Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Anyway the cold weather and *gestures around* has gotten me wanting to do ~tangible~ things with real impact. Not too many of them translate super well to online spaces so I am dreaming of outdoor spaces where knowledge can be transferred

I mean I also know a bit about permaculture, farming, construction, raising chickens, composting, fire building, shelter building, navigation, etc but not necessarily enough to confidently teach all of them haha

I’m just about ready to start my own summer camp for adults so I can teach everyone ceramics, welding, archery, canoeing, kayaking, and birding.

Like why do I know all these weird things if I’m not sharing the knowledge, seems selfish tbh. Like if I was living in a proper healthy community I could just teach whoever was around and wanted to learn but I don’t really have that right now

recommend me zines to put in my community library

i'm especially interested in zines pertaining to: first-aid, organizing, survival, LGBT liberation, women's liberation, *accessible* introductions to ancom and feminist theory for people who are brand new to it, and also anything fun and "apolitical" like puzzles or questionnaires or whatever

also a big fan of crimethinc's zines, so anything in that vein

🎧 You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free

｢ The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without paying royalties. For software developers and audio enthusiasts, this might seem like a big deal ｣

https://idiallo.com/blog/listen-mp3-is-free

#mp3 #patents #codecs

Meanwhile, buy from Black businesses, buy a trans author's book, patronize the queer farmers, find the women-owned small businesses.

PAY ATTENTION to who you support, not just eschewing the corpos but intentionally creating a way for folks to survive.

This is what I originally designed this mechanism for:

url shorteners lol

A lot of CSS hackery later, and I've managed to construct a popover dialog using a <details> element that doesn't disrupt the button order and also doesn't require any JS to work!

when will websites discover than you can set session cookies for longer than a week so users don't get logged out all the fucking time

folks on the fedi like to make a big deal out of how we're better than google, better than facebook, etc, but in terms of the basic act of respecting consent by looking at things like robots.txt we're far worse

https://www.fediral.com/bot claims to respect robots.txt, but after fetching robots.txt it goes to .well-known/nodeinfo and nodeinfo/2.0 anyway, even though it's not permitted to do so

and what the hell is 'fediral' you ask? who fucking knows, the website is empty: https://fediral.com/

Apparently people are being made to do Game Jams as part of marked assignments at university now, which just seems 100% counter to the point of game jams to me.

IMO, you are typically supposed to whip together something quick and scrappy and experimental in a game jam, maybe you'll build it into something bigger afterwards, but the point is to get used to producing finished works and to network/exchange critique with your peers.

Also, the stakes are typically very low during a game jam. Sometimes there are prizes but it's not like making a bad jam game will affect the rest of your life (unless you choose to make something morally repugnant).

If you are being marked on it for an assignment you are just doing coursework. This isn't a game jam. You are just doing project work. Call it that instead. If the rest of your life could be negatively impacted by poor performance in this activity, this is not a Game Jam! Stop trying to make work *sound* fun!

#3047 - Rotary Tool

Today for #blackhistorymonth , let us honor Jerry Lawson, video game hardware innovator and inventor of the video game cartridge.

Jerry, gamers everywhere salute you 🫡

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawson_(engineer)

It looks like the #50501protests mostly went well and were a positive experience for everyone, despite my misgivings. I’m glad to be wrong about this one!

Hopefully this engages new people in the work going on around them. And these folks start using Signal groups instead of Discord to organize LOL.

#50501movement

Hey y’all. I’m gonna get my local print shop hippies to print a bunch of anti-fascist #zines.

Please send relevant zines my way!

I live in a college town with a strong zine culture and a zine distro box in downtown. I can only do so much as an exhausted crip, but I hope getting info into the hands of students, workers, unhoused folks, etc will make a larger difference.

If you would like to help offset costs (or DM for my PayPal/CashApp/etc):
https://ko-fi.com/mircat