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

I have to reinstall windows for research purposes and Setup says some driver is missing, but won’t tell me what it needs. Meanwhile Linux works out of the box with this hardware, so which of these has a multibillion dollar company supporting it?

There is no scientific proof that blue light from devices causes damage to the eyes.

Astigmatism (~50% of the population) find it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. With a bright display the iris closes a bit more, decreasing the effect of the “deformed” lens; with a dark display (black background) the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the lens creates a much fuzzier focus at the eye.

It's okay to switch to light theme sometimes.

“My hot take on “15 minute cities” is if you can get to the coffee shop within fifteen minutes, but the barrista who makes your drink can’t afford to live closer than a half-hour away, then you live in a theme park.” - Gareth Klieber #cities #urbanism #housing #transit #cycling

Scientists really need to stop taking common language terms, giving them a hyper specific meaning and then complaining when people keep using the common language version or there's confusion about those terms.

If your response to people holding Website Boy to a higher standard and being uncomfortable with how he is currently managing things is 'stop complaining and fork your own', you can fork off into the forking ocean, and if people need to explain to you why making your own fork is both irrelevant and unfeasible, maybe you're not as smart as you think your smug comments are implying

#Nazi clubs Zwarte Kruis/ Storm 8 willen in #Roffa een #dragueen voorlees uur verstoren op 16 april. Dat pikken we uiteraard niet. Wees paraat! In al je queerness. Meer nieuws volgt nog

Hoping the fediverse can help out: I'm in touch with a Ukranian family in #Toronto who are trying to get their cat (named Milana, in photo) from #Kraków, #Poland to Toronto this spring. They can cover some transport costs but are trying to connect with someone already making the trip. Email milana at hypatia.ca if you can help. Please boost!

#Ukraine #CatsOfMastodon #Canada

When they say “chatGPT gave me xyz” what really happened is that it gave you a mashup of things written by people on the internet, and didn't bother with proper attribution. These things are not made of magic and like soyolent they are really made out of people.

A way to characterise these language models is as a way to depersonalise and remove agency. To appear to centralise content generation.

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

learning the phonetic alphabet is important

I totally love the way VC flavour of the month has seamlessly switched from "artificial scarcity of art, it's all about making sure artists get compensated!" to "free art for everyone, based on all the art we could find, completely uncompensated".

"If you don't like it, stop complaining and go make your own!" Ah yes, because the venn diagram "people who use the software" and "people who can make the software" is a perfect circle.

I don't want a fedi version of Instagram or Twitter.

I want experiences that are impossible to emulate by centralized platforms.

What an incredible shot!
Photo credit: Roy Rimmer