Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

#Agenda

Zondag, 13 oktober: opening van kunstexpositie met dekoloniale performance tegen standbeeld van Coen
https://www.doorbraak.eu/13-oktober-hoorn-opening-van-kunstexpositie-met-dekoloniale-performance-tegen-standbeeld-van-coen/

Kunstcentrum De Boterhal
16:00 uur: opening expositie
16:30 uur: processie naar standbeeld Coen
Kerkplein 39
#Hoorn

#Kolonialisme #Nationalisme #Racisme

Journalistiek en de vloek van de talkshow
https://www.doorbraak.eu/journalistiek-en-de-vloek-van-de-talkshow/

"...een inherent falen van het talkshow-format: aan tafel wordt geen waarheid vastgesteld. Het gaat heel erg over meningen van de tafelgasten, maar expertise is daaraan ondergeschikt. Dus wordt expertise tot een mening gereduceerd."

#Kapitalisme #Racisme #RechtseOpiniemakers #Uitsluiting

Today I learned that Apple Air Pods Pro in noise cancelling mode perfectly cancels the clicking of a geiger counter. You would not know it was making a sound. I hope that this is not relevant to /your/ day.

This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables!

Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time.
That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade!
If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed.
This can hugely increase the lifetime of your electrical cables, to upwards of 20 years of heavy use, without kinks or twists.
(GIF credit hosatech.com)

i think a lot about the phrase "don't hate the player, hate the game" because it sounds like it was made up by a lawyer

like, i can hate the game while also still hating any player who treats the rules as a puzzle for finding loopholes to cheat-but-not on a technicality

I played a few bughouse games with my partner yesterday on chess dot com for the first time in months yesterday.

Today I got this email:

YOUR STREAK IS PAUSED. Don't lose your 1 day streak! Play Chess [link]

This is what I mean when people ask me what my problem is with commercial/proprietary software/platforms. The company is actively trying to create an addiction to their product.

I say this all the time: [commercial platform] is not bad because it shows you adverts, or fosters addictions, or collects your data.

It does those things because it is bad.

But there’s a solution! The non-profit donation-supported lichess.org is an excellent service for playing chess.

And if y’all know any other platforms with good bughouse support, please, help me out.

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.

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.

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.)