Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

New challenge to companies: Devote 1% of your revenue to open source sustainability. Preferably just hand money to the projects you use.

how do i be more active as a massive introvert with autism and ADHD? every few days, i sign petitions, send emails, and make calls, and i hope to take the leap and protest IRL someday.

however, i easily get burnt out from keeping up with how things are going, and i'm in a perpetual state of "disappointed, but not surprised." a couple weeks ago, i found a protest opportunity, but lost interest in it a few hours later. i'm also not good with words so i just boost what others have said.

how do i overcome these things that are clearly holding me back? is there a way to overcome them?

I'm totally out of money for this month and need to save up for something "very important" -- I'm selling the following items (Germany preferred, shipping anywhere in the EU possible):

White, basically unused Nintendo Switch OLED - 200€

Optionally All the games I have for another 100€ (Zelda TotK, Omori, Pokémon Legends Arceus)

Hifiman Sundara planar headphones (you WILL need to replace the pads they're disgusting) - 150€

i5-6600K, MSI Z170 board - 50€

i7-6700K, ASUS Z170 board - 70€

2x 8GB G.Skill DDR4-2800 - 20€

Nvidia GTX 1660 Super - 70€

128GB Intenso SSD - 5€

256GB Adata NVMe SSD - 15€

Hyper 212 Black missing all its mounting hardware (literally free I can't use it anyway)

Can add to any of the Z170 bundles: Noctua NH-U12S cooler (+15€) or a generic but huge cooler (+10€).

Feel free to ask for images.

Can sell bundled items separately if needed I just wouldn't prefer to. Prices under typical market prices because I need it quickly

I like a lot of this stuff, but I don't need any right now. Boosts appreciated!!

People still really use the incredibly inaccurate and misleading BMI scale? It even has racist origins, and was created by someone who wasn't a health physician or doctor.

just found out that emily motyka, one of the alleged murderers, posted white supremacist shit online. such as the confederate flag.

that bitch two years younger than me.

ny police saying they cant say if a hate crime was commited against sam nordquist cause the suspects "identify as lgbtq+" and one of them isnt white, so guess that means they couldnt have tortured this black trans man for weeks and weeks before killing him and ditching his body in a field just because he was a black trans man. only white cishets can commit that as a hate crime i guess /sarcasm

https://blackqueer.life/@so_treu/114031945348186970

ini files implies the existence of outi files.

Here's a question for dual citizens who are also gender-weird.

If I have one passport that lists my gender as F and a different passport that lists it as X, is that going to cause any complications I haven't considered?

#Citizenship #Gender

OH: "my brain is only compatible with infodumps made for the autism API"

if your idea of open source is a bunch of companies shaking hands and playing nice with eachother i regret to inform you that the greatest fear of pretty much anyone in charge of an open source foundation or project with corporate involvement is quite literally that the corporation leaves.
because at the end of the day corporations only start working on these things once it's been proven to them that it's profitable. and time and time again, new projects and ideas have to come from hobbyists for the simple fact that they don't have to justify a cost benefit ratio and can just sit down and do the thing. you think then that corporate entities are the ones driving any of this?
they pay people's bills. they don't create projects.

i'm going to be real with you
have respect for hobbyist developers.
I don't care about what people's takes on sustainability is here, that's not relevant to whether you should be taking a hobbyist developer seriously. the entire kernel is literally just a hobbyist project that got big. dozens of graphics drivers that are fully khronos compliant (NOT just asahi!!!) started as hobbies. Panfrost was a hobby project until it wasn't, freedreno was a hobby project until it wasn't, nouveau was a hobby project until it wasn't, radeon.ko was a hobby project until it wasn't, and some of those hobby projects getting the blessing of companies doesn't change that.
open source literally thrives on non-profitable ideas

Lists with free or affordable alternatives to big commercial applications and services…

➡️ https://switching.software

➡️ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

➡️ https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

➡️ https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle

➡️ https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools

➡️ https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

➡️ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNXpuy5tVP0q-El0DqoY-AwmPHT6K09NEZG-Pf0KJ7E/edit?tab=t.0

➡️ https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

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Happy to announce that Waag Futurelab installed Peertube to host our video content. Check https://tube.waag.org We are in the process to migrate our Vimeo en Youtube content to the Fediverse.