Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Affordable USB microphone for speech (basically, talking over a screen share)? Don't need broadcast quality, would like an upgrade on the mic in my cheap webcam.

Blue snowball seems to be the de facto standard, other products in the same price range I should consider?

Reminder to organize and be gay and do crime and do your part supporting each other through the Polycrisis in legal ways or otherwise

But do the "spicy" stuff off the grid and not on Fedi

That's how they catch you

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

fosstodon and completely lacking anything resembling self-awareness, name a more iconic duo

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.

#Düsseldorf #Followerpower

"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

#Bremen #Bus #ÖPNV #BSAG

"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/

accessibility includes supporting old hardware, nobody has the same economical status as you to afford a new machine

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

Let's all hold hands and watch bitcoin and AI crash together.

from shon faye, author of the transgender issue, found re-posted on tumblr and i thought it was good enough to put here, i love to save stuff i find, don't mind me

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.