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

Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks

https://www.404media.co/automattic-wordpress-p2-watermark-leakers/

look what I've got! #retroComputing

edit: Now properly curated for the Internet Archive library.
edit2: working serial number and screenshots added

https://archive.org/details/star_trek_tng_screen_saver

I forgot how weird Windows is. Some of the UI actually looks really nice (as it should, it's basically "what if we took macOS and combined it with KDE), but some of it is just, "oh I remember this from 20 years ago", like ok cool you don't have to redesign every UI element but maybe at least make it match the current look of the OS? 😭

On Linux that's not even an issue outside of Gnome, and even then you can just, install a GTK3 theme that looks like libadwaita and everything just looks nice?

Did you know: JSON handling is so aggressively optimized in JS runtimes that often, the fastest way to deep-clone an object tree is to do a JSON stringify/parse cycle instead of iterating through the objects in your own code

@joepie91 iirc Chakra (the JS engine used by non-Chrome Edge back in the day) had a special string representation for the result of JSON.stringify, so it didn’t actually generate the string at all if it just got passed back to JSON.parse

Let’s Encrypt *will* stop emailing you but *only* after emailing you more frequently than ever before

@joepie91 there was a V8 talk I watched that suggested it was more performant to initialize an object by JSON.parse'ing a string rather than var thing = {} for the same reason.

There are so many things where it's ridiculous that we expect individuals to all have their own, personal thing for their own personal use.

I have a really nice set of chisels, but they only get used once every couple of months. It makes sense to share them.

If you're a woodworker or carpenter, you probably need your own. But so many things could be shared rather than bought.

I'm no expert, but having a Library Economy sounds so much nicer than a capitalist one.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vW5EVNT--DA

Loving how much I'm getting to know my neighbours, and how we've been helping each other out.

Some neighbours know the leaves I use for baskets, and give me bundles of them when I walk past.

I've been fixing things for neighbours who need it. One neighbour is thrilled I fixed her shopping cart, and has been giving me home-baked goods ever since.

Every few months we get together to chat and share stories, and we're getting better at sharing tools.

This feels like how it should be.

In case you missed it, Bluesky is apparently caving to an authoritarian government:

➡️ https://mas.to/@osma/114346166890552471

This is why the Fediverse is so important: each Fedi server is totally independent, servers communicate directly with each other, and anyone can set up a server anywhere.

Bluesky posts all flow through Bluesky's corporate relay which is impossible to bypass, making censorship easy.

No one controls the Fediverse

🦋 Bluesky is controlled by a US-based for-profit corporation

Opmerkelijk: alle partijen maken alleen maar bekend welke cadeau’s ze uit de onderhandelingen hebben gesleept, met totale kosten ondertussen minstens 6 miljard. Er was toch geen geld?

thaaat's a new one

Spent 3 days at a workshop with basically only academic computer scientists and it is scary how many fundamental democratic rules and concepts are put up for debate constantly. CS won't save us. Not one bit.

Every year, alongside many others, we observe April 15 as Steal Something from Work Day—an opportunity to reflect on the causes and implications of workplace theft.

https://crimethinc.com/StealfromWork2025

This year, we turn our focus to so-called “Robin Hood employees”—those who steal from their workplaces in order to share with others. Loss prevention professionals allege that Robin Hood employees inflict losses on corporations much more efficiently than ordinary shoplifters or employees who only steal for their own benefit.

In other words, when it comes to redistributing wealth, the most effective approach is not to take things for yourself, but to share them with everyone.

Als je om leesvoer vraagt in een cellencomplex, waarom krijg je bijna altijd boeken over criminelen die god hebben gevonden*. Een verbindend element, wat de meeste boeken gemeen hebben, is de aanwezigheid van harddrugs.

Overigens stond er een bijbeltekst in één van die boeken, waar we ons wel in kunnen vinden.

''dat geldzucht, de wortel is van all het kwaad''

*Of kinderboeken over kinderen die bij de politie willen werken

You should never feel bad for pushing the overton window in the correct way.

push, push against the dying of our freedom