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Wrote an email to my MP to ask them to ban all private jets

No need to reply to tell me this was pointless or something

(Boosting this is fine, for the record, there's nothing private on there)

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Megabus (RIP) was definitely a very professional bus company

In 2024, $.32 gets you a Cortex M0, 4kB RAM, 16kB flash and a built-in 24MHz oscillator. All in a package that's terrifyingly close to being accidentally swallowable.

lcsc.com/product-detail/Microc

(index finger for scale - blurred so i don't get comments about fingerprint opsec)

video game where you play as the person who is the main character of every tycoon/management game at once

@ben I have to give this idea a very definitive and unambiguous maybe

Tijdens een verjaardagfeest zagen we een andere manier om stickers te gebruiken. Een bekende van ons kreeg een cadeau ingepakt met rood-zwart plakband. Toen de jarige vroeg, waar de persoon zo zulk mooi plakband vandaan kwam, bleek het in stukjes geknipte stickers te zijn. De gene die het cadeautje gaf kon de plakband niet vinden.

Niet helemaal waar stickers voor bedoelt zijn. Al deed het ons denken, aan iets wat we deden bij de lokale ABC. Daar verknipte we stickers om die weer op kaarten te plakken en opstuurde naar gevangen.

Een mede activist van ons gebruikt stickers als boodschappenlijstje. Op de achterkant schrijft hij wat hij moet halen. Als hij alles heeft, plakt ie de sticker in de buurt van de winkel.

I doubt this solution will ever make it into the Matrix protocol, to be clear. I gave up on the MSC process a while ago. But I'll definitely be working on it for .

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The official word from the #nixos foundation in today's live Q&A session is (paraphrased) "oh there's always someone who's going to object to something so we don't want to make any decisions regarding ethics".

What a fucking cop out. And what an insult to the community. Imagine thinking this is an appropriate response to 128 contributors signing an open letter within 24h condemning an ethical decision that you've made.

Curiously, it looks like this problem can be solved with basically the same mechanism as the Spaces access control replication MSC that I wrote a while ago

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Huh, I think I might have found a solution for the problem in Matrix where 'roles' are really difficult to implement because they break orderability assumptions in the stateres protocol

The tragedy of the commons is that under capitalism we don’t have one.

All 10 Irish bands listed as official Republic Of Ireland showcase artists at this year’s SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas have cancelled their participation after news that the US Army was listed as a festival “Featured Partner”, along with and defence companies RTX (formally Raytheon), Collins Aerospace, and BAE Systems.

The wave of cancelations include 70 additional bands from countries other than Ireland.

nialler9.com/all-irish-bands-h
#SXSW

In de politiek wordt nu een frame voorgehouden dat het 'demonstratierecht' zich in de afgelopen jaren ontwikkeld zou hebben. Dat is dikke onzin. Het recht is niet wezenlijk veranderd, behalve dat de burgemeesters vaker misbruik maken van hun bevoegdheden om demonstraties te onderdrukken. Wat veranderd is, is dat burgers hun recht om te demonstreren vaker gebruiken.

Some elevators help you envision equivalent measurement classifications.
(Not my photo. Just for fun I searched "Volskwagen". It's a common misspelling, apparently) duckduckgo.com/?q=%22volskwage

warm take, software dev adjacent 

A knowledge differential is a power dynamic, and if your system is not documented to a degree that people can wholly independently understand it, you hold power over them and should be taking on the corresponding responsibilities

it's hard wanting to be less cynical while also remaining aware of how fucked up things are

Hello dear Fediverse, if you receive this message this means time travel is successful. In my timeline it is the year 2006 and I am curious what will await me in the future.

Please tell me how is the world like in your timeline and what are some changes I can expect when my timeline catches up with yours.

I will reply to you back later. In the meantime I will check out a Linkin Park CD I got from a friend.
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