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The Super Printendo deserves a place on the fediverse. :SonicRunning:

Image credit: @jamhamster.bsky.social‬ bsky.app/profile/jamhamster.bs

EUpol 

I might flesh these thoughts out a bit more in a blog post in the near future, but only if I have time. I think leftist commentary on what the EU does is in sad short supply in the last decade+

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EUpol 

The EU has decided on dealing with necropolitics in multiple ways. Doubling down on the old world order and a (popular! Even on the so called "left") devotion to neocolonialism and white supremacy. The popular narrative you must have seen is that the Moloch of the United States army is retreating from the continent, and so we must "pick up arms" and re-arm to become more ready for the threats of tomorrow. But have you considered what that materially means? What this money is being put to and what effects those things tend to have on societies. The EU is basically claiming that it wants to (at least partially) take over the mantle of world police, pump more money into its own military industrial complex, and grow its power projection globally. But it cannot grow its recruitment easily, most armies in the EU are professional volunteer armies, so unless they want to reinstate the draft I don't see how manpower will increase. So techno gadgets it is I suppose, tools of more destruction, devotion to at best blowing up our own resources. A society funded from the top to incentivize people working on machines of death directly or indirectly. And a huge incentive to go down the road the US has already tread, impoverishment to lead people into the pipeline to work for the military.

UPDATE: there is a blender plugin that fully automates this process

extensions.blender.org/add-ons/ikea-browser/

so it's even easier!

thanks to
@schrottkatze for making it aware of this

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scraping models from ikea is actually easier than this one expected:

1. open the network tab of the web inspector on the ikea site, set it to media (this is in firefox but it assumes chromium-based things have a simiilar tool)
2. open the page for the product and open the 3d view, then save the result of the request for a glb file that happens when opening the 3d view
3. open in blender
it even imports with textures and materials, properly scaled, and everything

Decades of media about lone saviors stepping up in the moment of deepest need has really not aged well.

The nice thing about using a simple string-based light flickering system from the 90's is that you can share patterns really easily, across completely different engines. Here's one from Kitsune Tails in UE (thanks to @eniko)

When someone accidentally assigns trainset 2728 instead of 402728...

Predicting a bubble burst is notoriously hard. Shilling’s adage “markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” is popular for a reason. Pretending that the AI Bubble is unusually hard to predict serves no purpose except to protect the egos of those prone to spurious prediction

HostEurope, a formerly European web and e-mail hosting provider acquired by GoDaddy in 2016, just informed its customers that it will move their IMAP folders and everything e-mail to Microsoft's MS365 offer.

This move does not only incur additional fees for many customers – it also raises privacy concerns.

We recommend you empty all of your IMAP folders now and move your e-mail (domains) to one of the trustworthy e-mail services listed here: switching.software/replace/gma

Trademarks used by HostEurope Group include 123-reg, Webfusion, Heart Internet, BrandFortress, Host Europe, Domainbox, Domainmonster, Domainfactory, DonHost, Sign-Up.to, velia.net and RedCoruna. Their users might also be affected.

PS: HostEurope has published the following FAQ:

hosteurope.de/faq/migration/em
hosteurope.de/faq/migration/em

#HostEurope #GoDaddy #Microsoft #MS365

My neurodivergent plea:

If you would like me to do something, please tell me the thing that you would like me to do AND that you would like me to do it. If relevant, specify when you would like the thing done.

@ryanboswell now I read something a while back about “right wing prepping” (doing it along to save yourself) vs “left wing prepping” (doing it as a community to help out each other). And I guess you could apply that to the self hosting movement as well 🤔

Fire code is a scam invented to forbid cool architectural features such as secret rooms, hidden passages, and labyrinthine layouts

hmm so PDFs can embed JavaScript, has someone tried embedding pdf.js in a PDF?

Nog een leuke anecdote: een van de lastigere dingen om kwijt te raken in een weggeefwinkel, is vierkante/rechthoekige borden.

Waarom? Omdat ze nergens anders mee te combineren zijn, en de reden dat ze bij de weggeefwinkel terechtkomen is meestal omdat het dus geen complete set meer is...

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@ojensen @mhoye I know where the 23andme building is, I can guess which ewaste facility they'd end up in

Pressed the wrong button and discovered a new feature in the tiling window manager I have been using for almost a decade. Feels like accidentally doing a backflip.

TIL: You can make window containers fullscreen in sway.
(in hindsight it's obvious, but woah)

Ik ben inmiddels zelf maar begonnen met wat te schrijven over hoe je een weggeefwinkel begint: wiki.slightly.tech/books/een-w

(Nog rommelig en ongesorteerd, in aanbouw, enz.)

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fascism, racism, sexism, queerphobia, ableism 

Reminder that nothing is dumb or stupid. Those words don't even mean anything. Try to think harder about what you actually mean by that. Do you mean it was chaotic? Do you mean that you think it will hurt an objective of yours? Do you think it will also hurt the perceived objectives of your enemies so you don't understand why they would do that?

Keep in mind, if something the alt-right does seems "dumb" it's because they have different objectives than you. They don't want peace on earth, or even like... peace in your small town. They want a race war at all costs, legitimately. They want to exterminate queer people, no hyperbole. They want women silent and in the kitchen, full stop.

Example: If they cut off a state from accessing healthcare, and it will lead to the deaths of white people, particularly poor white women, so you are upset and call it dumb, because it will affect them too (leading to many preventable deaths), you need to realize that it's not dumb to the right.

Poor people not being able the access healthcare, including poor white women, is a worthy price to pay to ensure that Black people and queer people don't access it. They calculated that risk and found it acceptable. They don't think its dumb, and calling it so, doesn't do anything.

Call it what it is: "That's fascist."

At least then, you'll be starting the conversation where it ought to be, "why are fascists running my [city/county/state/country]?" Don't be afraid to use the word fascist. Make the alt-right defend why they're not like Hitler. Move the goal post on them. Don't let them manipulate the conversation by using a useless phrase like "that's stupid".

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