Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I hope #Costco is rewarded many times over for standing by their DEI initiative with a surge in new memberships. People should be as good at thanking companies when they do the right thing, as they are at calling out companies when they fail to do so.

Context here on “saying grace”. It’s not a tradition here in Iceland to say grace before dinner, even among the religious. My late grandmother was a religious fanatic. At one point she had two of her grandchildren christened without their parent’s permission, for example. But she never asked any of us to say grace before dinner at family gatherings

So, when somebody unprompted asks for this at a dinner among relatives here, odds are they’re either born-again or in the early stages of extremism

I WILL NOT repost things here if they don't have image descriptions.

I end up adding the description myself, and frankly I pass over MANY posts that I would have quickly shared but I don't have the time to be everyone's mom and describe everything. (I just do that for the really great posts I can't pass up.)

Please, put #alttext on your images! It will make you more popular. It's polite. It makes your posts higher quality and easier to understand. It's cool. Just describe the images.

Gelukkig zijn er ook schapenhouders die ook dierliefhebbers zijn.

Hoiting heeft geen hekel aan de wolf gekregen, ook al is hij er meer dan 150 schapen aan kwijtgeraakt. "De wolf vind ik een hartstikke leuk en intelligent dier. Ik probeer dat dier te begrijpen. En van wie is dat mooie bos nou? Van ons of van de wolf?"

Deze schaapherder houdt wolven op afstand met zijn eigen uitvinding | Wolf | NU.nl
https://www.nu.nl/wolf/6340097/deze-schaapherder-houdt-wolven-op-afstand-met-zijn-eigen-uitvinding.html

Tragic

warning: if you insert a floppy disk into a USB floppy drive connected to your ARM MacBook running macOS Sequoia, it will create a `.fseventsd` directory in it without caring, wasting some of your valuable 1.44MB

oh sorry, did I say `.fseventsd`? no, it's FAT16, so it's actually `FSEVEN~0`

I was *wondering* why Beyoncé went so hard on the country theme for her big half-time show on the Christmas football game. I mean she *is* from Texas, but that was the most "country" thing I've ever seen in my life. (The halftime show was more popular than the game, which also tracks since it was the only part of the game I watched LOL)

Turns out the Country Music Awards snubbed her, and probably for reasons you can guess. #beyonce #BeyonceBowl #Beyoncé #countryMusic #cma #AmericanFootball

I need to write a proper post about this at some point, but for now, here's the short version:

If you're purportedly fighting racism on fedi, purportedly trying to make it a more diverse space, purportedly trying to make it a more welcoming space to people that aren't white, etc, stop assuming people that don't have their race plastered in all caps on their profile are white, k? (*especially* if you're a POC yourself)

Because you know what that is? White-washing, an example of the very racism we're trying to fight, and something that makes a space seem less diverse than it actually is

The fact that it's used against POC to discredit what we have to say is just the cherry on top (and often even a wonderful example of lateral violence )

#SocialJustice #Racism #Bigotry #Fedi #Mastodon #POC #BIPOC

'copilot' is a very funny name for an AI because imagine you were trying to fly an airplane and the pilot next to you was pressing the wrong controls 20% of the time and was saying things like "planes don't actually need wheels to land"

Friendly tip: uBlock Origin has a helpful "Disable all JavaScript on this site" button that effectively removes paywalls from most websites. It works even when tools like 12ft.io are blocked!

My favorite speedrun-related exploit would have to be in the puzzle platformer Forward to The Sky.

It was discovered shortly after the game's release that there is an undocumented speed button. Presumably used for level testing, if you hold the Z key whole moving forward then you will walk noticeably faster.

The game also defaults to WASD, but keeps the same key positions if you change keyboard layout, except that the speed button stays as Z. When you change your keyboard from QWERTY to AZERTY, the "walk forward" button is then double bound with the speed button, making you passively move a lot faster. It is now commonly understood that, if you want to speedrun Forward To The Sky, you have to use AZERTY to be competitive.

This makes Forward To The Sky the only sport other than fencing where being French gives you an unfair competitive advantage.

Need a primer on finding community in the pacific northwest as a black enby.

I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!

Seriously though, I've been impressed at how put off the locals are when I actually start talking, in most instances. Though, there does seem to be a group of folks that I connect with; I just have no idea where to find them outside of saying hullo in the supermarket.

@aeva old arcade games were the same way, but were typically always left powered on. There’s an episode of Seinfeld where one of the guys finds an old Frogger cabinet that still has his high score from back in the day. He tries to buy the cabinet and hilarity ensues.

I've written a tutorial of sorts, showing how to write a streaming XML sitemap scraper using Promistreams! https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/example-project-scraping-xml-sitemaps

Promistreams are now officially in beta! (Which mostly just means I have added a little infobox at the top of the page )

https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/what-are-promistreams

Basically, they're streams for #JavaScript that are actually nice to work with, have first-class Promise support, handle errors correctly, handle concurrency reliably, interoperate with other stream implementations, and just generally make more sense than Node streams.

You can use them for streaming data, but also for things like task queues or distribution patterns. They can work in any JS environment, and are not limited to Node.js. More documentation will become available soon (especially for more complex cases), but the basic stuff is already explained at the link.

Please give them a try and let me know how it went, and whether you ran into any issues!