Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I access Twitter through the secret fourth-party app: Hearing about whatever nonsense is going on from the federated grapevine

Abandoned conservatory/greenhouse in Italy 🇮🇹

Wicker lanterns are suspended from the ceiling on beams supported by sturdy chains. At one end, a large fan-shaped window leads into a smaller greenhouse. Vines and branches reach into the greenhouse through smashed windows, and creep across the floor in an attempt to reclaim this magical place.

More photos and full blog article https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/villa-scorpio-greenhouse-italy/

#Nature #abandonedplaces #Italy #greenhouse #photography #abandonedplaces #decay #lostplaces

Customer: THE FIRST 3 DIGITS OF PI
DMV: PIE 14 GANG REFERENCE

Verdict: DENIED

@littletranspunk the concept of the "friend zone" is literally just a euphemism for "I don't like that you're setting this personal boundary with me." You're allowed to feel hurt due to infatuation, but you're absolutely not allowed to criticize someone for setting that personal boundary with you by using rhetoric that implies that they slighted you somehow.

Like, even aside from that, platonic relationships exist in many forms as well and can just as if not more fulfilling! Not everyone you talk to needs to be a potential mate, and that's okay!

Edit: just a small edit to acknowledge that in some cases, that personal boundary feels hurtful because of someone taking advantage of your kindness, and that's also valid to feel hurt over, but again, point still stands. It may in this case have been a shitty thing to do, but personal boundaries are personal boundaries.

just saw a liberal tell an anarchist “being an anarchist is a terrible quality for a leader”. somehow they’ve managed to be right while completely failing to comprehend what is being spoken about

"Proton" has done wonders for Linux gaming.
Today I found out you can't filter for native linux titles in your steam library anymore. Valve's Hubris has wasted a lot of my girlfriend's time thinking that a compatibility layer yoinked from the community for windows games is "native". It is almost like they want people to think "Linux" is buggy shitware because they rushed a hardware project out to market filling in all the tech gaps with community passion projects and duct tape.

Wine setup correctly with all the bells and whistles is great, but treating it like "native" and denying it has an impact on people when most games have at least *performance issues* under Wine, if they work at all, makes the platform look bad as a whole. Linux isn't bootleg windows simulator, you can actually make games and ship for it, and a growing number actually do have Linux native ports! Let me see them! I hate how Valve treats them in comparison to a flood of legacy games and new shitware games that don't run consistently.

Obviously fuck Valve for so many other reasons, but *this* really pissed me off today. Thanks for the "Just Breaks" experience GabeN

On a closer analysis, it seems that the coal expansion in Germany has more to do with trying to take advantage of high energy prices, and that even assuming the continuation of status quo, Germany would be just fine with their current coal reserves until the planned transition in 2030.

So while yes, a genuinely green transition has to include de-growth, this isn't even govt & corps facing a harsh reality, but them making deliberate choices based on economic incentives.

https://coaltransitions.org/publications/gasknappheit-auswirkungen-auf-die-auslastung-der-braunkohlekraftwerke-und-den-erhalt-von-lutzerath/

Posting or boosting content that is traumatic to trans people without a CW is collaborating with our enemies. Stop helping them hurt us.

Hey infosec people: do me a favor and assume the "use case" for anyone you don't know personally includes facing poverty, discrimination, state-sponsored oppression, corporate surveillance, domestic abuse and harassment while using your product.

Then design accordingly.

please and thanks

Please don’t confuse what is legal with what is right. There is some overlap, of course, but not as much as one might think. Laws are generally written by the rich and powerful to protect their interests, often at the expense of the poor and weak. Many atrocities are lawful, and many acts of mercy are unlawful. I say this as an attorney.

me: ok i did a task where's the dopamine

my brain: ...

me: brain,
me: brain where is the dopamine?

brain: was it a special interest?

me: no

brain: was it one of 5 things your hyperfixated on rn?

me: (tiredly) no

brain: what does that mean?

me (exesperated): no dopamine

brain: thats right! no dopamine!

brain: have a nice day!

"stroustrup" sounds like a legacy C string function that has been proven to have 3 different memory safety issues

Huh.

The richest people are meeting at Davos and they have HEPA filters in every room, they PCR test everyone, disabling your key card if you fail to test or test positive, and wear winter clothes indoors, which suggests plenty of ventilation.

Wonder why kids in schools, ppl in hospitals, malls, libraries, or shelters don't need all these too?

One standard for them, one for those of us who keep the economy going for them.

#CovidIsNotOver

This is the epitome of #privilege in #tech. White tech-bros earning millions on the sweat labor of Black workers. And the great irony is that the Kenyan labor force was working to make the system less racist:

“ChatGPT’s predecessor had already shown an impressive ability to string sentences together. But it was a difficult sell, as the app was also prone to blurting out violent, sexist and racist remarks.”

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

#ChatGPT #WhitePrivilege #Exploitation #Labor #TechBros