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

@Asbestos @sterophonick I checked, but this one definitely didn't have anything. And yeah, the goal was not to go without one, but rather to make it shut up until the landlord sent someone to replace it, so that people could actually sleep.

@sterophonick Reminds me of the Landlord Special smoke detectors that got installed in this block, and the one at the neighbours which kept going off despite there being no smoke.

Of course these were the '10 year' things which did not have a removable battery, nor any (intended) way to shut them off...

Good thing I have a set of wire/sidecutters and tools for prying 🙃 Ended up disassembling the thing, cutting the internal wires, and declaring it "the landlord's problem now"

@jonah I do sometimes get the feeling that this is the intention of some projects... and that people are just looking for a way to confirm their prejudices.

More specifically, the 'red flag' to me is when a project is asking for an amount of donations that's so large, that it's obvious they haven't really tried to reduce operational costs, and instead went for the nearest most convenient or familiar option, usually one that's explicitly designed for corporate use. Think stuff like building everything around AWS.

Even if they don't *intend* to monetize things later (but it's likely that they're not very opposed to it, because it often signals a corporate background), with that kind of operational cost, they will eventually *have* to monetize things simply because the operational cost is not sustainable.

It kind of feels like the most reliable predictor for "does someone intend to eventually monetize this donation-based thing" is the amount and scale of donations that they are asking for, with an exception for projects with a very large scope

@admin Huh, odd, I feel like it used to be a list of just the city names without the account address. Perhaps I picked it off a different list?

@admin Two bits of feedback:

- It seems harder to navigate the list of cities now, there's a lot of spurious information in the city list that isn't the city name
- Not a new issue, but <<'s Hertogenbosch>> is being auto-capitalized incorrectly (see attached image)

@mitu @davidgerard All this is skating right past the most crucial question here: why would they remove this to begin with? That is a deliberate action, it doesn't just magically happen, so there is an intention of some sort behind it.