Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

well, hackaday just died to me. their "report comment" button is officially confirmed to be little more than a placebo. quoth their official fedi account:

The "Report Comment" button is automated, if enough individual IPs click then it will take down the comment and have a human review it. But just one person clicking won't trigger any obvious change, nor notify us.

i sometimes forget that the rest of the world doesn't take moderation quite as seriously as the fediverse does

(screenshot below is just for verification - text is the same as quoted above)

reposted as public - boosts welcome

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Friendly reminder that using those 'fancy text' generators to make your name or the text in your posts all pretty makes them inaccessible to screen reader users. They can also be a pain to read visually.
to you, they're just cute lettering you can just skip over. For a screen reader user like me, depending on various things, they could come out as
'mathematical small bold k mathematical small bold a mathematical small bold r mathematical small bold a',
'letter 126b letter 17dj letter 13y7dwiz'
or nothing at all.
I'm not sure off the top of my head how they appear on a Braille display but it's bound to be a right mess.
I don't particularly call any of those pretty, do you?
Plain boring text that is accessible to everyone is the new pretty.
#a11y #accessibility

Since it's about that time of year, remember that can use your food card to purchase seeds/bulbs for edible plants as well as edible plants that are already grown.

In Duitsland is uitspreken tegen extreemrechts in de landbouw geen taboe. Hier wel, dat is voornaamste reden waarom BBB nu zo groot is.

WE HOUDEN VAN DIVERSITEIT - OOK BUITEN HET VELD

In Bioland houden we van kleurrijk – heel kleurrijk zelfs. Omdat diversiteit op alle vlakken belangrijk voor ons is, hebben we de AG opgericht tegen rechtse tendensen in. Het ontwikkelt strategieën om de vereniging Bioland te beschermen tegen rechts-extremistische invloeden, rechtse tendensen, individuen en netwerken uit dit milieu.

Bioland tolereert geen anti-constitutionele standpunten. Bioland tolereert geen standpunten die anderen gelijke deelname aan onze samenleving ontzeggen. We spreken ons duidelijk uit tegen racisme, antisemitisme, seksisme en tegen alle andere vormen van groepsgerelateerde vijandschap.

Bioland streeft het idee na van een landbouwsysteem dat kan bijdragen aan duurzame, milieu-, dier- en mensvriendelijke landbouw in elke regio van de wereld. Hoewel Bioland voornamelijk actief is als ledenvereniging in Duitsland, is het idee van biologisch-biologische landbouw universeel. In die zin maakt Bioland deel uit van de biologische landbouwbeweging in Europa en wereldwijd (IFOAM). Onze wereld ligt open.

Lees verder in het artikel

https://www.bioland.de/buntes-bioland?

Ik werk met collega's van allerlei nationaliteiten en beschouw het als mijn persoonlijke doel om het internationale 'Business English' te verrijken met wat Nederlands. Na 'it works as a tierelier' ben ik nu begonnen met 'Go give them van jetje!'.

being on tumblr for the goncharov incident has made me realize how those ancient stories and myths got made up. some fucker went "yeah that lightning bolt? his name is zeus" and everyone just ran with it

this LLM shit is worse than the cryptocurrency nonsense because a lot of otherwise reasonable techies who saw right through the technolibertarian shit of blockchain stuff are falling head over heels for fancy expensive markov chains.

Anyway, my uncommon(?) and painful conditioning seems to be that I get dopamine from doing "useful" things, more specifically "useful in the grand scheme of things" and not "good for me".

So, things that are useful include:
- software/web development, if the end thing is deemed to be "useful" itself (e.g. my current clients all provide actual services so are useful, open source stuff is usually useful, crypto shit is decidedly not).
- doing things to be more productive at software development (like making a todo, making computer go faster, getting diagnosed with ADHD, etc).
- doing whatever is wanted of me to not be distracted from useful things.
- cooking nice food for someone else.
- feeding stray cats, sometimes.
- doing dishes or laundry, but only if I'm not in the mood for something *more* useful.

Things that are NOT USEFUL and mentally *painful* include:
- long-term planning of software projects in writing.
- doing anything about my long-term health, like exercising regularly.
- cooking for myself.
- cleaning up my workplace if everything needed still fits.
- accounting (unless threatened by tax office for Nth time)
- literally any potential hobby after twenty minutes or so.

For some of these music or podcasts help ease the pain a bit (dishes were much worse before I got wireless headphones), for others not so much.

A ton of work to be done here, but I'm struggling to convince myself it's useful.

Maybe I should just stop being lazy, lol.

can we please just have a society where people can devote all their time and energy to fucked up art projects if they want to? the world could be so much weirder

I see the liberals are trying to catch nazis in logical fallacies again as some way to triumph over them. Unfortunately, while it might feel good to go "ha! they can't even define what woke actually means!" the thing is that it doesn't matter to them

The right doesn't care if it lacks definitions or if it's hypocritical or even contradictory. "Woke" is just their dog whistle for "people we want to exterminate" that they can say without being perceived as "not being rude", something the liberal establishment seems to care more about than the underlying sentiment

Saying "you can't even define woke" is about as effective as saying "the president is not named Brandon". It doesn't matter. The important thing is that "let's go Brandon" gives them social cover that "fuck the president" doesn't

Stop asking nazis to define woke and start telling them that you know they want to commit genocide and you'll fight them

Your insipid word games aren't going to beat fascism