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.
- 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
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The show you were watching has been removed from your streaming service for your convenience
Pray we do not convenience you any further
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reference to transmisic 'joke'
@ben I assume it's a poorly-considered attempt to prevent "attack/helicopter" and they didn't think about who such a measure would *actually* harm
@zens@merveilles.town Ah, my experience with that is a little more positive - *most* people I've talked to just genuinely never had it explained to them, and showing them https://gist.github.com/joepie91/22fb5cd443517566412b clears it up pretty quickly, thankfully.
Here it ends up being only a small minority who don't really *want* to learn it and do exactly what you're describing
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now also available in English:
Are we past peak IPv4? -- Value of IPv4 address blocks has dropped sharply in the last year
https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/are-we-past-peak-ipv4
"The prices fetched by address blocks currently traded plateaued about two years ago, and have actually fallen significantly in the last twelve months. What's more, the price drop appears to be structural, suggesting that we may have already passed peak IPv4. That's a clear (economic) signal that IPv4's significance is in decline."
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FTX should've been called Mt. Gox Electric Boogaloo
@zens@merveilles.town Yeah, very much agreed there. I have long held the opinion that constructors in JS were a design mistake for that exact reason, and that 'classes' just doubled down on it :|
(It's so much easier to reason about when you think in terms of object literals or even stuff like Object.create, but who actually learns it that way?)
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This box of 600+ specimen cards holds a complete snapshot of the last metal type foundries in Germany.
Produced 1958–1971, the Schriftenkartei (Typeface Index) represents the final effort to catalog all the country’s typefaces in production at the time. The cards are useful for researchers and designers as they share a common format and show complete glyph sets. Thanks to Michael Wörgötter, a set of these cards is now in our collection, and his high-res scans are online. https://letterformarchive.org/news/schriftenkartei-german-font-index/
@yassie_j (Huh, what map was that originally? Or is that entirely from scratch?)
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One of the small delights of a big city is encountering people selling things who just have more customers than they can handle so they become progressively more rude and obscure about how they render the service.
Economists would say they ought to raise the price... but they don't. Raising prices changes expectations, brings different more annoying customers.
Instead you get the best chicken tenders on earth DO NOT ask if you can buy them without the fries. Fries are mandatory.
@zens@merveilles.town I've noticed this too when providing technical support to people writing JS, and it's so incredibly frustrating.
Like, I can usually tell immediately from someone's code paste that they are trying to avoid learning any JS, because they do the most absurd "smash it with a hammer until it does something vaguely right" shit, and then 5 minutes later complain about how JS is so horrible to work with... :|
@smveerman @OV
"Either you get this discount for free, or your discounted ticket will be invalid. Guess :)"
"Discount for free?"
"No :( jail"
Sometimes it feels like the internet is just 50 people that I keep running into over and over again in a million different places
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ACAB
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re: unsolicited advice, if fixing is desired
@elilla I wonder what Debian is doing different...
unsolicited advice, if fixing is desired
@elilla If you haven't yet, https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware may be worth looking at - if it's something device/model-specific, especially for a Thinkpad, there's a good chance that that repository contains a workaround for it.
@linus They've dialed up the shittiness since, basically
Some other juicy bits about the #Cloudflare outage:
- No 24/7 (experienced) technician availability at the datacenter that hosted their control plane(!)
- No end-to-end service dependency tracking or diagrams
- Therefore, supposedly HA services depending on non-HA infrastructure
- Even if the "redundant" setup *did* work (it didn't), all three locations would be physically within *the same earthquake zone*
This is absolute clowncar level network administration, frankly, for something the size and importance of Cloudflare.
- 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
