Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine

i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them

if you were wondering, severely underpowered means 4gb of ram and a celeron

yes they still make celerons

RE: https://possum.city/notes/a208ssxgg3i500q5

is it rude to email an aur package maintainer with an update to their package? ofc I understand folks get busy but I wanna help keep the dotnet packages version bumped but like, what's the procedure? is there a good wiki article on it?

Family dinners are coming ! @firstdogonthemoon

Time to review those patron privacy policies + your law enforcement request procedures, library folks.

"It has come to our attention that some libraries in Michigan have been receiving visits from their local FBI offices.

Agents have been specifically interested in Maker Spaces and 3d printers, the library policies for what can or cannot be made, and how the library maintains the digital files used to create items and tracks usage and users."

https://lists.mcls.org/pipermail/michlib-l/2024-December/033792.html

#libraries #privacy

now is the time of year for craven emails that are clearly motivated by "it's the end of the year and i promised results that havent materialised"

Annual performance review? Do you mean my “2024 Capitalism Wrapped”?

today we celebrate the abolition of slavery in my country so it's the most important day of the year for us!

today is about freedom, blackness and decolonialism!

Always good to see efficient fixes to nagging problems.

For people boosting stuff and then saying things like

RE: last boost

Please don't. Just link the post on the source instance. It's more accessible and easier to navigate. You can still boost it. But a link in the reply would be great.

Thank you.

Imagine calling yourself The Indie Game Awards and not looking outside of Steam at all

Reminded like every xmas about how absolutely and intentionally wasteful gift boxes and baskets are.

This year, N received a gift basket big enough to be a bed for a medium-sized dog. The basket itself is completely filled with padding that creates a flat surface across the top of the (30cm? high) basket's rim, where the actual contents (candy and snacks) are spread out in a thin layer.

This is a particularly egregious example, but they're all like this - the difference between the "simple" and "fancy" ones isn't the quantity nor quality of the contents, but the ostentatiousness of the packaging.

A while back, we got a box of chocolates for the teachers at K's preschool. It turned out to be maybe 20 pieces of chocolate, in a huge box with cardboard inserts, a plastic tray, and tissue paper - it would have been significantly better on every axis to have gotten them a bag of assorted halloween candy from the grocery store, but it wouldn't have felt as "nice" because we've all been conditioned to appreciate this kind of presentation.

Squatters tip: as winter goes on, taking note of the amount of snow piled up on the walk is a great way to identify hot abandoned properties in your area