Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

A guide on how to not transport your server rack.

#1 down the stairs

Status : running, online

Never forget what they’ve taken from you

I found a photo of the family PC we got in 2000

Does anyone think they could help me identify the case or joystick or really anything going on here (minus the stereo system, I still have that one)? Cause I loved that computer

This is why we need #degrowth, so much energy and material and economic activity is wasted on shit like this that doesn't actually improve anyone's life in any way. Any challenge to economic growth gets dismissed as "you just want people to go back to living in caves" when in reality we don't need to reduce everyone's living standards to miserable drudgery we just need to stop doing this sort of nonsense

"browser addon to diff websites TOS and EULA"

@joepie91 I firmly believe that "it's a Linux distro" statement is the prime culprit for making it seen as just another barely different Linux distro by the Linux majority. Just like Windows users consider Linux a "Windows for geeks": obvious downsides with no upsides. If it was instead marketed as "the only configurable OS that just so happens to use Linux", the world would've been a much better place.

Quite apart from the gratuitous climate vandalism, I think what pisses me off so much about the #Starbucks CEO commuting by private jet is the arrogance of the assumptions that this is justified. Like this isn't an organisation trying to cure cancer or end world hunger, it's a chain selling overpriced coffee with various sugar syrups. Nothing bad would happen if it ceased functioning, its continued existence doesn't justify its CEO behaving like that.

‘Waarom zijn er zoveel zeurende oude mannen op tv?’ - https://www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/brompotten-grumpy-old-men-op-tv

Don’t ever fix your lips again to say that tech IS neutral/apolitical…DON’T YOU FUCKIN DARE

Tech is ONLY apolitical for those who benefit as the DEFAULT to systems, institutions, and policies DESIGNED to benefit the few at the expense of the many

An alle, die eBücher bei Weltbild gekauft haben:

Der Laden ist insolvent und wird bald nicht mehr existieren. Wenn ihr eure Bücher auf dem eReader behalten wollt, müsst ihr aktiv werden.

Die Frist ist jetzt bis Ende September verlängert worden, aber handelt schnell:

https://www.weltbild.de/

(Gerne Boosten!)

#Leser
#Schreiben
#Readers
#Weltbild

Stadtwerke Netz: hey log into this online portal to send your final electricity meter reading
Online portal: doesn’t fucking work

average German IT project

I have faxed my electricity meter reading to them

It's very funky that the term "bird brain" comes from the fact that the brains of birds look like they're quite primitive and are missing the structures we tend to associate with higher brain functions. Turns out birds are actually surprisingly smart and their brains just took a different evolutionary path, achieving the same advanced abilities we see in mammals by developing entirely different structures. It's really cool how intelligence can come about in a variety of unique ways ^~^

Do I know any US folks who have experience hiring independent contractors to do game dev stuff (or to do remote work on computer/art stuff in general)?

I've got two people I'm interested in paying to do normal game development things and one is local and the other lives on the other side of the planet, and can I just like... give them money? or do I have to like fill out a form or something so the government doesn't freeze my bank account? how does this work

“The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus”

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/

Where I try to explain, as succinctly as I can (which isn’t that succinct), why I’m worried about where FOSS is heading

sometimes i keep thinking things like “I wish Windows had a tiling window manager” and then I remember that Windows’ built-in WM is actually good at tiling