Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

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As of April 2025, how many times have you had covid, do you still mask, and did you get at least one round of vaccinations?

Haul away!

evergreening this meme because it's great and because people who didn't see it before won't get my last boost

I mean the real reason is probably that so much of the "espresso community" considers themselves an exclusive Rich Coffee Person Club and thinks themselves above something as serf-like as grinding beans by hand. Get the nicest and most convenient equipment or get out. I hate it.

I actually asked on the Reddit espresso community. Got downvoted to heck and my suspicions were confirmed. Pretty much everyone in the comments can't imagine why someone wouldn't be able to spend an additional couple hundred dollars to save themselves 2 minutes of mild physical effort in the morning. They're all screaming about convenience and speed and how they just can't be bothered to put in a bit of effort so they'd rather spend a fortune. And so they can't see why they'd ever suggest a hand grinder even if someone specifies they're on a budget.

What a bunch of privileged pricks.

Internet search in…

1990: ask people you know for their FTP server address

1995: scroll through twenty pages of Altavista results

2000: ten blue links

2010: ten blue links below ten ads

2020: one useful link to Wikipedia below the fold, all ads above

2024: AI summary followed by ads followed by a Wikipedia link

2025: AI summary followed by AI summaries of ads followed by a Wikipedia link behind an AI summary

2026: ask people you know for their archive torrent address

Systeem: "Preview? Nee dat kunnen we niet. Je moet publishen om te zien of het werkt."

Ook systeem: "Ja, je moet wel even handmatig de cache resetten, anders zie je het niet"

Ook systeem: "Je reset de cache te vaak, onze systemen kunnen dit niet aan."

Nou, mijn systeem kan dit niet aan. Error 503. Brain not available.

love the room with all the testers and dies

We are almost there folks hang in there

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Paar eenvoudige manieren waarop je Palestina en Palestijnen in Gaza kunt steunen:

1. Doneer eSIMs: nog steeds de enige manier voor o.a  journalisten en hulpdiensten in Gaza om in contact te kunnen blijven: https://connecting-humanity.org/
Crowdfund: Crips for eSIM: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza IEDER BEDRAG WELKOM.

2. Voor de verschrikkelijk hoge kosten om te overleven: doneer aan GoFundMe's of via https://gazafunds.com/, en deel ze. IEDER BEDRAG WELKOM.

3. Doe mee met Boycott, Divestment en Sanction: https://bdsnederland.nl/ Gebruik de app Boycat.

4. Blijf praten over Palestina, op je werk, bij je vakbond en politieke partij. Deel info van https://decolonizepalestine.com/ Volg open colleges of een workshop bij Workshops 4 Gaza: https://www.workshops4gaza.com/

5. Zoek je lokale pro-Palestina groep op en overleg of je ze ergens mee kunt steunen. Doe mee aan acties.

6. Steun Palestijnse initiatieven zoals the Sameer Project, Palestine Medical Relief Project en Care for Gaza die directe hulp op de grond geven.

#Palestina #StopDeBezetting #FreePalestine #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #eSIM #PalestineSolidarity #WarOnGaza #EndApartheid #mensenrechten @israel @palestine

new OSI model just dropped

Folks, if someone in the US wants to study a group of people with a a certain condition, they go to an IRB to get permission. They have to decide if the research will use identifiable information. If the data contain identifiers, you essentially always have to get permission from each and every patient, and that permission has to be specific to the exact use of their data.

You don’t “make a registry” of everyone with a disease. Bad people do that. Nazis. Insurance execs. Bad people.

sorry about the ipv4 address shortage . i was a bit hungy

Apps that log you out because you haven’t used the app in over a week. WHY? It’s isn’t even a crucial app like a bank or something.

Wizards of the Coast did as they promised, and released a System Reference Document (that is, the basic rules and game mechanics) for the 2024 edition of Dungeons & Dragons under an extremely open Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) licence.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd

D&D isn't necessarily the game for *you*, but it *is* historically significant and still extremely popular, and I think it's cool that any part of it is available under such a licence.

With both #Eurovision and the Papal conclave happening in May, it’s gonna be a big month for Europeans who love overly complex, confusing and dramatic ways to select a winner that are run by international bureaucracies, include smoke for dramatic effect and feature excessively extra outfits

@anildash Several years ago we created a man-in-the-middle system - basically a two port Ethernet bridge - that implemented what we called a "constipation engine".

It would recognize an incoming TCP connection and based on supplied criteria would distinguish between connections to be allowed and those to be constipated.

The TCP constipation manipulated the TCP window size parameters so that from the attacker's point of view a TCP connection would be open and in a connected state but the data flow would be a trickle. Thus a web page fetch, nominally very fast could span many minutes, even hours,

Most attackers, driven by software not people, would not notice this slow down of data delivery to a few bytes every few seconds.

Although this would not stop web scraping it would slow the attacker to a crawl, likely preventing it from ever finishing its scraping or moving on to other victims.

The cost for the website was basically some TCP state control blocks in memory and very little CPU or network I/O burden.