Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Auf in ein glückliches 2025! 🥂🎊
Während Berlin noch feierte, haben wir in aller Frühe begonnen, die Reste der #Silverster-Party zu beseitigen. 670 Kubikmeter wurden eingesammelt - leider 50 mehr als 2024 😕Da lag die Menge des Mülls noch bei 620, i2023 sogar nur bei 520 Kubikmetern.
Natürlich können wir nicht überall sein: Daher wird der restliche Silvester-Müll innerhalb der regulären #Straßenreinigung 🧹 beseitigt. Wir geben wie immer unsere Bestes, dass #Berlin schnell wieder glänzt! ✨

There's no convincing or reasoning with people if they think your facts have a bad vibe. Explaining things, with references, has no impact because the references are gauged based on vibes and not how well the studies were structured or how well the paper is argued. There is no difference today between decision-makers in tech and the antivaccination crowd. They both operate on the same epistemology and worldview

One of my realisations I've come to during my newsletter/blogging pause is that the vibes crowd has thoroughly won, both in tech specifically and in general. Facts don't matter. Research doesn't matter. If it has research aesthetics and has the vibes you like, people treat it as truth. Motion and churn with the right vibes count as progress. Revenue is treated as evidence of inevitable future profit, no matter how irrational the underlying economics are.

Verlinkte Artikel von der Presse im Fediverse / Mastodon, die hinter einer Paywall sind, sollten die entsprechend markiert und/oder gekennzeichnet sein? 🤔

(Boost für Reichweite wäre nett )

#artikel #presse #fediverse #mastodon #web #paywall #internet #link #kommerz

The Treachery of Images now in the (US) public domain, for all your not-a-pipe needs

Kafka monitor #5 (antifascistische onderzoeksgroep)

Antifascistische onderzoeksgroep Kafka "is een antifascistische groep die onderzoeksjournalistiek bedrijft naar extreemrechtse stromingen in Nederland. De resultaten van dit onderzoek publiceren wij op deze website en in bladen. Met onze publicaties willen wij bijdragen aan een goed inzicht in de handel en wandel van rechtsextremisten en hun organisaties. Ons doel is om op deze manier bij te dragen aan de bestrijding van rechtsextremisme.

http://afanederland.org/2025/01/01/kafka-monitor-5-antifascistische-onderzoeksgroep/

for the younger ones, an mp3 file is like a spotify track that you can listen to offline and don't have to pay for each month and it doesn't run ads.

An #ITU study https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2024/11/10/ff24-internet-traffic/ reports that we transferred over 7 zettabytes of #Internet traffic in 2024. However, the authors do not describe what all those data actually were.

Therefore, I have performed extensive research to classify every byte, and I can now share this summary of the purposes of all the year's traffic.

Happy New Year!

War voor dag is het vandaag?
#annaWilGraagWeten

@bert_hubert @SandraDeHaan omdat we een overheid hebben die extreem goed geworden is in geen enkele verantwoordelijkheid nemen voor de fouten die ze zelf gemaakt hebben.

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

Learn more about the creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 that have moved into the public domain in the US in 2025: https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025/

A more detailed writeup of how the FSF is not only wrong about TPMs being involved in hardware-based DRM, they missed the actual user-hostile hardware DRM implementation: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70954.html

i got to press the fish doorbell!!!!

I am here to announce that I have decreased #spam on my web contact form from 1 message every 15 minutes (for months straight) to 0 messages in the last week by adding a "I am a spam bot" radio button.

I am not joking.

No I am not using something like ReCaptcha, I literally just added a radio button to the list.

UPS, are you... good?

@jonny sorry but 2025 has already gone into production with most of the world's clients and honestly having differing versions is just going to be confusing

so we'll just deal with the "sapient grass" issue if it actually affects stakeholders

my parents did the single and only anticapitalist thing they have done in their life: setting fire to an alexa