Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

RIVM, even kort samengevat:
sinds Sars-Cov-2 zijn intree heeft gemaakt verwachten we een hogere sterfte dus vanaf nu is oversterfte (vooralsnog) alleen dat wat daar nog boven zit.

It'd just be really fucking nice if the response to the incredibly bad faith arguments from Republicans (arguments used to justify *more* electoral fraud, for what it's worth) didn't involve downplaying or dismissing concerns about actual electoral fraud.

That shit cost the 2000 election, for fuck's sake. It's not even remotely theoretical!

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It's absurd on the face of it — how can you say you'll accept something that hasn't happened yet? We *know* for a *fact* that electoral fraud is *rampant*.

It's just that Republicans are the ones doing it, and they do it not by double-voting or voting illegally. That's pretty high risk to gain a few votes at most. Going after voting machines, voter rolls, the certification process, and so forth are far more effective attacks.

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The Republicans make so much of a fuss about election security, all from a position of *incredibly* bad faith. By and large the Democratic response seems to be to call out that bad faith, but also going further to downplay questions about election security *in general*; hence the trope of asking politicians if they will accept the outcome of the 2024 election.

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i fucking wish android had proper audio routing like linux...

i wanna play a game while listening to a podcast, but the game doesn't have a mute option

on linux, i could just pop open pavucontrol and click one button, but here, i'm simply fucked, unless i wanna mod the apk.

"Wat doe jij nou?"
"Ik laat even het spoelwater van de sla weglopen."
"Maar dat moet in een vergiet."
"Dit kan ook."
"Nee, dat is de korf van de slacentrifuge!"
"Weet ik."
"Dat moet gewoon in een vergiet."
"Nee hoor."

Mensen: dit is toch gewoon handig???

The guy in front of me on Caltrain works at OpenAI and the fact that he’s spent the last ten minutes on Google writing queries with “site:reddit.com” after them tells me everything I want to know about the state of this industry

When I think of digital sovereignity, I'm not just thinking about it at a country level.

There's a dearth of independent hosting options for bare metal if you want to set up your own hosting service or say move your existing one.

@dentangle has been pondering this.

There are some basic criteria:

- MUST have IPv6 on their website and MXs
- MUST NOT not use Cloudflare (or equivalent)
- MUST be running their own MXs (no Gmail, no Office365)

Short list of 13

#ipv6 #bgp
https://chaos.social/@dentangle/112960609707482171

Planning cycle routes in Netherlands

It is *absolute paradise*

One of my many alma maters is running a FREE course on science literacy: learning how to differentiate between science, pseudoscience, fake science, and fraudulent science – and to explain what makes pseudoscience both attractive and dangerous.

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/admissions-programs/online-courses/science-literacy.html

#ScienceLiteracy #CriticalThinking #YEG #UofA #pseudoscience

@q extracting vectors from obscure PDFs on the Wayback Machine is one of my hobbies

Don't. Even. Publish. Stuff. That. ONLY. Supports. Dark. Mode.

I mean, I know a LOT of people love dark mode, and given the benefits that darkening interfaces provides... I get it.

But there are some people (like me) who may be visually impaired. Astigmatism, for example, can make reading text that is white on dark a real PITA. An effect known as "halation" occurs, where each letter behaves as if it were a flashlight, gaining its own halo of light and making all text read more blurry than normal.

No matter how good your glasses are, astigmatism still causes you to see a little blurry—it's something you get used to. But this damn effect makes all the text read as if you don't have your glasses on, or even worse, leading to much more tired eyes or even pain.

For everyone's sake, if you really care about accessibility, respect user preferences. If you want a dark interface by default, offer a light version if the user specifies it (in web design, this would be prefers-color-scheme: light). The same goes for light interfaces.

“Study finds 94% of business spreadsheets have critical errors”

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-business-spreadsheets-critical-errors.html

this_is_fine.gif 😬

This is a must read for people who want to protect our planet and also explore space.

Tl;dr SpaceX has been illegally polluting the landscape around Starbase, which is built near wetlands and the gulf of Mexico.

This is the exclusive report many journalists (and I’ll be one later) are basing articles.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/spacex-repeatedly-polluted-waters-in-texas-tceq-epa-found.html