Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Sky says #transrights

I'm just going to keep posting this...

Real talk: Google, Meta, X and Amazon have been stifling innovation in the tech space, for decades at this point, by eliminating competition via buying or burying them. They're at the top of the pile not because they're the best companies, but because they're the most ruthless.

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a #language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on.

The same pattern is universally found across human languages bit also occurs in #whale song.

This complex signaling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each individual from others.

#biology
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html

I wrote up some notes about #DBus, how it works (to my knowledge), and how to use it - that hopefully are more understandable than most articles on the topic: https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/working-with-dbus

Vraag aan de sociaal-democraten: Stel je eens voor dat we daadwerkelijk de kans zouden hebben om het kapitalisme te ontmantelen en een ander systeem te bouwen, gebaseerd op mensenrechten, gelijkwaardigheid, solidariteit, gemeenschappelijk beheer van productiemiddelen en duurzaamheid, zouden jullie dan meedoen?

Question for people who use Firefox on Android.
It's really annoying me that, whenever I return to the app from elsewhere, eg a other app or lock screen, it reloads the current page from scratch rather than just resuming where it left off. Seems really unnecessary, especially if it's some text I was half way through reading.
I'd like to be able, for example, to open Firefox when I'm on the tube (with no signal) and continue reading an article.
I can't find anything in settings to make this happen - am I missing something?
Or perhaps there's another browser which will do this?

Anthropologists might be puzzled by the cultural processes of the IETF (❤️) or what I call "Specification Theater":

- "RFC" - never has a comment section nor does it ask for comments
- "Experimental" it's actually in production in several places, RIGHT NOW! And it won't change for another 20 years or so
- "This document is not [...] a specification" it de facto is..

(This is a joke post please don't correct me in replies thank you)

> How the ‘amyloid mafia’ took over Alzheimer’s research

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/amyloid-hypothesis-alzheimers-research-lecanemab-aduhelm/

"Sowohl Babybetten, als auch Kondome sind bei uns kostenlos. Entscheide selbst"

European Sleeper has a valentines action for a private couchette for 120 euros. Ideal date for 2 to 5 people!

Never EVER forget how fast corporations shed their supposed ethics the moment it became politically comfortable to do so.

being on the internet as an autistic who doesn't pretend the pandemic is over is so weird because you have posts about unmasking that are good, posts about unmasking that are bad, posts about masking that are good and posts about masking that are bad

Introducing, my new bot @transfers ( @transfers@bgp.tools )

Using the stuff I built for the IP transfer history feature on bgp.tools, this bot will now post all of the new IP/ASN transfers (with a 24-48 hour delay) that the website observes, plus a rough estimate of what the market value for the IPv4 addresses are being moved around are worth

All the headlines that say "court blocks Trump from doing xyz" are inaccurate. The court made a ruling that told Trump's administration they're not allowed to do what they're doing. Then they keep doing it.

The court's function at this point is just "hey stop that..." but its power of enforcement is minimal.

Keep fighting, because the courts alone can't stop him.

And think twice about sharing inaccurate headlines.