Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Als je te veel regenpijp hebt gekocht en geen zin hebt om naar de stort te rijden.

Militant decency.

#Gnu #TerryPratchett

I see alot of great threads and posts by ppl of all kinds on how the fedi culture is regarding the tech tools and the racist culture and history

Cool, for real.
Also it's triggering *in a way* for me bc I've said all this years ago. With no academic standing, no elite social standing, no over reaching social medias platformsss , no money.

Just supporting my homie & making sure ppl were safe in our spot where we promised safety.

So when others are published or interview, Im hurt

feditips to new users

eat leaves

sleep

take moss photos

be queer

Great #seekseek news! I've finally fixed my datasheet scraper (and refactored basically the whole thing), so it's actually performant again: https://metrics.cryto.net/d/M6VEBtLnz/scraper?orgId=1

And so it's now steadily adding new datasheets to the search engine again :) https://seekseek.org/

I don't think I've posted this here before, so:

Avoid books published by #Packt. They are an untrustworthy publisher.

Several years ago, they e-mailed me to ask me to do a technical review of a Hyper-V book. I know nothing about Hyper-V whatsoever. The offered compensation was "two books from their technical library".

Most likely they scatter-mailed anyone their Github scraper turned up, hoping that someone would agree to review. Because I *did* have a HyperVM-related repository, which is completely unrelated to Hyper-V, but would definitely match a 'hyperv' string match.

Even leaving aside the shitty ethics of not paying their reviewers properly, this also means that the average Reddit/HN-posted blogpost will have had more actual technical review than a Packt book. ​

@joepie91 My deal was slightly better, THREE books from their library; don’t even remember the subject matter anymore. I wrote a 500 word reply saying hell no and never heard anything.

Too many people are used to centralised social media and websites in general.

Mastodon is like email in the technical sense, but it's more like Minecraft. You can join a server, but you don't have a right to be there. You're asked to follow the rules. If you piss off the admin you'll probably get banned because they don't want you there. Getting banned from one server doesn't mean you can't join another.

That's the Internet. Welcome. Be gay. Have fun.

As #activitypub and the #fediverse is more than just Mastodon, please tell me what other things you're doing? I'd really like to get more involved with the wider #federated universe but have no idea what's out there.

Please Boost so I can hear from everyone!