Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

i need a word in german that expresses the meaning of "frustration at technology where the middling knowledge is left completely in the cold; you either get Oopsie Poopsie! We Did A Boo-Boo! infantilization that tells you nothing about the problem and actively prevents you from trying to fix it, or you are expected to have three computer science degrees already and therefore you will be coding your own fix and installing it on linux; if you know a substantial amount but are not at a professional level of knowledge, prepare to be endlessly aggravated as both the culture around the technology and the official guides expect you to be happy with either extreme and nothing else - and the two extremes both mean the company gets to do jack shit about an official fix because users are either considered too stupid to be worthy of it working or users will have already made their own fix"

...it'll be a very long word, but i trust in german to get it done. it's the language that has eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher in there, after all, i have faith

This is the new treatment guidelines for trans minors, finally released after years of delays, and it's all good in there actually. I can't believe they finally figured it out. https://register.awmf.org/de/leitlinien/detail/028-014
#trans

Hey peeps, if you're still using #GitLab and #GitHub and you're twitching a bit because they're fellating fascists, I want to point to the sign that says you can self-host @forgejo - a project which is also working on decentralisation and federation.

Failing that, @Codeberg also exists, are a European non-profit that also supports the development of Forgejo.

Hope that helps 😀

you might think these are empty words, but i mean them. why do you think militaries care so much about troop morale? despair is an effective weapon. it's a tempting tool. why fight an enemy when you can make them give up? of course they'd use it.

if defeat was inevitable, they wouldn't need to use propaganda

When you want to clear just the browser file cache to solve an issue with a website, but accidentally clear everything except the browser file cache... ​​

2FA paraaaaaaaade!

Like honestly one of these moments

Let's talk about technology.

For many of us, talk of #technology and people immediately jump to computers & electronics. That's technology. Everything else is. Well not.

As a society and culture, it's like we've forgotten that all other technological advancements that came before.

At it's core. Technology is about energy amplification. Taking an input of energy from the human, and magnifying it to get more energy out than went in.

That's all technology is.

Let's talk about this item.

1/n

Just an observation: the number of cybertrucks out in the world numbers in the low 10s of thousands. They could easily ~all be torched in a weekend with enough organization.

But this is just an observation.

backlit panning shot i took of a bombardier Regina, one of my favourite trains

#photography #railfanning

Irregular reminder to those who need it: There are disabled people in the United States of America who are unable to leave despite their lives being directly threatened.

It costs money to move internationally, and being legally considered disabled in the US means an upper limit of $2000 in assets - go over, welp you're not disabled anymore.

Plus, immigration generally requires one to have a job lined up in the destination country, and disabled people don't get hired.

The ESP32 Bluetooth Backdoor That Wasn’t

https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/the-esp32-bluetooth-backdoor-that-wasnt/

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/114135119202956481

edited to add the link for the online petition for his release: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detention

I know online petitions are limited in their direct utility (and if you decide to sign please take time to think about how much information about yourself to include) but at least the high number of signatures is keeping this story in the news.

From August 2023, here is my incredibly long recap of the pandemic, from “crazy times lol” to “you do you” to “to what end.”

https://sparklingobservationalist.medium.com/folderol-masking-and-social-obligations-in-a-21st-century-pandemic-6846a7192ffb