Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Vandaag was er een sit-in protest op Nijmegen CS. Om iedereen eraan te herinneren dat de bezetting en onderdrukking van het Palestina al vele decennia duurt. En niet pas begon op 7 oktober. Foto-impressie in de post.

Okay, after reading this email, I can shut down my computer and change jobs:
'Dear colleague, the fact that our software does not function after 24 hours is perfectly expected. It depends on many dependencies, and we do not have complete control over all of them. For this reason, we suggest, as a standard practice, a service restart every 12 hours. This will ensure everything functions correctly.
And as a general recommendation, we always suggest restarting all services (if you are using Docker) or the entire server (if you are using a traditional setup) every 3 days, as systems tend to get bogged down over time and need to be optimized.'

#NoComment #IT #SysAdmin

I have urges

I shouldn't

But it's tempting

really it's less that i "believe in open source" and more that, like open, not-paywalled access to scientific knowledge, i find the alternative kinda unconscionable

A comment I made to a friend about the value of learning to use nonproprietary tools:

"Having a box I'm told not to open makes me uneasy. I'd rather learn than worry."

And to make this explicit, though I suspect it'd be implicitly understood by most: that means I want to learn more new things from women, non-binary creatures, Black folks, disabled folks, plural collectives, and so on, and so forth, everybody who tends to get drowned out of the Tech Discourse(tm).

When I was younger, I used to enjoy reading articles about web development. About new CSS or browser features, novel ways of solving issues, browser compatibility things, and so on. Most of the sites and blogs with these articles were maintained by enthusiasts. There was so much cool stuff to discover and learn!

Now the whole "frontend" (what happened to "web development"? Not everything is a damn app) world has been taken over by fancy VC-funded startups so hard that you almost can't read an article about anything "frontend" without it trying to goad you into some proprietary service or "pattern" that's tailored around a specific company's offerings - and I can't even link most resources to others without implicitly advertising some tech company with a higher body count than some governments.

And if you manage to avoid *those*, you then end up on the Deep Philosophical Thoughts of Very Smart Men who have never in their lives looked at anything from the perspective of anyone besides themselves. And they probably are working for those *same fucking companies*, too.

This fucking sucks. I want to learn new things from other folks with nothing up their sleeves again. From enthusiasts who tinker and discover. Who might have a different perspective. And who actually enjoy the process.

Yeah uh I don't think I'll be buying a Yubikey again, if this is the grade of support to expect, what the fuck

Man, the Yubikey software is some absolute hot garbage.

"Oh yeah to scan QR codes under Wayland you need to have gnome-screenshot installed [which doesn't work on anything other than GNOME] [because we couldn't be bothered to implement the screen capture protocol correctly]"

I've haven't heard a ton of people talking about this, so I wanted to spread it. The state of California has removed 4 outdated hydroelectric dams that were blocking the breeding ground for Chinook salmon. This removal unflooded 2200 acres of land, and in preparation for this removal Native American tribes have been collecting and breeding seeds of native plants. They took these seeds and planted them along the restored river bank, taking the first steps to restoring the area. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/before-and-after-photos-show-californias-unprecedented-dam-removal/ar-AA1rMwPg

Edit: different link incase the first one doesn't work: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/01/climate/klamath-dam-salmon/index.html

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that's, upsetting.

company in melbourne appropriating the "spoony" label to try and get a bunch of disabled people to join their custom social network

it is VC-funded, and even if the people running it are disabled themselves this still strikes me as inherently bad

link is https://spoony.app, and it has very bad vibes all around

they also have very strange terms, like… you guarantee to be as authentic as possible and not "misrepresent" your age, identity, etc., which like. I have a feeling this is supposed to be a "don't pretend to be oppressed when you're not" rule, but it feels more like "we will very carefully scrutinise your identity and banish you if you don't follow our rules"

they also say they're moderated with "AI and humans" and given how they supposedly have less than 10 employees I have a strong suspicion that it's mostly not humans

"How bad were the billionaires?"
"Just one of them managed to ruin the sky for everyone. The sky."

it has been 0 days since i've been asked to agree to the- wait, what?