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

Academia has a travel problem.

Attending faraway conferences is ecologically unsustainable, and creates a huge barrier to entry for people who are disabled, have care duties, or lack resources, among others.

One piece of the solution is to create local satellites of major conferences. This idea has been successfully implemented in Paris for #NeurIPS for a few years, and I'm happy to have joined the advising committee of NeurIPS@Paris (Dec 4&5 this year)

Check it out: https://neuripsinparis.github.io/neurips2024paris/

Godot overtaking Unity in one of the most recent, largest game jams out there is a wonderful example of the triumph of free software against a corporate platform. Something something Year of the Godot Desktop yada yada.

#Agenda

Zondag, 13 oktober: opening van kunstexpositie met dekoloniale performance tegen standbeeld van Coen
https://www.doorbraak.eu/13-oktober-hoorn-opening-van-kunstexpositie-met-dekoloniale-performance-tegen-standbeeld-van-coen/

Kunstcentrum De Boterhal
16:00 uur: opening expositie
16:30 uur: processie naar standbeeld Coen
Kerkplein 39
#Hoorn

#Kolonialisme #Nationalisme #Racisme

Journalistiek en de vloek van de talkshow
https://www.doorbraak.eu/journalistiek-en-de-vloek-van-de-talkshow/

"...een inherent falen van het talkshow-format: aan tafel wordt geen waarheid vastgesteld. Het gaat heel erg over meningen van de tafelgasten, maar expertise is daaraan ondergeschikt. Dus wordt expertise tot een mening gereduceerd."

#Kapitalisme #Racisme #RechtseOpiniemakers #Uitsluiting

Today I learned that Apple Air Pods Pro in noise cancelling mode perfectly cancels the clicking of a geiger counter. You would not know it was making a sound. I hope that this is not relevant to /your/ day.

This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables!

Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time.
That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade!
If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed.
This can hugely increase the lifetime of your electrical cables, to upwards of 20 years of heavy use, without kinks or twists.
(GIF credit hosatech.com)

i think a lot about the phrase "don't hate the player, hate the game" because it sounds like it was made up by a lawyer

like, i can hate the game while also still hating any player who treats the rules as a puzzle for finding loopholes to cheat-but-not on a technicality

I played a few bughouse games with my partner yesterday on chess dot com for the first time in months yesterday.

Today I got this email:

YOUR STREAK IS PAUSED. Don't lose your 1 day streak! Play Chess [link]

This is what I mean when people ask me what my problem is with commercial/proprietary software/platforms. The company is actively trying to create an addiction to their product.

I say this all the time: [commercial platform] is not bad because it shows you adverts, or fosters addictions, or collects your data.

It does those things because it is bad.

But there’s a solution! The non-profit donation-supported lichess.org is an excellent service for playing chess.

And if y’all know any other platforms with good bughouse support, please, help me out.

Today's "the open source Linux ecosystem sure is great" discovery: both e2fsprogs and util-linux contain a libuuid. Both seem to expose a similar API, except that the latter documents and only supports #include <uuid.h> whereas the former documents and additionally supports <uuid/uuid.h>.

Thanks, I hate it.