Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

heat PSA:

get your meds into as cool and shady a place as possible, we're reaching temps that can render gels ineffectual for example

The fact Dwarf Fortress is decades in development shows that a great work can be a labour of years.
So don't beat yourself up if you can't manage something so great in the span of months.
Or something.
It's reassuring, in a way.

Language drift is an interesting thing. It used to be, twenty to thirty years ago, that "media" was just the plural form of "medium". Now "media" is its own (uncountable) thing and the plural of "medium" is "mediums".

1. hydrate yourself and others!

2. spend as much time as possible in the (indoor) shade!

3. give money to people who are unhoused!

4. try to account for your body experiencing heat stress when talking to other people or making decisions!

why is it that every time I go to a protest, I see the same faces?

is it because they are the only people rich enough to skip work? the only people white enough to avoid police violence? the only people cis enough to risk jail? the only people who can afford to post bail?

no, they are poor people, people of color, trans people.

so where is everyone else?

There is a realistic chance that Google's funding of Firefox/Mozilla through default search engine deals will be struck down by a court in the current antitrust case.

If that happens, I do not think Mozilla can survive financially on their own, at least not at the scale they are operating at right now, despite their half-assed attempts at "creating other revenue streams" over the years. I also question the maintainability of their existing browser codebase.

So. If you've been contemplating whether to start building a new browser engine... now's the time to start. This is your advance warning. Make sure it's one you don't need millions of dollars for to maintain.

It's going to take a while, most likely, for all of this stuff to go through the courts, so there's time. But building a browser engine is a big task, too, and ideally it should be started *before* things implode over at Mozilla.

chat i request the following from you:

information about dutch folklore/tales/myths/legends whatever, especially characters/entities from such stories (regardless of the region of NL it comes from)

i shall cook

Coole Aktion von #Rewe.

managers don't look

"Noah Lyles' collapse underscores our collective COVID denial"

"The 2024 Olympic Games are serving up some less-than-subtle metaphors for how poorly we handle public health. "

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/10/noah-lyles-collapse-underscores-our-collective-denial/

Is there a term for “digital anachronisms” like this: in 2010 I used an iOS app named Elements to edit text notes on my iOS devices. It stored the notes in a folder called “Elements” on my Dropbox, and now 14 years later my notes folder is still named “Elements” even though I have not used that software in at least 10 years.

@joepie91 while I think the codebase/engine will take a long time to go from idea to a working product, I think the sooner that project starts building a community is the key factor in surviving. Right now the level of uncertainty with Firefox has people looking for alternatives so starting to build that community now will probably be easier than after people have been forced to settle for a Chromium based browser.

It is actually wild that the Steam Deck has probably been the first "full fat desktop Linux" device for over a million people. I've heard many stories of people using the KDE environment on it, being happy with it, and eventually moving their main desktop away from Windows. Thank god the Deck cuts a good first impression.

Masks keep you safe.

Vaccines work.

Never Again means Never Again, no matter who does it.

Global Warming is real.

Billionaires are an existential threat to society.

This is just your periodic reminder that you are sane and the gaslighting isn't working on you.