Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

A website I really miss is browsershots.org

It could create screenshots of a website in a quite a wide variety of browsers

It could be recreated as an open source project though... QEMU/Wine... Kinda expensive to run as SaaS but a modern computer can easily spawn 50+ parallel browsers in a minute I think

http://web.archive.org/web/20190102012353/http://browsershots.org/

I remember there once was a meme or a post going around basically saying "are you a white cishet male or are you a porn category?" and I hate how accurate that still is..

Whenever I make the mistake of visiting mainstream porn sites I am reminded that if you want to see people of color, feminine people who aren't straight up underweight, trans people, queerness or otherwise anything that's NOT white people having straight sex you need to look through dedicated kink categories that specifically fetishize minorities. I do not understand how in the year of our lord 2024 it's still ok to have shit like "BBC", "blacked" and other similar "kinks" that reduce people of color to a weird fantasy of dominance on practically all the major porn sites.. If anyone out there is into that while believing it's not blatantly rooted in racism I think they have some serious introspection to do.

TPM can be used for
- malware
- malware
- 2-factor authentication
- malware
- malware

what a lovely device

hey fedi, is there anyone willing to host me in berlin for a few days sometime in december or january? ​​

Poll for people with only one eye (two eyed people please boost):

Do you suffer from motion sickness?

Hm.

So if you think about it, if you're looking down at a map, it's easy for you to see the shortest path between two points, but it's hard for a computer to, because it has to walk all the way from point A to point B to see how far it is.

Which makes me think, are all graphs of dimension N more easily solved if they can be viewed from N+1?

In school we heard "you won't carry a calculator around all the time" as reason for doing math on paper. OK, that was a total goof, because now we all have phones that, potentially, can serve as arbitrarily powerful calculator anytime and anywhere.

But that's not the gotcha you think it is. I don't think teachers were just blind to technological progress here, they were fully aware of one thing that they neglected to teach: it's a tool, and a tool is only as powerful as the mind that uses it. If you don't know how something works, you fall back into a magical understanding: you throw in ingredients on one side, and a solution pops out on the other side. There is no way for you to tell if the result is reasonable, or the magical process completely goofed out. Also, you will be completely dependent on the tool where a little understanding could show you shortcuts that make things easier for you, or at least feed the machine easier.

We're now in a worse situation like this concerning LLMs. They are branded AIs, advertised as machines that give answers, and if you don't know the shape of the answer already, and have no idea about the facts, you are completely at the mercy of a magical process that tells you fairytales. When things don't work with that answer, you are completely adrift with no idea how to fix it. Because a tool is only as powerful as the mind that uses it.

remember, when you're giving to Indigenous mutual aid today — and if you have money, you ought to be — as tempting as it might be to write "death to America" in the note field, this helps nobody and puts a target on two people's backs.

payment processors are not the place to leave radical messages.

@RadicalGraffiti WAGES TOO LOW?
BLAME CORPORATIONS NOT IMMIGRANTS

Hallo allemaal, we zijn verhuisd van server. Voorheen kon je ons vinden op social.npo.nl, vanaf vandaag zit Pointer, het journalistieke onderzoeksplatform van KRO-NCRV op mastodon.nl.

Ook hier delen we onze onderzoeken, nieuws en oproepen voor tips, deskundigheid etc. Heb je tips voor iets dat we moeten uitzoeken? Deel je ervaring hier op onze site (https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/deel-jouw-ervaring) of schiet ons aan hier op mastodon.

https://social.npo.nl/@Pointer_kroncrv/113519998786177555

Study (N=6K) finds single women are not miserable spinsters. Women may have more social support beyond romantic relationships. Single men are unhappier. Inequitable household labor="more rewards for men & more costs for women in heterosexual partnerships." https://people.com/single-women-are-happier-than-single-men-study-says-8739240

Absolutely wild to me that things that didn't exist when I was a kid are now common place:
- wifi that can do 100MB/s
- external gpus that can play AAA games

Technology is so cool and it makes me so sad that it's used to harm so many people all the time.

What are things that excite you? ​​

I made a quilted winter cover for the AC in my living room (in lieu of taking it out), and also a very silly joke.

LMAO
#dwarffortress