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

Looking through Linkedin and all the bad managers I've had seem to be cast from the same mould:

- Into "AI", but gesture towards doomerim to look reasonable
- Believes "AI" coders will replace programmers
- Pretending they weren't into "blockchain" a few months ago
- Uses trendy PKM du jour (Aboard is replacing Notion among the MBA types)
- Uses passive voice to gloss over the mistakes they've made in the past
- Older ones talk about Web 2.0 as if it wasn't a bullshit marketing term at the time

Trying to gauge something, please boost this so that I can get a bigger sample size!

Think of some kind of activist cause - it doesn't really matter what it is about specifically, just whatever thing in society or politics bothers you, and you would want to see changed.

Are you currently actively involved in activism around it? And if not, but you had the certainty that other people felt the same way, and they'd want to work together with you, so you're not standing alone... would you be open to *getting* involved with it?

(Please answer honestly; there are no wrong answers here.)

But however fucked up the world gets it's very reassuring to remember we are fundamentally a species who will offer a sodden stranger a bed for the night and a hot meal in the right circumstances. And maybe we should be directing more of our efforts to ensuring more of us find ourselves in circumstances that allow us to act on this best part of our nature.

7/7

And it all goes wrong when it becomes too abstract, when it's some impersonal number of refugees rather than one bedraggled young man, when we're taught we're all in competition with one another and any time we spend helping others is time we can't spend helping ourselves, when the other person looks or behaves too differently so we don't recognise them as someone in need.

6/n

Does anyone have a link to a good explainer article/blog post about what happens when cotton fabric, that is sometimes very soft, get really hard and stiff after being washed and dried?

Context: I'm autistic and trying to learn about my clothes related sensory issues / challenges / comforts.

#Fabric #Cotton #SkinnyJeansIsAbleistic #ThisIsNotAboutDenim #SomeOfTheseHashtagsHaveHumorousIntent #ActuallyAutistic

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