Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Just got a message from someone that they received my Christmas card today.

This year maybe mailing my Christmas cards in October 🙄

MIVB/STIB is taking a good step to solve the issue of homeless people on their network. Instead of policing them out like the rest of the world... they hired a whole team to provide social support, and have a bus built out as a safe place and a gateway to support

info https://mivbstories.be/includo-helpt-daklozen-en-druggebruikers-op-het-mivb-net/ https://stibstories.be/includo-aide-sans-abris-toxicomanes-stib-bruxelles/

A complement to “don’t feed the trolls” is “what we pay attention to grows,” which I first encountered while reading adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.

In turning attention away from trolls, we can turn it toward the practices of care through which we build resilient communities able to guide change.

#organizing #facilitation #TheoryOfChange

The WINE 10.0 change list looks amazing:
- ARM support
- Many graphics pipeline and touch input improvements, could be worth trying this with programs like Paint tool SAI and CSP
- Better high DPI and scaling support
- Native Wayland support
- Improved COM/RPC proxies and calling
- Moving from GStreamer to FFmpeg for decoding things should improve many things, also things like game intro videos etc.
- and much more

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0

Now to the kicker with meshtastic.

The project is run in the usual tech-bro seeming ways and are rude ass fuck to new comers with less experience / platform than I who've made the -same- observations about floodfill's limits.

The core team is die on the hill of the shitiest routing algo possible because they I guess don't want to read anything about routing algos research.

Bruh... I worked in a networking research lab in the early 2000's, almost every excuse this team has made is bullshit.

This is a subtoot and should probably be a blog post. But basically some techbros are re-inventing mesh radios (badly) going on like my 20th year of tinkering in this corner of tech.

Low cost, developer friendly mesh radios have kinda been going in circles for decades.

So in many ways I guess I shouldn't be surprised to review yet another cheap mesh radio project and realize, "dude this just plain sucks and isn't improving at all, oh and the community is kinda awful".

#meshtastic

Duck duck fedi
Does anyone know where i can find good, universal communication cards?
Some which i can show random ppl and/or work colleges at events when im not doing well, preferably both in german and english.

Bonus points for some specifically for overloads and being non verbal

TL;DR: The Second Circuit has ruled in favor of Vimeo in its legal battle with record labels, reinforcing protections under the DMCA and rejecting the labels' claims that Vimeo lost safe harbor due to user interactions with infringing content. This decision is a significant victory for creator communities and helps maintain the balance between copyright enforcement and innovation on digital platforms. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/second-circuit-rejects-record-labels-attempt-rewrite-dmca #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

If you find later on that you need the illustration for something else (e.g. your book is being expanded into a boardgame), you can always contact the artist at that point for another license and discuss the fees.

Remember: artists are humans too. We want to see you succeed. Contacting us again with a "hey guess what, I'd like to expand on this project" is not going to make you look weird, it's going to make us very happy for you.

#commissionsopen #artcommissions #commissiontips
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(Indie) authors and other commercial commissioners: you do NOT need to purchase the full rights to a piece right off the bat. Save yourself a lot of money and ask for a usage license. This is a license to use the illustration for your book/boardgame/whatever only.

A usage license for just your book/boardgame/company mantlepiece will suffice just as well and cost you a lot less than a full buyout.

#commissionsopen #commissions #artcommissions #commissiontips
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weather alert: "it fucken wimdy"

me, watching someone's bin careening down the street fast enough to set the speed camera off: "yup, checks out"

Today in "My job wants to motivate me inciting even more arson":

The Jobcenters are cutting all their support programs for people under 25 due to government austerity.

DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING IDEA HOW THOSE ARE THE ONLY WAY FOR HOMELESS KIDS TO EVER ESCAPE THEIR SITUATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND EVEN WIT THEM, LITERALLY EVERY PLACE PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE KIDS IS ALREADY UNDERFUNDED AND UNDERSTAFFED. YOU GOVERNMENT FUCKERS JUST WANT THEM TO FUCKING STARVE AND FREEZE TO DEATH!!!!!!!!!!

Paraphrased, in regards to rainbow capitalism:

“I do not miss the cash-grab Pride displays. I miss the kind of society that made cash-grab Pride displays safe to perform.”

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