Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Billboard is gone, bikes not :(

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Aso haal je fiets weg!
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(Altijd staan er fietsen geparkeerd op deze geleide stroken, werkzaamheden of niet)

#acab #anticommercieleactiebeweging #geleidestrook #blindpeoplematter #disabledlivesmatter

maybe a weird question but: does anyone have or know of a creative commons (or similarly licensed) electron microscope image of blown and unblown fuses in an SoC?

Gezamenlijk kunnen wij actie ondernemen voor lagere huren en tegen de wooncrisis. Samen strijden we voor huurverlaging, woonzekerheid, zeggenschap en volkshuisvesting, tegen dakloosheid, slecht onderhoud en malafide huisbazen. https://www.doorbraak.eu/10-mei-utrecht-landelijke-woondemonstratie-huur-omlaag/

De term ‘werkgever’ is misleidend. Het impliceert dat de eigenaar van een bedrijf werk “creëert”, en dat de arbeider, de “werknemer”, dit werk ontvangt. Terwijl: is het niet de arbeider die hun werkt geeft, zodat de ‘werkgever’ met dat werk geld kan verdienen? https://www.doorbraak.eu/middenklasse-deel-i-de-immer-onderdrukte-ondernemer/

in the router lab we ran a few weeks ago I made students fill out paperwork from the INET NCC (a la RIPE NCC) to get their stuff setup

reading the feedback forms a surprising number said they really enjoyed the paperwork

fucking germans istg

@baldur What I have seen, too, is that people who use chatbots don't seem to realize *how* they are actually using them. As in there are people who claim to use LLMs for limited uses, like strictly generating ideas to look into further; but in reality, those same people parrot the output of LLMs as fact.

Not sure how common it is, but it's definitely common enough that I have encountered examples even without ever trying.

I've been saying it as a joke, but I'm now seeing what appear to be genuine sentiments that the "trick" to using "AI" coding assistants is to precisely describe the program you want.

Instant water. Just add water.

Probably a lost cause, but does anyone know where I could borrow screwdrivers in Japan for ~5 minutes?

Someone passing by was watching TikTok on her phone, didn't pay attention to her surroundings, and threw my backpack off the table.

I picked it up and inspected the damage - my laptop's back popped open in multiple places and doesn't power on anymore. Embedded Controller flashes the power button in red (indicating error state), if I plug it into the USB-C power brick and reset the EC (refresh + power), it boots up but doesn't detect the battery.

Hoping that battery just disconnected itself (and other lies you can tell yourself) but I need a fairly precise set of screwdriver (and slice-resistant gloves) to open it and inspect the internals.

Currently heading from Fukuoka to Kumamoto, will be back in Tokyo from March 29th until April 1st (when I'll be heading back home). If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it

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) :)

ublock origin and youtube are at a forever ad blocking war and it's kinda funny that billions of dollars can't challenge the sheer power of autism and hating ads

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.