Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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"Het is dit jaar 10 jaar geleden dat actiegroep Kick Out Zwarte Piet (KOZP) haar eerste acties organiseerde. De acties maakten veel los en hebben een belangrijke bijdrage geleverd aan een nieuwe golf van anti-racisme in Nederland.
Dit jaar heeft #KOZP aangekondigd dat ze, na 10 jaar strijden voor bewustwording over racisme in Nederland, de boodschap duidelijk hebben gemaakt dat racistische stereotypes en beeldvorming niet langer normaal zijn. Het wordt tijd om het stokje over te dragen aan de samenleving."
Wanneer? Vrijdag 15 november 2024
Waar? Bijlmerplein 140
Tijd? 19:00 - 22:00 uur
Entree? €7,50 (Opbrengst wordt gedoneerd aan KOZP)
@ifixcoinops There's (at least) one other case where that isn't the answer, though - when that's too spoons-intensive to deal with. Depending on the thing and where you are, getting stuff second-hand can take a lot of energy! And sometimes the predictable process of an online shop is just a lot more practical.
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So you got a vague interest in what might be a new hobby or something that you need some equipment to do, whaddaya do, you check out the various forums for it right?
Save you some time: find the posts from people new to the thing asking what kinda gear to buy, and check the replies. See how long it takes before someone gives the only correct answer
🐿 Hey I'm new to this, what kinda badger comb should I get?
->🐁 BrushBoi 2000. Anything less is trash. You'll waste your money.
-> 🦊 BrushBoi 6000 costs a couple grand but it's well worth it
-> 🐺 Ignore these guys, DapperLad makes WAY better badger brushes
-> 🦌 TBH this is an expensive hobby and most people bail real quick, just get a cheap one off Amazon, it'll suck but you're probably not gonna stick around anyway
-> 🐧 Hi, welcome to the hobby! I'd start by checking the secondhand markets, badger brushes haven't really changed much in the last 30-odd years and you can spend the same money on a really good Tangle-B-Gon from the 90's or on a brand new cheap one that won't be nearly as good but will still basically get the job done. Good luck and happy brushing, show us what you got when you find a deal!
This forum has a Shite Index of 4, that is four awful responses before the only correct answer
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LB: (https://botsin.space/@muffinista/113392588900840218)
So, with botsin.space shutting down, what's the next best place for bots to live on Fedi?
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(Though for their in-person events, like that VR tour of the potential new train interiors, they really need to fix their compensation - a second-class off-peak ticket is really kind of a shitty compensation when you're asking people to sort out their own transport to get there... you're a train company FFS, could you really not afford to pay for the tickets of your survey panel???)
Sidenote, if you're in NL, and you're a rail nerd, sign up for the survey panel! Details about unreleased/non-final plans for the railways show up there with some regularity
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Ok so @techwolf12 and I were talking about blu-ray, and we suddenly found out about the existence of "BD-Live".
Basically as far as we can find, this was a feature that certain blu-ray discs had that allowed for additional online features to be provided.
Some examples I can find online are honestly quite extreme, like having a chatroom during the movie? What?
I'm super intrigued but can't seem to find /anything/ about this standard or what options it had.
Also?? Does this mean you can run code on your blu-ray player through this??? Can you boot linux? Do we have blu-ray linux?
So many questions!!
Anyone that knows more about this on here, or can link us to a bit more technical specification of this feature?
Just got a request from the Dutch railways' survey panel to update my personal information, to make sure my profile was still up to date - and I noticed that several of the questions had been improved *a lot*, leading me to suspect they had it reviewed by someone neurospicy (eg. some traditionally-vague-in-NL survey questions were clarified a lot).
Of particular interest was that aside from a man/woman/other/prefer-not-to-say option, they had an *additional* "how do you want to be addressed" field... which is freeform text input!
And near the end of the survey, it explicitly stated that they are working on better accessibility, both for physical disability and also things like neurodivergence, and whether they could ask some additional questions about that. So I guess that confirms my suspicion.
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Silicon Engineer?
Oh! You mean a Sand Witch!
long-ish, about password managers
@elduvelle I personally use KeepassXC, primarily because it has a pretty good track record and no sketchy VC-backed company behind it with potential plans to hold all my login data hostage...
As for the risk that it itself gets hacked: yes, that risk does technically exist. There are ways to reduce that risk (using one that runs only locally, like KeepassXC, using one that's well-reviewed by security experts and open-source, etc.) but the chance is never zero.
But the main reason that password managers are still a good recommendation, is because of what the alternative is for most people: using the same password on every site, or some kind of procedurally generated password (which is not really any more secure) because there's only so much stuff you can remember. If you do that, then if one site gets compromised, it can leak your password for everything! Password managers don't have that risk, as long as your 'master password' has never been used on a site directly.
For the same reason, a physical notebook (not a text file) with a randomly generated password is also a completely fine option, even if some people make fun of it. As long as you use a trustworthy password generator. A notebook can't be hacked over the internet at all!
For the rest of the questions, I can only answer for KeepassXC: it does not require the internet in any way. It also does not synchronize between devices, though you *can* just sync over the file with something like Syncthing or Dropbox (it's fully encrypted), and compatible clients exist for various platforms. It's not the nicest interface but in terms of "just doing the thing I want it to do" it's been great.
Honestly the bottom line is that passwords just kinda suck, they're not a very good mechanism. But a password manager (or notebook), and some kind of two-factor authentication, gets you to as good as a place as is possible with passwords. And passwords are usually the only choice you get.
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Just a reminder that #rescueTransRescue is still ongoing! (so go check it out if you haven't yet!)
Thanks so much to @inherentlee for all the work hosting this great fundraiser!
@trans_rescue is such a great organization doing really good work!
https://rescue-trans-rescue.glitch.me/
@noracodes My kneejerk reaction would be 'chroot' but it'd be a bit of a pain to symlink the rest of the filesystem, perhaps a pre-made wrapper for that exists?
@jeremiah Would the relative unreliability of mobile network connections be acceptable in that case, or would that be something that a solution should be included for?
@maxthefox @mynameistillian To clarify, would this mean strictly a static design thing (so essentially an image/tilemap editor but geared towards board game layouts) or would there also be some kind of interactivity/playability to it for playtesting?
@cariad Relatedly, it's always slightly baffling to me how so many of the guys (it's almost always guys) who claim to want more minority rep, consistently question everything minorities tell them in how they should go about it.
Like, dude, if you actually knew how to solve this problem yourself, would you still be having it?
medical, positive, injection
Today will, hopefully, be my last epo injection!
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you tried to ruin all of open source with closing NLnet. paypal me 30.000€
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/113390601843026971
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/113390601843026971
@raito Hmm, what does 'monorepo scale' mean here?
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On my blog: One weird trick to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friend(s)
https://delroth.net/posts/spoofed-mass-scan-abuse/
Summary of my adventures from last evening, as read in this Mastodon thread: https://mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/113387965977159983
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
