Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

reminder:

don't log into notbird.site. i no longer own the domain, the notbird mastodon instance was shut down in early 2022.

the live site right now is a honeypot of some kind, using a surface-level scrape from 2019.

i have tried reporting it to the domain registrar, cloudflare and their VPS provider but none of them gave a shit 🤷

how to do tables in matrix

I understand why animals chase their own tail now 😅

I was on VRchat last night and noticed something out of the corner of my eye. When I turned around, it wasn't there. So I kept turning until I realized that I was chasing the tail on my avatar. 🤣

I didn't have to argue for codes of conduct, or why harassment is bad, or why pronoun stickers are a good idea. There's a huge amount of privilege in that, of course; Rust isn't as fully inclusive as it needs to be, but it was still night and day by comparison to every other tech event I've been to.

never trust someone who hates furries

Growing #Garlic? It's time to check if you have any garlic scapes, because if you don't take them off, you'll end up with small bulbs in the ground.

Short blogpost with detailed pictures on what to do. https://www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2019/06/garlic-scapes.html

FYI: you can eat scapes - cut them up and use them in anything from omelettes to curries.

#Garlic #Gardening #GrowYourOwn

(Edited to add the point you can also eat them)

I kinda wish all papers had a one-paragraph section, similar in size and style to the Acknowledgement, on origin of the project. I think it'd make a lot more of the process of science more transparent, esp to newcomers.

#academia #openscience #research

Anyone know any good resources tracking patterns/prints across 20th century time periods—not upper-class, but middle- & working-class fabrics/clothing? I’m currently looking for 1980s

#textiles #fashionhistory #textiledesign #textileHistory

What's the best way to render high-detailed @openstreetmap tiles in vector format for large format printing?

the term 'biological pronouns' really shows how anglocentric a lot of the loudest transphobes are because like...there are so many languages without gendered pronouns at all.

hey look, an actually useful orange-site comment, about HP ink cartridge hardware hacking

"Put a resistor, about 1kohm, in the power line to the security chip on the cartridge.

Now, whenever the printer tries to read data from the chip, it works. Whenever it tries to record data to the chip (for example, marking the cartridge as empty), that uses more power, and the memory chip doesn't respond.

Amazingly, the whole setup just works and prints forever, saying the cartridges are always full... "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104300

nintendo's really having a blast telling everyone to pirate their games! so far in the past couple of months, nintendo has:

- shut down the eshop for wii u/3ds
- issued a DMCA to lockpickRCM, preventing switch owners from legally obtaining keys needed for emulation (and it caused a switch emulator to shut down due to fears they'd be DMCA'd too)
- sent a new 3DS update that blocked all free methods of homebrewing the console
- and just recently, they told steam to take down the dolphin emulator

remember: pirating nintendo games is good.
(edit: fix'd some info!)

A computer can never be held accountable

therefore a computer must never make a management decision