Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Hey folks, there has been a fair bit of discussion this week regarding what the community expects from data dumps, and I've realised that obfuscating WiFi AP identifiers may actually be interfering with what the community wants: portable, open data - not some restrictive binary blob.

How would people feel if AP MAC+SSIDs were plaintext in the dumps, instead of obfuscated like originally planned? If an AP moved, it would still be blocked from the database for at least a year to prevent tracking.

Man, I fucking hate LinkedIn.

It feels even more performative and inauthentic than most social media which is a staggering achievement. Maybe I'm just not on other social media anymore.

The only good thing I've ever seen on LinkedIn is @vilmibm's profile which is damned art:

For anyone else excitedly reading news about the plan to abolish leasehold, and being puzzled by the complete lack of links to the actual commonhold whitepaper all the articles are talking about: I got you.

This is the commonhold whitepaper that was just published: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonhold-white-paper/commonhold-white-paper-the-proposed-new-commonhold-model-for-homeownership-in-england-and-wales

your outie is terminally eepy

R.I.P. James Harrison, Australian hero, whose blood contained a rare antibody used to create medication to protect babies from a rare blood disorder. Having the antibody was just luck. What made him a hero was donating plasma every two weeks without missing one appointment for 60+ years. There's power in just reliably showing up for other people who need what only you can give them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo

Still can't find the work phone but found a couple of pentium 3 xeon CPUs in my car lol

@joepie91 will post wee woo exactly 3 hours later next month for opsec

Hello! We thought we'd freshen up our introduction!

Every day women have, and are, making history. ​We're a project that posts every day with what women did #OnThisDay. We're all about highlighting #WomenInHistory.

Women in history are, just like men, complex. Sometimes a woman who has achieved something amazing was not a nice person.

Follow us to find out what happened on this day, and carve her name.

#Introduction #Histodons #WomensHistory

I have a meeting planned with the head of my department to voice my concerns about using Google Cloud.

I have two points that I would like to make:
* Ideological, about whether we should sponsor Google, which was so quick to step in line with Trump and Elon
* Operational, about the risk we take by relying on a platform that is easily weaponized in a trade conflict

Are there more arguments to be made against US cloud that could be compelling?

Unreal tournament? You mean a misinformation contest, like Twitter?

It's the size of about 4 football fields. No, not American football fields, I mean metric football fields

This is hardly an original take but I absolutely hate the way the word "content" has become the main way people refer to any creative work, that would previously have been referred to by more meaningful words, like "writing" or, y'know, fucking "art", that people put on the internet. And I hate the way the phrase "content creator" (or its short form, "creator") has come to replace words like "artist" or "writer".

Like how did the MBAs manage to convince everyone else to see works of human creativity as consisting of generic stuff that (interchangeable and insignificant) people produce that they can shove into interchangeable containers (the word "content" literally just means "the stuff inside a container") for economic consumption as an unremarkable by-product of their moneymaking activities, instead of the reverse, that artists produce art in some particular medium and then the (interchangeable and insignificant) businesspeople scrape money off the top of the process of distributing that media, like we'd been doing until like barely ten years ago.

I don't know about you, but you won't hear me use the term "content creator", at any rate because I find that to be an insult to the people who actually deserve recognition.