Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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- 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
@mdstevens0612 I don't think that's it. That does happen, sure, but most of the weird defensiveness I see is not of specific corporations or categories of them, but rather of corporations *in general*; where in basically any conflict between a consumer and a company they would immediately start going on about how the company needs to 'protect their interests' etc. without any recognition of the power dynamics involved, as if the company is a poor person getting shafted
So it looks like NZXT is running a predatory rental scheme now, and Gamers Nexus has dropped them as a sponsor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pomC1CfpC0
Pondering how much of "people being weirdly defensive of corporations" is because people are wired to anthropomorphize everything, and corporations are just very good at evoking that process and the associated empathy, because of how well-resourced they are, unlike the actual people affected by them
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Hey, Guardian.. that's a weird way to spell "Woolworths attempt strike busting by bringing in scabs" 🤔
#Union #UnionStrong #Workers #WorkersRights #woolworths #strike #Solidarity
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Has anyone else tried using an alkali to strip old, sticky, horrible soft-touch paint? I just had a really positive experience I'd like to share!
Reminder first though: please for the love of all that is good, wear eye protection if you're using corrosive liquids - let's keep those lookingballs pristine.
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If you think fedi instance drama is interesting, today someone snapped on IRC, replied in kind to the sorts of insults that they were receiving, and this caused the channel operator to kick every single user from the channel and keep it in silence for about half an hour.
@virtulis That's also what I would expect, but I also know that WebRTC has an, uh, History(tm) so I want to doublecheck :p
Hmmm. Is the signalling server in WebRTC (ie. the server that sees and relays the SDP offers) capable of using that information to MITM the P2P encryption of a connection?
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what software do yall use to make 88*31 buttons?
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@voidptr ah ich sehe wir haben den selben post gesehen, musste vorhin auch sehr mit den augen rollen da 🙈
(zumal man find ich in den allermeisten dieser fälle das bild dann auch einfach weglassen könnte — oder jedenfalls scheinen die offensichtlich so generierten bilder auch selten mehr information zu transportieren als "generisch"; den gewünschten vibe des events hab ich garaus jedenfalls noch nie ableiten können)
(zumal man find ich in den allermeisten dieser fälle das bild dann auch einfach weglassen könnte — oder jedenfalls scheinen die offensichtlich so generierten bilder auch selten mehr information zu transportieren als "generisch"; den gewünschten vibe des events hab ich garaus jedenfalls noch nie ableiten können)
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Jetzt schon der zweite chaosnahe Hackspace (von dem ich weiß), der mit KI-generierten Bildern für eine Veranstaltung wirbt. :/
(Von chaosferneren Aktivisti ganz zu schweigen…)
Leute, nahezu jede:r von euch hat 24/7 eine Kamera in der Hosentasche, habt ihr wirklich gar kein Foto (und sei's von eurer Haustür oder eurem Sofa), das ihr dafür hernehmen könnt?
Das symbolisiert eure Veranstaltung allemal besser als eine grellbunte aber komplett eigenschaftslose Menschenmenge.
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Here is a fun piece of computing history I just became aware of: in 2007 the Bush administration changed when DST started, and because Exchange stored event times converted to UTC Microsoft had to release an "Exchange Calendar Update Tool" to help try and fix everyone's calendars https://web.archive.org/web/20070302224145/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930879
@s427 Hmm, it seems to be having trouble with a tar.gz archive, from Mastodon 3.x. Does it support that, or is this a 4.x-specific tool?
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Hello World :)
I am pleased to present you a small project that I have been working on these last weeks:
MARL (Mastodon Archive Reader Lite) is a small web app that allows you to explore in detail the content of your Mastodon posts archive, including attached files (images, videos, sounds), and with different search options.
🙏 Boosts welcome! 🙏
(More info in the post below 👇)
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Het geinige is dat ik hierachter kwam toen ik een paar jaar geleden echt ziek werd. En twee jaar geleden werd ik zomaar geconfronteerd met het verzoek van een videomeeting via Google Meet, die ik geweigerd heb. Ze zochten het maar uit. Dat konden ze niet (alles 'in Google') dus ik heb wat dingen voorgesteld, en die gebruikt. De gemakzucht waarmee voor Google wordt gekozen is verbijsterend en de beslissingen worden vaak door iemand genomen die er zelf geen verstand van heeft. Helaas.
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… have to route your traffic through a black box (which now gets deep insights into the users of your service, can block traffic according to their priorities or darker interests) then something breaks in me. This is not the internet of people. This feels more like mafia. „You don’t want your service to burn down in a fire of traffic, do you? We have an offer you cannot refuse!“ (2/3)
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So @Codeberg suffered from high traffic [1], bringing the site almost down. They managed to fix it by blocking access to one repo that attracted all this traffic for reasons (as of now) unknown to us.
What worries me are the comments under their post pointing at various proprietary, commercial services like Cloudflare, Amazon as the obvious way to mitigate. If we really are at the stage where the internet is so broken that you … (1/3)
Today I am learning WebRTC
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I have determined that the object in the "risk of explosion" safety symbol does not obey conservation of area.
I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Hey! Do you have a story about being kicked out of somewhere for doing something rad? Class? Store? Workplace? Abandoned warehouse? Not-abandoned warehouse? I wanna hear it!
I'm making a zine (working title "You're Outta Here!") with short true stories of getting kicked out, and this is an invitation for you to submit. Stories should be 150-350 words and the tentative deadline is December 31. I'll mail a copy to everyone who submits and also make the zine available in print and pdf.
Read the full guidelines and find the submission form here: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/b2JUBZxxdFy9Cp+aj3WxoxR96Dek5BHTtYNHP4IlHbo/
- 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
