Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Measles is circulating in the US and has killed someone for the first time in a decade.

You do not want to get measles. Your immune system can be suppressed for two years after a measles infection.

Measles is highly contagious. Exposure events are occurring in places like airports and gyms.

Measles is airborne. A well-fitted, high-quality N95 mask can protect you from measles.

The MMR vaccine is highly effective against measles, but not 100% effective. The more people refuse the vaccine, the more likely it is that vaccinated people can still get infected.

If you don't want to get measles - and you don't - get your vaccine AND wear your mask.
Multiple layers of protection are always best. If one layer fails, another layer can still work.

I complained to Comcast about something via email in 2009. I posted that email on my blog: https://blog.kamens.us/2009/07/02/comcast-still-sending-service-announcements-to-wrong-address/. At the time, I searched for the email addresses of Comcast executives and included them all on the email.
Last night I received email from someone claiming to represent Comcast, trying to bully me into taking down the blog posting.
I responded: "lol no"
Feel free to boost this post for the #StreisandEffect.
#smdh #gtfo #Comcast

Just a reminder to fedi newbies:

There ain't no algorithm. You don't have to use algospeak here. You don't have a "big bro CEO" lording over your content.

This isn't a 4chan-esque pass to say vile shit, but ain't nobody gonna ban you for mentioning Luigi

Actually, you might get more boosts for mentioning him

@kkavee people here like to think we’re the best in the world in terms of being progressive and equalitarian. This leads them to not see their own biases and behavior and when someone speaks up it leads to “well we treat you so much better here than elsewhere, you really shouldn’t be complaining about these silly insignificant little incidents”

Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

Dikke plakken veganistische cake van de buurvrouw en nog warme zelfgemaakte hummus van de andere buurvrouw. Ik verklaar het Zeer Lokale Buurvrouwendag.

Here we are cutting another piece of the same trunk with the sawmill. We only use one saw, because we process it further with a bandsaw. The fungi you see here caused the nice colour of the previous toot.

This piece was cut off the larger trunk to make the large trunk fit through the sawframe.

Most people use chisels for creative purposes, but we use them for destructive work.

A large trunk of beech is almost ready to be processed by sawmill De Salamander, but first we must get the iron parts out.

If we don't do this, at best the saw cuts the nails, gets blunt and starts to "wander". At worst it will tear a saw apart with a lot of violence.

The images show how we use a chisel to dig out the nails we found.

A technical question about SPI. I'm looking at a machine, that has 5 SPI peripherals and a controller. The same CS signal is connected to all of the peripherals.

Am I correct in my thinking that if I would want to reshuffle the devices without access to the firmware in the controller, I'm basically out of luck since it pushes data to all the peripherals with the expectation that the first one takes its piece, forwards the rest to the second and and so forth until everyone has had their share?

#electronics #tinkering #arduino #spi

We willen allemaal af van Amerikaanse big tech. Er zijn prachtige open (source) initiatieven, vol van prachtige technologie. Maar er is echt veel meer nodig om succesvol te worden. Hier een (pijnlijk) overzicht van wat er beter moet in de open wereld: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/manifest-big-tech-alternatieven/

These are from April 2024.

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #palestine

“Achtung, Zug fahrt durch Bahnsteig 2”

Ich hoffe, dass der ÖBB meint durch die Gleis, und nicht der Steig 😅

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114123308377405461

I took these in July 2024. A kid left their cute tiny toys under a large trash receptacle in a public park, and I got some shots from their smol perspective.

(I left the toys btw. They were gone the next day, so I hope a kid came back for them )

#amsterdamPhotography #photography #small #smol #quiet