Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Today's "the open source Linux ecosystem sure is great" discovery: both e2fsprogs and util-linux contain a libuuid. Both seem to expose a similar API, except that the latter documents and only supports #include <uuid.h> whereas the former documents and additionally supports <uuid/uuid.h>.

Thanks, I hate it.

I've previously said that the making the fediverse work is a progressive project, or more precisely that progressivism demands something that looks more like the fediverse than corporate social media.

In response, folks have quite validly raised that peer-to-peer or microinstance based networks might be even more compatible with progressive ideals.

Let me take a step back, then, to the general principle: centralized control of human communication is an inherently regressive state.

WOW! CNN has a new easy-to-read dashboard for tracking the CDC's covid #wastewater data.

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/29/health/covid-wastewater-testing-map-dg

It's telling that the CDC's own website is so clunky that it takes a 3rd party to streamline it & make it presentable. 🙄

CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html

Still not as accessible as weather reports, but now there's little excuse for those 95% of people who SAY they'd "take steps to protect themselves" based on wastewater data. 😷

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7337a2.htm

#CovidIsNotOver

Anybody else sick of pretending that they’re ok

We’re not made to take in, to process this much trauma

We’re not made to be in a constant state of navigating chaos events without time to rest and reenergize

It feels like I’m in an abusive relationship with the world

All y'all posting lists of "things you should be doing now to prepare for natural disasters" in the wake of #Helene need to stop omitting:

--Join with local efforts to abolish policing
--Prepare counter-repressive measures (disguises, means of defence & means of attack) to defeat police hoarding supplies

So far (I haven't been paying close attention) I've already seen reports of cops mobilizing to support the owners of an Ingles grocery that refused to even sell supplies to residents, and (last boost) cops dispersing people from getting bottled water from a wrecked transport

Now that I think of it, Katrina happened long enough ago that a lot of adults can't remember it, huh? If you have the time and the stomach, read up on how the cops there were just as much of a killing force as the hurricane itself....

If you haven’t already, I would recommend reading the book In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil.

“Looting rejects the legitimacy of ownership rights and property, the moral injunction to work for a living, and the “justice” of law and order. Looting reveals all these for what they are: not natural facts, but social constructs benefiting a few at the expense of the many, upheld by ideology, economy, and state violence.”

Random memory:
I was in 1st grade or so, eating lunch in the gym. I was drinking juice from a thermos, and a teacher I didn't know stormed over and shouted at me to "next time bring a spoon and eat it properly". I eventually figured out he thought it was soup?
That was, I believe, the day I realized teachers are not infallible authority figures, they can in fact be complete buffoons; and ultimately planted the seed for my general disdain for authority.

folks posting screenshots of silly output from ML chatbots is exhausting. I'm seeing it half a dozen times a day and I'm so bored of it. yes, we know, it's crap. tag or CW that shit, please, for my sanity.

There are days when it feels like we'd all be better off if we paved over the entire software industry and restarted from scratch

It's just random fucking shit breaking constantly on every kind of device and every kind of OS

Sometimes it feels like this entire field is just shitty code, chaotic nondeterminism, and constant bullshit day in, day out, top to bottom.

Just... ugh.

(Ignore me. I'm just here in my corner being annoyed.)

#PSA #PayPal is changing their privacy statement/terms of service starting November so that they can sell your information to merchants.

You CAN opt out, but you have to do it before they start:

Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

ETA: this is probably country specific, due to differing privacy laws.

You can try privacy>settings>recommendations

Check replies, people have found the same toggle under a different header.

Alles voor de kinderen natuurlijk, maar in plaats van onze telefoons om te zetten in afluistermachines die iedere WhatsApp foto potentieel met de politie delen is er ZOVEEL meer wat we eerst op orde moeten hebben. Want de politie heeft het al druk genoeg (zeggen ze zelf), en de achterstanden zijn nu al vreselijk:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/alles-voor-de-kinderen-maar-dit/

Mijn man wilde iets regelen op de site van de belastingdienst en dat kon opeens niet meer. Na lang in de wacht en iemand aan de telefoon vertelde die medewerker dat de site alleen in Chrome werkt.

Dus de belastingdienst en de overheid dwingt mensen om een browser te installeren en te gebruiken die door bijvoorbeeld @bitsoffreedom als meest privacy-onvriendelijke wordt omschreven?

#google #surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #bigTech #privacy

@financien

Wij doen weer mee aan het Weekend van de Wetenschap.

Tickets zijn gratis!

https://weekendvandewetenschap.nl/activiteiten/2024/open-dag-wat-is-een-hackerspace-3/

@ashten @ChaosKitsune @amie I kinda feel like fedi has become this place that is mostly about fedi rather than being about the people. It's not that I think people shouldn't talk about stuff like social justice, but at the same time, it feels very distant when so much of what is posted here is people shouting about how society should be instead of creating connections in the here and now.

And the annoying thing is that whenever I post about social justice and stuff like that, I tend to get rewarded for it with a bunch of likes and boosts. But when I talk about the latest game I played, nobody cares. To the point where I just don't post on fedi about it anymore. I just talk to my friends instead because then I at least get to have a conversation.

Yes, social justice is important, but can you have it if we don't create connections and friendships? If all you do is shout at people? I think we need both or else it feels too distant.