Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
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Just put my #godot color swapper shader up for anyone to use. I designed it to create 4-color #gameboy palettes for my last jam game, but it should work with palettes of any size!
#AskFedi: Does anyone have any (FOSS, Linux-compatible) software suggestions for creating a virtual networking lab, for testing out P2P stuff in weird NAT environments and such?
Doesn't need to have a graphical interface, as long as whatever configuration it uses is well-documented.
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I converted my brand new (to me) landline phone to a portable phone (and yes it depends on my mobile phone).
This entire setup draws around 1W when idle and 2W when ringing, so the portability is actually feasible.
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I've noticed that when someone is asking you these sorts of questions about safety it is because they are looking for an external source to validate or normalize their questionable choices.
@StevenSaus (alt-text for image: stock image that depicts a number of 3D-rendered humanoid robots, a close-up on the face of one of them)
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Lies, Damn Lies, And Surveys About AI
GitHub's AI Survey is embarrassingly bad and doesn't support its conclusions.
https://ideatrash.net/2024/09/lies-damn-lies-and-surveys-about-ai.html?feed_id=405&_unique_id=66f7fb1882c05
#artificialintelligence #computers #research
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systemd, unix philosophy
@hazelnot Sorry, I seem to have typo'd there; it was meant to say "excluding" rather than "including" (can't edit on this instance)
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Sometimes you need to take a break from the high priority stuff, in order to work on some fun/visual stuff.
For example: adding a little animation whenever an object gets placed or removed 🌲🌳
systemd, unix philosophy (follow-up)
And to be clear: I don't like systemd. I don't like Red Hat.
But you know what I like even less? Janky init constructions and "nobody should ever need more than..." rhetoric.
I am absolutely not going to relitigate long-debunked grievances about systemd in this thread, and if you think such grievances are appropriate in this context, I invite you to read the first post again and *actually* read it this time.
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The way TV anchors in Japan can switch from "funny little segment where they laugh and read viewer comments" to "possible life-threatening situation where I need to convey crucial info in the clearest way possible" is absolutely incredible.
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: (mastodon)
government backdooring encryption shitpost
no government can keep their computer security together
therefore no governments are responsible to hold private keys
@aetios Right but that's the thing, that's intuitively obvious to me! But apparently not to a lot of people, and that's why such a fuss is made over this concept 🙃
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If you have one of those pens that had 4 different colors of ink and you can also click it to make it a pencil and an eraser you will blow any fifth grader's mind.
It's the little things. Made a note to tell their parents in conferences the easy big hit Christmas gift.
@aetios Question is "if you have N people, how big is the chance that at least two birthdays overlap?" and apparently people frequently guess that this grows linearly, ie. chance of 4 people having overlap is twice as much as 2 people having overlap.
When in reality, AIUI, the calculation works more like 2x(2-1) vs. 4x(4-1) because *both* 'sides' of the overlap calculation have actually grown, not just one.
Growing increasingly tired of Logitech's shit wireless dongle reception
@bananas Wasn't present in the language list for this article, that's usually the first I check
Welp. It seems that the reason the birthday paradox has always felt like a confusing concept to me, is because it has a reputation for being counterintuitive (and many explanations try to address that counterintuitive aspect) but it has never actually been counterintuitive for me in the first place so I didn't have that frame of reference, and I was looking for a 'gotcha' that wasn't there...
The Dutch Wikipedia article on it actually explained *why* this is confusing to people, which ironically is what made me realize this 🙃 Turns out it works pretty much just exactly how I expected
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For the past year and a half I've been pretty much exclusively hanging out with neurodivergent trans people because I relate and vibe with them so much
I wonder if that means anything...
- 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
