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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hot take rust floats should be called f23e8 and f52e11 instead of f32 and f64
health, positive...? sort of?
Judging from said doctor's puzzled look, they did not expect it either
health, positive...? sort of?
Given that I'm suffering from kidney failure, I absolutely did not expect a doctor to ever tell me "your sodium level is too low, you should eat more salty things"
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"COVID is not a cold, it's a car accident. It spreads throughout the body, impacting many different organ systems... It's not unusual to get into a car accident and be just fine, but a lifestyle that involves getting into a car accident once a year comes with a reduced life expectancy." The health implications of repeated COVID infections: https://longshadowofcovid.substack.com/p/understanding-cumulative-risk #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #YallMasking #MaskUp
@erou I feel similarly (I've often run into the exact same problem that @aral has), though over the years I've learned to reframe that slightly: you'll always have people disagree about your communication strategy, but whether this matters depends entirely on *who* the people are that disagree.
For me that means that if some random techbro disagrees, it doesn't matter to me; but if other marginalized folks disagree, I should probably be paying attention.
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I'm about to finish an audit of 42 webcomponents. The devs did a great job because pretty much none of them had detectable issues in axe. Still, only 8 of these 42 components have no critical issues. I only discovered those bugs through manual testing.
Long story short: automatic accessibility testing is only the first step. Manual testing is a must. Also, hire an accessibility expert if possible.
hospital tech
Found a bug in the hospital check-in system; checked in for one appointment and it apparently also automatically checked me in for a *different* appointment later in the day at the same location (this is not supposed to happen), so I was having my lunch break while the people there were wondering why I was nowhere to be found despite 'checking in early'
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Getting #GodotEngine oiled up to the state it is now, where development speed is so incredibly fast and there is such good harmony with foundation, contributions and community took many many, _many_ years of refining processes for development, contribution, release management, moderation, etc.
I will do a talk about it at GodotCon in a week explaining parts of this process!
Pressing the fork button takes a second. Learning to do what we do takes a tiny bit more 😞.
@rtn@chaos.social I'm consulting others who know more about this than me 🙂
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So you know how I made a demo at @demoparty_no for a monitor that got damaged in transit in a bag pocket without adequate protection, causing it to produce interesting glitchy colours?
Well, it appears I put the certificate for it in a bag pocket without adequate protection, and… yeah.
My favorite kind of Linux feature is the kind where the documentation says "todo: document <really important thing that's critical to most modern systems>" and then "Last updated: october 12, 2014
@rallias Thanks! This is a really helpful lead :)
@rallias (As there seem to be many ways to do virtual network devices, for example)
@rallias Do you happen to know which non-Docker tools and/or options this would (broadly) correspond to?
@rune So funnily, I've also been looking at Docker/Kubernetes docs to see if I can find any crumbs there to point me in the right direction, but everything is very Branded(tm) and I am having difficulty figuring out what it actually does under the hood...
This feels like an ops nightmare to be honest
It's annoyingly difficult to find good, comprehensive resources about container network security...
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Frankie Bontemps, a second generation Chagossian in the UK, told the BBC that he felt “betrayed” and “angry” at the news because “Chagossians have never been involved” in the negotiations.
“We remain powerless and voiceless in determining our own future and the future of our homeland”, he said, and called for the full inclusion of Chagossians in drafting the treaty.
RE: https://en.osm.town/@opencage/113243389456455684
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We absolutely need more games that let players play as *creatures*.
Monstrosities, abominations, critters, elder gods, entities, the whole thing.
@silvermoon82 @donnodubus @festal I wonder if this is going to be one of those cases where an organization assumes "oh we can deal with that, we have the volunteer capacity" and then goes surprised pikachu face when said volunteers jump ship entirely because they never signed up for this
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Wikipedia now needs to have a "WikiProject AI Cleanup". They should send Sam Altman a massive bill for all their extra, unnecessary work.
I wouldn't be surprised if, on balance, cleaning up after Generative AI produced more cost than using Generative AI ever saved. Unfortunately, probably not for the same people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup
- 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
