Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.

He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.

The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."

On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"

The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.

Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.

#AskFedi: for those whose first computer experiences were with Windows 95/98 (or NT) and who look back on it fondly:

What would be needed to rekindle that early experience of wonder around computers and/or the internet? What stands out in your memory as the cause for that sense of wonder back then? (The answer to these two questions can be different!)

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/759239561728622592
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

Fedi, what are your comfort TV shows?

Je zou ook, ik noem maar wat, mensen waarvan je weet dat ze recht hebben op toeslagen de toeslagen kunnen geven.

Painted my shed on the lunchbreak

If I had a buck for every dumbass who replied "Publically valued companies only have a duty to their shareholders" I'd... probably be part of the problem.

But my brother, do you understand that you're telling me "the purpose of this company that sells me stuff is not to meet me half way so that both sides are happy with the transaction, but to bilk me silly" and you're happy with that? Do you believe you're ushering me into a grand discovery? What neutrino thru yon brain sludge passes?

How did you get your gender?

More on the topic of EU-wide rail ticket booking

Deutsche Bahn has an amazing opportunity in ticket sales, but is too blinded by Flixtrain to seize it

New #CrossBorderRail Analysis on my site 👇
https://jonworth.eu/deutsche-bahn-has-an-amazing-opportunity-in-ticket-sales-but-is-too-blinded-by-flixtrain-to-seize-it/

The W3C's recently published Privacy Principles note has a section on "privacy labor"

This is a very interesting framing of the issue of tech companies putting too much of the burden of protecting privacy on the person using the service

https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/#privacy-labour

Hey friends?

Stop hoarding joy.

Watch the show, eat the food, read the book, play the game, laugh at the joke, take the trip, wear the outfit...

In the face of unspeakable horrors, have courage and embrace your joy.

I wonder what people use in #godotengine games to identify objects in *save files*. Not just the ID of instances, but what type they are. Some ID manually setup in resource? A name? Path of the scene? Name of a script? UUIDs? I believe most people don't really do anything involved, or even have a game with such needs.
But I make a plugin that needs to handle this, at scale. So I'm often running into this problem, and so far all options I considered have annoying downsides.

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined