Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I've lately had #Steam crash in a rather spectacular way sometimes (and just now it happened twice).

Spectacular as in it starts showing random windows, sometimes error popups, sometimes settings dialogs, sometimes shit I didn't even know existed.

I really wonder how the hell that even happens. Like, which part of the UI code allows whatever is doing this to open a random window. Are they all in an array? Is it a CEF thing that is handled in C++ that somehow gets corrupted? Wtaf is even happening there.

Anyone see a bug report about this?

Upd: found one

You should read every “here’s how AI will change your job” in the context of who has the power to change the conditions of work, and how that power is exercised. And remember that major changes to working conditions come about in one of two ways: as negotiation, and as coercion.

Got scabies? Got lice? Then DO NOT COME to #GPN23. Stay at home and get treated.

Same for any other infectious disease or parasite. Why does this even need to be said?

Gisteren kreeg ik een excuusbrief van Wouter Koolmees, zetbaas van de NS.

Ik schreef hem terug:

(In de alt-tekst moest ik helaas wat woorden schrappen wegens de lengte van de tekst.)

politics, journalism

back in my day we didn't date chatgpt. we sprouted headmates and tulpas instead. those damn kids have no respect for tradition

"Is free will real?"

Wrong question. A better question is whether it is possible for someone to predict your choices with high precision. Or worse, whether it is possible for someone to direct your choices with or without your awareness or consent. In practice, those are the only factors that matter.

I don't care whether or not I technically have "free will". How much agency I have in a situation seems to matter a lot more.

So, thing I learned today: If you smell ammonia around the back of a Ford hybrid vehicle..... said vehicle needs to go to a dealership to have the battery checked immediately.

That's the smell of the lithium ion battery (NOT LiFePO4, even...) venting!!!

Welp. Guess I don't have to fix it now

So, looks like I might now end up working towards #Eindhoven providing blood-tests for people who have to rely on DIY-HRT. (I now made contact with members of the city-council for that.)

Now, before someone asks: The municipality cannot just decide to provide medication in violation of national guidelines or anything like that; the best they can do their is put pressure on the national assembly to improve the situation.

They can however decide to provide blood-tests. In fact they already provide free STD-tests for gay men and some other risk groups. So my argument is that there is no obvious reason why they couldn’t also provide free tests for trans people who are forced to self-medicate and can’t convince their GPs to provide the necessary tests.

I noticed afterwards that there are even more things on that level that could be done:

* Provide full testing of vials. This is offered in some places for illegal drugs and while there have been people who managed to get assured of the safety of their medication by initially claiming that it was Heroin (when it really was just Estrogen), they apparently didn’t get the actual concentration; this could be something really inexpensive that could make a big difference for a lot of people. And if a municipality does it in place of underground NGOs it’s also much harder to attack them for it.
* Provide instructions on how to safely self-inject and needle-exchanges for those who need them.

All of these can easily be justified as harm-reduction efforts and might make some nationwide waves to put pressure to the Hague and Amsterdam:

Healthcare for trans people is so bad, that the fifth largest city of the Netherlands now feels the need to provide harm-reduction facilities for self-medicating trans people

is a headline that might turn some heads and increase awareness of how bad the situation is and might thereby even create pressure on the national level.

Kzerplt extruded a querysome appendage.

"Professor, why is my report marked as Fail?"

"Clearly, you have just made things up."

"I did not! I found and studied an uncontacted world, and reported truthly!"

"Absurd! A technological yet irrational society? This 'Earth' you dreamed up is nonsense!"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

Legality is a social construct. What is illegal now may be made legal in the future, and things that were illegal in the past have been made legal in the modern day.

When you are criticizing malicious behavior, do not lean on the legality or illegality of the behavior for your critique, because the law cannot stop someone from breaking it - only punish them retroactively. Focus on the harm caused by the behavior in question instead.

Hey unsighted fedi-folx! When it comes to good alt-text...

Please select all that apply.

#Poll #Accessibility #AltText