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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- 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
food (vegan)
Bread experiment progress: dough is completed and will proof overnight at room temperature. Significantly less yeast than normal, likewise much less salt (about a quarter of supermarket bread). Very curious if this works; if it does, I will have tasty and very low-salt bread!
Implementing-Wayland-from-scratch implementation progress: I now have an (incorrectly sized) rectangle rendering on my screen!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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pretending to be vampires to scare a village into hating communism (real thing)
US politics, subtooting a political campaign (2)
Like, the claim is that this campaign does more than just election campaigning, and if so, that would be good.
But the framing everywhere as "we can gain political power by getting poor people to vote, and we can organize them" (as opposed to "we will support them in organizing themselves") is not exactly confidence-inspiring. Smells of saviour politics.
US politics, subtooting a political campaign
If you want to get poor people to vote, have you considered showing solidarity with them by materially supporting them and acknowledging the source of their misery, rather than pretending that poverty is a bipartisan issue and all you need to do is convince people to go vote?
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Oof. Nothing quite says "Richest country on Earth" like this:
@zkat @xgranade@wandering.shop I feel like it's really only possible when you have direct agency over the operational side of "the company" - whether as a freelancer or as part of eg. a cooperative.
US politics
Am I imagining things or does the Harris campaign actually recognize that there's a voter demographic under 50?
(And like all capitalist equivalents of other things, it has all the problems of the original thing, plus extra problems)
Insurance is just the capitalist equivalent of taxes
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Scottish trans and maybetrans folks, get on a GIC waiting list NOW!
if you even have the slightest inkling that maybe you're trans, you have less than a week to self refer to a GIC.
Don't worry, you'll have a solid fucking decade to think it through anyway.
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Apple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*
#AskFedi: Does anyone have a good article on how window positioning, sizing, bounds etc. are supposed to be handled in #Wayland? Something that goes into the different cases like the compositor telling you to resize your buffers, not just the standard initialization.
(Yes, I have read the XML already, so unless I overlooked something, what I'm looking for is probably not in there)
request for historical/scientific context, food/nutrition 
@mvgorcum@chaos.social Yep, it does, thanks!
request for historical/scientific context, food/nutrition
@mvgorcum@chaos.social Podcasts are not really accessible to me, unfortunately.
@emily I am suddenly reminded of the *actually* reversible A and micro-B cable I had at one point, which certainly was a creative way to try and solve this issue
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you can make connectors that look reversible from the outside (A, arguably mini), or you can make a fancy reversible connector that a nontrivial number of engineers will half-ass and get wrong (C), or you can use the one that has an obvious orientation so nobody has this problem at all
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Oh, remember those USB-rechargeable 9V batteries I bought a while ago?
Yeah, definitely DO NOT use them in a smoke alarm. They go from 9V to 0V as soon as the internal cell’s under-voltage cutoff is hit. A real 9V battery slowly loses voltage as it discharges, the smoke alarm monitors this and makes annoying beeping noises when the battery voltage goes under a threshold.
⚠️ Going from 9V straight to 0V gives you a dead smoke alarm with no warning ⚠️
UPDATE: I pulled this battery apart to find out how it works, and it’s exactly like I said here. Thread continues below with photos of the inside of the battery
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I want to get out and meet more people. What's the closest thing to fedi IRL?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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As a collaborative artist, I wanted to push back on the idea that creative teams need a strong leader.
Collaborative process is a skill that people study and practice. Most teams aren't trained in that skillset, but they could be.
- 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
