Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

#spoonieTown has lil garden plots all over the place where you can just grab and nibble on a fresh veg as you walk by.

It turns out the reason our hybrid heat pump wasn't hybriding was that the installer *never connected* the gas boiler to the control bus. The color coded and keyed connector is just flopping around behind the panel.

One analytical lens I love for interactions is "consent vs control". Here you see a Gmail pop-up for their GenAI "assistant". Do I want this? No. But my choices are "Learn more" and "Continue". My consent is assumed, making it a controlling interaction. You see this a lot these days, like where you choices aren't yes and no, but yes and "ask me later". It always makes me wonder what kind of personal relationships the people who do this have.

i wonder what trans/enby creatures were obsessed with before we invented a concept of robot. faes? golems? trebuchets?

game where you can play multiple animal species but when you're a bird windows don't get rendered

You don't need a blog, despite what a lot of Mastodon posts would have you believe.

It's okay to feel like you don't have something the world needs to read. It's okay to save your stories up for when you encounter people in real life. It's okay to write things down in a private diary.

What's not okay is recording important information in closed-off spaces like Discord or Facebook. If you have knowledge that could benefit others, please do get a blog.

It’s always fun to find a fiber optic cable in an unexpected place. Today’s find: my Canon EOS 600D has one running from somewhere to its mainboard. I suspect it being used for light-metering!

“Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable - Xe Iaso”

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/amazon-crawler/

Training data crawlers are abusing the open web.

Januari is onderhoudsmaand op molen De Salamander.

Buiten is alles bevroren, dus smeren we vandaag de dingen waarvoor de molen in dezelfde stand kan blijven staan.

We zijn begonnen met het bovenlager van de centrale as, en hebben daarna de buitenrand van de kap gesmeerd.

https://tau-ceti.space/@ics/113848734493958652

and you really aren't supposed to not have a mailing address in your home country. or spend like over a month outside it. the world isn't made to handle people who do.

One of the themes for #FluConf2025 is "open licensing and business models".

A lot of people on the fediverse will probably take that to mean *software licensing*, but we're interested in a much broader range of topics.

We want to hear about open licenses for scientific publications, data, art, games, text, and whatever else we haven't thought of.

Share why you think it's important. Write about how overly permissive commons are being enclosed by corporations. Tell the world how you choose licenses for your own creations, and how others licensing choices influence your perception of their projects.

https://fluconf.online/apply/

#freeCulture #FOSS #law #publishing #science #games #art #data #openScience #openData #openGardening #open #openCulture #openSource #freeSoftware #openAccess

#FOSDEM does do a lot of good too, bringing people together and promoting Free Software. And there are amazing people putting together the event every year — especially the tons of volunteers spending their time and effort to make this all happen.

But promoting the ideals of Free and Open Source Software is all the more reason they should really respect their audience, be inclusive, and try to be better.

(People critical of FOSDEM aren't attacking it; we all want it to be better.)

#FOSDEM:

is inaccessible for those with:

- mobility issues

- scent sensitivities (no policy against perfume, uses smelly soap in bathrooms); this affects around 30% of the population

- who need/want CC for videos

And refused:

- to have a code of conduct for years; have no real means of enforcing the one they have now

- to implement any kind of sickness mitigation (COVID, "FOSDEM Flu", or other), including encouraging masks and ventilation

And promotes:

- cryptocurrency
- billionaires

For zod's sake, PLEASE stop making progressive communications inaccessible.

If you want to get the word out about your union, etc., please make sure all images have alt text, all PDFs are accessible ones, etc.

It literally helps your words reach more people. #Accessibility #Union #Labor