And like, I'm not expecting people to take on a million projects at the same time. I just want a place that leaves room for other people to take on other such projects, and that desires to collaborate with them.
The places I'm complaining about here, instead, practically run you out of town for suggesting different things, declaring them "offtopic" or saying that "we can't take on that project" (even though you never asked them to and even explicitly said that you don't expect that).
It really annoys me how there are a bunch of nominally cool projects by people to radically improve some aspect of society, computing, etc...
... and then you discover that they *only* care about that one aspect, and refuse to consider that anything else should maybe also be different, and staunchly insist on doing it the 'traditional' way.
I would really like an (explicitly-defined-to-exist) community that cares about organizing to 'radically improve things' in general, with an open and constructive stance to new ideas by default.
Oh man, James Dingley has worked out which fonts and letters are best for building structural beams out of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDaPm13CT8
A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.
No Web Without Women
https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/ #HerStory
I haven't properly announced this before, but given the light of today's events, here we go: my game engine is ✨open source✨
if you're ever feeling experimental or just want to dive in a lot of nerdy code, here it is: https://github.com/isadorasophia/murder
it's fun and it's free and it's dotnet 7!!! (soon to be 8)
"In [non-Western] cultures, they might have never used terms like 'plural', because they don't need to. In a culture where they have a concept of self that is not singular, they have the language they need to articulate their experiences. And if you refer to people in other societies who experience something like we do as 'just plural', you are not better than the people in psychiatry who say they 'just have DID'. You are superimposing your understanding over their own, and claiming its superiority. It is the same bias that prioritises Western explanations and insists on looking at things through Western eyes."
[…]
"Even though I think the study of plurality is fascinating, even though we have DID and have found the psychology surrounding it to be helpful, most of us don't use those labels at all anymore. We don't want to be validated by psychiatry. We don't want there to be a rational explanation. We want to be respected as people regardless."
— Coriander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLuSE8bO6Q&list=PLr5Whxm2UJ6CfLatH7f3kRmSxwBHOqUWo&index=12
I found some pouch lipo batteries in a project box I haven't touched since before the pandemic. One was looking a bit inflated so it's gonna go to the recycling center with my 3S. But the other looks fine. However, it's charged at 3.8V, which has me worried considering it's a 3.7V battery. Should I recycle that one too?
Laat anders die Navo-top lekker op zoom plaatsvinden, als je het niet kunt organiseren zonder het halve land plat te leggen.
medical stuff
I've been suspecting i have some form or another of EDS for some time now, I tick most of the boxes of the diag sheets including bad wound healing
I started electrolysis sessions last month, the first one was already pretty bad but for the second one (last week) I reacted so badly I ended up in emergency care
so I'm curious if people who have EDS have similar experiences or if it's something else
(Exception: they can shuffle hours to other weeks to make up the weekly contracted amount of hours. As long as it works out to the correct average in the end. But as we've found out, it is by no means guaranteed that that actually happens.)
Well, today was mostly spent talking in Dangerous Professional to the manager of the local McDonald's, to get a friend of mine the salary they are entitled to. Things set in motion, and now we wait.
Speaking of which, if you work for McDonald's in the Netherlands and are on a part-time or full-time contract, check your pay slip. They *should* be paying you for your contract hours plus overtime, *not* for the clocked-in hours. But according to the local manager they always calculate by clocked-in hours (as per head office policy), which is illegal.
Put the 3D model for the paint storage bins online here: https://www.printables.com/model/1260340-gridfinity-12ml-paint-tube-holder
i have commissioned art for my fursona and artists i paid had a better time following my directions than a box of nuts and bolts. who would have thought!
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.