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
public health advisory, head lice, for queer hacker communities especially 
@thibaultmol (I mean, this is very much poor man's contact tracing, I have neither enough data nor enough means to reliably get it right, so I'm just trying to figure out enough to help stop the spread)
public health advisory, head lice, for queer hacker communities especially
@thibaultmol That seems to, so far, be the common factor among all of the reported cases that I know of... and there are credible hypotheses on how it spread within that particular community (cuddle piles and the like)
re: public health advisory, head lice, for queer hacker communities especially
Current hypothesis on the point of origin is #37C3, though there's really not enough data yet to confirm this.
public health advisory, head lice, for queer hacker communities especially
I am now aware of 3 separate, geographically distributed cases of head lice infections among folks that are involved in a queer hacker community somehow.
This is beginning to look like a pattern, especially considering how comparatively rare these infections are among adults. So I wonder if we may have a little public health issue on our hands.
I don't know the exact scope, but if you belong to that community, *especially* in or around Germany, please check for head lice! They are generally not harmful, but become very itchy and annoying over time.
(Note: if you find lice elsewhere on your body, instead of your head, talk to your doctor first! Those are different lice, and may be carrying diseases depending on region. Do not try to DIY this.)
If you find lice:
1. Prefer using a lice comb, and conditioner or lice shampoo, to carefully remove lice daily over a span of 14 days. This can be self-administered, or by someone else, but follow the instructions that come with the comb. Available at local pharmacies.
2. If this does not work for you for some reason (eg. uncooperative hair), consider using Prioderm/dimeticon, available at pharmacies. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, this is somewhat finicky stuff to use.
3. If that doesn't work for your hair either, an experimental option (that we've had a lot of success with here) is DIY heat treatment using a hairdryer, drying out the lice and killing them. Heat the (dry) hair, especially near the scalp, as long as you can without hurting. Blow from *under* the hair. Repeat daily for 14 days, and comb what you can.
For any of these treatments, if you still find lice (alive or otherwise) after the treatment period, keep repeating the treatment until you don't. Do not skip days - you'll have to start over. Note that lice can be very small and difficult to see!
re: Fediblock, transphobia, antisemitism
@schratze Dude's a self-admitted nazi, if I'm not misremembering.
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@kfogel I haven't tested this with fabric specifically, but in my experience anything that looks like confetti or snow (lots of sharply-delineated blobs that are high-contrast and very small but big enough to be bigger than a pixel on screen) tends to completely wreck codec performance.
Something that imitates TV static would probably be a decent start, although I believe that more irregular patterns work better to create deliberate chaos (TV static tends to just get smoothed out).
Maybe some of those black/white camo-esque patterns where the individual blobs are very small?
(In practice it's unfortunately very likely in videoconferencing that codecs have set a maximum bitrate for individual video streams and so it'll just make your image bad, rather than making it higher bitrate and more difficult to en/decode...)
Sven Slootweg
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… ik vind daar wel wat van:
1. Door deze wijze van bellen werkt de #Rabobank phishing in de hand.
2. Het is gewoon spam! Ongevraagde verkoopgesprekken onder het mom ‘u bent al klant’.
3. De man was ronduit onbeschoft in de manier waarop hij mijn, terechte, tegenvragen niet beantwoordde.
4. Dit is een flinke kiezel in de ‘we moesten maar eens weg bij de Rabobank’-emmer.
Dus: als je binnenkort leest dat we een andere bank hebben, dan was dit in ieder geval een van de aanleidingen.
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This quote about #graphql very much applies to a lot of the "modern" #javascript ecosystem. It's a good illustration of how concerns change when you become responsible for your code. Mind boggling!
"as the years have gone on and I have had the opportunity to deploy to environments where non functional requirements like security, performance, and maintainability were more of a concern"
@brianleroux I continue to feel that GraphQL (or rather, something like it) would have been a much better fit as a server-side data layer abstraction, that itself never goes over the network (and is just a library function call); because collating different data sources is the part that the model actually good at!
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Twenty-five years of Krita today! Join us for a trip down memory lane -- KImageShop, Krayon, Krita through a quarter century with Halla @halla, the Krita maintainer:
@StroomAfwaarts Als dat daadwerkelijk de conclusie is die iemand trekt, dan ga ik sterk mijn bedenkingen hebben of ik nog wel met die persoon om wil gaan. Dat is moedwillig het gevaar negeren, en op zo iemand kan ik dus niet vertrouwen.
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Dear computer friends - as information workers on strike at #UAW4811, im trying to think of some digital picketing strategies. Ways of incurring additional costs and disruptions to operation that are within the bounds of the law. One of the biggest levers we have is grading, and UCLA uses a fork (?) of Canvas (bruinlearn). Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to run up a cloud bill? Something along the lines of uploading enormous files to course pages, asking students to download a directory with millions of files as a .zip, that kinda thing. Something thats an arms length shy of CFAA but something that could let our students and remote colleagues help with the strike. Any ideas? Boosts welcome. (I do not speak for or represent UAW 4811 in any way as a rank and file member)
Edit: dm me for my signal if you are curious about such a topic and are not necessarily volunteering any information in the affirmative or negative
Okay this has been playing on repeat for a couple hours now, damn this is good
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I'm not sure what kind of music this is, but it's... nice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlU91m_mmec
@xgranade@wandering.shop Also somehow in these conversations the problem always lies in some unspecified third party or phenomenon that should be vaguely "addressed", it's somehow never attributable to those who are in power or their friends
@xgranade@wandering.shop It will never stop frustrating me how many people are all "yes we should solve this problem" right up until it implies any kind of consequences for their friends and suddenly we need to be "reasonable" and "careful" and "not make hasty decisions" etc.
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Yeah MIT Technology Review, I'm sure that's all they "could" be used for and could never be used to kill brown families in the countrysides of those who live in areas that have always been subjected to violent colonial forces. 🙄
At this point, this type of omission (how this type of tech, specifically, is financially viable to research because of its violent military applications) is an egregious ethical lapse and journalists should be called out for it.
Engagement farming accounts can fuck right off
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The world is not self correcting. Saying “don’t get upset about things, things will fix themselves” is useless. Things only get fixed because people got upset
dead link report
@witchy@h-i.social (FYI, the 'easily disproven excuses' link is dead now - I assume it was the excuse about dark pencils not existing, but the deletion makes it hard to follow if you haven't seen the other posts about it)
- 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
