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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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
@jalcine I'll need some time to mull over the entire article, so there's probably not much meaningful feedback I can give yet - other than to say that I'm recognizing a lot of the things you're describing from my own struggles around activism and tech.
Very good article, thanks for writing it!
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one instructive thing that the "AI" boom has made clear is that FOMO about being left behind by technology is an incredibly powerful way to make people drop all pretense of political or power analysis under the impression that surely if the tech giants are spending billions on a pile of shit there must be a pony underneath.
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train peoples! suppose I wanted to visualize the network of rail connections in Europe — what's the best way of getting the timetable data? there's Hafas, but I probably shouldn't spam their endpoints, as I'd get quickly rate-limited.
is GTFS tenable? do I need to find a feed from each operator manually, or are there sensible collections available? there's gotta be something aggregated at least for the long-distance trains, right? r-right??
is GTFS tenable? do I need to find a feed from each operator manually, or are there sensible collections available? there's gotta be something aggregated at least for the long-distance trains, right? r-right??
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covid and masking, frustration and a plea
I know that it's really hard for most people to wear a mask when other people don't. And I know it's really easy for most people to pretend that covid is just a normal virus and not a big deal.
But the most effective way for ME to be safe isn't actually for me to mask. It's for YOU to mask.
Please, please mask if you can. It's really not too late to start again. In fact, there's a huge surge right which makes it easy to explain why you're doing it.
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covid and masking
Joh works in a big warehouse and travels to various charity shops. They are the last person in their workplace who masks and have been for some time.
There is constantly covid going around but we've only had it once.
The time we had it? Joh relented for a small work Christmas party and didn't mask.
And we got *really, really* ill. For *weeks*.
Lesson learned the hard way. Masking works, but if only works if you wear one.
web and framework stuff
It sometimes feels like some of the "just use native browser features instead of frameworks" people are not so much arguing against frameworks, as they are arguing for browsers to be the only blessed framework going forward...
web and framework stuff
Sure, it's undesirable to load massive JS bundles for basic functionality on websites, you'll find no disagreement there - I've been complaining about this for years too.
But arguing for all high-level framework-esque functionality to be handled by the browser and web specs...
Have you thought about what happens to the process of incremental technological improvement when the 'universal runtime' (ie. the browser) starts focusing on providing high-level abstractions instead of improving low-level mechanisms, and so the set of viable design strategies is essentially frozen in time?
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software recommendations request 
, encryption related
anyone aware of disk/container encryption software that works on both macOS and linux?
I'm aware of veracrypt but I'm looking for more of something similar to that (and also strongly preferring FOSS)
I'm using it to store a bunch of files for games data and apps data, so an encrypted container/filesystem is fine (and pretty much what I'm looking for)
I do not want: cloud storage (even self-hosted), single file encryption (I'm encrypting multiple files and not for one time use)
already suggested: veracrypt, cryptomator, kryptor, gocryptfs, linsk, picocrypt, cryfs, ZFS, BTRFS, age
use case, and considered solutions: https://micro.jacksonchen666.com/@jacksonchen666/112995983120430228
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I dread the day that YouTube becomes unprofitable and starts dumping their old video content to save money.
It's going to be a huge resource loss, particularly for practical trades, DIY, and crafts. Because there is so much stuff that isn't formally documented -- but somebody made a video tutorial.
Where is that going to go when YouTube dies?
@futurebird I expect that you'll find many folks with similar frustrations within the data hoarder community - for all the issues that that community has, quite a few people are there out of a genuine desire to collect and catalog the 'stuff worth saving', but without either the funding or organization to do it in any kind of structured way.
The people to do this work are there, I think. Many even as unpaid volunteers. But they need a sufficiently accessible organization to center around and get involved in. And a lot of the existing archival organizations are anything but accessible or easy to get involved in...
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A wealth of real human knowledge lives on reddit, stack exchange, etc-- Given the sheer volume of AI slop and SEO fake pages with "articles" the better content is hard to find. This is most true if looking for help on a subject you know little about.
How could we motivate a collaborative not-for-profit catalog of the better content silo'd off from the commercial web? How to fund it and keep it current?
Basically a *staffed* online library for the world. And not just of books and publications.
@piegames Doesn't just happen on AMD hardware, FWIW. I've had very similar issues with my Lenovo laptop (which is Intel).
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“The tech review world has been full of murky deals between companies and influencers for years, but it appears Google finally crossed a line with the Pixel 9. The company’s invite-only Team Pixel program — which seeds Pixel products to influencers before public availability — stipulated that participating influencers were not allowed to feature Pixel products alongside competitors, and those who showed a preference for competing phones risked being kicked out of the program.”
Something to keep in mind when you see people gushing about the Pixel 9.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221755/google-team-pixel-reviews-influencers
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Some of you may need to hear this.
If you have a label printer or any other kind of tape-fed thermal transfer printer that you use for silly purposes
BE REAL CAREFUL THROWING CARTRIDGES AWAY
The cartridge contains an ink ribbon with impressions of *everything* you printed with it
You may want to discard of that separately in a much more considerate manner
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colonizers in the "past": spread deadly disease with no regard for other people
me looking at the people without masks: so, youre not trying to break that cycle huh
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There's a bunch of uncertainty around whether the quotation came from Margaret Mead but someone said it, in any case: a healed femur is the earliest sign of true civilization in the fossil record.
For someone to be loved, protected and cared for so completely that they survived a break which left them completely dependent on others for every basic need while it healed? That's the whole point of being an "us."
@smveerman (Speaking of which, perhaps Jansen should be putting their own house in order and actually sort out railway funding, instead of "expecting the railways to do all they can"...)
@smveerman Of course it's not the only problem here, but I'm seeing strong parallels to the supply chain issues when the ship got stuck - if you hyperoptimize the utilization of everything, then any kind of problem will knock over your service levels...
If only they had built new tracks to accommodate the growth in transport needs, instead of just maximizing the utilization of the existing tracks, but somehow building extra lanes only ever seems to be an option for highways
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NS and ProRail are warning for a very difficult autumn in their annual new school year press meeting. The summer construction works haven't finished yet but the summer holidays are already coming to an end, and more works for the autumn are planned. Together with the delayed delivery of ICNG, maintenance problems with VIRM, the speed restrictions on the high speed line until 2026 and general worse performance in the leaf fall season, it is going to be tough.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2533944-ns-verwacht-komende-half-jaar-meer-overlast-en-te-weinig-zitplaatsen
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I wanna make an adventure game where you play as Craig and Corey and you go around doing odd jobs and giving life lessons about love and friendship
- 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
