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

@SleepyCatten @lauraamalasunta ok I really wanted this to exist, so

#anarchism #activism

"The only dangerous minority is the rich"
Sticker seen in New Orleans, Louisiana

In case you didn’t know, the Met Police in London looked to get a cut of all uses of police boxes in Doctor Who merch.

The U.K. Patent Office found against them, on the basis that, by now, a police box was just the TARDIS, and the Met were no Time Lords.

"I don't want to play Monopoly anymore"
Sticker spotted in Boston, Massachusetts

Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)

https://github.com/haileys/bark

It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.

I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.

It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:

This social network could have been a forum.

@ricardoharvin “Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

– Naomi Shulman

If you value civility rather than kind honesty, you are part of the problem.

Civility and niceness are tools of oppression, meant to blunt all incisive expressions of truth.

"Nice [i.e., civil] people made the best Nazis."

Tech cos: we will prosecute and harrass anyone caught scraping or pirating us. ☠️
Also tech cos: Ai was trained by scraping and pirating you ❤.

Anyone near Cambridge UK wanting old, possibly non working, 80s computer shit and able to collect in the next week?

I think I have a C64, Amiga 1200, maybe a ZX81

I've been returning to that imagery a lot lately... juicing people. Like the system is mashing you up against the reamer, squeezing all your juice into a cup. That's your life they're squeezing out. And the fundamental conceit of capitalism is that the system not only -exists- to juice you, but only so that someone else can collect and own your juice. That the point of civilization is for someone in a nice suit to juice you dry, and leave your juice to their kids.

You? You're the pulp and rind.

#wikipedia

Dates.

When you share a note or post or something similar about a software tool, your audience needs to easily, quickly know the **date** of when you're sharing this info.

I keep stumbling into posts or videos that are years out of date— but this is only obvious after digging into them in depth because the authors think it's cute to make a web log that obfuscates dates (one of the most basic facets of a log).

Related: if your site has search?

Yep, your audience would really appreciate it if you display the date associated with each. (It's me. "Your audience" is me.)

Great news! Humans are now slower and perform worse at solving Captchas than machine-learning bots!

Article here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108