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

I don’t need “ai” in my terminal, I’m perfectly capable of typing something that looks plausible but does something completely unexpected myself thanks

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so apparently there's a museum dedicated to old telephony/communication adjacent stuff in Seattle on the west coast of the US, and most of the volunteers under 40 are very visibly queer, why am I not surprised?

"Fortune favors the bold." is a common misconception. What you're actually seeing there is survivorship bias. Most adventurers don't survive the first goblin, but nobody tells stories about them.

So, it's confirmed that it did cause more harm than initially thought.
A database cleanup on ragelove caused follower and follows connections to be dropped with Weirder.earth. (it's not because a suspend un-suspend or anything like that, it's because the script apparently saw the server as unavailable and purged)

That means you might still see us as following each other, but I don't, so you need to unfollow and follow again. I noticed it on two friends because I was talking with them that they, and then hoped it was just a visual glitch, I was wrong.

So if you think we're mutuals can you check in with me so I can refollow your w e account! If you're on that server and sees this, boosts are also welcome.

95% of PC cases now have buttons and ports on upper surface. Apparently people who are responsible for design of those, nowadays don't even try to take into account the case "I have a cat who occassionally steps on power button".

i received a DM earlier. i am not going to call out the person who DM'd me, but i am going to publicly share my response, because it is important. the context is @drewdevault@fosstodon.org's blog post earlier today about RMS. the person DMing me suggests for the "proper" place for this discussion was in the FSF channels and with RMS himself.

my response is this, verbatim:


"no. if we cannot discuss issues like this in places not directly controlled by the people at the root of the issue - e.g. in this instance, RMS and people sympathetic to him - then the reality is that we cannot discuss them at all.

we cannot restrict the discussion of difficult topics to forums controlled by people who might rather not have those topics talked about. there is a power imbalance, whether or not that power is used.

is free speech still free speech if, whether by rule or by cultural norm, you are only to criticize a king from within his castle, surrounded by his guards, with only the audience of himself and those who have chosen to be in that environment? even if the guards take no action against you, and allow you to freely speak your mind, there is no question in that situation that you do not hold the power, and you are at the mercy of those who do.

and, ever so frequently, they do exercise the power to silence or eject you, and if we do as you suggest, you are left with no acceptable avenue in which to exercise your right to speak.

you must be able to criticize the king in your home, or in the tavern, or on the streets, or wherever you choose, in places where his guards have no power. you must be able to do this with other people who would not have chosen to subject themselves to the king's court. you must be able to loudly proclaim his faults, so that those who would never have had reason to find themselves in his castle may hear, and understand.

the king will not dethrone himself because someone entered his court and made a good point. he will dethrone himself because crowds of people outside his court are making their opinions known, and he knows that if he does not, the castle he worked so hard to build will fall with him inside."

a friend is having a tough time on all area's of her life and is desperately fighting her suicidality and trying to be alive.
She's hurt by posts about nazi's she keeps seeing.
She sees the discourse of people saying 'this is to important to CW'.
My friend can't cope with this news today. She shouldn't have to.

People who have the mental capacity to get angry about the news in healthy ways, probably also have enough spoons to click on that 'show more' button.

Yes it's important. But it needs to be CW'd.

(it's nazis today and racism tomorrow and war yesterday and transphobia next week. Please CW them all.)

Looking for someone in #Seattle who is capable of soldering leads onto a few routers so we can access their serial ports. All of these routers are the same model, I even have an example router that has the TX, RX and Ground pins soldered.

Trying to debug mainline OpenWRT boot issues on this model of device, which is hard to do without seeing the device's log while booting up.

This is wild, a conference listed fake women speakers and when the legit speakers found out they started pulling out, then it turned out one of the fake profiles was also being used catfish style https://www.linkedin.com/posts/efong_gergely-orosz-gergelyorosz-on-x-activity-7134354325253877760-PXuq

I want you to imagine this for a moment-

What if every time you posted anything relating to christianity, regardless of if it is an offhand mention of a family gathering, a silly Christmas shitpost like a 'Mariah Carey defrosting' meme, or even just saying 'merry Christmas to those who celebrate' day of, you had random people (or at least had to emotionally prepare for the fact there was a very real possibility people would likely) comment things like "wow, really?! you're posting about Christmas right now? when the USA, a majority christian country that has tons of leaders who claim to stand for christian values in their decisions is actively supporting and sending weapons to a country committing genocide? you are truly disgusting!"

Regardless of the fact the post never mentions support for the US governments actions on this or anything else. Regardless of if you have things in your profile or posts directly criticizing this specifically, of if you live in/were from/had ever been to the USA, or any other actually relevant factor to your views on that government action.

And no matter what you replied they would continue to insist your random mention of Christmas inherently implied support for those actions. And more people might join in. And it wouldn't just be about social media or followers- what if you knew countless people like you were being harassed, losing friends, losing social standing and work connections, even being sent death threats over posts with the mere mention of their Christian background in it?

That is something Jews (and Muslims, don't you dare twist this into an excuse for Islamophobia!) experience regularly at the mere mention of our religion, and many of us have our whole lives! I come from a big Jewish family which places a lot of importance on our Jewish heritage and culture, all of whom staunchly support Palestine- and that is in no way contradictory! The vast majority of Jews I have known in my entire life support the Free Palestine movement!

What the Israeli government is doing right now is genocide. The idea all Jews support it and anyone speaking against it is being antisemitic is a purposeful use of misinformation to gain public support (especially by governments and people that really only care about their own financial interests in the war and are therefore actively assisting that genocide), because it is way easier to get away with doing awful things for their own gain if they immediately shut down any and every criticism as being inherently antisemitic and scare others away from being vocal (especially other politicians and powerful groups) with the clear threat of being labeled bigots.

There are countless Jewish organizations, religious leaders, professors of Judaism, and individuals putting forward statements supporting Palestine, reaching out to their governments, and participating in activist movements loudly and openly fighting against the actions of the Israeli government! The people spreading this lie and purposefully erasing that are using care more about taking advantage of the concept of Jewishness and antisemitism as a tool to silence others matters more than respecting our clearly stated beliefs about our own religion! THAT is antisemitic!

Don't buy into this bullshit, and don't attack random Jews for acknowledging their religion in ways that have nothing to do with the Israeli government's actions. Hannukah is in early December this year and I and other Jews should not have to be afraid to mention it for fear of harassment. Don't contribute to it and if you see it- step up and do something! Stand up for them directly, talk to your admins about having rules that support Jews in your online community, and please educate yourself and others (the burden of education should not fall on the Jews who are already dealing with this harassment!).

And for the love of god support the Free Palestine movement! No killing of innocent people is okay, but equating the actions of a terrorist extremist group with an entire demographic is absurd and claiming the creation of and actions of extremists in response to an ongoing genocide somehow justifies the ongoing atrocities of the genocide is absolute bullshit.

I am too tired to give a full list of resources right now but there is a good info to start to understand the harms of the state of Israel and the concept of anti-zionist Jews at https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/zionism/

-a Jew who is both exhausted and disgusted at all of this

​ Boosts appreciated! Any and everyone who comes into the comments with any kind of bigotry or 'but what about' bullshit will immediately be blocked and reported. I am not looking for feedback or a debate, I am sharing factual information and a view based on my own religious and moral beliefs. I do not care about your 'well actually' and will not engage with it.