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

#Solarpunk community: please stop using AIs to generate images. Yes, I know there's very few solarpunk visual concepts. Generative AIs are predatory, anti-worker software and on top of that its energy and water consumption is huge (specially since it's a non essential service). Commission an artist, use stock images. Don't make me go fight you.

> We Had the Tools
https://guinesspig.ghost.io/we-had-the-tools/

October 2, 2023

“...anytime a government or health officials says we have the tools to deal with Covid-19.

No we don’t.

We had the tools. All we have now are the memories of those tools.

We (and by we, I mean collectively, societally we) blew it. We threw the tools away. We traded them in for something we believed was so much better.

Why? Because the very leaders we are supposed to trust to look out for our best interests, like General Manager Tim, told us to. They gave us permission. They told us it was more important to get back to normal than to rely on those tools.”

#CovidIsNotOver @covidisnotover

With no further context on why it looks like it does, *could* you work with code that has syntax like this? (Even if it may not be your favourite syntax.)

if (equals a b) (
log "matches";
doThing a b;
) else (
log "does not match";
doOtherThing b;
)

⭐ Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology by @matt https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/

"Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works."

This is an excellent overview of how Apple Pay and others hide card numbers. Plus a lot more I didn't know I wanted to know about.

📌 https://rknight.me/links/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/

me: "nix is really neat, you can build your whole server just from CI, and the configs are reproducible, and you can copy aspects between various machines, and-"
friend: "hey i just switched to nix"
me: "oh god why did you do this to yourself "

I have suspiciously good internet on this train ride

Am I on one of these trains where PKP with ISPs installed signal repeaters

@rail_ “Our train is equipped with modern WiFi connectivity”. The WiFi:

If you want to know more about the impact of antitrust on IBM behaviour, I’d recommend reading this paper by Tim Wu. In his conclusions, he looks at what antitrust regulators should learn from the case, and I found this paragraph quite relevant to what’s currently happening. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3292&context=faculty_scholarship

https://todon.eu/@queue/112130436372737490

To very little surprise, Facebook's Threads platform (the one that was supposedly so enthusiastic about the Fediverse) is now hiding all mentions of Pixelfed - the Fediverse software that's competing with their Instagram platform. Hopefully this makes it clear that they were never going to federate in good faith.

Things you can do:
1. Sign the Fedipact (if you run your own instance) or ask your admin to do so (if you don't) to commit to defederating from Threads: https://fedipact.online/
2. Support the creator of the Fedipact, vantablack, who is in financial and housing trouble: https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/112080004580673240

mmmm I love a bicycle after a service. everything works perfectly.

the gears change immediately, quietly and without any skipping or problems... 🥰🥰🥰

🚲🚲🚲
#bicycle

it would be nice if DB could display where free seats are on a train on the monitors

Occasionally, I try to convince sighted people to try an audio game, and in doing so, better learn how the blind experience games. I am going to do that once again now, because The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is now available on even more platforms, (namely PS4, PS5 and Switch), so it's even easier to try depending on what platform you're willing to try it on. It is also, in my opinion, a great audio game to start with if you want to experience audio gaming, though I would probably recommend starting with the casual difficulty for new players. Take a chance. Try an audio game. :)