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

Good Monday morning, fellas.

#openstreetmap While I was generating some numbers on editor usage yesterday (for the @geomob podcast we just recorded and maybe for a diary post too), I noticed a massive (at least in OSM terms) anomaly in the newbie signup rates for RapiD (Facebooks iD fork). In February 2023 it rocketed up to nearly 3'000 to then return to the previous couple of dozen per month.

Anybody know the background here?

Sometimes it's hard to know if a community or project is sexist or horrible or what. People have said that about #OpenStreetMap.

All I know is, I came out as a #trans woman, stood for reelection to the #OSMF Board, and *quadrupled* my votes.

Be careful with simple narratives. 🙂

I like this method of locking together laser-cut wood pieces, very clever! cc @s_ol

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/04/this-laser-cut-one-piece-wedge-tenon-locks-wood-joints-tight/

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Danke an alle Booster!
Hätte den Post auch löschen können, aber dann wären die hilfreichen Antworten weg.

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Hat Jemand in 64297 #Darmstadt Verwendung für eine Kühl-/Gefrierschrank-Kombination, BJ 2007 von Miele, top gepflegt, voll funktionsfähig, kostenlos an Selbstabholer abzugeben (Abholung bis 19.12.)? Oder kennt Jemand mit Bedarf? Es wäre traurig, wenn das Teil auf dem Sperrmüll landen würde.

#fedigive
#wish2hand

was reminded of this old banger of a tweet so i'm reposting it here on mastodon after *checks watch* 9 years

A visual representation of how high 2:1 isometric blocks should be

#PixelArt #GameDev

"What is AI? It is a marketing term. It's a way to make automation sound magical. As such it is a way to dodge accountability by making machines sound like autonomous entities rather than tools created by people and companies. Discussion about this technology becomes much clearer when we replace "AI" with "automation" and ask: What is automated? Who is automating? Who is profiting and who is harmed?"
- @emilymbender

https://youtu.be/eK0md9tQ1KY?si=DmIPhir4VQ0tNg3O

@smveerman @Gaelan the rare one is "Plan uw reis in de internationale app", for when the HSL falls over

de trein is stukkie wukkie, etc

There's also mention of employing AI in moderation online, especially for smaller platforms. And I don't think I'm telling most of you new things when I say that large language models tend to be biased against minorities, and language use we do. Especially when these models are trained on biased moderation from big corporations, as they probably will be. Such measures are also very easily co-opted by the government to spy on people who have dissenting views, something again queer people tend to have.

All in all my conclusion is that Dutch neoliberal politics (as most neoliberal politics) always uses the suffering of a minority group to do a few things:

1. divide minority groups and smash solidarity
2. use the statistics to increase policing
3. use the statistics to increase government control

All wrapped up in a fluff story about how much they care about us queers, while spitting on our safety and input every step of the way. The fascists have been in power for a while, they just hide it better than in 1937.

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Then the response said something that really peaked my interest. The minister talks about anonymity specifically in the context of hate crime online, and how this might impact the amount of hatecrimes received by queer people online. A statement that most queer people will realise is absolute bunk, most hatecrime I've personally received has been white men who have their full name and surname on platforms, and their face as a profile picture. This doesn't harm them, they have systemic protection on their side. Anonymity is a tool for queer people to protect their own identities on the other hand, and keep them from being outed or harassed in real life from slights on the internet. This measure would again hurt queer people, and especially queer people in subcultures that are more queerphobic the most.

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The paper then moves on to the systemic solutions the policing will take shape in, specifically immediately alluding to policing specific groups of people who their statistics tell them are more likely to do these hatecrimes. This is an instinct that a lot of Dutch people have most likely become intimately familiar with, given how many scandals in systemic racism it has already caused (SIRI, the tax service scandal et al.). Given that white queer people who are privileged in some way, and who feel more threatened by the hatecrime are most likely to go to police, this will probably schew the numbers far towards racialised minorities, creating an excuse for the government to police them more and pit these groups against one another. When in reality this will impact queer people of colour the most, they are the ones that are policed most and put more in harms way.

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I just read some publication from the Dutch government pertaining to hatecrimes towards LGBTQI+ people, and their increase based on a study that said there was an increase in the last period by 67%. My original source is this: https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/kamervragen/detail?id=2023D47827&did=2023D47827
I'll walk you through it as a summary and give you some thoughts, because I think this is important to see how the Dutch government operates, and how it systemically fails to protect anyone, especially racialised minorities.

So we start out with the obvious, as the paper starts as well, with policing. The main "solution" proposed to this issue is an increase in policing, and an increase in the costs associated with being fined for hatecrimes. This is at best a non policy, and will most likely shape out to be actively harmful. There's a lot of reasons for this, from being harmful to the perpetrator of the violence, systemic racism in policing, and the fact that perpetrators will be more incentivized to keep their victims from being able to go to the police for hatecrimes (by intimidation or worse murder). And a lot more that I can't summarise here effectively.

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Today's open source bughunt story:

1. Lets get rid of gtk2 on my system!
2. gtkspell needs gtk2, pidgin needs gtkspell
3. Lets open a bug on ArchLinux to switch pidgin from gtkspell->gtkspell3
4. The ArchLinux bug tracker has moved to GitLab
5. gtkspell is hard pidgin dependency, lets check upstream.
6. pidgin's bug tracker has moved to Jira
7. pidgin plans the gtkspell3 upgrade for the 3.0 release
8. the pidgin 3.0 release has been under progress for 14 years now.

Edit: I uninstalled pidgin

Someone installed NixOS outside.

the reason why we shouldn't use words like "retarded" and "autistic" as insults is because they generally refer to mental conditions of perfectly good people, and treating them as aliases for "bad" is treating these people as bad too (the former is mostly never used any more because it just means "slow," and being slow isn't a bad thing)

the reason why we shouldn't use "stupid" and "smart" is for a completely different reason. saying something to the effect of "I know plenty of stupid people, and they're still good people" is... reinforcing the harmful, unscientific, ableist structures those words uphold

like, genuinely, the words "smart" and "stupid" are just socially loaded synonyms for "good" and "bad." seriously, I highly recommend that you consider every time these words are used and replace them with "good" and "bad." oftentimes, it'll reveal just how nonspecific and awful they are as descriptors

the truth is, intelligence as a concept just means "good in ways we've socially decided that are better than other ways." if you're "smart," that means that you're the Society Approved version of good, and ditto for "stupid" and "bad"

like, seriously, think of the other ways people describe these words. having (or not having) knowledge makes you smart or stupid, but only the right kind of knowledge. knowing maths makes you smart, but knowing art doesn't. people separate terms like "street smart" and "book smart" but then further, don't actually accept certain kinds of knowledge in either.

like, knowing how to quote any line from a particular show, for example, can be harder than knowing how to identify leaves of plants, but the former isn't really considered smart. so, it's not connected objectively to anything, just as a value judgement

and similarly, people tend to use "stupid" to just dismiss things they don't want to explain. don't like something? call it stupid... which is the same as calling it bad, but then you're not allowed as much to say "bad how?" since we act like "stupid" is an objective thing when it isn't

the reason why we shouldn't use these words is because they support the ableist system of assigning value judgements to things society likes or dislikes, without ever explaining them. it encourages not elaborating on or analysing value judgements for the sake of upholding bad systems. and of course, ableism is the root of all oppression, because it all starts at "this person is worse than me, for reasons I get to decide but not explain"

so, it's not as simple as "there are good stupid people, so, don't treat stupid as a bad thing." it literally is that, stupid means "this is bad and I actively refuse to say why." it just encourages upholding oppression and never thinking of why