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

So are you.... you know, a friend of Xenia?

Reminder that fascists believe whatever is convenient for their goals at the time and are utterly unbothered by people pointing out inconsistencies or hypocrisy in their actions, statements, policies, or ideology

What would a doctrine of squatter's rights look like for digital places?

I don't really think this is realistic. It would be nice if there were provisions to more easily turn a website over to collective ownership. Leave it to the users to keep the server coffers full. There are places that work in this manner but in a legal sense they aren't really governed this way. Almost always there are 1 or 2 people who could simply shut the place down. Or let it slowly fall apart neglecting software.

Online communities are real communities. People have met future spouses, weathered difficult life events, organized politically, raised money to help each other all through the panoply of social websites.

Often community rules and culture are guided by moderators, who almost always work for free.

Despite all of this we generally accept that these are not the people who own the website or the ones who control its fate.

Over and over this creates heartache and disappointment.

Everything happening with Reddit will happen with GitHub.

I wonder if there's any games out there that exploit the "moving black shape on an OLED screen" phenomenon

I found the post, here's a thread of me banging on about about how recency-focused social media makes good stuff harder to find

https://mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/110401485793795904

It took me a bit to find it because I had to scroll past all the memes and shite I posted since then

just found out about the twitch stuff

they announced that putting any graphics related to a brand larger than 3% of the stream size into your stream or ANY advertisements that are not done via jeff bezos amazon twitch will get you banned

then 1 day later after everyone complained on twitter and threatened to leave, they removed the weirdly arbitrary 3% rule and removed the infographic explaining the advertising restrictions from the help article

the restrictions are still in the terms of service, along with a new rule that you are not allowed to stream simultaneously on twitch and any other platform even if you make no money from twitch and have no business agreement with twitch

and if you're a twitch partner or affiliate and you decide you don't want to agree to the new terms of service, twitch will charge you $25

isolation sucks

Being chronically ill and isolated sucks.

Yet society is deadset on making itself as hostile as possible for people like me to survive in it. I wish our communities fought against the normalization of death/mass-disablement and did more collective action like mutual aid. Instead, folks like me get tossed out as inconvenient and left behind.

It hurts even more when my communities claim to 'leave no one behind' and yet people like me (millions of us) are being left behind anyway due to lack of accessibility (Covid mitigations are part of accessibility by the way) and mutual aid to aid in our survival in an increasingly warming, hostile-to-life world.

It's so... exhausting and dispiriting.

Check in with disabled people. Aid us and support us, and please stop leaving us behind. Be accessible, please.

#Accessibility #MutualAid #CollectiveCare #PandemicMitigations #StopIsolatingDisabledPeople

No random open source application, I do not want to join your Discord channel for support.

There's this really cool technology called hypertext markup language, and if you use it for your documentation another piece of amazing technology called a search engine can help me find the answer I'm looking for

And the real magic is you only have to answer it once and the answer helps anyone. You don't have to answer the same question every day. This frees you up for more fun development

So today, joepie went to Walibi Belgium and almost got into a fight with one of the security people working there.

I wonder whether it's standard policy to respond to something unsafely-designed breaking off a ride, by ejecting guests from the park, extorting them, and then trying to restrain them - emphasis on "trying", dude was all muscle with no strength and the panic visibly set in once he realized I wasn't falling for his intimidation tactics.

"You need to pay 800 euro to replace it, otherwise we have to call the cops and you will be here for a couple of hours"

And having the fucking gall to claim that I was obviously intentionally breaking it because I pushed down on it. As a kidney patient I need to support myself on my arms to be able to get out safely, asshole. It's not *my* problem that your ride isn't designed correctly, and you're lucky this didn't end with me falling down.

It's a small consolation that mister security guard probably came away from this with more stress than I did; he was clearly not prepared for an apparent weak target to bite back... and the aggression was very much predatory.

I'm physically fine, cops have taken statements (and already concluded from security footage that it was obviously accidental), and I'm back home now. To be continued. I definitely want *at the very least* an apology from Walibi Belgium for the way I've been treated there.