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

> Communities are not siloed independent bubbles. People are Venn diagrams of lots of communities and interests. Selecting a username can be difficult, deciding which community you want as part of your identity—even if you can change it—is too much. The act of choosing a server has kept more than a few people away from Mastodon.

..surely I am not the only one who also experiences this feeling in offline communities. Has Silicon Valley just convinced people that these aren't problems everywhere?

I refuse to accept that we can't have nice things because they're hard and expensive. The "free" things aren't cheap, the ease comes at great cost to real people and communities, and responsibility is nowhere to be found when shit gets messy.

The tool that's free to you and provides nearly unlimited reach for organizing also enables genocide elsewhere. You either accept that complexity and do something about it or you let someone else renege on your behalf. So much easier to swallow that way 🙄

It turns out that when you pump a spigot of cash into building technology, the quality is significantly better than stuff developed on a shoestring budget by a single person!

We see VC-funded companies take investments for *years* before ever breaking even. Uber lost billions and said they may "never achieve profitability" at their IPO ffs https://techmonitor.ai/policy/digital-economy/uber-profitability-lyft-didi-aurora

"Disruptive", "unicorn" tech gets built because rich patrons want to see it built and fund it. That's the secret in plain sight.

i do not want a "Unified Online Identity". fracture that shit as much as fucking possible thank you very much

Stopping sideshows with infrastructure:
✅ Cheap
✅ Effective
✅ Respects civil liberties
✅ Also calms everyday traffic and makes streets safer in general

Stopping sideshows with cop surveillance drones:
❌ Hella expensive
❌ Probably won't work
❌ SFPD will turn it on protesters
❌ Does nothing to stop everyday distracted/reckless driving that kills people

Of course the reactionaries choose option 2. #SFPol #BikeSF #VisionZeroSF

Hey, all open space/public access advocates: tonight Mission Greenway appears before the Board of Appeals to explain why many Mission residents don't want an iron gate and a private commerical parking lot to become the fate of one of the biggest parcels in the Mission. We'd love it if you could join us.
https://sf.gov/meeting/april-26-2023/board-appeals-hearing-april-26-2023

To attend the hearing in person on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 5:00 pm, go to City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 416, San Francisco.

To attend over the phone: Call 1-669-900-6833 and enter the meeting ID: 853 7387 5661. Dial *9 (star 9) to raise your hand.

With love and hope,
Elizabeth

I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn't really do anything but man the "freedom of speech" folks are awfully silent regarding Zooey Zephyr eh?

 “as soon as my wife answered the door they aggressively asked for me by my full name… announced themselves as the Pinkerton Agency (which I am very familiar with their reputation), and said they were there to recover ‘stolen goods’.” After his wife asked them to wait outside, Cannon says that they “forced themselves” at least partially through the door and prevented her from closing the door all the way. 

#pinkertonthugs #mtg #wotc

https://gizmodo.com/magic-the-gathering-leaks-wizards-wotc-pinkertons-1850374546

"I want," the man said to the art robot, and then described an image in some detail.
"Certainly," said the art robot. A printout came out of its chest.
"Thank y- Hey! What's this?"
"A list of artists who make images of the kind you describe, and who are accepting commissions."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Today I learned that llvm-mca exists. It's a tool that annotates assembly with instruction latency and throughput information, as well as estimated utilization of various CPU resources.

Today I also learned that the godbolt.org Compiler Explorer has support for llvm-mca.

This means, if one ever needs to micro-optimize some code snippet taking latency/throughput into account, one can simply do that directly in the browser. Amazing.

#gamedev #cpp #rustlang

You can, and I cannot stress this enough, have however many names and whatever names you like

Like, especially on fedi. You can say “hey, thinking about trying a new name, can someone call me <x>?” and people will climb in your replies helping you feel it out.