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

New blog post! "Where is all of the fediverse?"

The fediverse is de-centralised, but it still needs to be hosted behind something, in this post I investigate where the most of the instances are, and working around caching proxies to get a better idea of how resilient to hosting disasters the ecosystem is.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances

One thing that will forever continue frustrating me, is how there are certain very institutional organizations behind eg. FOSS projects that are comparatively swimming in money, indiscriminately spend it like they're a startup with cash to burn, and then still manage to run out of it

All the while grassroots community endeavours are desperate for *any* funding at all, and could have achieved more with less than a tenth or a hundredth of the budget, but got absolutely nothing in the process

This is not any one specific organization I'm thinking of, it is happening all over the place

here's something that only recently occurred to me: google's fully homophobic c++ compiler thingy sure is an impressive feat of engineering and it may very well improve privacy in cloud computing, but it actually sounds like the perfect DRM scheme if you think about it

Don't post about your crimes online, have a think about the people that did this then vanished randomly without any warning one day some weeks or months after. I've seen this happen a few times here with hackers and vandals in particular.
Ever wonder where they got to? Don't follow in their footsteps to find out.

Deliveries are still possible, even if there is no parking for cars.

The absolute gall of this question. A required question, mind you.

I will likely not be getting called in for an interview, but it was totally worth it.

#jobsearch #jobhunt #capitalism

Helaas hebben we de eerste transgender vluchteling die in Nederland een einde heeft gemaakt aan haar leven van 2024 alweer. Trans vrouwen die in hun thuisland, zoals in dit geval Rusland, niet veilig zijn komen hierheen omdat ze denken dat ze hier wél mogen bestaan. En vervolgens behandelen we ze als oud vuil en bieden we ze geen sprankje hoop.

Slaap zacht, lieve Antonina.

Trying a new personal position where if a tech company lays people off after posting strong earnings, I don't buy anything new from them and cancel any existing subscriptions (at least in the short term). So there goes Discord Nitro

When billionaires ask to do illegal copying of all known works it gets taken seriously.

When a kid simply downloads scientific articles too fast they (lawyers) hound him until he commits suicide.

I don't want better funding or whatever for Open Access

I want copyright on academic material abolished by law

Just legalize Scihub for fuck's sake

This is at least 8cm of ice which is necessary because that’s a field underneath. If you look closely you can see the grass waving in the moving water underneath while you skate.