CW-boost: transphobia, pinboard
The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
Remember when plug and play was a thing on computers and you didn't have to install a driver for each individual thing like you did in the 90s? Cause it really feels like the pre-plug and play era came back but in the form of needing a proprietary app for everything to make it work >.>
I wanted to see what my mouse's DPI is by plugging it into my brother's Windows PC... but he has an identical mouse so the SteelSeries utility just overwrote my settings with his and because I did a firmware update I can't even change the colour anymore, it was set to a trans flag but now it's stuck in "pulsating between blue and purple" mode 🙃
@timnitGebru @freedomtux it is strange to me, when people who are not racialized talk about not personally experiencing racism. It's like a man saying he does not experience misogyny, or an able person saying they don't experience ablism & haven't had issues with accessibility.
It is difficult to see such solipsistic myopia as anything other than malignant and intentional: a choice to center one's limited self and identity... A failure to extend and grow, serving short-sighted emotional ends
CW-boost: musk
"you"
Or to phrase it differently: we'll talk about "minimizing dependencies" when you show you understand how to minimize your *project complexity* first
Looking forward to the day that an actual, genuine discussion can be had about "minimizing dependencies" and what that entails, instead of the horde of "just make number low, problem solved" arguments that always happen in practice and completely ignore important things like internal complexity and peer review
EDIT: Es haben sich Menschen gefunden, danke für die vielen Boosts 😊
Liebe Menschen, ich hab ein Problem. Ich hab mir vorm Wochenende 3 x 2 Schwerlastregale bestellt. In der Anzeige (eBay) stand beim Gewicht nur „10“, ohne Maßeinheit. Heute kamen sie, zwei Tage vor Avis. Der DPD-Bote weigerte sich, die Pakete hochzutragen. Ich war also eben unten. Auf den Paketen steht ein Gewicht von jeweils 26 kg, aber meinem Gefühl nach ist das deutlich mehr. Ich hab sie notdürftig aus dem direkten Eingangsbereich weggezerrt, aber die Treppen krieg ich sie beim besten Willen nicht hoch. Das sind ja bei mir 5 Stockwerke, und es gibt keinen Aufzug. Gibt es hier körperlich starke Menschen, die heute Zeit hätten, mir die drei Pakete hochzutragen? Mein Dank würde Euch ewig nachschleichen.
"15-Jähriger fährt mit Bus durch Bremen und sammelt Fahrgäste ein"
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/oldenburg_ostfriesland/15-Jaehriger-faehrt-mit-Bus-durch-Bremen-und-sammelt-Fahrgaeste-ein,busfahrer270.html
"If there are no loud Black women in the room that you're in, you're not in a radical space. If there are no Black women who's presence inherently makes white folks uncomfortable, then your space is not as radical as you think it is." - ahbeeolah on TikTok
I also recommend watching this stitch by nonsomorah:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe7TcEqf/
Hey -- if you've been made to feel unsafe by *any* member of our extended community (hardware hacking, openFPGA, Lix, etc); please, feel free to reach out.
We've gotten way too many recent reports of e.g. SA perpetrated by well-known community members, and it's about time the silence stopped.
Some more-secure ways to reach out:
signal: ktemkin.8051
xmpp(+omemo): kate@ktemk.in
matrix: @ ktemkin:katesiria.org
(I've been checking for quite a while already. But the last boost told me that the issue is actually worse than I thought.)
I just saw an alt text somewhere that described something as, and I quote, "An image". For fucks sake people, I know that already, the whole point of alt text is to *describe* the image. I know it's an image, maybe tell me what the fuck the image is? If you can't add good alt text, don't ad it at all.
@DeArcheoloog @TiciaVerveer It worked! It is really possible to turn wood without a toolrest on a pole lathe with a medieval chisel.
The chisel is quite heavy, but that helps to keep it steady.
I hope I can improve my skills this week, and make something useful. My ultimate goal is the late medieval children's tabor pipe I measured at the archeological depot of Leiden. But that feels far away: I need a lot more skill for that. I think I will start with the handle of a shoemaker's awl.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.