Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"Een kermis in de Friese hoofdstad Leeuwarden gaat niet door. De reden: een supermarkteigenaar heeft de kermisorganisator afgekocht, zodat het bedrijf geen overlast zal ervaren. Om die reden is er in april geen kermis op het Cambuurplein. Exploitanten lopen duizenden euro's mis."

Wat ben je dan een klootzak, zeg.

3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain

https://hackaday.com/2025/02/14/3dbenchy-sets-sail-into-the-public-domain/

This is my third game with #PixelArt houses with a roof, but I made them much cleaner than the previous ones (and I made it so you can see the top rim thingy and the back tiles).
Hmm. I don't know how how to handle that rim with complex house shapes with the current simple autotiling system. Guess I'll just put chimneys at the intersections.
#Love2D #GameDev #Aseprite

You have permission to be happy even now when things are bad. Happiness leads to hope and hope gives us the energy we need to fight back.

In our marketing-department imagined future of a new technology all harms will somehow disappear (details TBD), but the potential benefits are endless and extraordinary. We could cure cancer! But are any of the AI companies trying to cure cancer, as a primary goal of their work? Well, no…

https://front-end.social/@mia/114000730215089155

Just prior to the start of the LLM boom, I was suckered into accepting a machine learning position at a big pharmaceutical company, with the assertion that we were going to be building out tooling that would assist with the discovery of new, life-saving drugs.

Once I started, it turned out that the things our department worked on were actually used to make marketing communications more effective and to decrease manufacturing costs. Sure, ML could theoretically be used for drug discovery, but that was for the individual research groups to decide and manage, and they had their own engineers and data scientists to hypothetically do it.

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.

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!)