Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Me in 2017: 🦝 oh thank goodness, social media that feels like the old internet before social media bollocksed everything up

Me in 2024: 🦝 maybe this particular form of social media was not so much a destination but more of a stepping stone on the way to not having social media anymore

I don't think this is getting the coverage it needs. Scottish government to require passivhaus standard for all new build homes. This is big. Really big. Growing out of lessons from the 70's oil crisis. Passivhaus buildings use very little energy to heat, or to cool. We've known how to do this for decades. It's gross negligence from all western governments that the same is not true of all new builds in the developed world.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23197204.government-announces-passivhaus-standards-adopted-scotland/

Zo ontzettend herkenbaar. Een groot deel ook voor vrouwen buiten tech, denk ik.

Ik ben een keer zo hard afgestraft omdat ik mijn gevoelens boven die van een collega plaatste (ze niet opzij zette om de ander een plezier te doen) dat ik ergens nog steeds denk dat ik fout zat, ondanks dat iedereen van buiten de organisatie met wie ik het erover had het op het moment zelf compleet belachelijk vond. Maar ja, dat waren allemaal vrouwen. https://infosec.exchange/@mle/113096597897272967

Designing tube slides in Aqua Mundo is now much easier thanks to these construction lines that tell you where in the world you are building 🙂
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames #tycoon

Implemented a "wide slide" in Aqua Mundo.
You can choose between individual lanes or one big wide slide, and enable race mode. Still a lot of work to do but I'm happy with the progress so far 😀
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #tycoon

Calling for the help of the fediverse!
Help spread the word of our browser extension Consent-O-Matic that helps automate answering those ever-present cookie consent pop-ups.

It's developed by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and free to use for Chrome/Edge, Firefox and Safari including for iOS.

Also, it's open source, so if you have a bit of technical skill, you can help us improve the rule set for greater coverage.

https://consentomatic.au.dk

you know, i'll take the incessant reply guys of fedi over the style of aggro gotchas on twitter/bluesky any day

at least most reply guys are (ineptly) trying to contribute additional information to the discussion rather than just scoring a point in social media debate club by getting one over on you

Tell me something nerdy that you don't think many people know, but you'd like for more people to know!

I'll go first: the Stargate theme song has lyrics despite those lyrics never being in any opening for the show.

@amy Doors that say they must be able to close in the event of a fire are part of a building's smoke abatement system. Those doors are going to be pulled shut by air pressure as the HVAC system goes into fire purge mode. Air will be rapidly ventilated out through the roof to pull as much smoke/fumes up and out to give people more time to evacuate. If those doors are blocked open, it won't work as well.

@amy
There is a genious survey technique to ask respondents about sensitive questions (crime, sex,. ..).
The respondents get a sensitive yes-no-question and a mundane one, that is naturally about 50/50 (is your mothers birthday on an uneven day of the month?). Before answering, the respondents throw a coin in secret, which decides, which question they actually answer. Now noone knows, which question they answered and the scientists can calculate the actual percentage with a large enough dataset

also, libraries aren't a charity, they're a public service

the anti-IA people say the IA allows anybody to borrow while "real" libraries exist for the poor but that's not the purpose of a library & RL libraries don't just exist as charity for the poor

we as a society have lost the concept of what a public service is, we only see things in terms of profit and charity

public libraries exist b/c our societies decided that access to culture, to information, to knowledge, and to a public space that preserves those things is a public good, it's something everybody should have

public libraries are not and should not be a charity that we only minimally fund b/c some people are too poor to partake in capitalism and therefore need a little handout so they can get smarter to partake in capitalism