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

I made it. On the international trip from #Brussels to #Dordrecht I now have more than an hour delay. Still 16 minutes to go if this train makes it on time. #TrainTravel #Fail (it all started with a train in Brussels that did not depart at all).

A friend just told me I'm against AI only because I fear losing my job.
What are you talking about?! I make games and art! I fear losing my fun!!

google news decided i wanted to follow medical news in the way that it is reported on by people who care about investing in medical stocks

and boy is *that* a bloodless tone

Stolen for reposting with #AltText.

#AskFedi: Is there already a wiki or something that tracks old devices/models (of anything, not just one category like phones), and documents how they can be repurposed/liberated/unbricked/etc. to prevent them from becoming e-waste?

This is a pretty cool behind-the-scenes of how the audio controllers for haunted houses in some theme parks are manufactured... literally in someone's backyard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPJdgxmSiE

Ah, I see the Wikipedia is having another pledge drive. Here's your reminder that they literally have more money than they know what to do with, and have a full-time investment manager who just looks for stuff to do with their giant pile of cash.

Remember how I said September is "CHANGE YOUR AIR FILTERS" month?

Yeah, this gray, disgusting blob here is the filter from my office, where I do my 3D printing, next to the new filter that I just changed in (I ordered the wrong size last month, had to re-order).

This filter was last changed in February.

CHANGE YOUR AIR PURIFIER FILTERS!

My sister is so smart, and she's a talented pianist, and she's so wired into social justice issues, and she's just confident and makes me proud every day.

Except whenever she cuts cheese. I don't know anyone who cuts cheese worse than her. Every time I pick up a block of cheese and see the havoc she's wreaked upon the cheese block it's awe inspiring and deeply alarming all at once. Me? I leave the cheese a perfect cube every time. My sister leaves the cheese looking like a mountain range.

De corona-booster is in praktische zin ook beschikbaar voor wie niet in een van de voorgekauwde doelgroepen zit.

Ze vragen mogelijk wel "waarom" je de prik komt halen, en daarmee bedoelen ze te vragen in welke doelgroep je zit, maar ze controleren niet of je echt in de griepprikgroep zit, echt advies hebt gehad van je arts, of echt een kwetsbaar gezinslid hebt dat je wilt beschermen.

Dus als je 'm graag wilt, maak gewoon een afspraak: https://planjeprik.nl/

Vandaag is het International Coming Out Day. Op deze dag zou ik graag aan iedereen willen meegeven dat "uit de kast komen" niet iets is wat iemand één keer doet. Het is iets wat je steeds weer moet doen, of ervoor kiezen om het niet te doen. Vaak moet je die beslissing in een oogwenk nemen. Want uit de kast komen is niet zonder risico, vooral vandaag de dag niet, terwijl rechtse en extreemrechtse partijen zich steeds meer anti-LHBTQIA+-standpunten aanmeten om stemmen te winnen en haat te zaaien. Wat als de persoon die je in een situatie dwingt waarin je de keuze moet maken om wel of niet uit de kast te komen iemand is die een machtspositie heeft ten opzichte van jou of die jou een belangrijke dienst of product moet leveren? Hoe schat je dan in een fractie van een seconde in hoe die persoon zal reageren als je voor je eigen genderidentiteit of seksuele oriëntatie of die van een ander opkomt? Uit de kast komen is een dagelijkse stressfactor in de levens van alle LHBTQIA+ personen...

(Plaatje van stonewall.org.uk)

The Cypress.io situation is wild! https://currents.dev/posts/v13-blocking

In short: when installing the Cypress npm package, on postinstall it checks what other packages you installed, and you're using any packages they don't like (e.g. tools for self-hosting that compete with their cloud service) then it refuses to run. More detailed summary from @jess here: https://twitter.com/_jessicasachs/status/1712043659330310488

Very hard to argue your product is good if you have to actively block your customers from even testing alternatives! Yikes.

Sometimes people use the term "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person", and sometimes they use it to mean "treating someone like an authority"

And sometimes people who are used to being treated as an authority say shit like "If you do not respect me, then I won't respect you", by which they mean "treat me like an authority or I won't treat you like a person". And it sounds fair the way they say it, but it fucking isn't, and it is not ok.

Hey, was it free tests or vaccines or both in the US now? I saw links floating around recently but I can't find them anymore.

Edit: free tests available here https://www.covid.gov/tests
and get your shots here https://www.vaccines.gov/