Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I am very tempted to buy a 1st class Interrail.

Does DuckDuckFedi have any opinions?

My main reason for doing so it the massively increased short notice Eurostar/reservation availability.

OK, this is rad! Oregon, you keep winning!

@coolandnormal My standard for consent is to pretend the thing I'm consenting to is being physically done by a person.

It'd be super weird if I bought a used car from some one and they asked me if they could follow me around.

It'd also be super weird for a stranger to ask to follow me around writing down the things I put into my cart at the grocery store.

If I called a taxi, it'd be super weird if the driver asked me if he could look through my phone contacts and copy them down.

Today's AI bullshit: Webex randomly said to me in a TTS voice that an AI generated transcript and summary of the meeting will be created. I was alone in the meeting at that point and just said "nein?" to myself and disabled the feature. So the summary only goes off of the word "nine" since I guess the speech model expects English

That's... correct, I guess. 😠

"Ordinary people have problems understanding me because I converse at a higher level" -> "No, you're just shit at communicating" energy going on here

This is the kind of commune I want to live in. https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/case-study-the-story-of-radish-81f3ca6b6616

i need you to find the part of yourself that loves others, and love it, to build up and sustain it, so that you can live up to that love for people including you. without love in you, love shown is hollow.

We need to stop thinking that the company that most recently did a shitty thing is the worst company. Firefox isn't worse than Chrome. Brother isn't worse than HP

Semi related, we need to stop overblowing problems in open source. There's too much "I'm switching back to the proprietary one" even tho that company has done much worse things than the open source project

I reckon this is intentional. By placing massive friction around exercising consent, you make any worker who understands consent seem like a source of friction in the workplace.

It takes a worker who understands consent 10x as long to do anything in tech compared with a worker who simply taps [ALLOW] every time.

This effectively purges workplaces of any workers who assert their own right to privacy, have any boundaries or are generally in the habit of standing up for themselves.

We don't talk anywhere near enough about how the tech industry is fucking with the general public's understanding of consent.

Fairly often I will opt out of something that would have been obviously reasonable a few years ago, and people will look at me like I drove a truck through the room.

Things like:
- I won't be appearing on camera today
- I don't wish to speak on a recording to be published on the University website
- I won't be giving my personal details to an overseas third party just to use a notepad tool in one meeting

I see this seeping through into attitudes about consent in other everyday life contexts. People are so used to being walked all over by their tech that they're increasingly shocked by boundaries.

Today I learned that East German chemists created almost unbreakable consumer glassware in the 1970s. They produced hundreds of millions of drinking glasses, expecting significant exports to the west because the product was just so much better than regular glass.

Those exports did not happen. If you're a western marketer of glassware, you *want* your products to break so you can sell new ones.

Outstanding job, capitalism. This is why we can't have nice things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfest

@futzle

When we went to remote and then hybrid conferences during the acknowledged part of the pandemic, I was struck by the disability community voices saying, "Finally we can participate!"

I'm furious at how eager the organizers have been to return to exclusion.

Edit: Just got the little survey about the (no longer hybrid) conference I attended last month and BOY HOWDY DID I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.

I need to move somewhere safe within the span of a few weeks. If anyone can offer me a place in Germany (preferably within 1,5 hours of Munich - though that is optional at this point) give me a shout.

My housemates have started behaving in a manner that makes me afraid to live in my current home and makes me worried that I'll lose this home soon.