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

twitch streamer with 7 viewers: hey guys!! i bought this expensive microphone so you can hear me play minecraft in dolby atmos surround sound

long-distance train manager (speaking into a potato): please listen to the following announcements to find out how you’re going to get home

PSA on Patreon

The new privacy policy email from Patreon you probably ignored had a section in the small print warning you that they were creating you a public profile with all the creators you support.

If you want to disable it, go to your settings page -> the account tab and scroll down and switch off 'full public profile'.

Volkskrant used an image of a golden TRAXX+ICR in an article today and now I want this as the "Farewell ICR train" 🤩

what. where is this fucking train taking me HELP

Pleased to announce anguish.org, an open source GPL licensed alternative to torment.nexus

#LevelDesign

For me, right to to repair isn't just about ewaste, and preventing corporate gouging.

It's about mental health. Being able to fix your gadgets is therapeutic. Empowering. Good for the soul.

In a world full of complex technology it's easy to feel small and helpless. And maybe I'm too much of an idealist, but I think that if everyone could experience the joy of fixing or modifying a gadget now and then we'd all be a little more open minded, a little more daring. A little harder to push around.

Or perhaps you are a better shitposter - in which case you can help us make the news of this fork reach more people!

Memes, being a language of the Internet spread like a fire on tickspeed 9001, and this is exactly what we need, make them, share them, join in on the fun.

The more creative the better. If you know anyone with audience, gaming journalist or a group of friends - tell them about the new wiki, lets make as many of Minecraft players aware as possible.

#meme

Do read this new investigatory piece on the web of money, AI companies, and shadowy “foundations” bankrolling the EU anti-encryption proposals. TL;DR this is the terrifying thing you get when you combine law enforcement, money and AI. https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

When people tell me generative AI will solve real-world problems

Know what'd be fun?

Slap a random manufacturer's sticker on these things and go round pretending like you sneezed too hard and went a couple feet out of your own timestream.

"Oh this? This is my Yamaha Lua. Your phone's made by who? Samsung? The tyre company? They rate restaurants too in my world. Anyway I like to play games on my Bally Pocketron here..."

be: gay
do: crime
this post: valid YAML

I've been seeing posts about #fediblock -ing widely-known bad-actor instances, or even individual users on those instances. These places are well-known sources of harassment and bigotry that appear in Oli's Tier 0 blocklist (consensus of sources) or Seirdy's FediNuke, and I recommend that new instance admins without even minimal blocks import at least one of these to save yourself duplicated effort and your users the stress of encountering hate & harassment.

Oliphant's Tier 0: https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists/tier0.csv

Seirdy's larger Tier 0 and smaller FediNuke lists are linked from the documentation, which you should read before using either list: https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists/

The lists can be imported by saving as a .csv and using the "Import" button on the upper right of the federation menu in modern Mastodon versions. (EDIT: Seirdy's lists appear not be formatted for direct import.)

To be clear, importing these lists is not a "solution" to bigotry on the fedi because social problems do not have technical solutions. It is, rather, a usability measure cutting off many of the sources of the worst harassment and abuse. These instances have wasted enough of the fedi's collective time and energy, don't let them waste yours.

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