Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Pet peeve: the waste generated by appliances for which the consumables and/or wear components stop being available shortly after release.

Think air filters, non-stick grill plates, nonstandard vacuum cleaner bags, ear thermometer caps, seal bag rolls, and so on.

Like, you end up with a perfectly working device that you can't use anymore because you can't replace the one part that's worn out despite it being *expected* that that would happen.

I love the message of this article. Instead of organizations chasing after “10x” “rockstar” engineers, they instead should focus on createing a culture and development pipeline where the average developer does great work.

I’ve seen many unproductive orgs with great engineers stymied by poor dev toolchains & processes.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer

* 10.2174/1574892812666170619125503
* 10.2174/1871520615666141210152128
* 10.2174/15680096113139990073

#ICanHazPDF

"The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time."

"The internet was meant to belong to everyone. And it still fucking can."

By @Daojoan

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/

Computer, enhance

Probably the most authoritative crowd counting association in Serbia estimates between 275k and 325k people today. They emphasise that this is likely an undercount due to uncertainties in other parts of the city at that exact point in time.

To put those undercounted numbers into perspective:

- That is between 15% and 19.5% of Belgrade's total metro area population.
- That is between 4.2% and 4.9% of Serbia's total population.

#SerbiaProtests #Serbia #Belgrade

a thing cis allies could do: obtain gender affirming care and publicly acknowledge it to people they know

getting a boob job? HRT for menopause? HRT for low T? laser hair removal?

affirm ur gender and tell ur friends how great it is

that would be dope, thanks

This is the Google Maps "Immersive View," which Google thinks is good enough for prime placement in their app

@hazel the most fun part is that if you look down while it’s happening to find out the password you can’t do it all of a sudden because that’s not what your head is doing in the muscle memory for the password. your own brain just decides it would like to keep it a secret from you

some real left-brain right-brain shit is when you boot your computer and you cant remember your password but your fingers just type it anyway and log in and you still cant remember your password

It is always interesting to me how people never seem to demand evidence that cruelty will be good for "the economy" but no matter how.many studies of kinder things like UBI or housing first we do those who talk about "the economy" refuse to believe they are beneficial.

Boosting with CW, but I love this take on MAGA.

https://swiss.social/@swaldorff/114167292970115714

Please for fucks sake CW your posts about transphobia.

Transphobia has a high tendency for making me actively suicidal.

ok, let's say I want *the* sharpest tweezers out there. the absolute finest point you can find. sharper than a needle.

I already have the ultra fine tip pair from Weller Erem (which I think now rebranded to Apex Tools) and they are, amazingly, not fine enough for the task I have in mind.

what're my options here? are there tweezers available with tip geometry sharpened down to the micron range?

note: must be hand tweezers specifically, not anything bonkers like wire bonding rigs.

it's pretty good that a king got stabbed and we are still making jokes about it two thousand years later

I understand the programme making style required for general audience TV.

But as I watch more YouTube and shorts than everything else I’m used to stuff that’s tailored to people already interested in the topic, without the detailed exposition and emotional interviews to get you invested.