Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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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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#askingforafriend (seriously)
Is there such a thing as a Neurospicy Dating Platform?
"Oh yeah no, I'm in so many Matrix rooms as a form of account security - you need at least 32GB of RAM to hack my account"
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@joepie91 Me and my coworkers have had this happen to us multiple times. Both calls and texts Android just fumbles the bag and says nothing until we either check or 10 minutes after we urgently needed the person we called they finally get a notif. These smartphones are so fucking useless.
How the fuck do you develop a phone OS and make the *primary functionality* of a phone not work reliably
Great, missed another hospital call because Android *again* spontaneously failed to make any noise when I got a call, even though the phone was literally right next to me the entire time
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I just want all Cathode Church users to know that due to the Australian government rushing through ridiculous legislation to try to ban social media for teens, we will forthwith be classified as a Web Site Promoting Health And Education Of Teens as an excepted category to the limitations.
The eSafety commissioner is welcome to personally dispute this if they enjoy being laughed at
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idk if that's a bad take but i want teens to be able to use social media actually
i wouldn't be alive if not for my online friends i found during my teen years as a queer person
and no i don't care how much minors dni you are about it
some kids can't afford to have parents that love them or irl spaces they can trust
all this social media banning's gonna do is only isolate those who are already in need
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The web could have been a series of villages you navigate to.
Social media did us so dirty, with the 256 character restrictions and 4 pictures limit.
PS: If you have some good examples of "web village" from neocities or the geocities era, I'd be curious to see.
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What if more people hand-coded a personal website in 2025 than in 1997?
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@cwebber I can't quite put words to it, but for me the most telling part of that post is the assumption that if programmers are curious, they must therefore be curious about *that specific thing*, and otherwise it must mean that they're not curious at all. As if it is the most interesting thing that could exist.
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Hallo #LinuxMint-Menschen!
Ich habe seit ein paar Wochen das Problem, dass der Bildschirm meines Thinkpads nach dem Einloggen ausgeht und sich erst wieder einschaltet, nachdem ich den Rechner einmal in den Bereitschaftsmodus versetzt habe. Any ideas? Es nervt langsam sehr. :D
Linux Mint mit aktuell Linux 6.8.0-49.
Edit: Gelöst!!
discussion of eating habits
@kingdomcome Oh and also I got a decent pile of those cube-y IKEA 365+ glass food containers (with plastic lids with silicone seal) for storing leftovers, because basically everything fits into them and they're easy to store and wash, so that reduces the spoons cost of "storing part of a meal" enough that I will actually do it
discussion of eating habits
@kingdomcome I've found some improvement from having a dedicated "open things that I should eat first" shelf in my fridge and getting up to put food back immediately after eating it, though it doesn't *fully* solve the problem
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proprietary/corporate tech subtoot
if you use proprietary/corporate software you *are* signing yourself up for enshittification.
that's not to say the choice of proprietary is always wrong. just that it's a tradeoff you need to know you're making.
there are times it's definitely worth making. if your place of work requires you work with Adobe, you work with Adobe. if the game your friends want to play with you goes out of its way to block Linux, you play it on windows.
and hey, it's okay to say you're knowingly making that tradeoff! you know best your situation, and no one can tell you you've made the wrong choice, because they don't know you well enough. if you took that into account and came out the other side still choosing proprietary, no one has the right to tell you otherwise.
but you *have* to remember that tradeoff. if you choose proprietary *there will* be a downside. *there will* be an enshittification. *you will* get betrayed by whatever multimillionaire/billionaire owns the company and *you will* curse the day you chose them.
if you pretend otherwise you're fooling yourself, and worse, others.
making an informed decision is great. making other people's choices uninformed is not.
choosing corporate is fine.
pretending it's like choosing libre is not.
and now i ask myself, of the people joining the latest big move to [you know what i'm talking about and if not good for you], how many actually think of this tradeoff and make and informed choice, and how many are pretending (or are being told) that tradeoff doesn't exist?
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We got lots of spam at MetaFilter and one time someone posted trying to promote something called "Exemplary Purchase" and we kept wondering what are they were trying to say until we realized it was a translation error, they meant to say "Best Buy" in English.
Ten years on, every time I drive past a BestBuy, I think "Exemplary Purchase!"
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It has turned out that the world just does not suffer significantly from the kind of problem that our research was originally intended to solve.
this is pretty titanic and sums up so much of what is wrong with software and computer science: just because a problem is theoretically interesting and/or rigorous and/or fun to work on *has no bearing whatsoever* on its usefulness in the real world. none. theyre unrelated. sometimes they overlap, cool, but they are not correlated.
you have to do a kind of analysis that engineers are not equipped to do. its a kind of design research that involves understanding your intended audience and their challenges. its deeply human and subjective and i was only exposed to it when working towards my MFA.
something about one of the titans of thought of computer science working for decades only to realize his formal systems -- while intellectually thorough and interesting! -- didnt solve anyone's problems. he just assumed they would. but he never asked. something about that to me feels like The Whole Story.
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Today’s challenge: can I prototype a music-making or -controlling thing that uses rail data, in the amount of time the Eurostar takes to go from London to Belgium? 🚅
I call it Bruxelles-MIDI.
This may be a terrible pun but I’ve had the idea for ages, and maybe the time limit will help me actually start it.
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Since Calvin and Hobbes are popular right now, please know that the entire archive is available online, searchable, for free. This includes ALL the strips, including some that didn't make it into the various anthologies:
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes
And if you are insistent on using alt text but are (like me) sometimes not motivated to type out the dialogue, there's even a 'transcript' button in the three-dot submenu. It's short on describing images, but it's thorough on the text.
- 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
