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
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As a reminder, modern standards of "cleanliness" for households were developed during a period when the wife in a family was expected to stay home and take care of the household full-time.
So if you are a single, or if you are part of a family where _both_ spouses work full time, and you just cannot seem to catch up with the household chores: Don't blame yourself! This is perfectly normal, and people and media telling you otherwise are putting pressure on you which is wholly unjustified.
Sure, households _should_ be cleaned now and then, but having them remain clean _all_ the time is an impossible standard in today's world for anyone who cannot afford outside domestic aid.
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Can we acknowledge it's kinda fucked up that years of work went into Minecraft modding and it's still Microsoft's sole right to decide who can or cannot get to enjoy said mods.
And their right to profit off of all the value the modders generate without giving them a cent.
And that they charge approximately too much money for a single copy.
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Who called it “Instance Admin” and not “Postmaster General”?
re: food, not vegan
@Ember @mynameistillian AFAIK that's what a lot of manufacturers do, when there's enough space on the packaging (but manufacturer definitions of 'serving' are generally useless because of the issue described above...)
food, not vegan
@mynameistillian I believe this came about due to manufacturers fucking with packaging sizes to artificially reduce or increase the numbers (when visually compared to competitors' products) so now it's all specified per standardized quantity
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@researchfairy The universe where they personally have something to gain from claiming that to be true, I suspect
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In what universe do you have to be living to think that there is enough utility in generative AI to justify the resurrection of a nuclear power plant
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It really annoys me that the term VPN has been hijacked by companies like NordVPN, Tunnel Bear, etc. While they do use VPN tech as a core part of their product, what they're selling you is not a Virtual Private Network. Their selling you a network proxy, that provides dubious security and privacy improvements at best.
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“How dare the user be allowed to install a rootkit on their device, that is the right of the manufacturer and the manufacturer alone!” — basically every single cybersecurity person
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@xgranade I think I found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20121220041034/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/technology/data-centers-in-rural-washington-state-gobble-power.html
"In an attempt to erase a $210,000 penalty the utility said the company owed for overestimating its power use, Microsoft proceeded to simply waste millions of watts of electricity, records show. Then it threatened to continue burning power in what it acknowledged was an “unnecessarily wasteful” way until the fine was substantially cut, according to documents obtained by The New York Times."
@red_sky In this case yeah, but any time I see a vulnerability disclosure and it mentions "Firebase", I immediately assume "oh, ACL misconfiguration" and that guess turns out to be correct basically 100% of the time because Firebase's access control is garbage 🙃
I'm actually pleasantly surprised by Arc, in that they seem to have realized the same thing and are getting rid of Firebase entirely now
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-open one window
-no exchange of air happens. it gets colder but remains just as stuffy
-open a second window on the other side of the apartment
-all my worldly possessions are immediately blown through the window and swept away
Firebase and misconfigured ACLs, name a more iconic duo
@rallias Not quite the same thing; the mouse keycode gets handled differently from the keyboard keycode, and keyboards often had more buttons like 'refresh' too
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@joepie91 read this post and realized that my keyboard has a “my favorites” button, so I pressed it, and it opened the bookmarks sidebar in Firefox. Dunno what I expected.
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a few years ago, i posted about recycling and the use of disposables as an accessibility issue ... not a moral one.
i don't remember if it was an article, or a meme, or a self-reflective declaration. but that doesn't matter. the point i made is that:
i'd probably not do a lot of eating if we didn't have paper plates, that to shit on me because i used paper plates is ableist because you presume i can function the way you do and be able to cook and clean like you, that the real problem isn't me using paper plates, it's greedy corporations and shareholders and venture capitalists that are making this a problem and it's them who need to fix it - not me.
a friend took a moment to say to me that they hadn't thought of it that way and that they were going to be more mindful of the punching down that they used to do.
because yelling at me for using disposable utensils is punching down.
a lot of the problems we have today are because of this same dynamic - the greedy 1% keep telling us that the problem is us and give us piecemeal, vague platitudes about how we can -as individuals- solve the climate crisis we're currently in. so while you're down here yelling at me, a disabled woman, about my use of paper plates, capitalists are snickering at your idiocy while sipping champagne in one of their many yachts, private planes, or weekend mansions.
i am not the problem. neither are you.
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Every number whose digits add up to 9 is divisible by 9.
Every number whose digits ad up to a number whose digits add up to 9, is also divisible by 9.
(And so on...)
You're welcome.
- 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
