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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- 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
food (vegan), bread recipe
New delicious salt-free flatbread recipe unlocked!
500gr flour, approximately 300ml water, something like 30g (vegan) butter, a generous dash of italian spice mix (lots of oregano!), plus rosemary and chervil. Add 1 bag of baking powder (ie. the prescribed amount for 500gr flour).
Knead until nice and stretchy, and no longer gets stuck to hands. Add flour if needed until this is true. Divide into 9-10 roughly equally sized balls or thereabouts (exact division is not super important).
Heat frying pan, add little bit of neutral oil (eg. sunflower), less than a tablespoon. Don't add more, or you'll get crackers! Use rolling pin to roll a dough ball into a flat slab, turn down heat to medium, immediately add dough slab to pan.
Wait until it's solid and not bendy anymore, and flip with spatula. Leave for a few more seconds. Ready when small brown spots have appeared (this is true for both sides). Push down flat if it bubbles in the process.
Done! Eat hot or cold. If you're well-coordinated, you can flatten the next dough ball in the time that the previous one is frying, and you can just stack the ready ones on a plate.
We're going to try to use these as pizza bottoms too, tonight. If you make them thinner (divide into more, smaller balls), you get delicious wraps! In that case they will remain bendy though.
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The promised writeup of how I discovered that the Feeld dating app was protecting private data by doing client-side filtering: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70061.html
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has anyone here changed their gender legally while living in Amsterdam (and not born in it), and if so, how long did the process take? i'm trying to figure out if i'm about to do something incredibly dumb or not
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@rail_ i am always sure to not assume stuff like this, but im still always pleasantly surprised in the rare case when someone is in neither seattle nor germany lmao
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"I signed an NDA" is a perfect reply to any uncomfortable question
- why didn't you take out the trash?
- NDA
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: (mastodon)
i think i need an automatic clean up of todo list items
like throw them into this calendar if they haven't been touched for like a while
and throw it into another calendar if it hasn't been touched for a longer while
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Should you use CRA? Not even once.
This has always been true, but only in the last couple of years have its creators acknowledged as much. And yet, they're pulling the same shit Facebook pulled when they failed to signpost to the community the scale of infrastructure necessary to keep their baroque JS in check.
Lies by omission are still material.
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A point I buried in a footnote last week, but should probably draw out:
We know that frontend is wallowing in irresponsiblity because regretted approaches continue to spread (e.g., CRA, "CSS-in-JS", etc.) *even when their creators disavow them*. Why? Because those "leaders" do not put warning signs on their abandonware. They do not do the right thing and strongly recommend that users avoid those systems.
Don't believe me? Check out CRA's home page:
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I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.
He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.
The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."
On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"
The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.
Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.
re: offer of software/help
@amy (Also feel free to ask if/when you would like a copy of the spec in its current state - I haven't included it because it's not final yet and may have changed by the time it is needed, so probably best to work from an up-to-date copy by that time)
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Do you think that person who coined the expression "One Hit Wonder" had any other expression that became popular?
re: offer of software/help
@amy I... may have written a bit more than I had initially anticipated 😅 Here's the introduction so far: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/f4f9a56d37a5935833c242defd4f732c
Feel free to ask if anything is missing/unclear!
re: offer of software/help
@amy Alright, I'll put together a short thing later today on how they work at a high level 🙂 The 'getting started' so to say. And then I can answer any questions going from that. If that works for you?
@venite Zal denk ik aan de bezorger liggen; het kan niet verwerkt worden als statiegeldblikje (want niet leeg, dus kan niet gecomprimeerd worden) dus het is extra werk voor de bezorger om het te verwerken.
Hier een keer uitgebreid met een AH-bezorger gepraat over hoe het proces voor hen werkt en wat ideaal is; die was heel blij met de krat die volgestapeld was met blikjes in rechte lijnen en vooraf geteld want dat scheelt een hoop werk. Glazen flesjes moeten apart verzameld worden (want die kunnen niet leeggestort worden ivm breuk). Blikjes/flesjes worden wel leeggestort.
Je kunt de volle blikjes altijd nog onder een afdakje voor de deur zetten met een bordje "gratis, ik lust ze niet" en dan zijn ze denk ik ook zo weg 🙂
no man's sky voice
hungy levels, rising
The answers I've gotten to this so far are very different from what I expected, but very interesting!
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#AskFedi: for those whose first computer experiences were with Windows 95/98 (or NT) and who look back on it fondly:
What would be needed to rekindle that early experience of wonder around computers and/or the internet? What stands out in your memory as the cause for that sense of wonder back then? (The answer to these two questions can be different!) 
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@kf I suspect it's the sci-fi aesthetic, to be honest. Makes a lot more sense when you think of these 'smart home' installations as a form of interior decoration for nerds!
@sindarina I have difficulty believing "solar panels ruin the appearance" claims since seeing what the Efteling did with Symbolica, to be honest. Clearly it can be done well if you put in the effort. A lot of people don't even recognize those as solar panels!
- 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
