Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

This is hardly an original take but I absolutely hate the way the word "content" has become the main way people refer to any creative work, that would previously have been referred to by more meaningful words, like "writing" or, y'know, fucking "art", that people put on the internet. And I hate the way the phrase "content creator" (or its short form, "creator") has come to replace words like "artist" or "writer".

Like how did the MBAs manage to convince everyone else to see works of human creativity as consisting of generic stuff that (interchangeable and insignificant) people produce that they can shove into interchangeable containers (the word "content" literally just means "the stuff inside a container") for economic consumption as an unremarkable by-product of their moneymaking activities, instead of the reverse, that artists produce art in some particular medium and then the (interchangeable and insignificant) businesspeople scrape money off the top of the process of distributing that media, like we'd been doing until like barely ten years ago.

I don't know about you, but you won't hear me use the term "content creator", at any rate because I find that to be an insult to the people who actually deserve recognition.

It’s especially frustrating when I discover someone thinks I’m doing something socially advanced and devious. I’m just struggling to seem normal, buddy. I don’t have the time, or the understanding of people required to plot anything against you. Just tell me what’s annoying. I do not know. Please just tell me. People are terrifying and inscrutable and I don’t want to be one of them in your life.

I wish there were a socially acceptable way to tell people that one has problems picking up subtle social cues, hints etc.

With most people I know well and get on with they eventually tell me something like “when I first met you I thought you hated me” or “I thought you were trying to make me look bad by correcting me”

I don’t let this feedback just wash over me. Project “Less Obnoxious! more Approachable!” has been ongoing for decades. But, even still I can’t read minds.

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Even completely headless, command line #linux doesn't prioritize #accessibility in any way. Today I had to reinstall an entire #debian system from scratch because a drive listed in my /etc/fstab died. That makes #systemd boot into emergency mode, where you get no SSH, no network, no sound, and no screen reader. There is no quick way to force it to try and boot even though drive 7 of 11 has died, and it could absolutely bring up SSH and the network to let me fix it if it wanted to, just like sysvinit used to do. You can't even force systemd to add SSH and the network to emergency mode because of circular dependencies. nofail will only continue the boot if the drive doesn't exist, but if the filesystem has issues...emergency mode for you. In short: if your drive dies on Linux, fuck you. Be able to see, or reinstall your entire system, because nobody in Linuxland gives a shit about #a11y or your needs.

These were taken in January 2025.

#AmsterdamPublicComment #palestine #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #stopDeOorlog #justiceNow

When you impulse buy a little treat from an artist, what's your budget limit?

This will help me figure out what I can offer in the shop at the pocket money end of the scale.

Please vote and boost so I get the best sample possible!

#MastoArt #WeirdCarMastodon #Art

Weewoo, DigiD is down

today, i have IP-blocked the entirety of alibaba cloud’s IPv4 range (47.80.0.0/13, 47.74.0.0/15, 47.76.0.0/14). And you could ask - domi, what the hell, that’s kinda sorta a lot of addresses?

fucking watch this: that’s sakamoto Mk5, my Ryzen 9 7950X3D server. Never before have I seen forgejo taking this much CPU.

They’ve generated 9GB of access logs (!) and 230GB of generated tarballs (!!!) before I got to my laptop, investigated and ip-banned them. I’m positive that most forgejo deployments in existence wouldn’t survive this.

If you needed another reason to fuck generative AI today - here’s one

@joepie91 someone close to me came inches from dying this way recently. Clothing caught in angle grinder, no dead man switch. Minor chest and shoulder injuries, made a full recovery. Slightly different angle would have gone through the side of his neck.

Free software is about granting people rights, and as such it is incompatible with racism. It is incompatible with homophobia. It is incompatible with "gender critical" ideology. Those people all reject the idea that all humans have rights based on who they are are ideologically incompatible with free software and deserve to be sidelined. We can replace anyone's contributions, we can't replace all those they drive away.

since i see we're brassicaposting again, once again i'd like to share this figure from a peer reviewed academic paper

https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab072