Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Hey, Guardian.. that's a weird way to spell "Woolworths attempt strike busting by bringing in scabs" 🤔

#Union #UnionStrong #Workers #WorkersRights #woolworths #strike #Solidarity

Has anyone else tried using an alkali to strip old, sticky, horrible soft-touch paint? I just had a really positive experience I'd like to share!

Reminder first though: please for the love of all that is good, wear eye protection if you're using corrosive liquids - let's keep those lookingballs pristine.

If you think fedi instance drama is interesting, today someone snapped on IRC, replied in kind to the sorts of insults that they were receiving, and this caused the channel operator to kick every single user from the channel and keep it in silence for about half an hour.

what software do yall use to make 88*31 buttons?

Here is a fun piece of computing history I just became aware of: in 2007 the Bush administration changed when DST started, and because Exchange stored event times converted to UTC Microsoft had to release an "Exchange Calendar Update Tool" to help try and fix everyone's calendars https://web.archive.org/web/20070302224145/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930879

Hello World :)

I am pleased to present you a small project that I have been working on these last weeks:

MARL (Mastodon Archive Reader Lite) is a small web app that allows you to explore in detail the content of your Mastodon posts archive, including attached files (images, videos, sounds), and with different search options.

https://github.com/s427/MARL

🙏 Boosts welcome! 🙏

(More info in the post below 👇)

#Mastodon #archive

… have to route your traffic through a black box (which now gets deep insights into the users of your service, can block traffic according to their priorities or darker interests) then something breaks in me. This is not the internet of people. This feels more like mafia. „You don’t want your service to burn down in a fire of traffic, do you? We have an offer you cannot refuse!“ (2/3)

So @Codeberg suffered from high traffic [1], bringing the site almost down. They managed to fix it by blocking access to one repo that attracted all this traffic for reasons (as of now) unknown to us.

What worries me are the comments under their post pointing at various proprietary, commercial services like Cloudflare, Amazon as the obvious way to mitigate. If we really are at the stage where the internet is so broken that you … (1/3)

[1] https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/113570009001800356

I have determined that the object in the "risk of explosion" safety symbol does not obey conservation of area.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

#BreakfastActivities #WHMIS #GHS #LabSafety #ADHD

Hey! Do you have a story about being kicked out of somewhere for doing something rad? Class? Store? Workplace? Abandoned warehouse? Not-abandoned warehouse? I wanna hear it!

I'm making a zine (working title "You're Outta Here!") with short true stories of getting kicked out, and this is an invitation for you to submit. Stories should be 150-350 words and the tentative deadline is December 31. I'll mail a copy to everyone who submits and also make the zine available in print and pdf.

Read the full guidelines and find the submission form here: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/b2JUBZxxdFy9Cp+aj3WxoxR96Dek5BHTtYNHP4IlHbo/

someone had written a piece of css that allowed mobile users to see html <abbr> elements. does anyone know where it is? i saved it but can't find it

#fluConf2025 now has a very basic, work-in-progress website:

https://fluconf.online/

A grumpy old couple showed up seconds before departure in Arnhem, so I decided I hadn’t seen Ede’s new station yet.

things that will never stop amazing me

other places: oh yeah to watch pirated movies we need to torrent them, use some weird niche websites that will give us 5 different types of malware, etc

Poland: just watch full movies on YouTube mate

this is not an isolated case either lol

there are many instances of movies and shows you can watch in full on YouTube as long as it's a PL dub version that's been up for months and years, have hundreds of thousands of views etc

i don't know if it's the YT copyright infringement detection algorithm choking on PL content (very doubt it) or if publishers in Poland don't give a fuck

https://hyfin.org/2024/11/29/could-blacksky-emerge-as-black-twitters-spiritual-successor-on-bluesky/

Good overview of the man behind Blacksky and what he believes and how he's building. Really cool stuff, but I kept having the same thought when reading this article: "This should have been the fediverse."

Too bad.

Edit: if you're going to respond to my post and talk about how Bluesky is centralized and the users will eventually have to leave, please make sure you actually read the article. There is an entire section at the end that explicitly discusses how to escape the cycle of venture capitalist funding and goals of community portability between different platforms. If another SmartGuy tries to explain decentralization to me, someone who runs multiple servers, I'm gonna crash out

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #Blacksky