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

I am not in the least surprised that this is where Nova went straight away.

Heck is the first thing I said when I heard she left fedi. 🤣
#Bluesky #hachyderm

Federation is a privilege, not a right.

Other admins and mods will hold your admin/mod team to a much higher standard than you might expect to be held.

Me, reading Trending: Wow it's weird how people who get censured for not behaving well keep talking about how the rest of us are the ones who need to change our culture. So weird.

hoppala

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my bed,,the final frontier . these are the voyages of sleepy cat

With this whole bluesky thing, I once again see the take of how bad fedi-ux, no, ux in floss in general, is.

But you know what? Maybe instead of complaining, it's time people learn to look for solutions themselves. I feel like the blame is being put on the devs and projects who are actually doing work; "They" aren't doing their work good enough.

But you know what? These projects and these devs actually bring something not bad into the world. You're comparing a project backed by a billionaire with a project hacked together by a couple of people who, just like you probably, are just wage slaves trying to have something better in what little free time they have.

We don't have a billion, or even a million, dollar to pay people to focus on developing this. We don't have "the right" people to put on specific tasks. The only people we have, is the people who are willing to put what little time and energy they have into this.

And you know what? You too can probably do something. This is a capitalist world and we're all victims of it. You don't need to be a developer. You want better ux? Fine. Find yourself a ux-er willing to put in the work. Find yourself a project willing to work together on this. And find yourself the money to pay people so they actually have the time to work on this stuff you think is so important.

I've worked on pleroma and now i work on akkoma. In both cases i can tell you that people are mostly trying to not let things fall apart completely. There's a big burden crushing our shoulders because we have a sense of responsibility towards the world. We're already doing all this. Why are we expected to not only be devs, but also analysts, engineers, architects, community managers, support, doc writers, and more?

I think it's good that people identify problems, but please, try to also think of solutions. We can't all bear this alone.

Shoutouts to the one trans or gay or furry airline engineer doing this

Das Baumarktgrauen!

Wenn ihr was für #Insekten tun wollt, pflanzt einheimische Stauden, lasst Todholz liegen, kauft keine Petunien, keinen "Sommerflieder" und sterile "Geranien" und bitte auch keine sinnlosen nicht #Nisthilfen aus der Ramschabteilung.

Mit wenigen Ausnahmen haben diese Nisthilfen alle eines gemeinsam:

Billiges Ausgangsmaterial.
eine eher lieblose, teilweise sogar unprofessionelle handwerkliche Verarbeitung.
ein nahezu komplettes Ignorieren der Ansprüche der Insekten an einen artgerechten Nistraum.

Hier im Artikel und in den Videos wird sehr gut beschrieben, wie man gute #Insektenhotels von untauglichen unterscheidet.

https://www.naturgartenfreude.de/wildbienen/nisthilfen/baumarktgrauen/
Foto: Gestern in einem Gartenmarkt 😵‍💫🦋

When you give me a labelmaker:

so, because privilege makes people so oblivious

i guess i have to spell it out...

WELL-TO-DO TECH WORKERS

SHITTING ON POOR PEOPLE FOR TRYING TO SURVIVE

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED SHUTTING THE FUCK UP, AND THAT YOUR OPINION DOESN'T MATTER HERE?

i know you must feel like god's gift to this earth because you know computer magic but

consider that that's not the end-all be-all of existence

and that you -- yes, even smart capable dependable you -- are capable of having blind spots

#hachyderm

and there's a concerning number of people in this conversation who just don't give a shit about the root cause of this most recent flare-up

they're just mad because people are blocking/muting/whatevering their instance or the one their friends are on

they're not out here calling mutual aid posts "scams" but they still just don't see what's all that important about it

to them it's just "a small disagreement" instead of, y'know, SURVIVAL

privileged fucks

I'm once again reminding everyone of my proposal to take away every single carpark at Auckland Transport and make it a job requirement, at least for the CEO and board members, to ditch their cars and move around the city using public transport and active modes exclusively.

Oh, you can't get to work on time? It's difficult to pick up the kids and get to your meetings? Services are late or cancelled?

Perhaps someone's job is to fix that, huh?

Just one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738987

"I have a rail line right under my apartment, so I built a small computer vision app running on a Rasperry Pi which records each train passing, and tries to stitch an image of it.

It has a frontend at https://trains.jo-m.ch/"

This is a new one. I've never actually seen a website admit that autoplaying videos are a punishment for users they don't like, rather than a way to try to attract users.

If game jams are too short for you, consider the "extra" category of the #LudumDare jam, it is more than 2 weeks long so you can participate and have fun without the crunch aspect of game jams.

Bluesky still hasn't fixed my XSS, lol

https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:vwzwgnygau7ed7b7wt5ux7y2&cid=bafkreibjllcdm6pv3skammvft3sflk6uf4ucba3cauttwvozyjwev3ygwi

You know the "bystander effect"? The idea that in a crisis, when there's multiple people around, nobody will do anything because everybody is expecting someone else to do something - the claim being that "individuals don't have a sense of responsibility anymore".

It's a widely believed concept. It's also based on faulty data, never credibly proven, and increasingly being debunked through research of real-world incidents. By all appearances, the theory is complete nonsense.

(The original incident that sparked this theory ended up being much more about failure of the police to respond to calls for help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese - but that's a different topic.)

More interesting is the question of why people believe they have experienced the bystander effect themselves, if it doesn't exist. And we're not just talking biased interpretation of events, but actual scenarios where nobody stepped in to help.

And I'd like to propose a more credible explanation: what if people just *don't know what to do*, and need guidance?

Look at this video of an incident, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtqBU5xmv5Y (CW: video of fairground ride almost falling over, no injuries to my knowledge)

You'll notice that initially, nobody is responding, nobody is doing anything. But as soon as one person runs towards the ride to counterbalance it - everybody else joins in!

Does this really look like "nobody has a sense of responsibility"? Because to me, it looks a lot more like "people just didn't know what to do, until someone showed them", and the difference is subtle to an external observer.

I think this is a particularly important thing to consider when people raise the bystander effect as a reason why police needs to exist; it's based on the premise that you cannot trust 'regular people' to take the necessary actions to deal with incidents.

But that doesn't seem to be true - they just need to be prepared to know how! And to top it off, poor handling of an incident by police is how the entire theory came to exist in the first place.

How Russia is converting from one of the best countries to transition to one of the worst

did you know that #Russia was (and still is for now) one of the best countries for transitioning? #trans #transgender

hormones are available in pharmacies usually without any prescription and they are cheap (about $1.25/day assuming 4mg/day of e2). downside: only pills are available, injections were never approved and gels are on a shortage
in order to get an official document which allows you to change your gender marker in the ID you need to go through a “medical board”, basically psychiatrist + sexologist + medical psychologist. There are a few of private clinics that provide this, and one of them is specifically trans-friendly and does not discriminate against sexuality or non-binary people. This process usually takes about a week, however there is a queue now for the reasons I explain later (in normal circumstances there is no queue)
you also get changed gender marker on the birth certificate. not sure whether it’s important, but imo it’s good to get rid of your old gender marker entirely
the whole process is pretty straightforward and well documented
all of the process may take about a month or two (and most of the time is taken by the registry office to change your birth certificate, and sometimes a couple of weeks is enough)

also worth mentioning that this process is in order for 5 years, since 2018

so, what happened? several days ago ministry of justice issued a statement that they are strongly considering to ban changing gender marker. it’s not yet known what measures will be implemented, so I guess there are two cases:

most possible: revert to pre-2018 process. It was still possible to change gender marker back then, but that requires a medical operation (such as orchiectomy) and then sue your local registry office in order to force them to change your gender marker. so, it doesn’t 100% ban it, but it makes the whole process much more difficult and more time consuming
less possible: completely prohibiting changing gender marker. not sure how it would be implemented, but the thought itself is scary.

if you can – please support your trans friends from Russia, they probably need it now
if you’re a transgender person from Russia without changed documents – please consider going through this process, while it still works, if you need any resources, check out https://centre-t.ru/commission