Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Godot overtaking Unity in one of the most recent, largest game jams out there is a wonderful example of the triumph of free software against a corporate platform. Something something Year of the Godot Desktop yada yada.

#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

Ich bin etwas desillusioniert 🤪

#ÖPNV #oepnv #oepnvgeschichten #opnvgeschichten #telekommunikation #Technik

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.

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