Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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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In case you missed it, there are many Mastodon apps for old computers from the 1980s & 1990s:
#AppleII
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii
#AppleMacintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
#Commodore64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore #Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon
#MSDOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
#MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON
#PalmOS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump
#Windows95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups
@robinsyl I have my doubts as to whether that is actually legal
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What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.
Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.
Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379
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The plural of "load-bearing temporary hack" is "career"
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I was bored in an airport
https://paste.gmem.ca/paste/182d4ab3-2e94-4063-b40a-ebd208b2d3a2/org
If half of your code examples are either creepy social graph tracking or about some hypothetical person's "gender" (in the binary sense) and the vast majority of the latter are explicitly "man", sometimes emphasized to an absurd and contrived degree...
I am going to have some questions about your development culture, you know
Every time I look at RDF stuff, it further reinforces my impression that the mechanisms are pretty cool but I probably don't want to have anything to do with the people driving the effort
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If you have a disability and your disability isn’t “visible”, you’re still disabled and deserve respect and accommodation.
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do you need a bit of chaos in your day-to-day life? don't worry, i'm here to help 🐺
@virtulis Ironically my brain balked at me at the first 'missing', complaining about unparseable grammar
unsolicited(?) advice, ish
@scanlime I ended up setting up a lot of storage at home as a "NAS" (read: old-ish flat computer case with cables snaking out), with 4 HDDs in a 3D-printed HDD tower sitting next to it with a case fan taped to the shelf to cool them. Works surprisingly great.
The old 'server' behind pixie.town has been replaced by this point I believe, but it ran for years as an old laptop with the bottom cover removed and a few HDDs/SSDs connected to it, some literally hanging out of it. With a cheap Hetzner VPSs reverse-proxying to it. Worked quite well too!
Honestly my conclusion so far has been that if I need actual server-grade stuff, I'll rent something in a datacenter somewhere; for anything that just needs to work, a random old low-power system with some cable spaghetti honestly works fine, and is not a very big imposition on my living space. I certainly wouldn't put *server* hardware at home though, it tends to be extremely loud and unpleasant...
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someone made an icon theme for VSCode that brings back the old VS2010 file icons and oooh my god I Love This. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jez9999.vsclassic-icon-theme
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Mrs Wainwright, secondary school Geography teacher used to always say "The answer is in the question".
40 years later I see things like this, and can hear Mrs Wainwright's voice clear as day.
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Talked to a very smart person this afternoon who reminded me: climate fatalism ("it's too late") is a soft form of denialism.
Everything we do from here is worthwhile. It counts, it makes a difference. No matter what damage has been done, we can still make things better than if we had done nothing. We can still look after the world, look after our friends and family. Action has results.
Everything we do from here is worthwhile. It counts, it makes a difference. No matter what damage has been done, we can still make things better than if we had done nothing. We can still look after the world, look after our friends and family. Action has results.
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@chloeraccoon @patterfloof @DreadShips Aside: Do note that if you casually watch lockpickinglawyer near your three-year-old daughter figuring she won't pay attention to it as it's way over her head, you are soon to find you have made a grievous error that will haunt you for the rest of your days.
The stories about my wife's brother and his little girls have been delightful. He deserves everything he gets...
PS: Sister #2 (now 3 years old) has learned to use a screwdriver and has been wreaking havoc. Dad has still not learned his lesson.
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I sent an email to Winamp asking if they'd share their source code in 1998. Twenty-five years isn't a bad response time really.
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We joke about how cats chase laser pointers, but have you ever seen people interact with laser effects on a theme park ride
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
