Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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One more post about Linux and then I'll shut up about it.
(I can do that, because I outgrew the evangelical "Oh my god you have to try this it's so much easier" stage like ten years ago, it's possible for me to shut up about Linux now, which is nicer for everyone involved)
If you have to choose between something that used to be crap but is slowly getting better, and something that used to be alright but is getting inexorably worse, the best time to jump is gonna be when you get to see and take joy in the getting-better bit.
If you leave it too long and the thing you're jumping from has gotten intolerably, unusably bad, you'll be in a hell of a panic and it'll probably be at a super-inconvenient time. Give the New Thing a good sniff ahead of time and play around with it a bit in a non-vital setting, so that you're not moving in a horrible panicked rush.
@AlgorithmWolf@derg.social Basically, they are firmly on the military-contractor "national security of the US" side in any situation, so firmly that if there is no credible evidence to tie an adversary to something, they will 'find' some.
And so they end up sensationalizing mundane things, presenting vague hunches as established fact, and so on. Crucially, they never seem to ask "hmm, might there be other explanations for this outcome?" - they just keep making spurious connections until they find one that fits into their worldview and sounds credible enough.
That's why some connections are described in meticulous detail, and then there's suddenly a bunch of unsupported "has ties to" and the like.
(This is true even - or maybe *especially* - when they publish some seemingly in-depth analysis of something. Notice how certain connections are suspiciously underdefined, and how the whole thing looks a lot like "finding patterns because they are expected to exist".)
Reminder for no particular reason that Brian Krebs is neither particularly reliable nor morally trustworthy.
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Whoever designed this notepad seriously missed a trick. Those first 2 composers should have been Chopin and Liszt
@bumblebeedc@strangeobject.space Bij verenigingen ken ik het. Bij basisscholen is het voor mij nieuw. Ik vind dit echt niet kunnen, en dit soort dingen zijn een overheidstaak om te financieren waar dat nodig is.
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please just one more clone of me, I swear I'll finish my entire TODO list, please, just—
Deze week in de Efteling echt iets heel zorgwekkends gezien: een groep schoolkinderen met school-shirts... met daarop *bedrijfsreclame*.
Is het nu echt al zover gekomen dat basisscholen kinderen rond laten lopen in reclameborden?
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operating rule: you will steer towards whatever you are looking at. observe and note the hazard, then keep your eyes on the safe path.
do not stare into the void unless you wish to go there.
@th Rail replacement BIOS
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anyway they've released a coding challenge which, like, people who understand information theory will be aware that the thing they're asking for is unlikely to be possible... https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html
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The report is here, though it is only in Dutch: https://www.efteling.com/nl/-/media/files/over-de-efteling/jaarverslag/efteling-jaarverslag-2023.pdf
It occurs to me that half of their annual report seems to about accessibility in the various different interpretations. Physical accessibility, financial accessibility, sign language...
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Ya know, I ❤️ Mastodon because I actually get to see art by artists I can’t see anywhere else. Because they’re usually buried underneath an algorithm that serves only to make money for the platform.
I wouldn’t have discovered SO MANY genuine, talented, authentic, smaller-scale artists anywhere else. Because I’d never have seen them. Because those sites only privilege success.
You want to find new art? Fresh artists? Raw talent? Look on Mastodon.
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it has been zero days since foone has opened up some old tech and accidentally gotten information she was not supposed to have.
@atom I grew up with Windows XP so I *know* it wasn't like that, and yet it still looks credible to me
covid stuff, re: food, non-vegan
Also, bonus points for not hesitating at all and seating me in an otherwise unused area of the restaurant after I asked to be far away from other people for COVID safety reasons
food, non-vegan
By kidney diet standards, honestly, this was a king's breakfast.
(The custom breakfast that the Efteling/Bosrijk people cooked up for me to stay within my salt/potassium restrictions)
- 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
