Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

if you want to modify your body and medicine allows it, you should just be able to do that

it’s called “sysfs” because interacting with it feels like pushing a boulder up a hill

Can we please all agree that COP is now just an excuse for rich bastards and world leaders to fly somewhere to sit around tables and agree that the climate is fucked, sign a bunch of inconsequential paperwork that nobody takes seriously, promise to do better, then fly back home to carry on business as normal? #COP28

I wish there was a "digital divide simulator" which takes your existing computer and makes it work slightly less well, each click/response takes a bit longer, each application loads more slowly, each tab opened gradually slows down the machine, newer apps (Slack) don't work at all. Wifi iffy.

I'm using a machine exactly like this, and even being totally savvy and being able to make good choices, it's still wild having to suddenly be this parsimonious and economical with my tech use. Educational

this is such a good debugging story ("Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!”) https://xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust-std-fs-slower-than-python/

I'm so tired of the discourse on #adblocking being framed as users vs. creators.

Creators suffer from rampant unregulated advertising attached to their hard work. Seeing their labours being exploited to promote scams and enrich surveillance capitalists with no control or recourse. Seeing potential subscribers close the tab because their impression of the channel in those crucial first few seconds was some obnoxious ad.

You think makers *want* this system? Hell no. We just want an income.

Creators, more than anyone, need to speak out against this false ‘us vs. them' narrative. It's a disingenuous ploy, like when Facebook said cross-app tracking was ‘good for small businesses’.

I encourage anyone to adblock my stuff, and I know I'm not alone in that. Every creator has a part to play in promoting better security practices and fairer business models.

I made this image to put into the credits of future videos. I release it into the public domain; feel free to use it in your own.

A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that is going on right now.

in tech exec speak, the two biggest red flag words are "innovation" and "community"

innovation: something that is now public or common should be my private property

community: something valuable of yours should be free, or, a problem I created should be someone else's responsibility

I wrote a piece on a #Coop alternative to Etsy that just launched, one that puts power back into the hands of artists & makers:
@coopartisans (glad they're on Mastodon!)

I didn't realize the extent to which #Etsy had become toxic to sellers until starting interviews for this piece. It's clear that artisans are being drawn to this because an alternative is long overdue.

(there's a tech issue with the authorship at the top; it names me as the author at the bottom)

https://www.shareable.net/artisans-cooperative-an-etsy-alternative-owned-and-run-by-artists-and-makers/

Habt ihr Tipps für CO2-Sensoren, die

• unter 100 Euro kosten
• echt CO2 messen (und nicht eCO2, also einen Schätzwert basierend auf der Messung von etwas anderem)
• sich ohne proprietäre Software per BLE oder einem bekannten, einfachen Protokoll (nicht USB) per Kabel auslesen lassen
• keinen Krach machen (also insbesondere keinen Lüfter haben)
• kompakt sind
• mit Gleichstrom (also z.B. Netzteil, 12V wären ideal) oder Batterie laufen
• sparsam im Stromverbrauch sind?

#askFedi

Jedes Mal, wenn irgendwo ein Artikel/Interview/Podcast/Vortrag mit mir auftaucht, bekomme ich danach einige Mails von Unternehmen, die das gerne noch mal als individuelle Weiterbildung für ihr Team hätten, aber komischerweise sind sie nie bereit, auch etwas für meine Zeit zu bezahlen.

Die Gründe dafür sind echt vielfältig, aber immer ableistisch.

Welches Selbstverständnis viele Nichtbehinderte haben ist echt heftig. #Inklusion

If I could have one wish it'd be to absolutely destroy BMI.

Part of what drew me to video and computer games and even some productivity software in the years before the 00's was how strange and otherworldly they looked, even if unintentionally.

The colors were "off" and strange and the visuals of the art and even the text was like nothing you'd see in reality, an alien thing trying to be something it only sort of understands.

When VGA became the norm colors became less weird but were still strong and popping and the low resolution gave everything eye catching sharp corners. The only antialiasing you got was coming off the CRT that didn't really do sharp pixels, not like LCD/LED displays.

Then after around the early to mid 00's games began to consistently look good with high end graphics and things just stopped being interesting.

There's modern games that employ "retro" pixel art and such but most tend to miss the point of what made things visually fascinating for me. A few do manage, tho.

Anyway what I'm trying to say is that #ENA is pretty damn good.

[edit: we are apparently NOT getting kicked out on the 14th, as long as we "work with them to find a job", whateverthefuck that means; still, options might be nice]

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we're in the SF Bay Area

it doesn't look like we're gonna be able to find a job in time, let ALONE an apartment

can anyone help?

#MutualAid #NeedHousing