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

hey fedi. i have a favour to ask you all …

diaspora.im is a glitch-soc (mastodon fork/activity pub) server for nonwhite folks. the goal was to create another option for us that is nonwhite-managed so that we can express ourselves how we want without the white gaze making it hard to do so. the fedi is chock full of white-managed instances and i see soooo many of us disenchanted and downright disgusted with how our words get removed and censored when we speak our truths.

when i started diaspora.im, it was never to “have my own space” because i already had that. but as i sat around chatting with folks on the fedi, it became increasingly obvious that my privilege in having my own space was unique… i wanted that for the rest of us nonwhite folk who don’t have that privilege. i wanted a place we could call our own. i wanted a space that was as comfy and safe as my own one-person server. i wanted that for us.

thing is, i don’t work so paying for this server is out of my pocket with the help of you all. we have a couple regular supporters right now, but i’d really like to see us make about $100 a month to cover server costs and to pay our moderator a stipend. right now, we’re doing about US$75 so just another $25 a month would put us right where we need to be.

so i am asking you … if you have an extra dollar a month, consider donating to us. we’d really appreciate it.

https://opencollective.com/diasporaim

someone linked to this project earlier, and i lost the post and can't find it again

anyway: traditional GPS trackers use a lot of battery. getting a GPS fix takes a long time, and it needs to remember the almanac and do a lot of math and stuff like that.

what this project does is eliminate the "getting a fix" part of it. the board samples the GPS constellation in only 12 ms (!!). the samples can then be post-processed to determine the time and location.

https://github.com/SnapperGPS

@lucretia "whats the harm?" i say as i behold the horrible consequences i was warned about beforehand from experts i ignored

A form confidently concluded my first name must be “Hidde de” and populated that into a disabled “First name” for me.

I made this for my wife when she found a "$20 burger place" that was actually just another ghost kitchen by Denny's (we've previously found a "$20 grilled cheese place" at the same location).

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The recruiter spam on LinkedIn seems to have switched from "revolutionizing the Whatever with Blockchain" to "revolutionizing the Whatever with AI" in the past few months 🤔​🙄​

In case anyone was still in doubt, Google is not at all interested in "organizing the world's information" (despite that language still being in their mission statement). Mixing non-information, LLM-extruded sludge in with authentic information is actually the opposite.

https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/

Relatedly: if you think that "everybody should be building simpler software", maybe help out on addressing the capitalist conditions under which the current development practices have developed?

Like, these practices did not come from nowhere, and there's a *reason* that decades of "just do better" blogposts have not led to meaningful improvements in development practices

I wish people would stop conflating "dependency complexity" with "dependency count". It's ruining a lot of otherwise legitimate arguments, for no other reason than 'number high'.

There is no meaningful complexity difference between 1 dependency that does 10 things, or 10 dependencies from one author that each do 1 thing.

I think making it clear that the stories of fascists are just that, empty promises of a better, uncomplicated world, is one of the main ways to undermine them. But you also have to prevent them from telling simplistic stories in the first place.

Thanks, @bastianallgeier, for telling your history. 🫂

https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa