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

I kinda wish all papers had a one-paragraph section, similar in size and style to the Acknowledgement, on origin of the project. I think it'd make a lot more of the process of science more transparent, esp to newcomers.

#academia #openscience #research

What's the best way to render high-detailed @openstreetmap tiles in vector format for large format printing?

the term 'biological pronouns' really shows how anglocentric a lot of the loudest transphobes are because like...there are so many languages without gendered pronouns at all.

hey look, an actually useful orange-site comment, about HP ink cartridge hardware hacking

"Put a resistor, about 1kohm, in the power line to the security chip on the cartridge.

Now, whenever the printer tries to read data from the chip, it works. Whenever it tries to record data to the chip (for example, marking the cartridge as empty), that uses more power, and the memory chip doesn't respond.

Amazingly, the whole setup just works and prints forever, saying the cartridges are always full... "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104300

nintendo's really having a blast telling everyone to pirate their games! so far in the past couple of months, nintendo has:

- shut down the eshop for wii u/3ds
- issued a DMCA to lockpickRCM, preventing switch owners from legally obtaining keys needed for emulation (and it caused a switch emulator to shut down due to fears they'd be DMCA'd too)
- sent a new 3DS update that blocked all free methods of homebrewing the console
- and just recently, they told steam to take down the dolphin emulator

remember: pirating nintendo games is good.
(edit: fix'd some info!)

A computer can never be held accountable

therefore a computer must never make a management decision

For most of my life, when I found something like this, I assumed that it was an Anomaly.

I would think to myself: Surely no other organization has flaws this fundamental being papered over by human labor.

But I spent the last five years jumping from Fundamental Flaw to Fundamental Flaw at a 20+ Billion dollar company, filling gaps like this while "automation" was built.

In *every* case, the automation solves ~95 or so percent of the problem, and leaves a rare but possible set of circumstances that will require a human to clean up.

In most cases so far, the only humans with the experience to clean things up have left, have been pushed out, or will leave soon.

And things will bubble up. And things will break. And 10+ engineers will have to waste 3 - 5 days investigating the problem, because every corporation is built on the backs of the knowledge of employees they do not value.

Stop calling it AI, even this term is a marketing grift

You know how there's a bunch of critical infrastructure powering the internet (and presumably a lot more than the internet) is badly maintained and underfunded (often by just a few people)?

We know about several examples in the open source world, but I'm sure we all also know about several examples in each of our personal lives, in each of our places of business.

And it's like that *everywhere*

I've rarely seen any organization that wasn't chewing gum and balling wire all the way down.

For Pride Month this year, the corporate PR offices are getting their banners ready!

#pride #csd #pridemonth #lgbtq #lgbt #queer #capitalism #pinkwashing

Is there a way to block everyone from a specific instance from seeing my posts without it also blocking the people from that instance I follow or who follow me?

#MasterdonHelp #Help

bluesky made a moderation decision!

the CEO, Jay (below), claimed the post from the English Nationalist threatening to push a black woman off a roof was "metaphorical"

they didn't ban the nazi (the devs are following her, and the CEO was following her until everyone called her out on it)

they did make a new rule that the post would have been against

they didn't act against the account

the new rules also appear to ban doxxing nazis or advocating punching nazis. i wonder* how those will be interpreted.

and in conclusion, the purpose of a system is what it does