Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

And maybe the reason we get so outraged and angry when people don't treat us decently is that it conflicts with the sense we have deep down of how the world is supposed to work, that we evolved to be social primates who cooperate with each other.

5/n

Registering for a transport event of the Belgian Presidency of the EU

Errrr, bicycle? 🤔 Or bus, tram, metro, on foot…?

Shutdown reminder!

With just 2 weeks left until the Nintendo Network shutdown, we'd like to take this time to remind everyone that we are accepting network packet dumps for all games, for both the Wii U and 3DS! These packet dumps give us a glimpse into how the games operated when the official servers were still online. While technically possible to do without these dumps, having reference material like this will make the job of making replacement servers FAR easier once these servers go offline!

This is ESPECIALLY true for more obscure/less popular games, and games which have custom additions to them. Having network dumps for smaller games is just as, if not more, important than the bigger ones as we'd likely have much less reference material for them! We know everyone is excited to help get the big names going, but we can't forget the little guys either!

That being said, we appreciate ALL users who help us with this crowd sourcing! We have gotten a LOT of amazing data from everyone so far, all of which will definitely help us moving forward.

For those interested in contributing network packet dumps, see our guide on our website here https://pretendo.network/docs/network-dumps. This page also includes a section listing some games we consider "high priority", though these are NOT the only games we still need data for.

For those curious about our current network dump stats, so far we have:

99 HokakuCafe dumps (specifically Wii U)
528 HokakuCTR dumps (specifically 3DS)
15 general WireShark dumps (applies to both consoles)
65 general proxy dumps (applies to both consoles)

NOTE: These numbers come from the number of network packet dumps submitted through the Bandwidth upload command, and may not represent the real total number of dumps submitted.

#anarchism

The rich and their corporations regularly commit extremely severe, large-scale crimes that usually go practically unpunished while regular people just trying to survive can face dire consequences for simply stealing some groceries.

Don't snitch on small time thieves, drug users, graffiti artists and other normal people just trying to cope with living in an overwhelmingly oppressive world. They're not the villains here.

what on earth is going on over at C++

are they ok

the problem with the "do not go to [site] because it contains illegal content, I am making you aware that [site] exists and hosts illegal content so you can avoid it" method of sharing pirate links is that when I am trying to warn people of sites that legitimately are unsafe and dangerous they sometimes think I'm trying to make a covert recommendation

#Solarpunk community: please stop using AIs to generate images. Yes, I know there's very few solarpunk visual concepts. Generative AIs are predatory, anti-worker software and on top of that its energy and water consumption is huge (specially since it's a non essential service). Commission an artist, use stock images. Don't make me go fight you.

> We Had the Tools
https://guinesspig.ghost.io/we-had-the-tools/

October 2, 2023

“...anytime a government or health officials says we have the tools to deal with Covid-19.

No we don’t.

We had the tools. All we have now are the memories of those tools.

We (and by we, I mean collectively, societally we) blew it. We threw the tools away. We traded them in for something we believed was so much better.

Why? Because the very leaders we are supposed to trust to look out for our best interests, like General Manager Tim, told us to. They gave us permission. They told us it was more important to get back to normal than to rely on those tools.”

#CovidIsNotOver @covidisnotover

With no further context on why it looks like it does, *could* you work with code that has syntax like this? (Even if it may not be your favourite syntax.)

if (equals a b) (
log "matches";
doThing a b;
) else (
log "does not match";
doOtherThing b;
)

⭐ Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology by @matt https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/

"Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works."

This is an excellent overview of how Apple Pay and others hide card numbers. Plus a lot more I didn't know I wanted to know about.

📌 https://rknight.me/links/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/

me: "nix is really neat, you can build your whole server just from CI, and the configs are reproducible, and you can copy aspects between various machines, and-"
friend: "hey i just switched to nix"
me: "oh god why did you do this to yourself "