Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Mijn collega Stijn heeft een nieuwe windwijzer gemaakt in de vorm van een klein molentje. Het is een kopie van een windwijzer van molen de Eenhoorn in Schalkwijk.

http://www.smzk.nl/m.eenhoorn.html

Er zijn vandaag ook twee molenaarsleerlingen van poldermolen de Rijnenburger op bezoek.

@enfys koploper at home

A certain well-known person (who I shall not name) recently implied that only “techbros” code for the #Fediverse.

That person is sadly mistaken.

#Sharkey is coded by a woman. #Frequency is coded by a woman. Most of the co-authors of #ActivityPub are women.

Stop spreading the myth that only men build the Fediverse.

There was a post going around bsky that said "you are disturbingly susceptible to propaganda" and it's funny how many people were quoting it with "yeah all my friends are swallowing propaganda whole unlike me who knows that [easily debunked popular belief]"

In hindsight, all those startups framing their apps as "changing the world" should have been a bigger warning sign.

so the list of weird places that people have run / are running #GoToSocial instances, that we know about, now includes:

on a phone
on a car
on an arpa domain
on a meta quest 3 headset
various people have done it on their NAS
on a router

any more that I missed?

#WillItFederate

As someone who was a waitress for years making $2.13 an hour, the way this owner/manager salivates talking about this robot is gross.

"Pearl works seven days a week, she never needs a day off, she works doubles, and she works for about $2.50 an hour."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJaj3_54S_E

The thing that gets me about the assistants on our phones is that all our applications are opted in by default. We have to actively opt out and disable. Ok not just phones ... Just everything.

Because developers know folks won't turn on settings to opt in. So those settings are switched on.

If your model is dependent on automatically opted in functionality, you've told me about your values. You don't respect the idea of full consent. It's a predatory practice.

I want no part of it.

Putting a quarter in a slot, hearing the familiar sequence of tinny mechanical clicks and swoops as it traverses the mech, swings the cradle, bounces past the magnet, flicks the microswitch, but where's the little *tish* at the end? Why don't I hear it landing in the cash bucket with all the rest of the money?

I call the tech over to open the coin door and clear the jam and who the hell do we find squatting in there just curling his fingers closed around the coin, but Peter Bloody Thiel again. He blinks in the light and hisses and scurries off into the depths of the machine. He'll have made his nest around the ballast for the marquee I bet, they always do, they like to nest where it's warm

I really wish cryptocurrency was real. Like, I wish it wasn't a world-boiling pyramid scheme, but just a thing that let me send a penny to the author of whatever silly gay webcomic I'm reading whenever they post a new page, and have that penny actually arrive to them

If someone wants to send me a quarter, I don't get that quarter, Peter Thiel gets the quarter, it just disappears. Someone sends me a dollar, I get 47 cents.

Someone puts a quarter in the slot of one of my games, that quarter's mine now. I should be able to earn a living by asking thousands of people for a quarter every now and then

Who knows a good way to send and receive money online* that doesn't give any money to Peter Thiel?

* in such a way that a PHP script can be triggered based on transaction data
* that normal people who want to give me money can use, e.g. they don't have to learn anything or install an app
* that isn't a scam or use a lot of energy

EDIT:
* needs to be available and usable in the US, UK, EU and Australia
* liberapay isn't a payment processor, it's like patreon, it's just an abstraction layer over an existing payment processor (paypal and stripe, both thiel again), I need a payment processor
* monero is cryptocurrency, I need real money
* GNU Taler isn't real and was never real and will never be real

I'm gonna end up working with SOME kind of bastard, obviously, but there's bastards and there's bastards y'know

Another day, another instance of dansup doing something wildly irresponsible and taking no accountability!

@aroacemagicalnerd has said it many times, if people would take action decisively and swiftly against instances of racism (he's been appropriating AAVE for years) they would have SO much less bullshit to deal with.

In a healthier and more antiracist fediverse, someone like dansup would never have been so many people engaging with, using, or funding his projects.

And yet, here we are. With his laundry list of reckless bullshit, from attacking everyone who criticizes him to making posts, deleting them, and then lying about them, and even writing absurd and unacceptable privacy policies for his projects. And this is just scratching the surface!

Listening to Black folks, moderating racism, centering the most marginalized....it really isn't just what's best for us. It's best for everyone.

“A Luddite Criticism of Open Source” at FluConf

On February 1st I had the privilege of getting to speak at the first Fluconf about Open Source and why that whole movement might not do as much good for as as we might want it to. It’s not that Open Source is “bad” but that it is sometimes presented as a solution to sociopolitical issues it is not capable (nor even trying) to fix.

The talk description was:

“People interested in Fluconf will also be interested in Open Source or to be more precise Free/Libre Open Source Software. Everyone has been using Open Source for many years but many from this community have shifted to trying to run their personal infrastructures on non-proprietary pieces of software and some even hardware.

This is already an important shift towards freeing ourselves and each other from corporate dominance but is it really doing enough? Are our licenses protecting the values we actually care about?

Coming from a luddite background I want to dive into a a bit of a critical reading of the values that we use codified mostly as licenses: Are they really enough? Which aspects are they missing and why? And what are the consequences of those omissions?

I’ll try to end up looking at mechanisms of integrating luddist principles in software projects. Can they offer additional safeguards?

This sessions doesn’t claim to have all the answers. But hopefully some good questions and a few ideas of where to go.”

I embedded a copy of the video on Youtube but you can also watch it on Archive.org for less tracking and everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ew_MlA5HbA

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#fluconf #luddism #openSource

Looking for Minecraft Java servers with:

1. Survival mode, without too many mods/rules
2. Relatively uniform architectural style with specific aesthetic
3. No large redstone machines, item spawner, lots of pillars, beacons and broken ground around the spawn point
4. At least two or three people regularly online every day.