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

In search of:
Independent record labels that accept demo submissions? My music is electronic rock, if that helps any.

We've got "first amendment auditors" noodling around in Vermont. These are people who come into public spaces such as the public library and film with (often) a pretense of being citizen journalists but often just being provocative and playing "gotcha" games with people who don't know/understand rules for filming in public places.

The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (I helped!) created this useful guide. Get your library policies in place before they show up!

https://www.oif.ala.org/auditing-the-first-amendment-at-your-public-library/

I’ll hear arguments that wind turbines and solar farms are “ugly” after we ban billboards.

I keep having discussions with a coworker about securing encryption keys where I refer to it as "the Frog and Toad problem", and I feel like this _should_ be the term of art that's used everywhere to talk about secret management.

Today: our Jenkins server stores an SSH private key encrypted with a passphrase. In order to automatically run the jobs that use it, Jenkins... needs to store the passphrase. So is it buying us any security at all to have it? We can cut the string and open the box.

Did you know: JCDecaux and Clear Channel are advertising companies, not infrastructure companies.

The reason you see them everywhere is because they have contracts with many municipalities; they pay for and maintain city infrastructure (bus stops, trash bins, benches, etc.) and in exchange they get exclusive advertising rights in many locations. They operate throughout Europe, and probably elsewhere.

These contracts typically come with steep cancellation fines, and are a major reason why political efforts to ban advertising in public spaces often goes nowhere; if the local government were to go through with that, they would immediately have a large cancellation fine and infrastructure bill to pay.

Often, (part of) these contracts are publicly available; consult the public infrastructure agreements and documents for your local government, and do a FOIA or equivalent request if necessary. This should tell you exactly how they are keeping your local government under their thumb.

#FuckAds

Zouden boomers er nou nooit moe van worden om jongeren de schuld te geven van hun eigen gebrek aan langetermijnvisie?

It's possible to start a business, including a technology business, without it being a #Startup . A Startup is a specific kind of business, one in which the goal of the founders is to raise a ton of cash early on in hopes of making a *huge* product down the road.

It's tied to investor and #VentureCapital culture.

It's possible to run a small business where the goal isn't being acquired or creating a monopoly.

Tech companies: "Upgrade your subscription to remove the CSS blur effect that makes the chat transcript illegible."

LB about how Linux missionaries berating people for not knowing terminal aren't helping their "just use Linux it has a GUI" cause:
Ah, so that's why people onhere who proselytize about the fediverse and "don't understand why more people don't use it" are so shitty about constantly "suggesting" that people should spin up their own instances the second they experience anything unpleasant here. They are just used to being judgy condescending technoelitist shitnuggets.