Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

my husband's phone goes "beep boop" in my voice when i send him a text message. he has been transferring my "beep boop" voice file between phones for the better part of a decade now

How I learned to start worrying and stop the AI marketing - response to Niko Matsakis' advocacy for the use of LLMs in #rustlang

https://anatol.versteht.es/blog/llmnt/

"People can learn how to navigate and use unfamiliar things just fine" is true but you do actually need to do the teaching part, and not just expect people to magically infer things from first principles (and this also applies to technical terminology)

Juvenile cardinal, slowly learning how to be more independent!

(August 19th, 2024)

#BirdPhotography #Cardinal

the free software community must eliminate corpo speak and become radically unprofessional

the reason that programmers are so elitist is because we lack proper labor unions, so our job security is based mainly on gatekeeping the skills necessary to do our job. there i said it

We haven’t had a president in Korea for two months since December 3rd, essentially. He’s just been away and detained, and we’re doing quite well. The country has not fallen apart. And no one really likes the other person that is first in line to replace him either, so we're not in a hurry. We are fine without a president.

I’m not one to tell you what to do, but as your friend, I want you to keep all of your options open. You know, think about it. I believe in you.

>>"Oh, I don't know if we can make masks required at our event... how would we enforce it? What if people don't have a mask? I live in a red state. What if the venue doesn't allow it. It sounds too hard etc etc etc"

Ok people so last weekend I tabled at a zine fest in Nebraska with like 25 vendors. The state is overwhelmingly Trump country and Omaha has a Republican asshole mayor and a Republican asshole congressperson. The organizing crew was 4 people. They bought a bunch of kn95s cheap in bulk. They put masks required on all their promo materials. They rotated duties so there was always one person standing at the door to the pertinent area next to the welcome table (the rest of the building did not require masking) and simply handed masks to anyone coming in who wasn't already wearing one.

The event lasted 5 hours and was attended by hundreds of people. In my estimation, 99%+ of people were masked up. It was busy the entire time. I made a lot of buxx and made a lot of good connections. It was rad. A lot of people expressed their appreciation for the masking, and I personally heard no complaints. Shoutout Alt Pub Omaha.

Your crew can easily do this too.

@joepie91 Yup, I've read some posts on here lately from people who experienced the exact same thing. Seems like Google really doesn't want you to use Firefox for YouTube (most likely because of the ability to still use adblockers). Which just means I'm using YouTube less and less 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm seeing the effects of stress on myself and nearly everyone around me. We are being ground down.

Taking care of yourself and others is fighting back. It is doing something, and it does matter.

NASA's switch to Linux in space was driven by reliability, flexibility, and security concerns. The International Space Station (ISS) originally relied on Windows, but astronauts frequently encountered crashes and instability. In 2013, NASA announced that all laptops on the ISS would transition to Debian, a Linux-based operating system, to improve stability and control over software.

This change wasn’t just about reliability. Windows was much more vulnerable to malware, and in 2007, a worm named W32.Gammima.AG spread to the ISS. With Linux, NASA gained the ability to modify and customize the system for mission-critical applications without depending on proprietary software. Today, Linux powers much of NASA’s space infrastructure, from ISS systems to Mars rovers and beyond.

#Linux #NASA #Debian #OpenSource #SpaceTech #TechHistory

Don't censor or cuteify words like nazi or names like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Cute euphemisms or replacements may be necessary on centralized platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Insta, YouTube, etc. It's not necessary here and it harms understandability.

You can — and should — just call racism racism and racists racist. A wider number of people will be able to accurately understand what you're saying if you just use the right words.

Using the actual names of people at least once per post lets people decide when and where they're going to read whatever vile horseshit various people are up to. It harms no one. It's just good practice.

New terms of service for Disney+ just dropped, including this gem:

do i really have to sit with #fdroid open for half an hour waiting and clicking update twice for each app, or did i miss something obvious and i can ask it to take care of itself? #grapheneos

Quick friends what android games OR SNES roms should I grab before my flight. Note that playing any action heavy games on SNES phone emulator is fucking miserable so I ain't doing that, they gotta be slow

(Or other emulators + roms I guess)