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

this is such a good debugging story ("Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!”) https://xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust-std-fs-slower-than-python/

I'm so tired of the discourse on #adblocking being framed as users vs. creators.

Creators suffer from rampant unregulated advertising attached to their hard work. Seeing their labours being exploited to promote scams and enrich surveillance capitalists with no control or recourse. Seeing potential subscribers close the tab because their impression of the channel in those crucial first few seconds was some obnoxious ad.

You think makers *want* this system? Hell no. We just want an income.

Creators, more than anyone, need to speak out against this false ‘us vs. them' narrative. It's a disingenuous ploy, like when Facebook said cross-app tracking was ‘good for small businesses’.

I encourage anyone to adblock my stuff, and I know I'm not alone in that. Every creator has a part to play in promoting better security practices and fairer business models.

I made this image to put into the credits of future videos. I release it into the public domain; feel free to use it in your own.

A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that is going on right now.

in tech exec speak, the two biggest red flag words are "innovation" and "community"

innovation: something that is now public or common should be my private property

community: something valuable of yours should be free, or, a problem I created should be someone else's responsibility

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

If I could have one wish it'd be to absolutely destroy BMI.

Part of what drew me to video and computer games and even some productivity software in the years before the 00's was how strange and otherworldly they looked, even if unintentionally.

The colors were "off" and strange and the visuals of the art and even the text was like nothing you'd see in reality, an alien thing trying to be something it only sort of understands.

When VGA became the norm colors became less weird but were still strong and popping and the low resolution gave everything eye catching sharp corners. The only antialiasing you got was coming off the CRT that didn't really do sharp pixels, not like LCD/LED displays.

Then after around the early to mid 00's games began to consistently look good with high end graphics and things just stopped being interesting.

There's modern games that employ "retro" pixel art and such but most tend to miss the point of what made things visually fascinating for me. A few do manage, tho.

Anyway what I'm trying to say is that #ENA is pretty damn good.

[edit: we are apparently NOT getting kicked out on the 14th, as long as we "work with them to find a job", whateverthefuck that means; still, options might be nice]

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we're in the SF Bay Area

it doesn't look like we're gonna be able to find a job in time, let ALONE an apartment

can anyone help?

#MutualAid #NeedHousing

fuck the american payment network oligopoly

to use a well-known example

only ONE EIGHTH of goodwill's profit actually goes towards their charity programs

and that's not even getting started on how they massively underpay their disabled workers

https://themighty.com/topic/disability/goodwill-exploits-workers-disabilities

I'm replacing the phrase "electrical spelunking" with the more poetic "hunting lighting" after spending another day running around to find where some of the illuminating magic flows in #ThisOldClownHouse.

On our list of victories today is getting the impressive street light, which shines over most of the front of the building, working.

Eventually we need to get this monster on a timer, but for now we are cheerfully lit.