Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I like that the Netherlands gets to share ducks and geese with the UK. There's a few ducks and geese that migrate between Scotland and the Netherlands and I wish I could send letters with them like "Hoi, Scotland! How are your fluffy cows doing?" and they could write back, "Hi, Netherlands! They are well. How is the green parrot invasion treating you?"

It could be good fun.

#Glasgow #Amsterdam

people on the support forums and subreddit have asked about hosting apps on their own IP, and are told it isn't supported and without fail there's always a series of incredulous "why would you want to do that?" bullshit replies as per usual for any kind of linux community support

Met ons zelf-georganiseerd buurtcentrum willen we eigenlijk weg bij meta. Maar we zijn pas een paar maanden bezig, en ons publiek nog aan het opbouwen. En dus vinden we dat moeilijk. We promoten evenementjes, maar bijvoorbeeld ook ons wekelijkse eetcafe op feestboek en insta, en dat werkt goed. Ook op whatsapp organiseren en promoten we.
Maar goed, het is een fasjistebende, dus past het niet echt bij ons. Dus, iemand tips hoe we succesvol kunnen ontmeta'en?

Signal is leuk, mastodon ook, maar uiteindelijk nog helaas heel marginaal en een enorme drempel. "Wil je vrijwilligen? Leuk! Installeer deze obscure app waar geen van je contacten op zit zodat we met je kunnen praten!"
Ook een eigen website is leuk, maar dan moeten mensen actief kiezen om te kijken wat er hier te doen is.
En ook flyeren en posteren is leuk, maar is ook een hoop meer arbeid..

Dus, tips en ervaringen gezocht om een lokale community op te bouwen en te promoten, die zo min mogelijk extra drempels opwerpt, en ook niet teveel menskracht.

I've (finally) added a Code of Conduct to Catima.

I've always been hesitant about adding one. Not because I disagree with the concept but because I've had negative experiences in FOSS spaces where a CoC was supposed to protect but wasn't enforced. I always worried I wouldn't be able to do enough and cause pain.

I learned now that I do enough, more than most people. And in a society where some companies are writing down that hate is OK, it is time to explicitly state: abuse is not tolerated.

“Another day of stochastic harassment for old time’s sake – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2025/01/12/another-day-of-stochastic-harassment-for-old-times-sake/

From the original blog post you might think Matt Mullenweg was just reacting excessively to a fork, but the fork doesn't exist and the account removals are just years' old spite

Software engineers: CAPITAL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. You are not a billionaire; you are a worker. Rich investors are trying to take your livelihood away any way they can to keep more money in their pockets. Don’t be smug because you make more money than the median; your worth is smaller than a rounding error on any given billionaire’s spreadsheet.

I repeat: YOU ARE A WORKER. Stand with your fellow workers AGAINST capital. Capitalists and billionaires make life worse for others. They’ve been coming after other workers; and now they’re coming after YOU.

#workers #softwareEngineering #solidarity #unionize

@gnomon I'm not sure how long it will take before it stops being funny to me but the novelty is already lasting longer than I expected

This will be the final time that my kidneys will travel home together (@ IC 2984 ➜ Utrecht Centraal) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/4164491

Hi, ik ben nieuw hier. Ik ben benieuwd wat ik hier aantref. Ik ben vooral geïnteresseerd in contact met #nonbinaire personen.

me: i’ve single-handedly written software used by tens of millions of people, you can see it right over at github.com/april

prospective employers: sorry, but unfortunately you did poorly in a high-stress 40-minute coding exercise, writing code with no time to think about how to solve a problem you’ve never seen before, in a terrible dev environment, while someone stares at you the whole time

Whenever people tell me to 'have more reasonable expectations from people', by which they really mean "don't expect more from people than others do", I can't help but think...

Look at the world around you. Does it really look like a desirable outcome to you? How 'reasonable' is the standard set of expectations really, if this is what it results in? Why *aren't you* setting higher expectations from your peers?

So that's enough about #Meta, #Facebook and #Zuckerberg for now. There are more things going on on this planet and beyond.

Facebook/Meta has been a problem since their start. I'm trying, helping and fighting for better Facebook alternatives since I think 2012. It's not fun that people do not take you serious, only because they are the ones vulnerable to peer pressure and commercial propaganda. It's also not fun being right all the time and then seeing everyone return to their big tech overlords after a while over and over again.

#meme #memes #homeless #unhoused #housingcrisis #costofliving #capitalism