Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

more shows like the expanse, please!

sci-fi with real people having real problems in a society and moral culture that's at least somewhat plausible for the far future

Agree with @baconandcoconut who mentioned on the #EuroPython panel about OSS that we shouldn’t celebrate if ppl are able to maintain a library alone for 20 y, we should instead celebrate if they manage to get more ppl on board, divide responsibility, delegate, and over time pass the project on someone else, ideally a team. Over my volunteering career I learned that if the thing I built would die with me, I didn’t actually manage to build it yet. It’s not done until it lives without me involved.

it's called the "user agent" in the specs for a reason, and i'm not talking about the string

Voor een (journalistiek) stukje ben ik op zoek naar organisaties die op het punt staan hun email te migreren naar Microsoft of Google, of dat net gedaan hebben. En die mogelijk publiekelijk kunnen vertellen over het waarom, of de problemen die ze eerder hadden. Mail is welkom op bert@hubertnet.nl of op Signal BertHubert.72 - dank u!

#foxesInLove #comic

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Cursed nix tips: Do you know of a predefined function that gives higher priority than mkForce? mkVMOverride!

De klantmanager beweert dat het verplicht is, maar zet niets op papier, geen beschikking, geen contract, helemaal niets. Zonder rekening te houden met de mogelijkheden van de man wordt hij onder druk gezet om nog meer vrijwilligerswerk te doen. https://www.doorbraak.eu/klachtenboek-bijstandsbond-roept-baanlozen-op-om-slechte-behandeling-door-klantmanagers-te-melden/

Fun printer fact: laser printer "toner" is actually very fine plastic powder! The printer uses Laser Magic to put it on the paper in the right places, then feeds it to something called a fuser. What's a fuser? Why, it's a whacking great heat lamp that literally melts the plastic onto the paper.

So, what happens if the fuser fails? Did you guess that the toner falls off the paper and gets absolutely fucking everywhere? Because that's what it does!

hey fedi can yall help me out? a story went around a while back, where some state's government was working on passing a bill that requires durable medical equipment (ie, wheelchair) repairs to have wait times within weeks, rather than months

i can't find it, don't remember what state, what phase the bill was in/if it passed, etc

edit: someone found it!!! thanks yall!!! https://brooklyn.news12.com/incredibly-frustrating-new-law-will-dramatically-speed-up-wheelchair-repairs

it's fucking wild to me that we have a real life Voight-Kampff test and it fucking works

please boost for more answers 🙏🏾

just trying to gauge if people feel something like I do:

when you see your name written somewhere, do you "feel it in your heart" ?(like a pull or a strong identification with it. it is really fucking hard for me to describe it)

given name, chosen name or... something else.

The developers of that revival engine were pretty pissed off about the leak and said the launcher is "incomplete" and that it never should've been released, and that they're still working "behind the scenes" and made "a lot of progress" in it...

It's been DECADES since then and nothing else really materialized from it, and the launcher honestly works flawlessly for most of us, so honestly if it weren't for the leak many of us would've never gotten to use it at all :/

To elaborate: When EA shut it down in 2003, one of its developers got pissed off and leaked a developer build of the game that has (VERY) limited offline playability.

Then, later, some people tried to work on a revival engine for it, but it became vaporware and never amounted to anything... then its developers had a schism and one of them leaked the mostly-functional GUI launcher for playing it in single-player... purely out of spite.

And now everyone who still plays the game nowadays uses it!