Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Playing with internally lit cubes, wrapped in colored washi paper. These are USB powered and use 4 two inch long LED strips. I love them because they look totally different (but still cool) when they are not lit up.

@futurebird Here's a cautionary tale.

One Central Park in Sydney was an award-winning green development.

From Vogue in 2014:

"Sydney’s One Central Park complex says a lot about the possible future of our architecture: that buildings needn’t be a strain on the environment, that more high rise doesn’t have to mean less greenery, and that tall buildings may even be able to improve rather than diminish their surrounds. Designed by Atelier Jean Nouvel, One Central Park in Sydney’s Chippendale has been given 12 awards since its completion in December 2013: it took out the title of overall winner as well as taking out Sustainabilty Award at the international LEAF awards, and has just been awarded ‘Best Tall Building Worldwide’ by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in Chicago."

https://www.vogue.com.au/vogue-living/design/one-central-park-sydney-named-best-tall-building-in-the-world/image-gallery/84423c7d5cd44773dd0b9e95c13c08b2

More from ArchitectureAU here: https://architectureau.com/articles/one-central-park/

Then, in 2022, the planter boxes literally fell off:

"2022 saw a planter box fall to the footpath below, with local Council calling for repairs to protect the public to take place immediately. Structural engineers have been assessing the safety of other planter boxes that adorn the biophilic building, with some boxes supported by ropes to mitigate risk, while 33 have been removed."

https://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/news/cladding-planter-boxes-concern-one-central-park

Oh, and it also turns out the planter boxes are flammable:

"Category A and B cladding – the two most flammable – were found on the doors, structures (Cat A) and planter boxes (Cat B) respectively, with the dispute currently before the courts after the Planning Department issued an urgent fire safety order in January in the wake of the cladding inspection."

More details here: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-planter-box-fell-off-broadway-s-green-building-that-was-just-the-start-of-its-problems-20231110-p5ej40.html

The building itself is beautiful — I used to work nearby and visited a number of times.

But beyond flammable planter boxes, the bigger problem with the building becomes apparent on street view.

That building on the right, covered in plants, is One Central Park.

It's on a congested six-lane stroad filled with cars and trucks.

Too often, we silo off architecture, urban planning, and transport.

But what we need is green cities.

A green building won't help the environment much if people born fossil fuels in their cars to get there.

#urbanism #architecture #planning #UrbanPlanning #cities #sustainability

Just checked and yes, the screen reader is still broken in Fedora 40. (Cannot be controlled; keyboard shortcuts/modifier key doesn’t work.)

So this is yet another release where the screen reader is broken by default.

It’s amazing to me that this is not a showstopper.

#accessibility #a11y #fedora40 #fedora #linux

sometimes a measure becomes bad bc it was made into a target. but sometimes it was just a bad measure to begin with

🔎: how to start a queer socialist commune and make sure it doesn't turn into a cult

Reminder: mass layoffs usually trigger a cycle of dysfunction. So, to take a hypothetical example, if an already dysfunctional car company lays off 10-20% of their staff—much of which will be sales staff—odds are that their overall numbers a year from now will be much worse, not better

self hosters and homelab owners be like: "idk it's not that great I mean sure I run a full redundancy kubernetes cluster and everything is automated into detail and I have CI pipelines set up to automatically integrate the latest code into my services 10 seconds after the update got released and all but like, I don't know it's not that professional or anything"

Professional companies with a lot at stake be like: "We are currently experiencing an issue" (cert/DNS expired) https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112148837765000872

This also looks “so frontend development.”

For 15–20 years we’ve been looking at how big companies are solving their big problems, instead of learning how those of us with small problems (individuals and SMBs) best solve their small problems.

That’s our Occam’s razor why frontend devs know Bootcamp/Tailwind, jQuery/React, bundle/deploy, and have every 10-visitor site sit on all edge servers—but for whom HTML is `div` and CSS is broken.

The craft died in Big Tech.

#frontend #html #css #craft

An uncomfortable large set of "interesting facts" I've learned in my lifetime has turned out to be urban legends, misinformation, bad science and statistical errors 😬

I wonder how much of what I now believe to know about the world, I'll realize was false in 10 years 🤷

The students occupying Siemens Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt have won control of the building, at least temporarily.

According to local media, as of 10:50 pm,

"All law enforcement have left from in front of the building and appear to be leaving the campus. Scanner traffic appears to confirm that law enforcement has left the scene. One officer said that law enforcement is being 'disbanded.' Students are currently pouring in and out of the occupied building."

https://kymkemp.com/2024/04/22/pro-palestinian-protesters-occupy-siemens-hall-at-cal-poly/

For the second time in a week, students have successfully held territory against the full force of police raids.

Apropos of nothing, writing deliberately inflammatory posts with robust evidence is a highly effective way of making sure that it reaches the eyes of people who would actually consider that evidence and act on it.

The people along the way who are put off by it, or who are offended by its inflammatory nature, are essentially the cost of distribution.

It would be nice if these kinds of tactics weren't necessary to draw attention to pressing issues, but unfortunately they often are.

Hey, if there's an image AND text in an image you share here, you should describe them both.

If this seems obvious, great you're winning, but people mess this up enough to warrant a PSA.

I've seen people write out the text in a meme but not the image, not even say that it is a meme, and the result makes no fucking sense if you can't see the meme.

If there's just a decorative background to your text it doesn't warrant a lot of explanation. But if the visual is relevant to the text, include it.