantages in doing so, the biggest one being it's waaaayyy cheaper.

For more, see:
endof10.org/

#EndOf10 #Windows #eWaste #sustainability

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