Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

If your criticism of "big tech" is merely a result of the unhappiness about the fact that Meta, Google and Microsoft aren't EU-corporations you are missing the point.

There is nothing that indicates that SAP or Deutsche Telekom would hesitate a second at the chance of becoming equally violent and exploitative forces.

The solution to Big Tech isn't EU Big Tech. It's de-commercialisation and democratization of tech.

These were novelty topic surveys, intended to get the name YouGov said in print and on-air.

And yet I think they accidentally revealed something about the cultures which standard political surveys never get at.

Significant parts of the voting public in the US are completely detached from reality, and hold levels of confidence in their own place in the world completely at variance with fact.

This is significantly more pronounced among men.

what up biorxiv, if you care about the survivability and accessibility of your data... this bucket is 7TB. you could buy one (1) flash drive and one(1) raspberry pi, run qbittorrent, distribute this as torrents, and make this data available for $0.00 to you and to everyone.

It's actually kind of bizarre how a second-hand cargo bike is more expensive than some second-hand cars

I found the serverless infrastructure everybody keeps talking about. Magical.

hey anyone have recommendations for programming socks that don't break easily? I've been using mysocks but they're so thin they break within a few months of use.

#gaming reminder: People can enjoy different levels and kinds of challenge. If you want to, it's ok to get a mod or something to alter the difficulty if you find it frustrating or otherwise unpleasant.
Or increase the difficulty, if that's what you want.

Hooray for International Womens Day etc, but really, it's an utter embarrassment to society that it's still necessary in 2025.

We need a Gaia-like parent to tell the tech bros that they're not allowed to play with their shiny scifi toys until the basic homework of human equality is sorted out.

very nice, a 88x31 for Forgejo

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/pulls/225/files

fediverse, does anyone of you know a good website with vegan recipes?
(feel free to boost this)

So in a series of events that I'm too tired to go into, the still-President of #Korea was released from detention on a technicality that stinks of collusion. The shocking development sent the country's relative calm plunging and my and many others' anxiety is spiking in the face of the misinformation, cover-up & violence he'll whip up while at large. His criminal trial proceeds apace and his dismissal proceeding at the Constitutional Court has already concluded arguments and is in deliberation, with the decision hopefully upcoming this week. It can't come soon enough ugh. 60% of the country is hoping the Court will do the right thing and fire him, and if it somehow fails to do so the fight is just going to get that much harder, but it won't end.

At least going to a protest today helped with the terror I was feeling. The news of his release actually came during the protest, but it was easier to bear with a huge crowd of people who felt the same way. The size of the crowd there was unbelievable, like filling the entire road of downtown Seoul for blocks and blocks and the air thick with waving flags, and it lifted my spirits a lot. No matter what happens from here, I know I won't be alone in my determination & resistance.

Don't you just love heartwarming stories like this one that restore your faith in humanity