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

What do you folks do for backups these days? I used to use a drobo RAID array for all my stuff, but the company and the device died and all my data is stuck on drives that i can't decrypt. I'm looking for something more resilient and long-lasting. A lot of it is raw footage so it's a couple terabytes of data.

For this #fursuitfriday the bird got to meet a legend from mythbusters

This happened again today

🦝 Oh cool, a local solarpunk author with a neat blog, I will go and buy their book

🦝 I wonder if I can just buy it on their website and they'll email me the .epub or let me download it

🦝 That would be the easiest way, and would work on any phone, computer, tablet or ereader made since around 2007, so I bet that's what I'll find on their website

🦌 how about eleven (11) different links to buy the book in eleven (11) different ways from eleven (11) different stores

🦝 Will one of them work with my ereader

🦌 no

🦝 Cool

For reasons not truly known to anyone, one of our state funded free-to-air tv channels* broadcasts The Fifth Element, five times in a row, on May 5th. Last year they only showed it once and people were offended, so this year it's once again five times in a row.

*SBS Viceland.

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

https://endof10.org/

#windows #copilot #microsoft #ms #landFill #recycle #cheapNew #laptop #linux #Surveillance #privacy #security

i don't know how as a tall and fat person i only just now discovered what a good idea is reserving a seat next to the emergency exits when flying. my wife and i often reserve seats anyway so we sit together, and when available, to get extra leg room, but the emergency exit offers more leg space, more hip space (as the row is rarely occupied) and at a lower seat reservation cost, all for the small price of agreeing to pull a lever if necessary.
i get that for some it may be stressful, and i get why many avoid it. but if you don't mind those are literally the best seats in the plane.

anyone know how to get an owncast server up and running streaming to a domain i have with namecheap using an old laptop? ive tried it on a bunch of different linux distros now and keep getting stuck at the part where i have to set up the server to point at my website. its possible my dns is set up wrong, also my ports 80, 443, etc all seem to always be closed or just some sort of issue with them lmao. i tried using caddy and some other methods but none have worked. i have spent way more time on this now than i was anticipating so if you have any ideas or alternatives i am very open to them

‘Rafael Onak, a user experience writing manager at Apple, instructed an employee to add the phrase “external website” to the screen because it “sounds scary, so execs will love it.” Another employee gave a suggestion on how to make the screen “even worse” by using the developer’s name, rather than the app name. “ooh - keep going,” another Apple employee responded in Slack.’

https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-compliance-court-ruling-breakdown

It sure is interesting how Tauri doesn't get shit on anywhere near as much as Electron, even though there is very little technical difference between the two, and the 'arguments' against Electron are supposedly of a technical nature

tangential, but I get kind of annoyed by comments along the lines of "let's migrate to <other platform>", as if that is a trivial thing to do with minimal consequences (which it isn't, and the constant floating of the idea does not help the sense of community stability either). doubly so when the current platform is one that we do actually have some degree of control over, like is the case with Matrix.

like, we can keep platform-hopping forever, tearing apart what's left of the community at every step, hoping that we'll eventually land on some platform from some company that somehow is prepared to do anything we need for us forever on a budget of "none"... or, more realistically, we could acknowledge that our community is ultimately ours to run and support, and that "everybody putting in their part to make it work" is the sustainable way forward, rather than expecting others to do it for us.

I do not miss the days where antivirus companies classified things as "malware" or "legitimate" based on whether there was a (US/EU) registered company behind it or not

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#memes #CSS #webdev

Eventually I may just decide to be the nerd I want to see in the world and start a musical theatre Mastodon server, if the rest of you persist in not making one for me to join 🤔

The Speculative Literature Foundation is offering a $1000 grant to "writers over 50 who are at the beginning of their writing careers." See how to apply at the link:

https://speculativeliterature.org/grants-3/slf-older-writers-grant/

#SFF #Writing

The fact that PostNL put the last 17:00 pick-up mailbox of the area at the far end of the run down industrial area in front of the mayor mandated closed party centrum where weddings are celebrated with blood is real shady shit and also exactly Rotterdam.

Over twee weken is het zover, de derde editie van de rafe voor de rafelranden.

De organisatie is nog op zoek naar vrijwillgers en medics voor tijdens de rave.

Voor meer informatie ga naar: https://ravevoorderafelranden.com

Vorige jaar had Antifa eindelijk hun eigen trekker.

Yo! #Guelph and area:

Repair Cafe
Sat May 10, 2025 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Old Quebec Street Shoppes.

Bring your broken items and get them fixed with the help of our expert volunteers, and learn how it's done! This event is in collaboration with the City of Guelph.
You can bring:
-electronics
-small electrical appliances
-clothing
-computers
-clocks
-bikes
Hosted by:
https://guelphtoollibrary.org/
#repairCafe #toolLibrary #rightToRepair