Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

see parent post: https://scholar.social/@so_treu/112877843513910811

I have to admit, AI has saved me a lot of time. Every time I start reading about some interesting new app or service or product and see that it has "AI", I immediately stop reading and don't waste any more time on that thing.

The Iowa abortion ban has gone into effect, and Iowans are going to Illinois for abortions. If you can donate to the Iowa Abortion Access Fund, that would be great:

https://www.iowaabortionaccessfund.org/

the idea of people using multiple languages in their day-to-day lives confuses the silicon valley techbro

one day i will write a massive articles detailing all the broken things you run into when trying to use computers as a daily multilingual user

hey fedi, tell me about the differences between different injection methods for E (like intermuscular, etc) and the different injectable esters?

Hi everyone, I'm looking to relocate to another instance, mine is closing in the future!
Please boost

I'm souls, we have been very happy on plural.cafe but we sadly have to migrate.
I'm looking for an instance with strong moderation / blocklists & closed signups, not a large instance and mods / admins that are approachable!

We like computers, do queer community work IRL and are from the EU! If you need any more info please do ask. I'm not really sure how all of this works :]

Thank you so much 🙇

I've probably asked this here before but…Linux geeks: Is there any such thing as a smart .forward replacement? What I mean is, I know that when an Email comes in, if the user has a file called .forward (for those whose screen readers mispronounce this, the file is called dot forward), that Email is forwarded to the Email addresses in that file. However, as far as I know, the forwarding happens for all incoming Emails, indiscriminately. For some situations this is okay, but there are situations where I want to ideally automatically forward Email to a person or list of people, but in case spammers ever get hold of that address I don't want that to get forwarded, as then that spam would appear to be coming from my server, and going to otherwise trusted/willing recipients. So does anyone know of any type of system that forwards Emails, but has some configurability, for example, only auto-forward Email from these trusted Email addresses, etc? Another possible solution would be some sort of web application that receives Emails to be forwarded and holds them in a queue pending my manual review, at which point I can add the sender to a trusted sender's list to be auto-forwarded, forward the Email, not forward it, add the sender to the naughty list so to speak, etc. Maybe @adam would know? Please boost for reach. Thanks.

Every time an app complains that it can’t be ran if a phone is rooted it just makes me wonder how bad their shit really is if “we can trust everything from the client because it cannot lie to us because google said it is so” is what they rely on

honestly, “device attestation” is another one of those things makes it seem like the infosec community has just kind of given up

never trust data from the client, your system must be secure even if the client could lie to you! Unless I guess the machine is using magical pixie dust to make sure the client can never lie to you, making everything fine

So it turns out Pink News's CEO has told staff to "be careful" hiring neurodivergent people because they'd use their disabilities to excuse poor performance and be hard to get rid of due to employment law. Solution: don't support this ableist rag.

See the whistleblower account on X for more:

https://x.com/PinkNewsStaff/

#LGBTQIA

My politics are: we should have massive carbon taxes, massive land value taxes, and generous UBI.

Is there an existing label for that?

Logitech is making a subscription based "forever mouse"? That's rich. I haven't seen a Logitech mouse made in the past couple decades where the left click doesn't die within 2 years tops

Put a fucking CW on your politics posts. It's tiring to have to clean up y'all's mess when trying to boost you.

The second thing is well worth more discussion. And I'm gonna take a hard stance on this. If people of color still find ourselves dependent on a small team of white devs to get what we want, that is a failure of the principles of the fediverse.

I understand why it still feels like we have to ask the mastodon team for things. I'm not dismissing the reality of where we are. But our goal should be actively move away from this dynamic. How do we do that?

I have a problem: there are a lot of very specific projects that I would want to work on, that currently do not seem to exist, but that I also couldn't realistically do on my own, and it's difficult to even start without someone like-minded to bounce ideas off.

Now I could share my ideas far and wide in detail and hope that someone is interested and responds, but I *also* have ADHD, which means that when they do, I might not be able to get back to them in a timely manner, and it may take quite some time before my interest loops back around to that specific project.

I'll likely keep my focus much better once I have someone else to collaborate with regularly/actively, but even then my availability/focus may be erratic, and it feels unfair to commit to working on a project and then make that someone else's problem.

The easiest thing for me to work with is someone who could commit to collaborating on a project, based on the ideas/goals that I already have, and subject to whenever I happen to have focus available. But that is so unbalanced in terms of what each party is expected to bring to the table, that that also feels unreasonable to ask for.

Not sure what to do about this, or how to proceed from here. Like, I can do a lot of the work, in principle, just not on any sort of predetermined schedule, but for this to work there needs to be some kind of synchronized-ish working on the project.

(Advice welcome, as long as you understand what "having ADHD" means and don't come up with useless 'advice' like "have you tried <neurotypical lifehack> to focus better")