Kwam deze tegen in het Duits: https://todon.nl/@anarchiv/113271300327034109
Vertaling: "Ik ben van mening dat men in het Duits de term 'werkgever' zou moeten vermijden, omdat het een ideologisch gekleurde term is die de indruk wekt dat de 'werkgever' zo aardig is om de 'werknemer' (dat heet een arbeider, verdomme) een baan aan te bieden, en daarmee geheel voorbij gaat aan de uitbuiting en dwang die aan het kapitalisme ten grondslag liggen.
Tegenvoorstel: 'arbeidskoper', afkomstig uit het taalgebruik van de Zweedse arbeidersbeweging (Duits: 'Arbeitskäufer', Zweeds: 'arbedsköpare')."
Prima punt eigenlijk, en ook van toepassing op het Nederlands.
Bin der Meinung, dass man im Deutschen den Begriff "Arbeitgeber" umgehen sollte, da er ideologisch gefärbt ist und den Eindruck erweckt, der "Arbeitgeber" sei so gnädig, dem "Arbeitnehmer" (das heißt Arbeiter, verdammt) einen Arbeitsplatz zu gewähren, und damit die Ausbeutung und den Zwang, die kennzeichnend für das kapitalistische System sind, einfach ausblendet.
Gegenvorschlag: "Arbeitskäufer", entlehnt aus dem Sprachgebrauch der schwedischen Arbeiterbewegung (SV: arbedsköpare)
LB (https://piaille.fr/@TofuTheSquirrel/113270480573673799)
> Things not working is becoming the new normal for a lot of people.
I think that's it. It's the logical terminus of the last 30 years of computing, with everything getting worse all the time, and setting expectations lower and lower.
The technology doesn't work, doesn't do anything useful, but MS spent $6B to acquire it (and untold billions more to feed it) so by gawd it's going into everything and people are going to accept it until there is no alternative
✅ all four modes of transport depicted on EU entry/exit stamps
when you enter or leave the Schengen Area, your passport gets stamped with the date, location, and most importantly how you entered (out of train, car, boat, and plane).
these stamps are going away at the end of the year, so I thought I'd try and get them all before they're gone! thanks to @mattgrayyes for letting me ride in his car :)
Dwindling off into rumination
I maintain active real name (not automated) and pseud (some not automated, others automated) alts on all the interesting social media networks, and the pattern is only growing more true: the twitter alts see people getting sadder while thinking they're getting smarter, the bluesky alts are in a high point before it buckles under the mod strain, the fedi alts are in a stable and super weird place that wants nothing to do with the world, YouTube is always a mystery, tumblr changed at a cosmetic level, and I would be grand fucked railroad if I spent a second on a meta product outside of my real name alt to talk to my friends.
If you keep alts out in front of the accounts you actually use, never tell anyone about them so the account affinities don't get all mashed together, then you can see where they're going. If you didnt have several fash sensing alts it was excusable to miss the first few months of twitter tranformation, but my scam-centric half-pseud alt went absolutely nuts immediately.
hey if you are in places gonna be hit by milton there are some resources including free uber rides to shelters and stuff https://www.floridadisaster.org/disaster-updates/Hurricanemilton/#collapse-23301
It's easy to forget that internet communities collect around all kinds of things, and they can play an important role in people's social lives. Internet communities can be very positive things: but the art of nurturing and cultivating these communities is left to just ... anyone.
What if we made *intentional* internet communities?
What's a sarcastic, slightly unpopular 13 year old boy to do online today?
If we don't make clubs and spaces for young people others will.
A crucial detail here is that the people trying to convince everyone and their dog to start using fedi generally were *not* the same people who built up the culture for years.
Often thinking about how "we just want a place for ourselves with rules that are comfortable for us, it's fine if that's not to everyone's taste but this is our place" got reframed by a particular 'moderate' demographic into "you must mean that you intended for this place to be For Us too, and since we do not like those rules, they must change to our rules instead and you will just have to adapt, things change" and now the folks trying to recover those old boundaries are (sometimes retroactively) accused of "policing" others and "overreacting".
(And racists, don't get it into your head that this is defending your position, because this is not about you. Get fucked.)
I got myself an autistic therapist about a year and a half ago, and for the first time my therapy felt like it wasn't mostly a waste of my time. In that time, I have learned a few things that feel worth jotting down. These are personal to me, though others may find something in them, too.
- Getting an autistic therapist made all the difference. Finally, I can spend the hour discussing my issues, instead of explaining about autism. Not having to struggle with Double Empathy Problems or explain basic things saves so much time. And it's validating to have someone just get things.
- Therapists are not supposed to talk about themselves. But I asked my autistic therapist to use Relatable Stories in our sessions, because they are natural for us and I find them more soothing or inspiring than the usual NT-style platitudes. It's helped with our rapport and I'm really glad she does that now.
- Growing up autistic with parents who are narcissists can really suck. Most children leave home and get to escape the household abuse. But when we leave home, we're stuck in a world that typically treats autistic people much the same way narcissistic parents treat their kids, so there is no relief from that abuse for us.
- Dealing with CPTSD is never easy, but it's frankly impossible as long as the trauma continues. If you get stabbed and want the wound to heal, the first step is removing the knife. If you don't do that, nothing else will help. You have to remove the source of the trauma before trying to deal with it. This can be very difficult, especially when combined with the previous point about narcissistic parents.
- It seems to me that emotional co-regulation works differently for autistics than allistics, so if I spend all my time around allistics, I'm not going to benefit from co-regulation and will probably end up dysregulated. Just watching a youtube video of an autistic person talking for a few minutes can really help if I'm out of sorts.
- A lot of times when I thought I was being selfish, difficult, or too sensitive, I was just having a meltdown and couldn't control the involuntary reaction, and it's not helpful to blame myself for being a bad person because that happens to me sometimes when people treat me poorly. Even if everyone else blames me.
- Explaining stuff about autism to allistic people rarely helps ease communication, especially when you're already in a conflict. So maybe don't waste a lot of energy trying to make allistic people understand autism unless they actually want the education.
Saw an interesting misunderstanding the other day. Someone approached a user asking them to add alt text to their images. However, the images *did* have alt text, in a format ActivityPub supports, but that Mastodon doesn't know how to read.
I suspect people will encounter more and more of this as there are more ActivityPub-based programs that are doing things beyond just what Mastodon represents, and we'll have to get used to knowing that our view of a post might not be how it was authored.
For people voting in the #nixos leadership election: a quick list of which candidates signed the community's open letter against military sponsorship, to assist in decision making.
https://gist.github.com/delroth/1ffb214ee95ad16da7311ca3d868d806
A problem I have is that there's hobbies I got into because they were affordable, then other people discovered them and they stopped being affordable. So what now, do I just give up? Move on to the next fun cheap hobby until more people spot it? Hard to say.
Laserdisc was a fun hobby for me as a broke grad school student. BMV still had shelves full of em for $3 a pop - most of my rare and interesting stuff came from stuff like that, rather than expensive online auction finds.
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
– Naomi Shulman
@ChrisMayLA6 I've just checked. It is impossible to recycle cables here without a car.
Our local tip (walking distance for many) will take them and recycle them, but they don't allow people to arrive on foot. Other options are too far away to walk and not on bus routes. Either way, it would require a specific trip out and life is busy.
So yet again I agree with the principle that we should be recycling, but the practicality gets in the way for many people. Making it *easier* is the key.
re: computer complaining, docker, containers, why god
you know what rocks? clear dependency specification that is resolvable on lots of different kinds of host systems that allows for near-reproducible environments
you know what sucks? just sort of being like "the operating system is the unit of abstraction" and throwing a bunch of shit in a fucking trash pile
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.