Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

If a company goes out of business in the Netherlands, does the NDA its employees had to sign still apply?

Edit: The overwhelmingly common answer is contact a lawyer, which is good advice. Thanks everyone! :)

#netherlands #nlpol

Say it with me:

"IQ IS JUNK SCIENCE INVENTED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST EUGENICISTS TO JUSTIFY THEIR IDEOLOGY"

It is not an "inconvenient truth". It is not an otherwise robust instrument that is misused by some people with an agenda. It is not something that's pretty accurate but that is complicated by societal factors.

It's bullshit. Bupkis. Bunk.

As Johnathan Frakes says in that one show, "We made this one up. It's a total fabrication. It's pure fiction. It's a made up tale. This one was invented by a writer. It's an urban legend... that never happened."

Don't forget. Remind yourself if you have to.

Chinese Hanyu, known across East Asia, began life as a symbol pictographic system that showed what it described: over time, the symbols became more abstract and it became a full-blown writing system used by billions. #MythologyMonday

Oh yeah, some more interesting findings from poking around webOS:

- It's a surprisingly normal Linux overall! It runs systemd! There's even a Pulseaudio instance, though I'm not entirely sure if it's actually doing anything
- The base system seems to be a lot more flexible than just a TV platform (which makes sense, given webOS' history, but it's impressive how much of it survived)
- Most of the apps are built with QML or a custom JS framework named "Enyo" running on what seems to be a custom Electron-style runtime
- The app suspend/resume functionality is implemented with CRIU (on kernel 4.4.lol, no less!)
- There's a custom message bus called Luna that's used instead of D-Bus for most of the actual apps, but there's also a D-Bus for systemd and such
- There is A LOT of log collection machinery that presumably phones home whenever the TV breaks, and collects tons of diagnostic data. What happens to said data afterwards, I don't know. Probably goes into a ticket somewhere and gets ignored forever?

It's weird sitting in a meeting trying to intuit who's augmenting their takes with AI suggestions. I never imagined being an office blade runner doing realtime Voight-Kampff heuristics to identify the robot in the room but here we are. 6/6

Pro tip: throw out any "norms" that don't help you.

I was taught to brush my teeth standing up, but after I became very ill and fatigued a few years ago, I dragged a chair into the bathroom and sat down.

And it's so much better. Not only do I not waste energy unnecessarily, but I don't rush through brushing my teeth, I do take the full two minutes to brush them, because I'm more comfortable and get less tired.

People look at me like I'm a weirdo when I tell people this, but seriously, find what norms you follow in your life "just because", and see how you can change them to make your life better.

@fedor @joenepraat alsjeblieft niet zeg. "Buurtpreventie" groepen zijn broednesten van racistische wannabe-politie groepjes die ieder niet-wit of dakloos persoon verdacht maken. Werkt vigilante gedrag in de hand en wekt het idee dat er continue onveiligheid in de buurt is waartegen gewaakt moet worden. Liever buurtsolidariteitsgroepen gericht op mutual aid en verbinding.

My hot take is that banning masks prohibits disabled, immunocompromised and covid-conscious people from public life.

It should be resisted as vociferously as trans bathroom bills, which are also intended to ban a category of people from public life.

We know why that's bad. We should understand mask bans the same way.

I know it's kinda obvious to anyone that knows me, but I won't be using or accepting AI-generated changes for my projects (including Kobold Kombat).

It's a labor of love, and I rather it was janky and human than generated from a mass of other peoples creations.

TIL about https://www.batteryholders.org/ — "the comprehensive battery holder and battery contact information center" — and it really does seem to be exactly that. Need dimensions for a weird battery, or details of how to mount it in your project. It's likely in there

#electronics #resource #battery #cell #reference

So for @fluconf I'll need to host a video of my talk and the conf requested hosting it not on Youtube or other tracking platforms.

I kinda don't wanna just throw it on my webserver (because I don't know the load this might create). Anyone have any good experiences with specific Peertube instances or something else that's simple?

I have been accepted for a talk at #fluconf

My presentation is called "Improving Diversity and Inclusion in the Open Source Community" and you can see the presentation slides here:

https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Improving_Diversity_and_Inclusion_in_the_Open_Source_Community/28281392?file=51933668

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So I want to provide some elaboration on this fediblock post I made: https://blackqueer.life/@tillshadeisgone/113891510610086508

I want to remind you all of a selection from of my pinned post on conflict with comrades, which I believe is relevant here.

So, I have been rethinking how I interact with this space going forward to better protect myself but also to have a more robust and intentional framework for how to engage with conflicts. I've been learning about how revolutionaries in the past have handled conflict with each other while maintaining unity in their movement. Many of these practices existed within local orgs and communities, and therefore are not necessarily applicable or appropriate for a digital and public space like this. However, I think some lessons can still be taken. So, in light of that, HERE IS MY PROPOSAL: If I am engaging with you and I believe that while we are aligned in our goals for liberation, you are inadvertently causing harm with your words, I may ask you to self-crit. This is not an attack, but is an invitation to reconsider what you are saying. This will also mean that I am available to you, privately or publicly, to explain my thinking and have a dialogue about our disagreement.

This policy is what I was drawing on when I engaged with the user I made a fediblock post about. As mentioned in my fediblock post, I chose to reach out privately to mention my concern and be able to explain my thinking in the hopes that I would be heard. This was a couple of days ago.

The thing is, just as I mentioned in said pinned post that antiblackess destroys unity, ableism destroys unity too. Black disabled folks have been saying for YEARS on this and every other digital platform that they feel excluded from just about every single community space, on the left or otherwise. This is not new information by any means.

Therefore, ESPECIALLY given that as our server's About section points out, 1 in 4 Black American adults are disabled, it is my responsibility as the admin of BQL to make sure that our space does not reproduce that same dynamic. If I want Black disabled people to feel like they can be in our community, I cannot allow ableism in our community. Full stop.

As I feel like I keep repeating, this is something I take very seriously. And sometimes, despite my best efforts, attempts to convince people that they are doing harm are not going to be successful. That is what happened in this case. The person did not listen to me or anyone else who tried to convince her, including Black disabled people who were impacted by her words. She continued, over the course of the past two or three days, to double down, saying that racism is a mental illness. Then, she started defending using the R slur and blaming disabled people for Trump being elected, explicitly referencing alleged decreases in average IQ scores.

When someone is repeatedly insistent on echoing eugenics ideology and Nazi talking points about intelligence, that is several steps past what is acceptable. To steal some language I got from communists, the contradiction between her deeply held beliefs and the presence and value of my disabled users was clearly antagonistic and not resolvable through dialogue.

Sometimes, you have to do the hard thing. It wasn't pleasant, but guess what? That's the job. Do you think it was pleasant for me to suspend instances like tech.lgbt or aus.social where we had a lot of connections, cutting our users off from theirs? To make public posts about it before and after? No, it was extremely stressful and upsetting and brought a lot more harassment my way. But I did it anyway. Wasn't the first time, won't be the last.

Oh, and it is worth mentioning that I have been accused of catering to the "white political gaze" by making my fediblock post, implying that I am doing so for the optics and because I care about getting accolades from white people more than I care about my fellow Black folks. It has been implied that this is all theater, and has no connection to any real beliefs on my part. To that, all I can say is that ableism is a bigger danger to Black folks than ableism is to white people. White supremacy is inextricably tied to ableism, and I have referenced and boosted multiple works by Black disabled advocates and academics in the past two days who discuss that exact concept. In short, disability justice is not just for fucking white people.

To close, I just want to restate that at the end of the day, ableism is a violation of rule #1 on BQL. Anyone who doesn't agree with the existence of that rule or who doesn't like it when we enforce it is no comrade of mine.

Thanks for reading.

Edit: clarity.

#FediBlockMeta

I encourage all the TTRPG content creators to draw a solid line against using AI in running games. There are people out there trying to profit on people's uncertainty about their skills running games by pushing AI. You don't need AI and using it makes you worse at running games not better.

Ik had dit als losse gedachte en nu wil ik het. Europese providers: mogen we opslag bij jullie en in-browser officepakketten? Dan krijgen jullie geld van me en zal ik het nooit meer hebben over dat gedoe met de datakabel in onze straat. Beloofd. https://mastodon.nl/@venite/113899795924795606