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

remember when you had to plug your joystick into your sound card and we all just nodded along with that like aye, makes sense

I didn't get into tech because I wanted to be a developer. I didn't get into tech to be a system administrator.

I got into tech because I was an art dude and designer that got tired of tech people telling me what is and isn't possible with my ideas, so I learned it on my own. I wanted to understand systems to build the stuff I wanted to build from the ground up.

At the time, I didn't realize how valuable those skills were, but as we watch centralized systems turn on their users, I am glad I decided to read manuals, forums, and chat groups to understand how online spaces work. I'm glad I pestered people to show me the ins and out of how to set up a bare metal server.

It's turning out to be one of the best decisions young Ro has ever made.

Because it informs the opinion that we don't need any of these places. At all.

We had a LOT of bread to distribute today! Thanks bakers for your generous donations, all this excellent food will go to refugees, homeless people and other people in need.

By the way, the charity that does this has openings for new recipients so if you live in Nijmegen and can use a delivery of free bread every Saturday, or know someone who checks those boxes, drop me a line!

Killing a giant (Reddit)

I've been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject.... #RedditMigration

https://www.faceted.social/p/3169aedd-3f06-4db4-b51c-ed4690e9f5a6

Hey suddenly-cast-apart hobby subreddits, remember phpbb, the software that damn near every web forum ran on back in the aughts? Well the devs put out a new version this year lol

(after a 5-year gap in their blog)
(with no mention or explanation or acknowledgement of this half-decade hiatus)
(imagine you're at the pub and a mate from primary school who you haven't seen in three decades sits down at your table and goes "anyway yeah as I was saying,")

Like I literally lost friends/friendly acquaintances over my criticism of crypto. People who told me that I was just too dumb to get it and that I was harming the Internet's progress. Most don't even speak about crypto anymore. Because of course not.

Quick question: Have any of the tech experts who claimed crypto to be real and important and meaningful and totally not a scam apologized so far? Or have they all just switched to doing the same for "AI"?

as a birthday present please tell me some interesting fact(s) that you know

Het verbaast me gigantisch dat de media in de berichtgeving over hooikoorts niks over luchtreinigers zeggen.

Een luchtreiniger is een heel simpele oplossing waarmee je binnenshuis de symptomen enorm kunt verminderen, simpelweg door de pollen uit de lucht te filteren. Ramen dicht (wel roosters open, mechanische ventilatie aan), luchtreiniger op hoge stand, en een kwartier tot half uur later is de lucht geklaard.

Gebruik bij voorkeur een "te grote" HEPA-luchtreiniger, dan werkt ie sneller.

at this time I’d like to go on record saying “???” in response to everyone who seems to be surprised every time corporations do things according to their profit motive. just some real frog and the scorpion shit