Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

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thinking a lot about tech layoffs today especially the believers who assured us that automation will rid us of repetitive monotonous tasks, freeing up time to do things we enjoy...

sometimes when you drink water you can /feel/ the hitpoints returning to your body

time to post again the best user interface i've ever seen

…And on that last note, I’ve been trying to find alternatives to Raspberry Pi – would be very interested if folks have any leads… especially to boards that can be used for education.

#Education #singleBoardComputers #RaspberryPi #alternatives #ARM

Semi-public networks with 802.1x are bad. Why would Eduroam exclude people who are not students? It's not like students are using Eduroam exclusively for educational usage. Now there's also https://publicroam.nl

The only right solution is the one that I've seen deployed at CCC: validate the certificate, but accept all credentials. You can send traffic through an encrypted tunnel to protect against metadata analysis by fellow network users (but not the admin and rest of the internet).

RPGs are a scam because they hinge on the idea that gaining more life experience makes you more powerful instead of more tired.

I also invite folks to join their community Nextdoor and see the reasons their neighbors mention calling the police.

Y'all invoke the police for absolutely wiiild reasons -- mostly to manage your discomfort with and fear of the Other.

I think a lot about how the combination of queer people finding each other without realizing it, and the deep internalized transphobia we're all taught from birth combine into a horrible soup that causes us to do a lot of harm to each other, both before we're out to ourselves, and usually for a long time after.

My daughter told me today she no longer tidies her room, instead she 'resets' it to tidy each Sunday for the week ahead . She said mentally this helps because tidy sounds such a chore while reset doesn't, and the thought that there's a weekly reset means she doesn't feel bad if the room gets messy in the week, because she'll reset on Sunday!
Anyway I thought it was cute and might be useful for someone

you ever start reading a news article and then immediately realize 'i don't give a shit', and your life just improves immediately

hello fedi. I'm working on a game. can I get some cool gender neutral names. like your most nonbinary names. thank you

View from the inside of a cello, photograph by Charles Brooks.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/19/pictured-remarkable-picture-shows-vast-interior-ordinary-cello/

Range of progress for my avocado trees!

The first one started in a batch of three, but two of the seeds were not very good and started molding (so I tossed them). - Started doing this 23 October.

The successful seed got relocated to a bigger container of water, so it got to this point by 9 January.

#avocado #plants #mastoplants

i know that sharks are older than trees. i know it makes sense because life started in water. i also know i hate scientists for figuring this out because it FEELS WRONG

A linguistics professor was lecturing on the role of the double negative, noting that in some languages like Russian a double negative remains negative, while in other languages like French a double negative becomes positive. However, the professor observed, in no language in the world does a double positive become negative. From the back of the classroom a student replied, "Yeah. Right."