Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

fyi, the grocery delivery service gurkerl has a 48% off deal on COVID tests atm. if you cannot or would prefer not to leave the house to get access to them, it might be worth it to look into this. i just got mine and they expire in august

A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability.  Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

In nearly every crisis in the world Jews have had blame levied upon them and any attempt at connecting us to them is meticulously dissected and latched onto.

This is called a power control trope, and is sinister in its own right as well. Jews are tiny minority representing less than 1% of the global population, yet have faced blame since antiquity for nearly every ill of the world.

Economic crisis (the great depression, 2008 financial collapse), wars (German loss of WWI), even the weather. Yes, even the weather and natural disasters. That is not a joke. When people make space laser jokes, that is from a genuine conspiracy theory that Jews controlled lasers on satellites to aim against California during the large season of wildfires a few years ago.

In virtually every single case these theories are nonsense to most people who look deep enough, but that doesn't really matter as the inherent distrust and "other" of Jews people hold is exploited by these tropes.

We know Blackrock is fucking awful. That's clearly established. But in what way does a random Jewish woman have connection to that? We do not have any context to that photo of her standing next to that man. The only way one could logically make that connection is if there is a inherent distrust and belief that Jews hold immense power over the world.

At the very core it is based upon this idea that Jews do not deserve to hold any power as they are inherently untrustworthy and nefarious in whatever position of power they may hold as well. A Jew by nature of holding any position of power is seen as innately sinister, and thus hold a threat to civil society at large. It maintains the logical conclusion that Jews need to face discrimination to keep our "power" in check and prevent us from amassing nefarious control of the rest of the world. This has been the basis of institutional discrimination Jews have faced in the past and in some cases do face today as well.

It is extremely easy in leftist spaces if you aren't careful to be tricked by fascists into leaning into this, as it can dressed up in social justice language that states that Jews hold immense privilege. It cultivates the idea that pushing back against Jews is simply fighting the powers that be. It's punching up, not punching down. Jews hold SO much power anyway, right? This is an easy path to fall into and needs to be cut down before it reaches its obvious conclusion of placing Jewish lives in active danger.

https://antisemitism.adl.org/power/

Hi! This is what you call a dual loyalty (or disloyalty) and Jewish power control. This is not what Zionism means or how it works either, unsure exactly how that has been put into play here but that's not even the biggest issue at hand. This is a pretty clear example of how fascist rhetoric is being spread in left wing spaces. This is near verbatim what you would see someone would post on 4chan in a conspiracy theory rant against Jews.

https://stranger.social/@indigenous_commentator/112560903754054928

Going to go into more detail below of the specific tropes this post use. and how to better spot them.

Oh and in case there a journalists from the Netherlands in my bubble (or in yours, please share!): It might be interesting to do a follow-up to our article (which will be published tomorrow) because WebEx leaked tons of data from the Dutch government.
Feel free to contact me for further information.
#webex #cybersecurity #netherlands

May be small news in general, but it is huge for me — latest update of @organicmaps now has speech-synth street names in navigation mode! Thank you very much to everyone there who worked on merging and testing this feature; whatever helps to check the screen less while driving with guidance is very much appreciated.

okay so some of you might have seen that Palmer Luckey has launched his own Gameboy clone, an FPGA console called the ModRetro Chromatic. you may remember another FPGA Gameboy, the Analogue Pocket, a console i own and greatly enjoy and endorse.

for those who dont know, Palmer Luckey (in increasing badness):

at one point worked for Facebook
donates vast sums of money to Trump
founded Anduril, a war drone company

that alone should be reason enough to never touch this thing.

unfortunately, the thing also includes an officially licensed Tetris game. so i wanted to provide some alternatives to people who were interested in playing a "modern" tetris on a portable device. dont even pirate the rom of it, play these instead.

first off, you dont need an FPGA like this or the Analogue Pocket, you can get a comfy emulator device for a sixth of the cost that supports more consoles. dont spend money you dont have.
the best gameboy tetris is the homebrew clone Apotris. it is by far the most extensive in feature set and i play it daily. i dont care for the default visual settings but the customization is incredible. https://akouzoukos.com/apotris
if you have a soft spot for the old gameboy tetris of yore, theres Rosy Retrospection, a mod that brings several modern conveniences while keeping the original spirit. https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5813/
it also has a color version. https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8259/

please do not give this monster money, and do not give his tetris the time of day. fan projects deserve your attention more than a warmonger's vanity project.

even if you never use a microsoft product, people you interact with whom you trust, who may intend to respect your confidences, will unwittingly be running recall.

@xgranade "Necessary but not sufficient" applies to so damn much.

I had a blast DJ'ing at #emfcamp on Sunday night. Went very well considering it was my first time doing it in person instead of on the internet.

@jtruk caught this absolutely incredible slow motion footage during it, which might be my favourite EMF shot of all time. Charles, Rob, and Dimitri really nailed the effect timings. phenomenal.

If dumping RAM on Qualcomm-powered feature phones wasn't over-the-top enough for getting UI screenshots, the same process with JTAG might just be!
Memory searching and JTAG test points were utilized on the #Samsung SGH-X427m and Gravity TXT to get clean rips of their interfaces.

autotools be like

checking for number system base ... base 2
checking for signed integer system ... twos complement
checking for galaxy ... milky way
checking for laws of the universe ... standard model

So, diode.zone is asking people to look for other peertube homes ... Can anyone recommend a well-moderated, queer-friendly instance for my somewhat rarely published video content?

I have one music video so far that I'd like to keep on the web, and possibly some other music-related stuff to come, probably mostly music videos.

Two things can be true at once:

• It's a dick move to reply to complaints with Windows / macOS with "just use Linux."
• The OS duopoly is bad, and causes real harm that is only getting worse; individual action is necessary but not sufficient to mitigate that harm.

It is absolutely true that individual action fails as a model for social change, and that's at least doubly true for yelling at folks to go take on that change. At the same time, there's often no path to a systemic solution that doesn't at least partially pass through individual action.

In tech, issues as wide ranging as privacy infringements and DRM have been so widely disparaged as nerd problems that it's almost impossible to get any traction on systemic or individual change.

PSA for any trans person getting feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy through the NHS

Most NHS gender clinics across the UK have heavily restrictive oestradiol (estradiol; E2) target ranges, which are not in line with international best practice or guidance 😮‍💨

Some target as low as 200 to 400 pmol/L (54 to 109 pg/mL).

Many target an arbitrary, narrow 400 to 600 pmol/L (109 to 163 pg/mL) range.

Only a couple are more in line with international guidance, using a wider 350 to 750 pmol/L (95 pg/mL to 204 pg/mL).

If you test above their range, they will typically reduce your E2 dose, even if you feel better with a higher E2 level.

As such, it is always morally justified to take steps to make your E2 level lower when they demand a blood test to stop your dose being lowered ✊

Edit: This post about E2 ranges from NHS GICs is from 2021, but given how glacially the NHS moves, it's probably still accurate.

#NHS #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransLiberation #TransLiberationNow #HRT #GAHT #OpenHRT #trans #transgender #transition #NHSEngland #NHSScotland #NHSWales

Shorter version of my earlier thread:

Things in tech likely won't get better without at least one component of that improvement involving more people using Linux. That is a valid but incomplete and not universally applicable mitigation to many but not all of the valid problems raised with Windows and macOS.

You just don't have to be a reply-guy about it, though. Offer support where that support is welcome and asked for, and practice empathy always.

Anfang des Jahres habe ich eine kritische Barriere in der iOS-App des E-Rezept gemeldet, durch die Nutzer*innen von VoiceOver beim Anzeigen von ausführlicheren Informationen zu Medikamenten oder einem Rezept in der App gefangen werden und nichts mehr tun können.

Der Bug ist immer noch nicht gefixt - der Aufwand dafür wäre wahrscheinlich wenige Stunden.

Stattdessen kann man jetzt Apple Memoji als Profilbild in der App einstellen. Prioritäten von Nichtbehinderten. #Inklusion #Barrierefreiheit

I like it when you take a picture and accidentally make birdsong seem visible. #birds #birdsong #photography #SongSparrow