Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Question: should I leave my 90s/00s hardware (vcr, cd player, amp, etc) plugged in or only do so when using them? Specifically in terms of keeping the capacitors healthy, given how that’s a major weakness in tech from that era.

Based on my limited understanding, I can make a case for either so I’m wondering if there’s any consensus on this.

@tubemapper the joy so many children feel when it comes to trains is so pure and lovely. Honestly, just that is reason enough to build more railways and run more trains.

Dus als je een paar mp3tjes illegaal downloadt of per ongeluk een liedje van Metallica op het filmpje met je kind hebt draaien wordt je helemaal de moeder kapotgeprocedeerd, maar als één van de grootste bedrijven ter wereld bewust, met winstoogmerk en opzettelijk hun hele AI traint met illegale downloads van boeken omdat de legale manier te duur zou worden: krekels?

Protest today in Dam Square, Amsterdam against racism and fascism

FWIW, my Mom is a nerd, yes. But she's most definitely not a computer nerd. She wouldn't touch a computer with a ten feet pole if she could avoid them. She always hated them, because they never worked the way she imagined they should.

And until today, I was not able to help her, because a part of the puzzle was always missing.

We needed the combination of niri, Emacs, Org mode & org roam, notmuch, and a couple of other tools to exist at the same time, and I needed to be familiar with all of them. This lets me build a system tailored for my Mom, one she won't hate using.

I could not build that with any of these tools missing.

this is the dang truth

alt text written by @belehaa (thank you!)

> Of course, we don’t want you to burn out. That’s why we have a No Burning Out policy. You must work every hour of every day, but you also need to take care of yourself. Otherwise, you might become less efficient — in which case you will have broken our No Burning Out policy

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114203779183206217

Mom played around a bit with #GNOME and #niri, and she'll be switching to #niri, because she concluded that tiling is awesome.

She's in the "some floating is okay" camp, though, so I'll let niri decide what to float and what not. But she'll be tiled-by-default, with tabbed columns.

AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT: She decided that notmuch, Org Roam, and Emacs are all incredible tools, and she wants to learn them.

What have I done.

found a pretty cursed PDF with an object that did NOT want to be ungrouped and after repeatedly pressing ctrl+shift+g to ungroup it turned into this

Finally, a large protest against the far-right and racism in the Netherlands. Amsterdam, right now.

"Sometimes our movements suffer from what I think of as a 'unity fetish.' We want to put aside differences, especially in pursuit of a single-minded goal. However, our differences make us strong. My puzzle might be incomplete without your pieces. My struggle against my employer might be incomplete without your boycott of an industry; we cannot rid ourselves of fascist politicians without fighting cops in the streets.

"We need to find ways for our movements to work together to compliment one another for joint liberation in our lived experiences, instead of asking others to put their struggles on hold for some abstract 'greater good."

#Activism

Stay safe, stay healthy, destroy dangerous police equipment.

#acab #allcopsarebastards #police #healthrisk #staysafe #protest #activist #activism #riotpolice #lrad #sabotage #policebrutality