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

Every now and then when my blog gets attention, *especially* when the "How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really" post came out, you get a bunch of people complaining that the site looks like it was designed 20 years ago (it was)

@mkljczk made a "more modern version" of my blog https://mkljczk.pl/uploads/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

Compare to the original https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

Big step up!

I feel like the timeline needs some gentler things on it, so important news: I saw some baby greylag geese yesterday, they were very fluffy.

#Nature #Wildlife #Cute #Birds

A feel-good story in the news today...

Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefront about a block away.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one

The “book brigade” of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.

“It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said. “As people passed the books along, they said ‘I have not read this’ and ‘that’s a good one’.”

Tuplin said the endeavour took just under two hours – much shorter than hiring a moving company to box and unbox the thousands of titles. The brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.

concept: the 💯 emoji but for all the http error codes

can't remember where I saw it but "Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you" is a solid quote

Parliament Square, Saturday, 1pm

Remember when #Android was cool and promoted openness and hackability?
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/12/its-not-rooting-its-openness.html

Always happy to see these empirical results from the Universal Basic Income study (translation in alt)

Just a reply to put a CW on the above post so I can boost.

There'll be security patches released for Iceshrimp-JS (severity: critical) and Iceshrimp.NET (severity: low) between 19:00, 27 Apr 2025 UTC and 21:00, 27 Apr 2025 UTC (this should show in your local time zone on Iceshrimp, but in case it doesn't, that's 2025-04-27T19:00Z - 2025-04-27T21:00Z. Be ready and patch quickly, especially if you're on -js.

Are there any period tracking apps that are single-purchase, NO CLOUD DATA, NO HEALTHKIT, privacy respecting at all? My daughter is getting to the age where she should probably start tracking mood so she might have some warning for when she starts fully menstruating, but I'm deeply concerned about the 3rd party doctrine and apps like Clue collaborating with the fascists.

If not, why not? Is there something I'm missing? Is this a thing I should consider during my down times in my consulting biz?

Thanks! and please boost widely!

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.