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

Hoe veel winst maakt de A2 ondertussen?

https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/treinkaartjes-ns-dreigen-weer-duurder-te-worden-ondanks-recente-6-verhoging~b36cefbf/

I wrote a postmortem of the University of Washington harassment investigation. I don’t get into details but I do explain my perspective and name the men involved, plus some lessons learned at the end. https://irenezhang.net/blog/2025/03/04/uw-harassment.html

There's a less valid argument here that this will all fall apart when people lose interest/capacity and therefore is it not sustainable.

On the first point, good. People should stop doing voluntary stuff they no longer have the resources or motivation to do, boundaries, rest and self care are good actually.

Secondly: the idea that since it could spontaneously stop any time, and probably will, that is inherently by definition unsustainable.

On the same token one might argue singing a song in a group is an unsustainable thing to do. Because you cannot sing the same song together forever without stopping.

You must rest when you're tired, then perhaps sing a different song, maybe with different people. This doesn't make singing songs an unsustainable practice. Most people in sustainability would agree singing songs in groups has a lot of offer sustainability from many angles.

I see the very valid argument that without administion and formal structure, continuity remains only when as the community has capacity to do it.

My argument is that's how things work anyway. You can have all the committee structure in the world, but the actual work is an emergent property of the community's capacity. If you burn out your people, you lose your collective service either way.

Edit: if anyone screenshots this one toot out of context and makes it about dismantling government, I will punch you right in the bicycle horn. This whole thread is specifically about small community groups.

Me: this is how bikes get repaired and recycled in this one small town.
- The junkyard guy leaves nice ones out by his gate for a day or two before dismantling them for scrap.
- there are several people in the town who know they can come past regularly and take anything by the gate
- there's a guy who takes any bikes he thinks we can salvage, they are almost always kids' bikes, there are just more of those
- a rotating group of friends and people who want to learn about bikes work on them
- when they're finished we distribute them by word of mouth: is there anyone around 6-8yo who wants a purple bike?
- the bikes seem to come with lifetime servicing. No one mentions this until the bike needs servicing, then they just say 'we better get onto servicing your bike, hey?' and it happens
- you can do a trade-in/upgrade. Kids swap their bikes for bigger bikes, people service the little bike and give it to another kid
-there is no name, no official location, no contact details for this, it's an ephemeral property that emerges from the community every day that the community has capacity to do it. It is fascinating and I am glad to have witnessed it.

Sustainability tutor: so first off this could never happen without NGO administration, start there

Still rent free: the time I did an assignment on my local bike repair/recycle non-organisation and the sustainability tutor gave only negative feedback about how my proposal wouldn't work in real life.

It was an observational report on something that was and is working in real life.

#fedihired #fedihire I need a broadcast networks engineer for our studio facility.
West London, Not remote, sorry.

Decent pile of Arista 7280CR2/3, many terabits of multicast. ST-2110. Funky SDN stuff pending.

Cisco N9K and friends for "stuff that isn't uncompressed media over IP", and much funky routing & firewalling going on.

Err, please make yourselves known, bonus points if you've been near media and understand that "live means live".

Sharing this post from the rescue place we're fostering cats from.

If you're in South Wales and have a safe home, consider fostering kitties - the shelter provides everything you need (bedding, litter box, food, cage, carrier, blankets, etc.) and also covers all vet costs, so the only thing you need to provide is a warm, safe environment for these kitties to acclimatise in until they're ready for adoption!

Or if you can help financially, they're paypal.me/felinefriends <3

#AnimalRescue

Afgelopen weekend ontving 'Flow' een Oscar voor beste animatiefilm. Deze film is gemaakt met de gratis open source software van @Blender, ontwikkeld in 1994 door Ton Roosendaal. Het programma kan gebruikt worden voor onder andere animatiefilms, games en VR.

Blender is gevestigd in Amsterdam en heeft in het verleden vaak samengewerkt met Waag Futurelab, onder andere aan het CineGrid project.

Goed om (weer) bevestigd te zien hoe FOSS bijdraagt aan onze creatieve industrie!

To all the wizards out there please take some time to charge your mana today

The phrase "driverless printing" is amusing. In the abstract it sounds silly, like a non feature. Why would anyone object to a hardware device having some drivers, right?

But if you've actually interacted with vendor supplied printer drivers then you know different. The idea of being able to print something without having to interact with software that was written by someone at Hewlett-Packard sounds like a gift from heaven.

Hey techy people! Does anyone know if it's possible to archive podcasts offline? Is there a good quality mp3 player sort of thing that would be good for this, which doesn't have annoying online functions? Anyone know how to do this? Just in case of censorship issues down the road. I don't even know what hashtags to add here, my spoons are so low today.

ETA: thank you everyone for the boosts and advice! Anyone else who is curious about this, please check the replies, you all are amazing 💜