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

that feel when someone hits the #fediblock tag with a complaint about their personal instance being defederated by

wait for it

poa.st

and just like that you have a new domain to suspend! :D

(white supremacist? check! women aren't actually people? check! but aside from all that jfc what do you have to do to get defederated from fucking poast? i mean goddamn)

(The instance is postnstuffds dot lol if you're wondering.)

me: hey big companies, can I download all of your copyrighted movies and music and images in case one inspires me to make something someday?

big companies: lol no get rekt

also big companies: btw we're downloading and using all of your copyrighted works to stuff into our machine learning models

A useful browser extension to automatically check if any scientific paper linked to in any webpage has been disputed, critiqued, or commented on by their peers: https://pubpeer.com/static/extensions

I installed it for my academic work but when I read general-audience articles outside my field on say, a new drug or cancer agent, I often get a notification that a paper in the article has comments on PubPeer, which can give a nice insight into how controversial the development is/isn't

@PubPeer

small websites are countercultural. self hosting is countercultural. web 1.0 is countercultural. user experiences that aren’t pillaged by advertisers are countercultural. a completed project is countercultural. a small, reliable tool is countercultural. independent maintenance is counter cultural. useless programs are countercultural. caring is counter cultural.

Finally, the end seems near for yet another big passenger airport in the Netherlands: a ridiculous plan in the middle of the climate crisis. Only the PM's VVD plus three far right parties still want to open Lelystad Airport.
#ClimateChange #emissions #aviation #Airports

Wip

type of strong AI that just *sucks* at computers

keeps calling its maintainers in the dead of night because it needs help "making the youtube smaller"

Modern e-commerce sites a great. If you search "toilet gasket" you get, as the first result on multiple sites, a "toilet wax ring", which looks similar but does something different and isn't interchangeable

Hey transfems in trans spaces, this is a sporadic reminder to not talk about testosterone like it is inherently an evil or poison. To our transmasc brothers and siblings that take it, it is life saving medicine! [and talking about it like that makes a space less welcoming for folks]

Keep references related specifically to you and how it effects your mind and body.

[This reminder brought to you [generic] from a distant land [not fediverse].]

What the ACTUAL FUCK Mozilla?!

"AI Help", cryptocurrency banners!?

I know you have your complaints about eIDAS, but I'm not so sure I would trust you with the CA root store either when I see this.

It seems every company I've worked at has a person who looms large in their legend.
Like, they're often the person who built the core systems, everything was originally their design, but they left recently and in their absence they've had to hire like 5 more people to try and take over all their responsibilities.

I think next time I'm gonna track down that person, find out where they moved to, and go work there instead

It can be frustrating to read the way that people who are unaware of all of the things that “police presence” will do to a neighborhood write about police abolition— even when they are making an effort to understand they still regard police as something that, if removed, would need to be replaced. After all? who will stop the criminals? Who will keep the neighborhood from descending into chaos?

What they fail to understand is that the police *are* the chaos. 1/

En dit is dus ook waarom je zo links mogelijk moet stemmen: alleen links wil de Nederlandse rechtsstaat en democratie intact houden. Rechts, en zeker Omtzigt, willen dat niet. En lopen je te gaslighten met "nieuwe" voorstellen terwijl we niets nieuws nodig hebben. We hebben herstel nodig. Van de rechtszekerheid, het onschuldsbeginsel, privacy, burgerrechten, natuur, inkomenszekerheid, woningcapaciteit en welvaartsverdeling.

De salamitactieken van rechts hebben er inmiddels in geresulteerd dat extreemrechts dusdanig 'centrum' is dat 10/18, dus de meeste, partijen in hun partijprogramma voorstellen hebben staan die niet met de rechtsstaat te verenigen zijn.

Dat is het directe resultaat van het veelgeprezen 'poldermodel', waarbij wat gezien wordt als 'compromis' steeds meer weg heeft wat in beginsel een onbespreekbaar uitgangspunt was.