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

If you think posting about alcohol or drugs without a content warning, please kindly fuck off and never show up on my timeline ever again.

It’s kinda weird that ENT (Ear, Nose, Throat) doctors in Germany have zero air filters installed in their waiting rooms, walk around without masks and complain about their employees calling in sick. Anyway. I was the only one wearing a mask and thankfully no one tried to discuss.

Hello, friend!

I have to say, in the successive wakes of big media companies losing licenses for and deactivating access to digital media (books, music, video), I'm thinking that if purchased licenses cannot legally be perpetual, what's to keep us from deciding not to respect copyright?

If I've licensed a shitload of digital media and I want perpetual private access, wouldn't torrenting and archive.org and other ways to get that content be at least morally/ethically right?

Note I haven't done anything like download torrents of all the movies, ebooks, and music that I've licensed through various media companies. But I sure am thinking about it. And thinking about whether I have local storage to support it. The cloud is "convenient" but not if they can take away my viewing permissions arbitrarily.

Redo, maar met alt text.

Every time I think about how much of the world’s most-used software runs on infrastructure wholly owned and operated by either Google or Amazon with no insight into that underlying infra, I get this feeling of creeping dread

Google ain’t just search, y’all
Amazon ain’t just a storefront

Those fucken goobers effectively control the world

Brazilian delivery workers have a new way to protect themselves: the bololô — an impromptu protest at the home of nasty customers, involving groups of workers driving around in circles, honking, chanting, and setting off fireworks
https://restofworld.org/2023/bololo-delivery-workers-fireworks-horns-protest/

Via tumblr:
(https://www.tumblr.com/futurebird/735700044986105856/image-descriptions-mattxiv-posts-a-series-of?source=share)

(Original post on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0U4FnMJmn0/ )

There were no image descriptions on the tumblr post I took the time to add them.

Good Monday morning, fellas.

#openstreetmap While I was generating some numbers on editor usage yesterday (for the @geomob podcast we just recorded and maybe for a diary post too), I noticed a massive (at least in OSM terms) anomaly in the newbie signup rates for RapiD (Facebooks iD fork). In February 2023 it rocketed up to nearly 3'000 to then return to the previous couple of dozen per month.

Anybody know the background here?

Sometimes it's hard to know if a community or project is sexist or horrible or what. People have said that about #OpenStreetMap.

All I know is, I came out as a #trans woman, stood for reelection to the #OSMF Board, and *quadrupled* my votes.

Be careful with simple narratives. 🙂

I like this method of locking together laser-cut wood pieces, very clever! cc @s_ol

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/04/this-laser-cut-one-piece-wedge-tenon-locks-wood-joints-tight/

Angebot ist beendet.. Der Kühlschrank wurde abgeholt.
Danke an alle Booster!
Hätte den Post auch löschen können, aber dann wären die hilfreichen Antworten weg.

Ursprünglicher Text:
Hat Jemand in 64297 #Darmstadt Verwendung für eine Kühl-/Gefrierschrank-Kombination, BJ 2007 von Miele, top gepflegt, voll funktionsfähig, kostenlos an Selbstabholer abzugeben (Abholung bis 19.12.)? Oder kennt Jemand mit Bedarf? Es wäre traurig, wenn das Teil auf dem Sperrmüll landen würde.

#fedigive
#wish2hand

was reminded of this old banger of a tweet so i'm reposting it here on mastodon after *checks watch* 9 years

A visual representation of how high 2:1 isometric blocks should be

#PixelArt #GameDev

"What is AI? It is a marketing term. It's a way to make automation sound magical. As such it is a way to dodge accountability by making machines sound like autonomous entities rather than tools created by people and companies. Discussion about this technology becomes much clearer when we replace "AI" with "automation" and ask: What is automated? Who is automating? Who is profiting and who is harmed?"
- @emilymbender

https://youtu.be/eK0md9tQ1KY?si=DmIPhir4VQ0tNg3O

@smveerman @Gaelan the rare one is "Plan uw reis in de internationale app", for when the HSL falls over