Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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agitprop + dealing with spam
problem: I get invited to Whatsapp crypto spam groups all the time 😔
opportunity: finally, an audience for my insufferable shit!
@mia @chumii@chaos.social Alt text: close-up photo of a PCB showing "MADE IN ANGER" below a chip as part of the screen print
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I wish there was a tab on everyone's profile where you could review the interactions you had with that person.
(Boosts, likes and messages, in both directions.)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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The CEO of the after school program I work at gets over $100,000 per month from the parents of the kids I watch and I get *checks notes* $1,300 of it...... I am going to start biting people
@DuckForTheDuck Juh, maar ik ben begonnen bij de reverse search van Yandex, en die kan prima met dat soort dingen omgaan :)
@IceWolf @crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social @thufie That's the thing though, Cloudflare has been consistently a) overexaggerating the likelihood of getting hit by a DDoS (it's not actually that likely, even today), and b) failing to mention that there are plenty of non-MITM high-capacity DDoS mitigation providers that existed long before Cloudflare did.
Basically, they used fear marketing to convince people you can't live on the web without their services.
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Isn't that just futurism
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@evelyn
I think about this _a lot_.
We need to imagine a better future if we want to achieve it, and probably it is not much about technology, yet technology tends to be the first thought.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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#OpenStreetMap has one tile rendering server for all of USA, and that server can no longer keep up with peak US traffic.
If you, or your company,are interested in hosting a rendering node in the US (or elsewhere), please contact us.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/637
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the entire concept of a credit score is one of the world's most fucked up and horrific things and the only reason it exists is because people wanted to implement a rigid caste system and this was just the easiest way
@IceWolf @thufie Oh yeah and it probably helped that they literally just hired most of the people who might've been publicly critics of them, at one point a truly staggering amount of activist-y people I knew were employed by Cloudflare, and of course didn't want to hear anything about the sketchiness of the company
@IceWolf @thufie A combination of marketing, convenience, and free shit, basically - Cloudflare is very good at presenting themselves as "keeping the internet safe", even convincing a lot of techies, and so warning people of the MITM mostly resulted in "ehhh I'm sure they have no ill intentions" responses
@DuckForTheDuck Een rondje reverse-image-searchen lijkt een zwik aan Thaise dingen op te leveren, maar niet echt iets waar ik wat uit kan halen
@DuckForTheDuck M'n eerste associatie is "BNNVARA logo", maar dat zal het vast niet zijn
re: baffling food branding
@prehensile@tech.lgbt @ben De Vegetarische Slager (in NL) used some, uh, creative archaic-sounding naming to get around that:
Kipstukjes -> Kipstuckjes
Rookworst -> Roockworst
And I've spotted a couple of supermarkets converting "kipstukjes" (chicken pieces) into "stukjes als van kip" (pieces like of chicken)
Just received my https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/a8c08fd3-56b6-11ea-aece-01aa75ed71a1/language-en and uhhhh I didn't anticipate it being a 2.5kg monster of a book :D
Turns out the Dutch equivalent of the DMV uses on their website a CC-licensed 'license plate font'... that was originally created by someone as an unofficial font because they couldn't find any official font files for it :D
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
