Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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- 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
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casual ableism online and elsewhere
i've copied and pasted this point in several posts onhere before but here it is again: "even if it's correct to point out a given example is hyperbolic, bringing up these fringe examples to laugh at them is a way of reinforcing the idea that disabled people's demands for accommodation in a community are absurd, and should be met with cynicism"
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@prehensile
and one about how one the bigger mac game developers of the 90s flubbed their payment processing so they could take credit card payments
payment providers didn't have a business category for selling software digitally, so they registered as a bodega
at one point they paid a contractor who turned out to be a NASA engineer as his day job
it turns out the FBI gives you serious side-eye if you're a "bodega" based in a residential suburb and send thousands of dollars to NASA engineers
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Anarchism doesn't mean you get to treat people like trash, and any academic who continually persists in pushing this line of inquiry should immediately be beaten with a printed copy of their drivel that's been rolled up into a tube.
If you cannot take the time to learn about something, you really should stop trying to pretend you're an expert on it.
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Oh, a new USB Standard: „USB4 2.0“
At this rate the next USB generation will be named:
Copy of USB4 2.0 Generation 3-4x2_final(2)
It’s trying to start a race against UserAgent strings!
Gotta love it when a Wikipedia article is clearly written by someone who's still holding a grudge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Estate_Transaction_Standard
@srol Oh yeah, and because accuracy (especially in gaming) is frequently a concern that people have: I now have an MX Ergo, and it allows me to be *much* more accurate (including in FPS games) than any other mouse I've used. Motor control issues probably do play a role there, but I'd say that it's entirely suitable for games that require fast response and accuracy. Not sure about other trackballs though.
@srol I'd say that my main advice would be that different trackballs can feel and function *significantly* differently, much more difference than with typical 'regular' mice, and so if you have trouble with this one, it's worth trying a different one to see if it works better
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev @tthbaltazar@chaos.social In NL this is a complete non-issue, though. I can't even really think of a single case where overloaded wiring caused a fire or damage, in any house with an electrical setup from the past 50 years.
Oops, forgot a `yield` in there, that's what triggers the actual parsing
Did a syntax crime and now I have a really neat abstraction for parsing text/line-based formats
@Dee looking forward to the first international diplomatic incident because the tz maintainer refused to update it
@Dee also because if something is done wrong in this obscure project, basically every computer everywhere in the world breaks
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student loans discourse
so a lotta people say that they don't wanna cancel student loans bc they have paid for it, and if they are gonna cancel them, that means their efforts were useless
they are obviously wrong (sunk cost fallacy aka "I already started so I might as well continue even though this is harmful to me and others)
but what really interested me is that you think we should still help those people
here's why:
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eth dot link service about to go offline because domain owner is in prison
August 25, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ethlink-service-about-to-go-offline-because-domain-owner-is-in-prison
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current piracy levels are 99%
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mh, ph
@julialuna@chaos.social I have this with anxiety episodes. Once the anxiety *resolves*, my body goes completely haywire for the next 24 hours - digestive issues, headaches, everything, as if it's trying to purge something.
I almost can't believe that this needs to be said, but "well that's capitalism for you, not an individual problem" is *not* an excuse to defend someone who goes above and beyond in playing the game of capitalism, and harms people in the process.
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- 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
