Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

i don't understand folks who are like "ceos do important work, they deserve to get paid more than others"

bro. if not for the janitors you'd drown in shit. if not for the workers and engineers, the receptionists, the call centre operators, the couriers, the designers and accountants and god knows who else, your enterprise would come to a screeching, dead halt.

what a machine is without its cogs? a husk of useless metal. so don't be a bootlicker. CEOs wouldn't get anywhere without our labor

trains are the crab of transport systems

BREAKING: Unconfirmed reports suggest year 2024 likely to end tonight. For more coverage, click here

We just deployed a first version of an FAQ page for #fluConf2025

https://fluconf.online/faq/

We'll continue to update it as necessary, and we're working on adding a number of clarifications to the text on our other pages

If you've been at the #38c3 Onion Cluster assembly, or we've otherwise met in person around congress, get tested for Covid-19 ASAP.

There has been at least two positive antigen test results, one from me, one from someone else at the assembly cluster.

These are 1 kilometer apart! It's true!

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"This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.

"I am so tired."

https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

Alien Intruder is a new game for DOS where you save people from aliens and get to the exit. It's free, really easy to pick up, and it's always fun for me to fire up DOSBox to play a new game

https://www.usebox.net/jjm/alien-intruder/

Wat voor dag is het vandaag?#annaWilGraagWeten

Update: I got some help. Thanks for sharing!

Is there someone at #38C3 with Android forensic skills and is willing to analyze a Fairphone that was seized by the German police who decrypted the contents with Cellebrite? I'd like to know if there are traces of the access and possible manipulations.

DM me if you want to help

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i've been told my whole life that bugs are weird or scary or gross. i took it to heart, rarely sharing my interest in them. hiding that i find them beautiful and fascinating. but being on here, seeing so many share my excitement has really helped me fully embrace my love for all things creepy and crawly. i love your bug pictures and i love your appreciation for them. thank you for that, even if no one else in your life appreciates bugs, i do.

#bugs #insects #beetles #spiders #invertebrates #bees

@jstevenyork it’s in the interests of the billionaire owned centralised social media to destroy any alternative because it show a different possibility so of course we hear ‘Mastodon is dead’ all the time. #Mastodon doesn’t have to be the biggest to win it just has to exist.

using antivirus software is like if you had a book of all the objects in the world that aren't safe to eat and you walked around putting random objects from the ground into your mouth after checking to make sure they weren't in the book

My mom, who is in her 70s, and not particularly tech savvy, just explained that she hates Google now, because the first results are always AI, which just pulls from other sources and is usually inaccurate.

So let’s stop assuming that non-techies, older people, and mothers and grandmothers are too naive to see through the hype. Mostly it’s the tech bros and finance douches who are too stupid to actually understand what they’re boosting.

I enjoy reading theory and creating new analyses of the world, and the queer experience, and my experience, etc.

But I'm so surprised by how I constantly see people come up with very specific theories (that may or may not be entirely correct! That's not the point here) about e.g. who is and is not allowed to use certain words like transmisogyny to describe their experiences (but this dynamic has happened before in previous discussions)

And they are SO certain, so assured that they're right. And everyone else in the queer community must immediately be onboard with the theory and with its new rules about who is allowed to use what words. Even while there are several other queer people arguing the opposite, in good faith.

What I want to say is this: theory is useful and important. But also, don't use it as a bludgeon to create rifts in the queer community.

Queer and trans people of all kinds (transfems, transmascs, non-binary people, furries, etc) are my siblings, fighting my same fight. Specific details about how they experience their oppression may be different, and it's useful (and fun!) to think about that. What's not useful is to argue about those details, or what the best name for them may be, in a way that further divides our communities.

If that starts happening, maybe it's time to reconsider, if not the theory itself, then at least your communication strategy.

can you immediately recognize the difference between ❤️ and ♥️ in your emoji font of choice, or are you normal