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

what the fuck, 7-zip can open ELF files and show you all the sections??

death to songtradr https://www.404media.co/bandcamps-entire-union-bargaining-team-was-laid-off/

It's funny: Both Bandcamp and Patreon had the easiest and most straightforwardly long-term profitable business models imaginable: Sit between indie creatives and their fans, provide some basic services for mediation (comment sections, media posts, semi-global payment) and take enough of a cut of any payments to cover the costs and then some.

But because that business model wouldn't scale forever, they are instead being gutted, because ever _increasing_ growth is the only model capital accepts

You are probably going to run into a lot of people who tell you that your tactics/arguments/whatever do not convince them, and maybe they'll even tell you some specific way in which you should do it differently.

Don't waste your time on these people.

With that, I don't mean that you shouldn't develop an insight into the concerns of the broader population - you should *especially* learn about the concerns of people who are not in your direct social circles, because tunnel vision is a very real thing.

What I mean is that *these specific people* are not trying to be helpful - they are being *entitled*. They are defining (their perception of) your success by whether you are catering to *them, specifically, individually*. And they have already made up their mind that they don't agree with you, no matter what you do.

They are not activists, and even if they may have some notion of concerns among their social circles, they do not have the expertise in activism to turn that into the right solutions and tactics. They are not qualified advisors.

And usually you'll find that whatever tactic or argument they propose, it's something that allows them to more easily dismiss it - a tactic that is less disruptive, an argument that is a "compromise". Because they were never trying to help you make your activism a success; they were just trying to get rid of something that bothered them.

Activism is *supposed* to bother people - that is how things get changed. And contrary to apparently popular belief, it doesn't work by rationally convincing people (if only it were that easy...); it's a long-term process that involves steering public discourse, emotional responses, and so on. Often in ways that seem ineffective or counterproductive at first, but that have far-reaching and difficult-to-measure long-term effects.

You should of course find the tactics that work best for your cause; there is no universally effective strategy. But resist the temptation to follow the guidance of the least qualified and least engaged people in the room, however helpful it may sound on the surface.

Learn from experienced activists instead, inside and outside of your own cause.

#Accessibility in tech is overlaying so many UI elements it becomes impossible to read the captions.

Remember when companies sold goods and services rather than selling the ability to not be harassed by them as much for a monthly fee

looks like Songtradr made a point of laying off 100% of the Bandcamp United negotiators https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/10/every-member-of-bandcamp-united-union-bargaining-team-was-laid-off.html Paul Wiltshire, we can see you.

this is really quite excellent

https://bengrosser.com/files/Techno-Optimist-Manifesto-Andreessen-redacted-by-Grosser.pdf

One of the reasons I want Xenia the Fox to replace Tux the Penguin as the Linux mascot is so the bigots in the Linux community get outraged enough at queer symbolism that they basically see themselves out and save us the work of booting them out.

If you have a library card (Canada, UK, and US; maybe more), you may be able to log into kanopy.com at no extra cost, giving you access to a broad library of films, completely ad-free. ^_^

Works in a browser, or their app (as far as Apple devices go, it's available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV).

When Unity lit itself on fire a month ago, I asked myself the same questions as many other devs:
"Which engine should I chose?"
"Which will compliment my workflow?"
"Which can do what I want to do?"
and so on.

In the end, I realized most of these questions were details. For me just one remained important:
"How much ownership do I want over my own game?"

That answer was simple and ruled out quite a lot of the contenders.