Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

A feel-good story in the news today...

Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefront about a block away.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one

The “book brigade” of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.

“It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said. “As people passed the books along, they said ‘I have not read this’ and ‘that’s a good one’.”

Tuplin said the endeavour took just under two hours – much shorter than hiring a moving company to box and unbox the thousands of titles. The brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.

How can we make this, from @frog, famous?

"My standard for consent: pretend the thing I'm consenting to is being physically done by a person.

"It'd be super weird if I bought a used car & they asked me if they could follow me around.

"It'd be super weird for a stranger to ask to follow me around writing down the things I put in my grocery cart.

"If I called a taxi, it'd be super weird if the driver asked to look through my phone contacts & copy them down."

#Computer #Surveillance #Crime

concept: the 💯 emoji but for all the http error codes

was looking for sources into jirai-kei fashion and randomly ended up on a link to a "jirai-kei girls reading books" LINE sticker set. having grown used to intense artistic presence and expressiveness from LINE creators, I clicked it full of expectations and..... it was all slop. as souless as it gets.

every week I find some other corner of cool things that was ruined by signal-shaped noise

can't remember where I saw it but "Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you" is a solid quote

Parliament Square, Saturday, 1pm

Remember when #Android was cool and promoted openness and hackability?
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/12/its-not-rooting-its-openness.html

Always happy to see these empirical results from the Universal Basic Income study (translation in alt)

Just a reply to put a CW on the above post so I can boost.

There'll be security patches released for Iceshrimp-JS (severity: critical) and Iceshrimp.NET (severity: low) between 19:00, 27 Apr 2025 UTC and 21:00, 27 Apr 2025 UTC (this should show in your local time zone on Iceshrimp, but in case it doesn't, that's 2025-04-27T19:00Z - 2025-04-27T21:00Z. Be ready and patch quickly, especially if you're on -js.

Are there any period tracking apps that are single-purchase, NO CLOUD DATA, NO HEALTHKIT, privacy respecting at all? My daughter is getting to the age where she should probably start tracking mood so she might have some warning for when she starts fully menstruating, but I'm deeply concerned about the 3rd party doctrine and apps like Clue collaborating with the fascists.

If not, why not? Is there something I'm missing? Is this a thing I should consider during my down times in my consulting biz?

Thanks! and please boost widely!

Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks

https://www.404media.co/automattic-wordpress-p2-watermark-leakers/

> Something will be left by the AI crash, that is for sure. But I do not think it will be generative AI systems which – without constant expensive updates and maintenance – become useless at best and actively harmful at worst quickly. And that is the question we need to be asking: What will be left and who will that be used by?

https://tante.cc/2025/04/15/these-are-not-the-same/

i wish google a very getting ripped to shreds by antitrust lawsuits

look what I've got! #retroComputing

edit: Now properly curated for the Internet Archive library.
edit2: working serial number and screenshots added

https://archive.org/details/star_trek_tng_screen_saver

I forgot how weird Windows is. Some of the UI actually looks really nice (as it should, it's basically "what if we took macOS and combined it with KDE), but some of it is just, "oh I remember this from 20 years ago", like ok cool you don't have to redesign every UI element but maybe at least make it match the current look of the OS? 😭

On Linux that's not even an issue outside of Gnome, and even then you can just, install a GTK3 theme that looks like libadwaita and everything just looks nice?

Did you know: JSON handling is so aggressively optimized in JS runtimes that often, the fastest way to deep-clone an object tree is to do a JSON stringify/parse cycle instead of iterating through the objects in your own code