Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I really love writing characters where your first impression of them is both terrible and correct, and they still grow on you anyway because people are complex and there's good in them, too.

This is hard to get right and doesn't work for every reader. But when it works, it's magic.

Some of my favourites: Usther from Tombtown, Hanna from NPC, and Boro from Space Dragons.

I read a book by @rowyn recently that was absolutely masterful at this.

💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.

Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could:
✔️End vendor lock-in cycles
✔️Strengthen data sovereignty
✔️Create local tech jobs
✔️Support FLOSS innovation

XWiki, CryptPad and other open-source solutions prove alternatives exist, they just need proper funding.
Read the full analysis here: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/why-governments-should-invest-in-open-source/

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #FLOSS

Genie: What is your wish?

Boy: I wish I were you.

Genue: Weurd but alrught.

fedex just texted me that my package will be delivered about 2-4 hours ago from now

“We found that the wealthiest 10% contributed 6.5 times more to global warming than the average, with the top 1% and 0.1% contributing 20 and 76 times more, respectively,” the write in their paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Co-author Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, said: “If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50% of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990"

The only dangerous minority are the rich.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/two-thirds-of-global-heating-caused-by-richest-study-suggests

@tay I always make sure to post some very unhingedly horny stuff if one of my tech posts escapes containment.

Either it scares off the people who follow for the tech post, or it awakens something. Either outcome is acceptable to me 🤣

hi reddit, I'm disarming a bomb. should I cut the red or the blue wire?

edit: wow this blew up

So it's finally come to this:

multiple uncoordinated global-scale experiments with unpredictable permanent climactic consequences

instead of just telling petrostates and oil barons to get fucked and switching our grids to wind and solar

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/real-world-geoengineering-experiments-revealed-by-uk-agency

Apropos the UK's ARIA doing crazy funding here's a link to a paper I'm a co-author on (soon to be accepted I think) where we argue against polar #geoengineering in rather strong terms.

TL;DR:
"We evaluate five highly-publicized polar 'geoengineering' proposals and point to significant issues and risks relating to technological availability, logistical feasibility, cost, predictable adverse consequences, environmental damage, scalability (in time and space), governance, and ethics. According to our assessment, no current geoengineering idea passes an objective and comprehensive test regarding its use in the coming decades. Rather, many of the proposed ideas are environmentally dangerous. Given their feasibility challenges and risks of negative consequences, these ideas should not distract from the priority to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385550908_Safeguarding_the_polar_regions_from_dangerous_geoengineering

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/us_dod_software_procurement/

There's something kind of hilarious about calling the current software security practices "outdated" and then arguing for a return to the known-broken processes (like origin-based security assurances) that organizations have been trying to move away from for the past two decades...

But then it's entirely on-brand for fascists to try and market old, failed ideas as if they are some kind of novel innovation, isn't it

immediately closing tech articles and blog posts that use ai slop imagery

not interested in what a person has to say if they aren't interested in conveying their point like a fucking human being

Good usage of a train station is only when every platform is having an active countdown

movie programmer, smug: i pulled it off with a hack

irl programmer, deeply ashamed: i pulled it off with a hack

My favorite random local news station in a place I don't live is KTVB in Boise. Yesterday, they reported that the City of Boise made the #pride flag an official city flag so that they aren't prohibited from flying it by the state of Idaho.

#LocalMatters #LGBTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFuUKY9tWIU

wait what happened to my phone keyboard

Internet find:

Boiling water and then never making tea

Nieuw mysterie: de tram waar ik in zit bestaat niet volgens OVinfo

We really went from AI means you’ll only have to work 3 days a week to AI is going to take your job unless you work harder, faster and more efficiently in the blink of an eye.

It's never too late to start using content warnings. Go ahead and give it a try!