Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@MamaLake @actuallyautistic I found myself thinking yesterday that "I'm not too sensitive. It's the rest of the world is not sensitive enough. And the world would be a better place if more people were this sensitive."

Is there a coop or collective of disabled people in tech where you can go to hire accessibility experts? I don't want to continue to release software unless I know its accessible, but I can't know that unless I have my software audited by disabled tech experts that know the pitfalls of these things. I don't need free labour either. I am happy to pay for this service.

#a11y #accessbility #disablity #foss

Searching for hackers (hacker: anyone that likes making technology do what wasn't intended) to build a community for jailbreaking MR headsets

Chat anyone interested in glitching Mixed Reality headsets ? I'm trying to build a community so we can get something done, as there's a bunch of folks that wanna charge money for it and I don't really like that idea x3.

The main SoC is XR2 by Qualcomm, it is an ARM SoC, and most of the headsets run very locked-down Android.

The goal here is to try to jailbreak it so we can run custom, fully open source software on it, possibly even mainline drivers to Linux and run something like #postmarketos :)

Unfortunately I am a systems hacker, I am hopeless when it comes to electric engineering anything, so I cannot actually pull off glitching myself. I can help with the stuff that comes after, such as mainlining drivers, though :)

IRC #xrbreak on oftc
Matrix: #xrbreak:itycodes.org
Discord: https://discord.gg/HeDAg3Ma7A

Please boost! Let's build an open and accessible community!

Any help is appreciated, no information is useless! If you would be interested in helping, we need anyone with, including BUT NOT LIMITED TO

MR headsets for testing
Electrical engineering knowledge
Ability to design or assemble PCBs
Reading ARM disassembles to try to find a glitch point or a bootrom exploit or w/e
General experience with hacking embedded devices
Experience with Linux or Android security for rooting
Anyone with info about TEE/TrustZone (kexecing mainline kernel from rooted Android)
Contacts to folks that have any of the above
Experience managing communities and setting up bridges, wikis...

#jailbreaking #android #linux #hacking #xr #vr

I used to have a lil device that simulated a heartbeat when you pushed the button. I think it came with a plushie, but I just carried the device.

Does anyone have one of these? Can anyone recommend one to get?

Boosts highly appreciated

A game design professor is kicking off his courses with a short game of chance that demonstrates their chances of getting long covid, and over 95% of his students end up wearing masks in his classroom! The game is called "The Haunted Woods". https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/long-covid-mode-seeing-the-crisis-through-games/

Get petty. Get weird. Break the spell. Mock it. Undermine it.

Be bold. Be clever. Be feral.

And above all – DO NOT COMPLY.

If you spend enough time in the "social media for public good" space, you'll realize there is a subset of people who essentially want to build what I call "Valhalla but for debate club members".

Their vision of a perfect social media experience is endless debate about big important ideas where people constantly get to show off how much more rational and civil they are than each other. The debate never ends. If you are obliterated in the public sphere you are reanimated. It's all in good fun.

"Create an account to read the full story."

FUUUCK YOOUUU

There's very valid reasons to stay on Windows or macOS. But also, it's valid and important, I believe, to know what your limits are and when it's bad enough that you need to jump. If that's when you start planning your next steps, it's going to be much rougher.

Knowing what your options are *even if you don't prefer or choose those options* helps keep you from getting stuck or trapped, I'll posit.

I've talked a bunch about exit strategies on here, but mostly in the form of knowing where the exits from centralized corporate platforms like Bluesky are.

It's also important, I believe, to know what possible exits you have from the corporate OS duopoly of macOS and Windows. That's not to say "go use Linux!1!!1," it's to note that Cook gave a massive donation to Trump and that Windows is quickly getting more and more AI-laden. At some point, you may not have a choice… planning ahead can help.

just negotiated a 50% discount on my EE mobile plan, in part thanks to @unlobito

apparently the strat is to wait until the contract expires, request a PAC, and then you get a call from the magic discount people (which happened to me here)

For anyone interested in the secrets of living a fulfilling and satisfying life, I know of no better set of hints than to consider all the things that are explicitly devalued, derided, even outright forbidden under white anti-culture:

Things like softness, vulnerability, weakness, silliness, frivolity, spontaneous dancing, ecstatic laughter, femininity, affection for tiny things, childlike wonder, uncompromising honesty, playful imagination, love, reverence, rich connection to the past, celebration of our deep interdependence on each other, crying until our feelings are finally felt...

These are among the most sacred elements of a truly flourishing life.

It is no coincidence that the society around us works so hard to push us away from them.

a recent trend that I really enjoy is manufacturers offering tools in “non-traditional-colours”. Be it Rigol with their black cases, camera and lens case-mods (this is a huge thing in Asia!), or microscopes in very enjoyable colours! I also have seen blue and mint ones

white smoke just came out of our router... this means that the DHCP conclave has ended and a new IP address has been selected