Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

today in "forgetting dutch exists": this ocr software has word-usage probability models for different historical variants of english, several dead germainc languages, pretty much every other world language, and... exactly 0 models for dutch

when I'm prime minister I will ban all news articles about a medical condition that aren't written by or involve someone with that medical condition

— signed, an autistic trans woman with ADHD who can't possibly be happy according to the newspapers

Amused that the factory for Royal Dutch Gazelle is in a town called Dieren

Owning a #corgi has been a journey of discovery. They seem to get hung up on very specific things... and they're very random!

Waffle's alarm goes off when we mimic the sound of warp cores, or when we speak through a cardboard tube or hose.

So I asked other corgi owners: what sets off your corgi's alarm system?

Amongst the standard replies of postmen, delivery vehicles, and fireworks were some ABSOLUTE GEMS I'm going to share with you below.

If you've got #corgis, please add to the list 🧵

studying for the red hat sysadmin cert is wild. half the stuff i read is like

The spooling service can be configured with bifrp (Bob's Improved Fropp, a fork of AT&T's Fropp2 that incorporates the Bell Labs Frepp extensions). bifrp reads its settings from /etc/bifrp.cfg. Example syntax:

! Spool all incoming cloves with intrigue 4 or higher to the mop daemon
>4?$ ::MOP::

! Unspool all cloves from the legacy modem bouquet
<$?modem ::$::

! Write user passwords in plaintext to the globally readable log file (this is the default)
-compatible ON

You can also configure spooling with systemd.

I like that the Netherlands gets to share ducks and geese with the UK. There's a few ducks and geese that migrate between Scotland and the Netherlands and I wish I could send letters with them like "Hoi, Scotland! How are your fluffy cows doing?" and they could write back, "Hi, Netherlands! They are well. How is the green parrot invasion treating you?"

It could be good fun.

#Glasgow #Amsterdam

people on the support forums and subreddit have asked about hosting apps on their own IP, and are told it isn't supported and without fail there's always a series of incredulous "why would you want to do that?" bullshit replies as per usual for any kind of linux community support

Met ons zelf-georganiseerd buurtcentrum willen we eigenlijk weg bij meta. Maar we zijn pas een paar maanden bezig, en ons publiek nog aan het opbouwen. En dus vinden we dat moeilijk. We promoten evenementjes, maar bijvoorbeeld ook ons wekelijkse eetcafe op feestboek en insta, en dat werkt goed. Ook op whatsapp organiseren en promoten we.
Maar goed, het is een fasjistebende, dus past het niet echt bij ons. Dus, iemand tips hoe we succesvol kunnen ontmeta'en?

Signal is leuk, mastodon ook, maar uiteindelijk nog helaas heel marginaal en een enorme drempel. "Wil je vrijwilligen? Leuk! Installeer deze obscure app waar geen van je contacten op zit zodat we met je kunnen praten!"
Ook een eigen website is leuk, maar dan moeten mensen actief kiezen om te kijken wat er hier te doen is.
En ook flyeren en posteren is leuk, maar is ook een hoop meer arbeid..

Dus, tips en ervaringen gezocht om een lokale community op te bouwen en te promoten, die zo min mogelijk extra drempels opwerpt, en ook niet teveel menskracht.

I've (finally) added a Code of Conduct to Catima.

I've always been hesitant about adding one. Not because I disagree with the concept but because I've had negative experiences in FOSS spaces where a CoC was supposed to protect but wasn't enforced. I always worried I wouldn't be able to do enough and cause pain.

I learned now that I do enough, more than most people. And in a society where some companies are writing down that hate is OK, it is time to explicitly state: abuse is not tolerated.

“Another day of stochastic harassment for old time’s sake – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2025/01/12/another-day-of-stochastic-harassment-for-old-times-sake/

From the original blog post you might think Matt Mullenweg was just reacting excessively to a fork, but the fork doesn't exist and the account removals are just years' old spite

Software engineers: CAPITAL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. You are not a billionaire; you are a worker. Rich investors are trying to take your livelihood away any way they can to keep more money in their pockets. Don’t be smug because you make more money than the median; your worth is smaller than a rounding error on any given billionaire’s spreadsheet.

I repeat: YOU ARE A WORKER. Stand with your fellow workers AGAINST capital. Capitalists and billionaires make life worse for others. They’ve been coming after other workers; and now they’re coming after YOU.

#workers #softwareEngineering #solidarity #unionize

took 5 minutes to made fun of for wearing a mask :/

enjoy not being able to play football in your thirties weirdo lol