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

boston university fucked up their hrt guidelines on their website for injectable estradiol and this has probably hurt an indefinite amount of people

today I walked past this shop who clearly have a lot of stories to tell about alcohol licensing laws

So many free bikes!

gah. I've said this before, but I /hate/ intermediate waits. if something happens in like 0-4 seconds, that's great. I can just focus on it. if something takes an hour to run, that's fine too, because I can do other stuff in the background.

but things that take like 20 seconds to 2 minutes are the worst, because they're just long enough for me to task-switch away, but not so long that it makes sense to have a notification system to tell me when they're done

"Now that it is becoming safer to come together..."

I used to pride myself in having a large selection of facepalm gifs to react to things like this.... but I feel this deserves all of them chained into a loop and put on repeat for 10 hours.

Never forget that while HIV was killing "the right people" conservatives were cheering it on. They didn't bother pushing for treatments, a cure, preventative measures until white hetero dudes started to get it in droves.

And even then they'd rather teens not be able to get condoms

The key unlock was deleted in newer PLC software versions, but the lock logic remained.

After a certain update by NEWAG, the cabin controls would also display scary messages about copyright violations if the HMI detected a subset of conditions that should've engaged the lock but the train was still operational.

The trains also had a GSM telemetry unit that was broadcasting lock conditions, and in some cases appeared to be able to lock the train remotely.

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We found that the PLC code actually contained logic that would lock up the train with bogus error codes after some date, or if the train wasn't running for a given time. One version of the controller actually contained GPS coordinates to contain the behaviour to third party workshops.

It was also possible to unlock the trains by pressing a key combination in the cabin controls. None of this was documented.

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I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.

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if we can't preserve the history of our queer activists, writers, artists, scientists, musicians, inventors, sportspeople, intelligentsia, journalists, philosophers, and many others — who are the queer people of the future going to look at as an example? we can't grind each other into dust like that, heterosexist hegemony is already doing it. this is more important than any money or fame or clicks or internet clout.

history and culture is written by the winners, and often the winners are privileged people with money and power and fame. if we have to fight our erasure, if we are to ever win the fight against capitalism and sexism and queerphobia and other forms of oppression, we need to keep our collective memory. our culture. we have to stick together. otherwise, we will be preyed on one by one. we only have each other. how else can we survive?

and like, it's not like i fucking care about copyright. i don't give a single pissed finger about copyright. it's a tool of capital. but i care about history and i care about people. do you know how many inventions were wrongly attributed to white cishet men, stolen from bipoc and queer people and women? and later people say we never were remarkable, we never existed, we are untermensch.

it's a direct spit in the face of me and other future young queer creators who are afraid of being erased too. it's like he is saying "see what i did? i can just steal your shit and claim it as mine. no matter how much you worked. no matter how much you love your craft or fought for your rights. no matter how much you sacrificed. i will leave you in dust while you will perish. leave. no one needs you." this is the message i get.

and to see james do the same thing to other creators, who fallen victims to the AIDS epidemic that shattered the queer community, that left so many people in misery...is disgusting. it's a direct spit not only in the face of the people who had their work stolen by james, but queer community at large. (4/?)

the fact that i exist right now, that you read my posts right now, is in spite of all of that. in spite of all of the erasure. of all the hate and abuse. and i am incredibly lucky to have people who support me. there are teens my age *who never made it*. and their memory was desecrated by their parents, their peers, their family, their society. their names disregarded, their identities misgendered. stripped off the last dignity they could've had

every day i exist in a country which gov wants people like me dead, among people who think i am some kind of terrorist or an "agent of western world that wants to destroy us". or that i am out to get someone's kids because i am transgender. or that i am a "son who lost his way and needs god and punishment in his life". among people who don't care to stand up for my rights, because they think they're not necessary or "distract from class war"

you see, i am a queer film student myself. just like james. i am currently my second year into my studies, and i want to create art and videos on youtube and movies and tv series and videogames. and i feel so afraid because i am so unprivileged that i feel like i might be erased without a trace if i ever catch someone's eye. and james' success gave me some kind of hope.

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