Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I have suspiciously good internet on this train ride

Am I on one of these trains where PKP with ISPs installed signal repeaters

@rail_ “Our train is equipped with modern WiFi connectivity”. The WiFi:

If you want to know more about the impact of antitrust on IBM behaviour, I’d recommend reading this paper by Tim Wu. In his conclusions, he looks at what antitrust regulators should learn from the case, and I found this paragraph quite relevant to what’s currently happening. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3292&context=faculty_scholarship

https://todon.eu/@queue/112130436372737490

To very little surprise, Facebook's Threads platform (the one that was supposedly so enthusiastic about the Fediverse) is now hiding all mentions of Pixelfed - the Fediverse software that's competing with their Instagram platform. Hopefully this makes it clear that they were never going to federate in good faith.

Things you can do:
1. Sign the Fedipact (if you run your own instance) or ask your admin to do so (if you don't) to commit to defederating from Threads: https://fedipact.online/
2. Support the creator of the Fedipact, vantablack, who is in financial and housing trouble: https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/112080004580673240

mmmm I love a bicycle after a service. everything works perfectly.

the gears change immediately, quietly and without any skipping or problems... 🥰🥰🥰

🚲🚲🚲
#bicycle

it would be nice if DB could display where free seats are on a train on the monitors

Occasionally, I try to convince sighted people to try an audio game, and in doing so, better learn how the blind experience games. I am going to do that once again now, because The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is now available on even more platforms, (namely PS4, PS5 and Switch), so it's even easier to try depending on what platform you're willing to try it on. It is also, in my opinion, a great audio game to start with if you want to experience audio gaming, though I would probably recommend starting with the casual difficulty for new players. Take a chance. Try an audio game. :)

Governments around the world have found exactly this every time they've looked hard at Apple keeping competing browsers at bay, but crikey. The DOJ is not playing around:

Imagine you have a dam. Fish want to get through the floodgates, but the gates are locked. You want to open the gates when a fish wants to pass through.

If you are a tech bro, you might say “we can use AI to solve this problem”

If you are the municipality of Utrecht, you instead say “what if we put a livestream of the canal on the internet and instructed viewers to push a button when they see one”

https://visdeurbel.nl/ (@visdeurbel)

I cannot stress enough how important CWs are. You may only boost one post about something awful, but the posts add up and build up and fill the timeline with issues that people are already facing and dealing with and know by heart at this point.

Please be kind and CW any posts that could be upsetting to read, especially for marginalized communities who live these stories every day.

Thank you 💙

Fans of gadgets, the NS Upcycle pop-up store is returning to Rotterdam Centraal again. Days of operation:

25 March: 15:00 till 20:00
26-29 March: 08:00 till 20:00
30 March: 10:00 till 18:00

Peak HN is saying "I trust Redis to not do something weird with their licensing" in response to Microsoft releasing their garnet (faster redis replacement) project two days ago. Visionary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39754457

Beware kids