Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I need my students to understand that to get away with openly committing blatant plagiarism you have to be a billion dollar megacorporation, which they are not

Ik hoor al jaren -over wetgeving als cameratoezicht, fouilleren, sleepwet, etc- "Vertrouw je de regering dan niet?"

Waarop het standaardantwoord altijd is: "De vraag is: vertrouw je de regering die er over tien jaar zit?"

Deze term ga ik overnemen. #OrbánTest #Orbán #ViktorOrbán

Let op: volgende week opnames Te Land, Ter Zee En In De Lucht in de Efteling; met open tribune voor parkbezoekers.

Fedi, help me!

Trying to find a Youtube vid, from at least 5 years ago, maybe much older. The concept was that the writer and animator from the channel had swopped places for a vid, so we were seeing what the writer had drawn based on the artist's script. The "story" was just a character going round and seeing a bunch of stuff that was really hard to draw; I don't remember them all, but one I do remember was the character saw 1,000 (1,000,000?) triangles, each with distinct lengths and angles.

#help #helprequest #youtube

Are you blind? Have you heard of the commandline, but don't know what it means or how to use it? I recorded a tutorial that shows how to use a popular commandline utility called YT-DLP to download the audio version of a video with a screenreader, and how you can apply this to other commandline applications. This will accomplish jobs more quickly and bypass inaccessible graphical user interfaces. I hope you find it helpful!

#a11y #accessibility #screenreader

I really do resent the hamster wheel of being an adult for how it hobbled my capacity for creativity

Does anyone know where the queer potions emoji are? (Original source, not reups)

the new ayaneo retro handheld looks like what you'd find in a 2007 future consoles video labeled as "PSP 2"

Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol

I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money

Watching a series and the characters are having a "first date" and its in a fancy restaurant wearing fancy clothes and meanwhile my preferred dates are like

Have a chat while
- riding public transport together
- walking through a park
and if that was a positive experience go to someones home, get comfortable on sofa or bed, talk about whatever and slowly move closer to one another if it continues to be a positive experience

I don't get cis hetero dates at all tbh

it's a crucial component in #marxism (and most "socialist" ideologies in the authoritarian sense) as well as the thesis of capital concentration.

competition would supposedly automatically lead to concentration of wealth (which they see as objective and conflate with power) in the hands of the few, because they assume economies of scale are essentially limitless and centralized control had no significant costs.

it is also quite central to #fascism, of course. it's the whole Carl Schmitt shit. and if you spend some time listening to fascists, you will notice that one of their core beliefs is "everyone else is (secretly) either just as fascist as us, or extremely naive".

this is why they are so obsessed with linking everything to bolshevism, islamism etc. because for them, those reflect their own love of power and violence, giving them justification.

here's an extremely common thought terminating cliché you'll find everywhere: "someone's always gonna rule, so it should be X"

this presupposes the impossibility of freedom, to shoehorn in some supposedly lesser evil.

this obviously reflects how (state) #democracy works: you vote for a candidate to rule, the option of no rulers just is not present, and it would be unclear what such an option existing and winning would even mean.

#authoritarianTrope

It's really amusing to see everyone suddenly hating ASUS. I've been telling people to avoid this company for years and nobody listened to me.

I used to work in repair shop about half a decade ago, ASUS laptops were notorious for poor design and mechanical failures right after warranty period ended.

One notable example was a customer who brought ASUS "Pro" laptop for repair with snapped hinges - literally two weeks after warranty. There were no spare parts, so I called ASUS and asked if I could buy some - they wanted to compete with ThinkPads after all.

ASUS representative literally laughed at me over the phone because he assumed I didn't know what I was talking about (ah yes, good ol' misogyny) and told me to send machine in for repair and prepare to pay up to 2000PLN (450EUR) or f**k off.

When I told the customer I couldn't get parts and ASUS representative laughed at me, he got angry, requested the machine back, thanked me, threw it into our e-waste bin and walked out.

This isn't a new practice by any means. It's been like that for at least a decade at this point.

Just recently Jamie (friend of mine) bricked his NUC and router after installing newest firmware updates. I bricked my NUC 12 Pro with UEFI update from ASUS today. What a shitshow.

So, Iceland's publishing industry has a bit of a dark side that people don't like to talk about with foreigners. It's ingrained in us to pretend that everything is fine to outsiders

But we effectively have a duopoly that puts some effort into safeguarding their unfair market position.

i was genuinely disappointed a little bit that nothing broke @ work on the leap day. i was looking forward to it. especially since we’ve had a lot of timezone bugs. maybe next time