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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- 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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Nordic model
@babe A practical example for those struggling:
Pimping is illegal under the nordic model. A pimp can be any third party who makes a profit off a sex worker – so norwegian police would target landlords, force them to evict sex worker tenants or be charged as pimps.
This was literally called "Operation Homeless". Do not delude yourself for even a second that this was in any way for sex workers' benefit.
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Nordic model
The nordic model is a way of criminalising sex work 'without' criminalising the sex worker.
Instead the idea is to target the clients of sex workers as criminal to decrease demand.
When people's actions are criminalised it drives sex work further underground and increases the risk enormously to sex workers.
A lot of mitigating safety practices are also commonly criminalised in tandem, so the "not" criminalising goes out the window fast. https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-decriminalized
Market segmentation is just inconvenient progressive taxation with complicated extra steps
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Chiropractic PSA
Never let a "chiropractor" touch your body.
... but given the sheer amount of ad fuckery going on on that site, I assume that all the developers probably only visit it with an adblocker...
I wonder if 1337x has realized yet that one of their ad providers broke the comments tab
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basically there are so many examples of bullshit racism in maths history but I will always mention the chinese remainder theorem as the titular example because it's very often used and very clearly racist
we know the exact book they got it from and its author but we still just say it's "chinese"
the guy who did this was a missionary, btw. because of fucking course he was
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PSA: wifi antennas
- Bigger is not better. A wifi antenna on a router is internally just a stick of wire that's a *specific length* for a particular frequency. Plastic over-moldings styled like evangelions are just there to look cool.
- Antennas might advertise themselves as "+3.6dB gain" or whatever, but that's a measurement of directionality, not efficiency or power. (Properly the unit is dBi, or "decibels over isotropic".) Unless you specifically desire a directional antenna, you rarely want a higher figure there.
- The relevant measure of antenna efficiency is VSWR (voltage standing wave ratio) or s11 (return loss). These are both different ways of expressing how well an antenna is matched to a specific frequency of interest. For VSWR, 1.0 is ideal and larger numbers are worse. For s11, numbers that are more negative are better. Consumer hardware rarely indicates those specs tho.
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it seems like techbros think "infosec" means "it's okay to access personal information without consent, so long as i'm using a TLS connection to read it."
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politiegeweld, taser
"De man bleek nog een boete open te hebben staan en kon die niet betalen. De agent wilde daarom zijn autosleutels omdat hij zijn auto niet mocht gebruiken totdat de boete betaald is. De man weigerde die sleutels af te geven. Ook toen de agent zei dat hij dan aangehouden zou worden. De man bleef zitten in zijn auto. Toegeschoten assistentie moest een stroomstootwapen inzetten om de man alsnog aan te houden."
Wat was dat ook alweer over hoe een taser alleen als vervanging voor een pistool gebruikt zou worden, en niet tot toegenomen inzet daarbuiten zou leiden?
Moet ik daaruit afleiden dat een agent iemand neergeschoten zou hebben om z'n autosleutels te stelen?
@Ninji (This assumes that you don't have the money to just buy one from a brand with a reputation for ethically-manufactured and quality stuff, of course)
@Ninji I have an AliExpress-specific(?) heuristic: figure out the price 'brackets' of different options, then pick the second cheapest bracket, and buy one in there.
Not the cheapest bracket; those have all the corners cut, including the ones that shouldn't be. The second cheapest, because those are likely to *just* be cost-optimized, while leaving the important quality bits intact.
re: abuse, NixOS
@Atemu Repeatedly to several moderators over the years, when they existed anyway. There's been a long-standing moderation problem.
@Ninji I would still consider that a quality issue; that is a normal thing to be doing with a backpack, and it should survive that (and mine indeed does).
The plastic lining is likely material deterioration; I've seen that failure mode on more cheap backpacks, it's a materials quality issue. I suspect a lack of UV resistance, making the material brittle.
@Ninji Oof. That seems like the end of the zipper was not stitched well enough, to be honest.
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*proprietary software shoves ads in your face, implements dark patterns everywhere and does everything to keep your attention*
"Well, but it's free to use and everyone uses it. It's not that bad."
open source software shows a sidebar on the right instead of left side
"Literally unusable garbage."
@Ninji Oof, I would be pretty unhappy with 2 years for that price... I have a 35 EUR backpack I once got off AliExpress that's still doing fine after many more years than that
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Do any IP experts know if there are any copyright problems if I publish something on the Fedi and somebody else takes it and displays it somewhere else with ads? Is that, in US legal terms, "fair use"?
Is there a way to flag my posts as CC-NC or prevent people from using them commercially?
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Also: this COVID safety presentation is maybe the best I've ever seen.
It's a fairly comprehensive guide for people who aren't as into the research as we are, and has none of the bad/false info you get from public health sources.
If we could replace every public health COVID guide with this, it would be a huge improvement.
https://covidsafefurs.org/Covid%20Safe%20Furs%20@%20BLFC%202023.pdf
- 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
