Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I want emoji-reactions to single lines of code on GitHub/GitLab/whatHaveYou, for the sole purpose of 🙄-reacting to every line that puts something like gender in a boolean.

one instructive thing that the "AI" boom has made clear is that FOMO about being left behind by technology is an incredibly powerful way to make people drop all pretense of political or power analysis under the impression that surely if the tech giants are spending billions on a pile of shit there must be a pony underneath.

while I'm yelling about shitty behaviour on here: only remarking that something was made in China when it's poor quality, but not making that same remark when it's good quality (or hedging it as "surprising"), is xenophobic. it's become a socially acceptable form of racism among tech folks (especially electronics folks) and it's super gross.

This black child in 1968 knew better what “I’ve got your back” means than the Dutch white adult moderates and politicians in 2024 who say “we’ve got your back”, but don’t do shit (and really don’t know that this 👇🏻 is what allyship is about)

#antiracism
#allyship
#whiteprivilege

train peoples! suppose I wanted to visualize the network of rail connections in Europe — what's the best way of getting the timetable data? there's Hafas, but I probably shouldn't spam their endpoints, as I'd get quickly rate-limited.

is GTFS tenable? do I need to find a feed from each operator manually, or are there sensible collections available? there's gotta be something aggregated at least for the long-distance trains, right? r-right??

I know that it's really hard for most people to wear a mask when other people don't. And I know it's really easy for most people to pretend that covid is just a normal virus and not a big deal.

But the most effective way for ME to be safe isn't actually for me to mask. It's for YOU to mask.

Please, please mask if you can. It's really not too late to start again. In fact, there's a huge surge right which makes it easy to explain why you're doing it.

Joh works in a big warehouse and travels to various charity shops. They are the last person in their workplace who masks and have been for some time.

There is constantly covid going around but we've only had it once.

The time we had it? Joh relented for a small work Christmas party and didn't mask.

And we got *really, really* ill. For *weeks*.

Lesson learned the hard way. Masking works, but if only works if you wear one.

anyone aware of disk/container encryption software that works on both macOS and linux?

I'm aware of veracrypt but I'm looking for more of something similar to that (and also strongly preferring FOSS)

I'm using it to store a bunch of files for games data and apps data, so an encrypted container/filesystem is fine (and pretty much what I'm looking for)

I do not want: cloud storage (even self-hosted), single file encryption (I'm encrypting multiple files and not for one time use)

already suggested: veracrypt, cryptomator, kryptor, gocryptfs, linsk, picocrypt, cryfs, ZFS, BTRFS, age

use case, and considered solutions: https://micro.jacksonchen666.com/@jacksonchen666/112995983120430228

#encryption #DiskEncryption #macOS #linux

@futurebird

I dread the day that YouTube becomes unprofitable and starts dumping their old video content to save money.

It's going to be a huge resource loss, particularly for practical trades, DIY, and crafts. Because there is so much stuff that isn't formally documented -- but somebody made a video tutorial.

Where is that going to go when YouTube dies?

A wealth of real human knowledge lives on reddit, stack exchange, etc-- Given the sheer volume of AI slop and SEO fake pages with "articles" the better content is hard to find. This is most true if looking for help on a subject you know little about.

How could we motivate a collaborative not-for-profit catalog of the better content silo'd off from the commercial web? How to fund it and keep it current?

Basically a *staffed* online library for the world. And not just of books and publications.

Some of you may need to hear this.

If you have a label printer or any other kind of tape-fed thermal transfer printer that you use for silly purposes

BE REAL CAREFUL THROWING CARTRIDGES AWAY

The cartridge contains an ink ribbon with impressions of *everything* you printed with it

You may want to discard of that separately in a much more considerate manner

#OpSec #TechTip

NS and ProRail are warning for a very difficult autumn in their annual new school year press meeting. The summer construction works haven't finished yet but the summer holidays are already coming to an end, and more works for the autumn are planned. Together with the delayed delivery of ICNG, maintenance problems with VIRM, the speed restrictions on the high speed line until 2026 and general worse performance in the leaf fall season, it is going to be tough.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2533944-ns-verwacht-komende-half-jaar-meer-overlast-en-te-weinig-zitplaatsen

Oh god I hate modern computing. When did we accept huge faceless corporations deciding which monitors I can use when using their shitty MUSIC streaming service?
Maybe everything after Napster was a mistake.

I was wondering why my second monitor would just "randomly" black out. It is connected to a HP Dockingstation through a DP to DVI adapter.

I just figured it out. It is fucking #DRM. When I open spotify and click play, it *waits* for the monitor to black out, then starts playing. After I close the tab again, the monitor starts working instantly.

WTF?