Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The problem with #RaspberryPi proudly hiring an ex-spy cop and seeing nothing wrong with it isn’t that they were unprofessional in their replies to criticism on the fediverse. It was the fact that they proudly hired an ex-spy cop and see nothing wrong with it.

If what you want is corporations* to be better at whitewashing what they do, be careful what you ask for because that’s all they want too.

* They’re an offshoot of Broadcom and their “foundation” has multiple for-profit companies.

#RaspberryPi own the two main organisations teaching coding to children today (Code Club and CoderDojo). And they see absolutely nothing wrong with proudly hiring an ex-spy cop who brags about having built surveillance equipment using their boards.

I resigned from the board of directors of Code Club many years ago because they didn’t see anything wrong with legitimising Google (a surveillance capitalist) to children.

These people are creating curricula for your kids. You should be worried.

it's genuinely difficult to think of something funnier than "we hired a cop with a background in electronic surveillance" to post here. it's like if you asked me to come up with a magic phrase that would cause everyone to lineup and kick you in the nuts, i wouldn't suggest that because it's TOO on the nose.

No, for real. Your life is not and endless pit of despair, it's capitalism. Capitalism is the reason why you feel isolated and lonely and meaningless. Capitalism is why you feel guilty every time you're having a good time or just taking your time to do stuff. Capitalism is the reason why you see your peers as rivals, not mates. Capitalism is why you feel you're unworthy of love.

If you're gonna be all 'You shouldn't *tell* people not to federate with nazi instances, you should only inform them that those are nazi instances', you can fuck off, too.

No nazis in the bar, outside the bar, on top of the bar, heading towards the bar, putting on their nazi boots ready to head towards the bar - no space for nazis, no space for people who make space for nazis.

a thing about me is i really do have npc vibes when nobody else is around. just wandering around my house saying shit like "Oh... ohhh.... my old bones...." and "Hmm... I wonder...... could it be time for lunch yet?"

WIP of a personal project: a colombian city where people is cheering for something i'll tell in the future
#wip #pixelart

I saw a post on Reddit about how to cancel an Adobe subscription without the asshole "early cancellation fee" and figured it's worth sharing:

1. Login to your adobe account
2. Go to plans and payments
3. Find your current plan and select "Manage Plan"
4. The third box on the right should say "Cancel Plan"
5. It will ask you why, tell them "Go fuck yourself" and press continue
6. It will offer you to change plans, select "Photography plan (20GB)" - $9.99
7. Confirm the change
8. Now go back to your Plans and it may say "You'll be able to manage this plan shortly" and that's because there is a waiting period after starting a plan, probably to ensure you forget to cancel or something. Took about an hour for it to go away, so if it's there just walk away and refresh the page every 15 minutes or so.
9. Once you are able to manage your plan, repeat steps 3, 4, and 5. This time actually cancel the plan. There will be no early cancellation fee AND you'll be refunded the $9.99.

Fuck adobe.

A quick thing — can you please boost?

I'm looking for an an artist to commission a character design piece for noncommercial public use. Since this piece would depict an agender character, I would love if a trans or nonbinary artist could be the one I commission!

If you know of anyone who has commissions open that seems a good fit for this, please let me know!

hey everyone using our hardware for plex, sonarr, radarr, and other tools adjacent to piracy. hey everyone running their home automation because you don't trust ring and google backdooring to LE & agencies. guess what? check out this AWESOME ACTUAL POLICE PERSON we hired!

Twitch have added a bunch of new charities to their list, and two of them are the LGB alliance - a transphobic hate group - and Autism Speaks - an ableist hate group.

This can't be allowed to stand. Please use the link below if you have a twitch account to vote for this issue:

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/945934-charity/suggestions/46058314-remove-hate-groups

For folks with connections to makerspaces and college campuses, here's a flier you're welcome to print out and hang up to help spread the word about the Raspberry Pi's recent bootlicking.

CC0 so you're welcome to copy and share as much as you want.

Print-ready downloads are available at https://envs.sh/Lk