Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

logic analyzers are friends, not food

Waarom is huismerk-ceylonthee plotseling overal verdwenen? Lidl, AH, Jumbo hebben het allemaal niet meer...

I just noticed there's also a Hackaday article on this exact thing: https://hackaday.com/2025/04/07/why-usb-c-splitters-can-cause-magic-smoke-release/

so just to reiterate;
- USB *hubs* and alike devices are fine
- dumb chipless splitters are NOT, unless you can confirm none of them support USB-PD or QuickCharge (or the adapter doesn't)

Murderbot (the show) on May 16! Hesitantly excited for this.
https://www.theverge.com/news/645746/murderbot-trailer-apple-tv-plus

Anyone working on "ethics" "fairness" "responsible AI" and such at these companies is giving cover for them to commit genocide. The only ones doing actual "ethics" or "fairness" are the ones protesting this and getting fired.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-azure-israel-top-customer-ai-cloud

this new discord update is awful

May I offer u to build a community in those trying times

Public service announcement: this is *not* a dire wolf.

It is a genetically modified grey wolf made to resemble an extinct species, so a bullshit company can raise more money for their bullshit projects.

#Deextinction is a scam on so many levels I don't even know where to begin. It will *not* help us save endangered species. Instead, we should spend our money on preserving their habitats *before* they go extinct.

RE: https://ard.social/users/tagesschau/statuses/114307651578714673

i just discovered https://openinframap.org/ and i'm very autistically interested

https://mastodon.ie/@detachedspork/114307889002840241

goddess, I'm so fucking lonely lol. It wasn't like I was good at making friends before the covid pandemic, but it's so much harder now trying to meet others to talk to and befriend. I'm really struggling to find covid conscious folks in my area or even my country that isn't some kind of facebook group lol. Currently very socially isolated and really only talk to one person who lives with me, but it's starting to eat away at my soul having so many barriers blocking me from making connections.

I'd appreciate any form of contact from CC folks, despite the fact I'm extremely socially anxious and quite avoidant. It's just getting too much to bear being so isolated from the rest of the world.

#CovidIsNotOver

So something I am just going to keep in mind going forward is that quite a few people only care about oppression if it happens to them. And this can apply to anyone, even sometimes multiply marginalized folks.

For these people, oppression that they experience is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Oppression that they don't experience gets dismissed as "purity politics" or "leftist purity tests" or the ever popular "idpol".

People who think like this are always easy to spot because they will use the same tools their own oppressors do to dismiss the claims of others, including tone policing, DARVO, gaslighting, and others. And, just like the folks oppressing them, they will never tolerate someone trying to convince them that they're doing harm.

You can come to them nicely, or you can be aggressive with them. You can approach them privately or you can call them out publicly. It doesn't matter because the issues you're trying to bring to their attention, they didn't want to hear about in the first place. It just doesn't matter how you say it when the message was never going to be welcome.

It's this kind of behavior that one might expect from well-known bigots but can be a nasty surprise from the people we're close to. At the end of the day, we don't have the power to make anybody care about someone else. All we can control is our own actions. So the trick is to find people who are actually aligned with our values and keep them close. And that's really all you can do, and that's okay!

Just a reminder.