Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Here's what I think of when I see (white) liberals/leftists pushing the notion that addressing economics & class issues will drive out prejudice and fascism:

2 of my 3 siblings left our family's working class origins behind when they got solid middle class jobs that employed them until retirement. They lead comfortable lives for much of their adulthood.

And yet, they never stopped being racist assholes. They never let go of their sexism. They never stopped seeing queer people as defective.

The absolute fucking gall of #Github to claim in their celebratory blogpost that actually, *they* are responsible for "developers no longer just being people building software for tech companies", and that they are "always putting developers first" in the same line as where they bring up Copilot.

Fuck you, Github. Sincerely, go fuck yourself. We were here before you, and this isn't your fucking achievement to claim. You *co-opted* the FOSS community, you didn't fucking create it.

(This is the post in question, by the way: https://github.blog/2023-01-25-100-million-developers-and-counting/)

I'd like to see more fediverse things that make use of the fact that it's a federated system where anything that follows an API can interact, rather than just trying to recreate an experience from a different, commercial website

A silly custom fediverse idea: a server with a fictional bus you can board (by replying to certain posts and then following the account - you have to board the bus for the request to be approved). You then can see posts about different bus stops, and can get off at different points and explore (follow new accounts you previously couldn't)

With an open activitypub API I feel like you could do some cool interactive fiction things

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The chat room for nonsense and annoying customers: oooftopic

In the textiles industry, misaligned patterns is a looming issue.

I remember reading rooms were much more popular to have at home when I was growing up in the early 90s. I still visit a few old houses that have those, such a nice atmosphere

#3d #lowpoly #MastoArt #art

I tried to get them to voluntarily stop, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to recommend a #Fediblock against flockingbird.social

They are scraping post content and making it searchable

*Edit:* It will be difficult if not impossible to block them, because they are evidently getting their content from the hashtag timeline API of botsin.space

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/timelines/#tag

Free Advertising Update (see thread): between emails, DMs and replies on this thread I've had somewhere between 33 and 38 people ask for advertising, and I've put 33 ads up (some weren't a good fit or had bugs that firefox didn't like).

The recurring theme is that all these sites are WEIRD

I'd forgotten how WEIRD was the realm of the personal hobby website

It is truly wonderful browsing these sites and I will generate a full page of them for you all soon

For those that don't know or won't watch the video, starting in the late 1950s, bipoc people in the Palm Springs area who could afford the more expensive homes outside of redlined neighborhoods, were living in an area known as Section 14, and were hastily evicted from their homes purchased by development corporations. Some people even would go to work and come home to their house bulldozed over.

Any other #MastoAdmin notice that the Storj e-mail they got tonight didn't put the recipients in the BCC field so all 265 e-mails are visible? 🤣

#MastoAdmins #MastodonAdmin #MastodonAdmins

If anyone has citations for the “fix retention before you try to recruit” argument related to institutions and inclusion of minoritized demographics, my brain is broken please leave them here?

Boosts appreciated.

I like that the edit function in Mastodon alerts people who interacted with the original post.

Not sure if it was the main purpose, but it means that if you posted something and want the correction to reach those who read the original, you can append an update and everyone who boosted the original will see it.