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"Telling someone that something is impossible" is a good habit to unlearn. It's easy to find reasons why something cannot work; much harder to find ways in which it *can*, and insisting that it cannot will do nothing but demotivate people and sap away energy that could have been spent on finding solutions you weren't aware of.

There's one exception: if you are very experienced in a topic, and you feel that someone is underestimating the difficulty of something (especially if it's common for people to do that); it can be worth warning someone about it. But if they indicate that they understand this, you need to take a step back.

shitpost, hyperbole 

»System determinant files (formerly known as #Nix Flakes) are named `determinate.nix` at the top-level of your repo.«

In May 1909 The Netherlands created their own time zone. We named it the Amsterdamse Tijd, and was... 19 minutes, 32 seconds and 13 milliseconds later than GMT/London Time. This was the exact time of the tower of the Westerkerk in Amsterdam, a church that later became famous in the dairy of Anne Frank.

The Amsterdam Time proved not to be very practical, so in 1937 it was improved, and the time in The Netherlands became 20 minutes later than GMT/London Time, also known also as Gorinchemse Tijd or Loenense Tijd, because both towns had a church tower almost exactly on that time longitude. This didn't survive very long. After the invasion of the Germans in May 1940 they abolished the Dutch time zone on 16 May 1940. It never returned.

Hmm, Preact is looking like a much better option today than in my last evaluation of it

police, shooting 

If you believe that "they were scared and responded in self-defense" is a legitimate justification for a cop to shoot someone, then I have one question for you:

Why, specifically, do you believe that a cop is inherently more qualified to carry a gun than any other random person?

(If you do not believe it's a legitimate justification, then this toot is not aimed at you)

pol rant 

If someone is publicly advocating for a political action, is it so much to ask that they explain how they expect that action to facilitate a positive outcome?!

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It's very weird how most answers to a question of the form "what's the difference between thing A and its fork B" tend to be about nearly-irrelevant and subtle technical differences, even though the majority of forks are because of *governance* differences

What is people's experience with running Nextcloud?

Hot art tip for saving money:

You can refill your Micron (or similar) pens when they dry up. There are several YouTube videos, but basically pop the end off, shake out the sponge-tube, drip whatever ink you like into the sponge slowly until it's wet through, then re-assemble. Voila! Like new!

I think I originally discovered this through a post on Mastodon, but I’ve long since lost the original post, so if you’re out there, thanks OP!

fedi, hat nicht zufällig jemand ne ZSA Moonlander oder Voyager herumliegen, die abgegeben werden möchte? 👉👈

Me: "I will try Lisp if you try Javascript!"
Them: "Promise?"
Me: "Yes"
Them: "Okay!"
Them (halfway down the stairs): "... does Parenscript count?"
Me: "No!"

Ik heb vier frambolientjes kunnen downloaden en 1 rood pepertje. De tuin was droog en tot mijn verrukking bleek de jaren (en jaren) geleden 'eenjarige bolchrysant' van Den Aha ook weer te zijn uitgekomen 🧡
Ik had er twee maar een had ik per ongeluk geen water gegeven, zo jammer dat ik die nu kwijt ben. Deze heeft het gered. Ooit had ik jarenlang fel-fuchsia cyclamen die elk jaar trouw opkwamen, die mis ik nog steeds.

Went outside to smoke, shut the door, turned around and found myself face to face with a coyote.

He skidded in his tracks into a sit, did a 180 on his haunches, claws skittering on the cement, and LAUNCHED himself down the street, clipping his rump against my partner's car and setting off its alarm which set off MY car's alarm, and then the garage floodlight turned on, which turned on the NEIGHBOR'S lights.

All in a span of less than five seconds.

I witnessed a moment of pure, unadulterated chaos, leaving me with a deeper understanding of the animations of Scooby Doo and Wil E Coyote.

Since US election day is approaching, it’s time to re-post this picture of the only proper way to use blockchain for voting. (I wish I knew where this photo came from. I’ve tried to find out but failed.)

Update: the image is apparently from the 2017 Catalonia independence referendum, per davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2 and t-online.de/nachrichten/auslan

American style pickup trucks are insanely large, and as @notjustbikes noted they’re also increasing common in Europe. One is parked near me, and despite being 30 feet farther away, and in front of relatively large luxury cars, you can see the useless 4 foot truck bed is still higher than the roof of the midsized sedans. These vehicles are a danger to everyone on the road. Pedestrians and cyclists of course but also other road users. These MUST be regulated away before Europe gets the hellscape that is American roads.

To rephrase and clarify what I'm looking for in bulletpoint form:

- Non-commercial/at-cost, not a business
- Mass manufacturing, so not just one-offs, but repeatable processes
- With physical shared infrastructure, so not just "here's a bunch of designs to build at home for too much money, good luck"
- For the purpose of mutual aid or equivalent
- Ideally trying to innovate those processes in a non-business context to make them more viable/replicable
- Genuinely grassroots/self-organized/anarchist/etc., not an NGO or other hierarchical structure
- Absolutely no tankies

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I have been wondering about this for a while, is there anything like a communal manufacturing project? Like, I don't just mean a worker cooperative, but more something like a mutual aid structure or organization that does (mass) manufacturing, and that runs physical workshops/processes for making things for people who need them? (Can be with salvaged materials/components, doesn't need to be 'new' stuff)

Specifically looking for something that *isn't* a business (on paper or in practice).

like what's even more fucked up is we literally know who Sun Tzu is and cite him directly for Art of War, but not for the mathematics he wrote about during those wars?

and basically nobody knows about Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, the guy who you should be thinking about when talking about all of the incredible mathematics from the Islamic golden ages

algebra and trigonometry being attributed to ancient Arabs is one of the very few cases where we just outright do talk about mathematics not being invented by white people, and it's important to talk more about that

(note: most mathematics was not invented by white people. but we pretend it is)

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