Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

sitting next to a guy on the streetcar who seems to be filming the entire route through the window

part of me wants to ask him for a link because I agree this shit is soothing 😂

Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of these sites for reference:

https://refseek.com

https://worldcat.org

https://link.springer.com

https://bioline.org.br

https://repec.org

https://science.gov

https://base-search.net

i love when people from places i don't know about make inside jokes about their own country or specific cities or places in it bc it feels like i am taking a peek into what life must be like there

*looks at panel*

*looks closer*

...very funny.

Nu.nl wil graag je mening over #Mastodon #survey https://survey.usabilla.com/live/s/67adbb97f4ce0857e07ca307

Not saying HEPA-grade air filtration isn’t deployed at all. But they’re not nearly deployed enough to prevent waves of airborne disease from spreading. Like, evidently so.

Just like with things like socialized healthcare, public transit, libraries, protected bike paths, and so on — clean indoor air seems like such an obviously good idea. A world without seasonal diseases is not just possible, it is practical!

Regular reminder that effective, cheap, mass sterilization technology for just about every known and unknown airborne pathogen exists — we just choose not to deploy it.

HEPA-grade air filters are cheap, easy to install, effective, and severely underused. Unprecedented flu outbreak? SARS pandemic? N5H1? It can scrub the air of all of the above quickly, efficiently, and economically.

There is An Alternative!

Humans are not driven purely by materialism and self interest!

All of us are dependent on each other, no matter how hard we strive individually!

When people do shitty things to you or calamity befalls you, justice for you is a collective responsibility!

Oh, rofl. I just locked myself out of my own forge's web UI for an entire hour.

How? I was curious whether my HackerNews griefing snippet works, so I searched for git.madhouse-project.org on HN, followed a link, got a nice HTTP 418 Teapot, and all was fine.

But then I wanted to toot about this, and mention caddy-matcher-persistent-referrer, a small module that remembers the IP of visitors from a particular referrer, and continues to match them for some time.

I made this #Caddy module to circumvent HNers just copy pasting links after seeing the initial 418, or simply hitting enter on the address bar. With this module, they're locked out for an hour.

...and so am I, because I tested it, with a visit referred from HN.

(Of course, I can ssh into my VPS, reload Caddy, and clear its in-memory cache, which I did. But nevertheless, it's funny!)

nearly all fiction classified as a power fantasy tends to fall into one of four buckets in my experience

1: bullied kid gets their turn to be the bully
2: just outright awful garbage, to the point that being a fan of the story is a massive red flag
3: horrible, awful, terrible, no good, very bad, waste of oxygen, excuse for a human being (allegedly), gets a miraculous second chance and gets to experience a self-serving life at the top of whatever type of hierarchy the author likes most (this one is almost always isekai, and almost always follows the exact same structure)
4: the power of friendship

but you know what kind of power fantasy I've never seen before? a selfless one

yes yes, there are plenty of power fantasies where the protagonist is ostensibly a good person with good intentions, and they try to do good things, but all the ones I've seen still fall into buckets 3 and 4. even when the protagonist does good things supposedly in the name of others, the spotlight is always on them, and they are always rewarded for it. no matter how selfless their actions are supposed to be, the story remains selfish with the protagonist at the center of it

I want to see a power fantasy where the protagonist actually acts selflessly. show me a protagonist that does thankless work, a protagonist that doesn't expect or even desire reward, a protagonist that uses their power to actually change the world around them for the better without any incentive separate from the goal. show me a power fantasy where the world itself is in the spotlight, and the protagonist works to ensure that it stays that way. I want to see a power fantasy where the fantasy doesn't end at having power, give me the fantasy of successfully building a better world in short order, where even though the protagonist is the only one capable of setting things in motion, everyone else is just as important

does this exist

Back online after a week of being treated like a mushroom by my VPS provider as they troubleshoot an outage. I don't appreciate being kept in the dark and fed sh!t.

#mushroommonday #nature #naturephotography

Hi there, a friend of mine is urgently looking for a flat share (or very cheap flat) in Hamburg.
If you have any leads, please let me know.

Reposts are welcome!