Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I’ll hear arguments that wind turbines and solar farms are “ugly” after we ban billboards.

I keep having discussions with a coworker about securing encryption keys where I refer to it as "the Frog and Toad problem", and I feel like this _should_ be the term of art that's used everywhere to talk about secret management.

Today: our Jenkins server stores an SSH private key encrypted with a passphrase. In order to automatically run the jobs that use it, Jenkins... needs to store the passphrase. So is it buying us any security at all to have it? We can cut the string and open the box.

Did you know: JCDecaux and Clear Channel are advertising companies, not infrastructure companies.

The reason you see them everywhere is because they have contracts with many municipalities; they pay for and maintain city infrastructure (bus stops, trash bins, benches, etc.) and in exchange they get exclusive advertising rights in many locations. They operate throughout Europe, and probably elsewhere.

These contracts typically come with steep cancellation fines, and are a major reason why political efforts to ban advertising in public spaces often goes nowhere; if the local government were to go through with that, they would immediately have a large cancellation fine and infrastructure bill to pay.

Often, (part of) these contracts are publicly available; consult the public infrastructure agreements and documents for your local government, and do a FOIA or equivalent request if necessary. This should tell you exactly how they are keeping your local government under their thumb.

#FuckAds

Zouden boomers er nou nooit moe van worden om jongeren de schuld te geven van hun eigen gebrek aan langetermijnvisie?

It's possible to start a business, including a technology business, without it being a #Startup . A Startup is a specific kind of business, one in which the goal of the founders is to raise a ton of cash early on in hopes of making a *huge* product down the road.

It's tied to investor and #VentureCapital culture.

It's possible to run a small business where the goal isn't being acquired or creating a monopoly.

Tech companies: "Upgrade your subscription to remove the CSS blur effect that makes the chat transcript illegible."

LB about how Linux missionaries berating people for not knowing terminal aren't helping their "just use Linux it has a GUI" cause:
Ah, so that's why people onhere who proselytize about the fediverse and "don't understand why more people don't use it" are so shitty about constantly "suggesting" that people should spin up their own instances the second they experience anything unpleasant here. They are just used to being judgy condescending technoelitist shitnuggets.

Degrowth is an incredibly threatening idea to capitalists -esp. to some in certain industries.

There's gonna be lots more disinfo and distortions about it.

Degrowth targets -excesses- that are harmful (mega yachts, bombs, commutes- stuff we don't need to live well), not reductions to basic well being.

Comments declaring we'll need to live in caves, or that reductions in population are necessary first steps …yeah, ya might want to investigate whether they are paid shills or just ignorant.

I saw a microbiologist today.

Much bigger than I expected.

I don't think I agree with the idea that time spent automating a task only "pays off" if it saves you a significant amount of time on an ongoing basis. Yesterday I automated the sending of a monthly email that probably takes me less than a minute to send. Even if it took me five minutes I would not recoup the time spent automating it for over a year.

But - I feel lighter. Now I don't have to remember to do it, and I don't have the nuisance of a boring repetitive task to deal with every month.

whoof i think this might take a while

What the actual fuck?

This is some wild investigative reporting from IGN.

https://www.ign.com/articles/a-prominent-accessibility-advocate-worked-with-studios-and-inspired-change-but-she-never-actually-existed

#accessibility #disability #GameAccessibility

i appreciate the effort but i don't know a single autistic person that is awake this early on a saturday morning

Something that just occurred to me: a lot of people identify with and cheer on the protagonist in movies who knowingly takes a difficult decision at great cost to themselves or even others, a potentially destructive or violent one, which they know must be taken for the greater good.

And yet, many of these same people will immediately condemn radical direct actions undertaken by activists under exactly these circumstances, where they only see the outcome and not the process of careful deliberation and consideration that went into it.

You can't just give huge tax cuts to millionaires, they will just spend it on drugs, and overpriced social media companies that they won't even know how to run correctly.