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This is a subtoot and should probably be a blog post. But basically some techbros are re-inventing mesh radios (badly) going on like my 20th year of tinkering in this corner of tech.

Low cost, developer friendly mesh radios have kinda been going in circles for decades.

So in many ways I guess I shouldn't be surprised to review yet another cheap mesh radio project and realize, "dude this just plain sucks and isn't improving at all, oh and the community is kinda awful".

#meshtastic

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Duck duck fedi, autism 

Duck duck fedi :boost_ok:
Does anyone know where i can find good, universal communication cards?
Some which i can show random ppl and/or work colleges at events when im not doing well, preferably both in german and english.

Bonus points for some specifically for overloads and being non verbal

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If you find later on that you need the illustration for something else (e.g. your book is being expanded into a boardgame), you can always contact the artist at that point for another license and discuss the fees.

Remember: artists are humans too. We want to see you succeed. Contacting us again with a "hey guess what, I'd like to expand on this project" is not going to make you look weird, it's going to make us very happy for you.

#commissionsopen #artcommissions #commissiontips
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(Indie) authors and other commercial commissioners: you do NOT need to purchase the full rights to a piece right off the bat. Save yourself a lot of money and ask for a usage license. This is a license to use the illustration for your book/boardgame/whatever only.

A usage license for just your book/boardgame/company mantlepiece will suffice just as well and cost you a lot less than a full buyout.

#commissionsopen #commissions #artcommissions #commissiontips
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weather alert: "it fucken wimdy"

me, watching someone's bin careening down the street fast enough to set the speed camera off: "yup, checks out"

Extremely bad Signal bug 

To reproduce

1. Have Signal on iPhone and iPad that you don't use that much
2. Block someone on Signal with phone
3. Wait a good long time to use iPad, long enough that when you open Signal on iPad it gives you the "syncing stuff" screen
4. Your phone will inform you that you unblocked the user in question, even though you absolutely did not
5. Hope that person wasn't abusive and that this doesn't put you in danger
6. Hope the @signalapp devs take this seriously

Gym:
Brazil: School for teenagers but you're old
Germany: School for teenagers but with class segregation
USA: Place you lift weights
Japan: Place you lift weights

Academia:
Brazil: Place you lift weights
USA: School for adults, or school for random stuff
Germany: School for adults or for random stuff
Japan: School for adults or for random stuff or for little witch

High school:
Brazil: School for adults
Germany: School for adults
USA: School for teenagers
Japan: School for teenagers

German austarity shit, death, caps, shouting 

Today in "My job wants to motivate me inciting even more arson":

The Jobcenters are cutting all their support programs for people under 25 due to government austerity.

DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING IDEA HOW THOSE ARE THE ONLY WAY FOR HOMELESS KIDS TO EVER ESCAPE THEIR SITUATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND EVEN WIT THEM, LITERALLY EVERY PLACE PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE KIDS IS ALREADY UNDERFUNDED AND UNDERSTAFFED. YOU GOVERNMENT FUCKERS JUST WANT THEM TO FUCKING STARVE AND FREEZE TO DEATH!!!!!!!!!!

Paraphrased, in regards to rainbow capitalism:

“I do not miss the cash-grab Pride displays. I miss the kind of society that made cash-grab Pride displays safe to perform.”

“data center” is such a boring uncreative name. we should call them computer dungeons

venting about shitty people 

Well, so much for the 'chaos furs' group. They've gotten enough chances to not be bigoted assholes.

NL pol en rechtspraak 

De staat wordt gewezen op haar verplichtingen: zij moet zich aan haar eigen wetten houden. Dat vindt het huidige kabinet niet zo leuk – jammer, denk ik dan – en daarom klaagt het over de rechter die eigenlijk gewoon een constatering heeft gedaan en daaraan consequenties heeft verbonden.

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/01/23/deze-

I know the world was objectively a worse, less progressive place, and with much less ozone in the ideal layer for it, but I certainly shouted "oh, fuck off!" a lot less at computers back in the '90s

@mdione @thibaultmol The problem is that NixOS generates new boot images *very* frequently, because it needs an unbroken chain of explicit store paths from the moment of boot. So if your /boot is less than 512MB or you don't constantly delete old system revisions, you *will* run into this issue basically guaranteed

politics, slightly spicy take 

There is no such thing as 'shifting to the center' politically. Because of the ever-shifting Overton window, you are always shifting either 'left' or 'right' (and right now, it means shifting 'right').

re: uspol, trans document changes (passports, driver's licenses) 

Oh and -- if you have a passport with an "X" gender, I strongly recommend making any trips out of the country one-way for now, as there's some talk of denying re-entry or allowing re-entry but confiscating your passport so you can't leave again.

I don't know how credible those are yet. Just advising caution.

I've also seen it recommended that if you're trans and not a US citizen, that you hold off on any trips to the US at least until things settle down.

celeste.lgbt/en/2025/01/notice

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