Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

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The latest edition went out yesterday, and you can find it here:
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The fact you're looking at this on an ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse app demonstrates that a community of focused individuals can create a global-scale network around an open standard that rivals (or, frankly, beats) pretty much anything capitalism could create, even at its 'best'.

And these communities create without profit motive - just because they share a vision and think it'd be a good thing. All they require is sustainability, not exploitative profit.

I think that's worth celebrating.

If I have to prove I'm not a computer by identifying traffic lights and busses, perhaps we're not quite ready for self-driving cars.

What in the name of Harry Houdini is going on here….

Gesprekje gisteren.
"Ik ben hier met de trein gekomen", en jij dan?"
Ik: "met de auto, ik mijd het OV sinds 2020."
"Ach ja, vervelend he dat gedoe met die mondkapjes?"
Ik: "Integendeel, waren die nog maar verplicht, want dan was ik nu wel met de trein gekomen".

Wat een bizar land zijn we, dat als iemand het OV mijdt de 'logische' aanname is dat dat is vanwege verplichte mondkapjes, in plaats van om te voorkomen dat je ziek wordt bij gebrek daaraan.

and can someone from pleroma or akkoma report this status so I can test if federated reports from those instance types work? thank you!

Yes, surveillance capitalism gives us some material things that are useful.

There are also about a billion things we have never even tried out because rich people believe there's no money in it! Maybe some of those things will also be useful and we should try those instead. Just sayin!!!!

Kijk nou, de staat heeft toch nog wat gevonden om te privatiseren

"De staat onderhandelt over de verkoop van een deel van stroomnetbeheerder Tennet. Die deal kan vele miljarden opleveren, maar ligt politiek gevoelig. Volgens een vorig jaar verschenen rapport is „een geïntegreerd Tennet van groot strategisch belang” voor Nederland."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/01/24/kabinet-negeert-verzet-tennet-en-wil-duitse-tak-verkopen-a4155219

Zet maar vast in je agenda! Woonprotest in Zaanstad. 25 maart. 15 uur vanaf het Stadhuis (=uitgang station centrum kant)

I occasionally see trans people wondering when their family will come around, and I don't mean to be pessimistic but in my experience, if they don't take to it quickly and naturally then they probably never will without you forcing the issue.

It sucks. I know.

Customer: BRITISH EXPRESSION, SHORT FOR: WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY FRIEND? WILL BE GOING ON AN ELECTRIC CAR - HENCE THE WATT PUN. WATT IS THE SI UNIT FOR POWER.
DMV: YOU WAIT A MINUTE

Verdict: ACCEPTED

Polite reminder that while it is essential that people who are *able* should utilize the image description function and add alt text for people reliant on screenreaders... please don't assume that everyone who doesn't do so is ignorant or doing so out of malice.

There are competing disabilities that make even something as "simple" as adding alt text not so easy. Near every time I see a PSA about alt text, people neglect to phrase it in a way that is considerate of this.
#accessibility #captions

I'm confused when devs claim that you can't experiment with software on the fediverse. I have spent the last 5 years of my life building experimental software on the fediverse, and people have been very supportive!

There is a MASSIVE design space for weird ideas that are not just dressed-up surveillance capitalism, but so many devs come here saying "I will try out some dressed-up surveillance capitalism" and then act like their genius design thinking is being stymied when people say "fuck off"

Let me be as blunt as I can. #CloudFlare wants to own the entire Internet. Everything they do, however cool and good it may seem, is in service of that goal.

They're well on their way, seeing as they're being used by more than 20% of the entire web already.

All of this is legal and "Good Capitalism™".

What can you do?

1/2

Taking Responsibility.

#WebComics #Comics

Dear journalists, sign up as a regular person on a regular instance and see what normal human society and its standards are like. You might like it.

Journalism organisations, set up your own fucking servers and then get judged on your own merits (or lack thereof) instead of those of the dickheads you sign up alongside.

You may quote me on this.