Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I was today years old when I learned there's a thriving online community of people who eat dirt, rocks and clay

Honestly, compared to everything else going on in the world these days this is fine. I don't mind. I hope they have fun and are able to acquire only the highest quality dirt.

This headline has been stuck in my head for nearly 8 years now.

Sometimes you just hit a wall in a conversation because you realize that you can't argue someone into this.

The term 'fat tax' is used to indicate hidden costs for fat people, because they have to pay more for certain things than non-fat people. Think clothes, insurances, plane seats, furniture with a high enough weight limit, etc.

So here is my name/gender change timeline:

Revolut: Instant, done via Onfido ID Verification
PayPal: Instant, didn’t even ask for any proof cause deadname and actual name are too close
mobil.nrw: Done during new year took about an hour, required ID copy
AOK Rheinland/Hamburg: took 4 business days, required ID and Birth Certificate
N26: Submitting the changes took about 15 minutes via live chat and message system but for the changes be to reflected it took 2 weeks, required ID and Birth certificate
Wise: took 3 weeks, required ID, Birth Certificate, Bescheinigung and talk with the support via X/Twitter
Klarna: took 20 minutes, required ID and Bescheinigung
Grover: took 5 minutes as it is done via data privacy form was processed within 1-2 hours, Normally only requires a selfie with your ID but sent them ID, Birth Certificate, Bescheinigung and the Selfie for good measures
Internet Provider/freenet Internet: took 2 hours sent via help email, Only required ID
Coinbase (for free money): took 15 minutes submitted via site, Only ID required
Jobcom/Agentur für Arbeit: took 1 woking day via email, only needed ID
Rentenversicherung: Changed only the name but did not give a new number so I had to contact them manually to get a new proper number which took 5 days, needed ID, Birth Certificate and Bescheinigung

some might notice I didn’t list Post/DHL and Payback but this is because I did not need to change those as Post/DHL was already changed a few years ago with the DGTI ausweis and for Payback I just made a new account cause they wanted a shit ton of unneeded info.

#SBGG

The wind has italicised a bench in town

Good news! My proposal "Zen and the Art of Multicast - An Inquiry into Technology and Values" for @fluconf was accepted.

The process of preparing for it has gone quite meta already. The topic becomes the lens with which I look at the world. I must take hold of Phaedrus' scalpel to decide what is and is not in scope...

#fluconf2025 #fluconf

“Off-the-shelf governance models for small FOSS projects? | Antonin Delpeuch”

https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/off-the-shelf-governance-models-for-small-foss-projects/

> So this is what I have been dreaming of lately: when you create a git repository on a forge platform, it nudges you towards adopting a governance model for your project, and proposes a selection of well-known ones that you can add in one click to the repository as a GOVERNANCE.md file.

This sounds like an interesting idea?

Today I'm preparing a talk on #Ambient for #FluConf next weekend.

I will give a talk about Perl, Fortran, Uxntal and Fractran at #FluConf.

It's called "A tale of two compilers"

The whole "immigrants are important for the economy and will do the jobs you don't want to do" line of reasoning is a completely dehumanising capitalist approach. Our value as human beings should not determined by our economic output.

Fuck capitalism.
We need a society built upon mutual aid.

You know people who join a Matrix or Discord channel, then after a few seconds ask, "is this place dead?" and leave without waiting for an answer? Or they say "hi" first, you greet them back, but they already left.

When I got online, #netiquette guides for IRC made sure to point out that people idle in the channels a lot, so if they fail to notice you, *say something first*. Preferably what you came to ask.

Now teaching people how to behave is considered rude. Enjoy the results.

Friendly reminder: On mastodon/etc, Likes (aka Favorites) aren't what they are on other social networks. Around here:

Boost = "I like this, and think others might like it too!"
Favorite = "I like this, but that's between me and OP"

Without an "algorithm" choosing what to show you, we rely on our neighbors and follows to boost cool stuff.

most graffiti in video game cities sucks because nobody actually lives in those cities. real world graffiti is a million people making their weird little marks on the world. when a game tries to invoke that for atmosphere what almost always happens instead is the tags betray how shallow the world building is, because they only depict statements made by non-existent people who had nothing to say

oh also my friend's lazer tag arena (rip) did a great job of this, which I'll count as another positive example even though it wasn't a video game. it's so easy you just hire a bunch of actual graffiti artists to go hog wild on your levels

@vyr when Valve finally clench their fist, the outpouring of who-could-possibly-have-predicted anguish is going to make the Internet uninhabitable for months

The modern gregorian calendar that is used by most of the world uses seven day weeks and introduces an extra leap day on years divisible by four unless they are also multiples of 100.

Consequently, there are only seven possible calendars for regular years, and seven more for leap years, which makes it possible to reuse calendars from previous years.

I was thinking about this recently, and did a quick search which led me to a website which indicates when a given year's calendar can be reused:

https://www.whencanireusethiscalendar.com/

It probably won't have much of a meaningful impact on climate change to reuse your calendars, but I think it's a neat idea, and I like that someone cared enough about it to make a website.

I just rejoiced in finding @TeenVogue on here, as I remember grimly/fondly it was one of few news outlets we could trust when the orange man became president the first time. (Just scroll down the timeline and you’ll see they’re not shying away from anything. Still on it, hurrah.)