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

As Zaterdag 29 maart is er "International hackerspace open day" bij 14 NL #hackerspaces. Iedere space heeft zijn eigen programma, check programma bij betreffende space. Onderstaande space doen mee :

ACKspace, #Heerlen
AwesomeSpace, #Hilversum
Bitlair, #Amersfoort
Hack42, #Arnhem
Hackalot, #Eindhoven
Hackerspace Nijmegen, #Nijmegen
Nurdspace, #Wageningen
Pixelbar, #Rotterdam
Randomdata, #Utrecht
Revspace, #DenHaag
Space Leiden, #Leiden
TDvenlo, #Venlo
TechInc, #Amsterdam
TkkrLab, #Enschede

I would love a picture of page 25 "Wetenschap"in the print NRC from today (2025-03-26) :)

When you have a moment of clarity and realise that "Rockstar Programmer" means "This is someone with ADHD who we haven't burned out yet".

bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses

getting a million sign ups on a corpo social media thing is "good" because it means you probably have enough critical mass and enough user data to start selling advert slots, so you can sort of sustain yourself that way; in that sense, you've "made it" because barring catastrophe you've reached a point where you can maybe break even for a while

getting a million sign ups on a fedi social media instance, by contrast, is prettymuch just bad because you can't sell advert slots, and suddenly you're facing huge costs in terms of hosting and moderation; you haven't "made it" because you can't leverage those numbers for anything except bragging rights or making vacuous claims about how the fediverse has become "mainstream" or whatever

So "making it" in corpo social media and "making it" in fedi software development are basically opposites, because reaching "sustainability" in one looks completely different from reaching "sustainability" in another: the criteria for success on that front absolutely do not map from one to the other. I wonder if the "line goes up", "user numbers above all else" aficionados will realize this at some point.

Imo "success" in open source software dev basically means you've made something semi-useful that doesn't suck too much ass, and you can afford groceries and you like doing the work. Large user counts are irrelevant if not actually harmful to this.

#AskFedi: what does your community need in terms of software, online services, or other 'digital tools' that isn't there yet? :boost_requested:

great range of possible ui choices in the new discord

Oh hey looks like pixelfed had a major post leak issue and the maintainer absolutely fucked up managing the security patch situation.

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

I’ve taken to collecting antiquities. I’m starting my museum with this piece. I don’t have the money to acquire real artifacts so I’m inventing my own.

Actually, I put this clear box over our cordless phone out of frustration because the high pitched hum it emits drives me crazy. I intended it to be temporary, but I came to like the faux antiquity aspect of it.

I may start putting clear boxes over random objects just because.

It's sort of counterintuitive, but hating yourself a lot can lead to accidentally very selfish and callous behavior. Like, okay, you're not a person who is actively trying to do things for yourself and not care about other people, but to be a consequentialist for a moment the intent doesn't entirely matter.

What I mean is, like, okay if you don't think you have any value or impact on the world it's really easy to not have it occur to you that self-destructive things you do to yourself do in fact hurt other people. People can be harmed by seeing you suffer because that's how caring about people works.

That's sort of an obvious example but it also ends up being the more subtle things: you don't think reaching out to people can make a difference because who the fuck are you, you don't think disappearing is going to affect anyone because who would notice you gone.

I think what it comes down to is that it's really easy to unintentionally harm others if you don't see yourself as an active member of the web of connections that links everyone in the social graph together

Anybody know of any full-size keyboards that have the numpad on the left and the nav cluster and arrow keys on the right?

All the left-handed keyboards I see move them both to the left.

I'm a righty, and I think it'd be cool to have my mouse closer to me, with the alphanumeric block in the center of the keyboard instead of on one end or the other.

Questrial, designed by Joe Prince and Laura Meseguer

During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages the official ones. Many African languages still lack typographic support, making it hard to write them correctly due to missing letters and diacritics in most fonts.
In post-colonial times and to address the lack of open source fonts for African languages, @googlefonts gave me the task of expanding Questrial for that purpose

More here:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Questrial/about