Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Did you know the InterCity 225 is retrofitted with eink reservation displays?

If you pay for a single from Apple Music, you get an m4a that doesn't contain album art.

But when I play it in the Apple Music player it has album art.

No. It doesn't. They do a lookup of the album art in the Music player. The actual file doesn't have the album art.

You'll need to steal their album art from somwhere else, and then run:

ffmpeg -i input.m4a -i image.jpg -c copy -disposition:v attached_pic output4.m4a

Purchasing music is such pain these days I've been trying to purchase music from all my favorite bands for days now, and it's so spread out across so many platforms, if you can even download it at all, and then even if you do, you're not guaranteed all the bells and whistles of what makes a song recognizable in your mp3 player or app. You still need to do stuff yourself.

I want to tell people to do the right thing and purchase music, but jfc, this is an unfederated segmented shitscape...

something that'd been bothering me a lot about #DGS is that *none* of the 3 dictionaries I use has any Middle East cultural words. no words listed for such things as Ramadan, halal, hijab etc. I know how to sign schnitzel, currywurst, baguette, sushi, but when our migrant kindergarten teacher asked how to say falafel, teachers were like, uh dunno fingerspell it.

I mean I don't blame the teachers for not knowing a word, but the vocab gap in the *dictionaries* is blatant. spreadthesign which is by far the most comprehensive free one doesn't even have döner. what is life in Germany without döner??

(gebärde lernen has it at least: https://gebaerdenlernen.de/vid/doener.mp4 )

that I know how to ask if something is vegetarian or vegan, but not kosher or halal, makes me feel icky. I tried using spreadthesign for Syrian sign to find loanwords, but not knowing Arabic limits my ability to look...

This bus from Arriva has their newest version of the passenger information system and it shows the exact distance in meters until the next stop. It is actually quite ridiculous.

Kijken of ik “bladwijzer is uit je boek gevallen” nog ergens kwijt kan in een voorronde van de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing

Voor de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing zoeken we het KLEINSTE kleine leed.

VOORRONDE 3

Als je vandaag een van deze vier dingen moet overkomen, waar kies je dan voor?

(Edit: leuk moet leun zijn, als ik dat aanpas reset de poll dus maar even hier)

Folks who are new to protesting:

Never sign up for protests online. Never organize online. Just show up the day of with your sign, comfy clothes, and wont-cry-if-you-lose-it water bottle. If you've already signed up, don't do it again.

If you're worried, bring a minute flip phone and write your lawyer's number on your arm.

Random "don't protest/surrender now" commenters will be quashed.

encyclopædias: many short blog posts
how a type of plane was developed: incident report

50°C take: all nonfiction is either an incident report or a blog post about something cool

It’s the weekend

In #spoonieTown people understand, and value, comfortable silences.

In #spoonieTown most days are misty in the morning, and sunny in the afternoon. Much of the time can be spent working quietly in the garden, writing, painting, reading, and resting and nobody cares if you feel like wearing holey old blue jeans, or if you don't make much money. Life is quiet and peaceful with enough space to rest and think.

Kinda been long enough now to where I don’t feel uncomfortable saying that GitHub and Microsoft explicitly delayed (through a ton of procedural actions and “safety” concerns) rolling out support for pronouns for welllllllllllll over a year despite the many, many, many explanations and comments from LGBTQ staff requesting otherwise.

we really need something like f-droid but for browser extensions.

specifically the reproducible builds part where you can verify the source code is the same as the actual extension you install.