Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I'm ending this debate on this point and, honestly, this last entry is more for myself than for Robin Sloan. It's a reminder to myself that "AI" is part and parcel of the ongoing right-wing political project.

Now I'm disappointed.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/now-im-disappointed/

I've already put way more effort into this than I should have

@zacwest For any readers who go "huh": It is possible to download all your Amazon ebooks, remove their DRM with DeDRM, make some backups and, if desired, delete your Amazon account. Well, until February 26th it is possible, so do it now before they are lost forever.
https://umatechnology.org/how-to-de-drm-kindle-books-using-calibre-2024/

Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.

So you want to fight fascism and make a difference right now? Do this:

Join Codeberg e.V. – become part of the organisation; part of the resistance – and actively support this valuable and ethical EU-based anti-fascist¹ git hosting alternative that’s under attack by fascists as we speak:

https://join.codeberg.org

Seriously, do it now.²

Volunteer and/or donate if you can.

Let’s send Codeberg’s membership through the roof and show these fucking fascists that when they push we push back twice as hard.

When you do, please add your voice to this thread so others can see.

I rarely ask this but please repost this far and wide.

¹ https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

² If you’re having trouble reaching the server, it might also be under attack. You can check the current status of all Codeberg’s servers from https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg

#Codeberg #CodebergUnderAttack #SupportCodeberg #antifascist #EU #european #FOSS #freeSoftware #git #hosting #fediverse #mastodon #community #callToAction

i joined verdi (one of the big unions in germany) (eventhough i don't really agree with them politically on many levels, they do some important stuff and there aren't many other options) and now I'm finding out they offer a lot of useful services to members that i didn't really know about before.

For example they have consulting on doing your taxes or on dealing with landlords, and help you with your communications with Jobcenter/Arbeitsagentur when you're unemployed.

I said "huh they really should advertize this stuff more" and then ellie told me that i should post about it so maybe others who don't know about this stuff can be helped by it so here we are

join a union, they're useful and good for you, and if you don't need the services then your money helps to provide them for those who do!

Statement from the CGT-CSVI union branch at UBISOFT BARCELONA
#ubisoft #strike #videogames

Seriously, open source people, name one of your variables "transgender_marxism" and name one of your functions "green_new_deal".

You don't want your software used in weapons? This will help ensure it isn't.

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.