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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In a Wales-first (and possibly UK-first?) I've created a micro-server for Mastodon to enable local primary school children to explore social media in a safe environment. It's not connected to any other server, so only children and teachers from that school can create an account.
I'll be sharing my experiences in a blog post in due course, in case it's of interest to others. Would love to have another Welsh language primary school interested so we could have multiple schools collaborating!
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“Neemt u bij het verlaten van de trein uw eigendommen mee”
This VIRM is mine I take it thanks!
@lucydev This is the 0bda:b851 device that I have: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006960284140.html
I also have https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005362858380.html which at least on latest NixOS stable does not seem to be detected, and 2 years ago someone else reported that it wasn't supported: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/12hcqxb/i_have_trouble_getting_this_bluetooth_adapter_to/
@lucydev Sure - an example would be 0bda:b851, which is an RTL8821CU; it does have a Bluetooth driver, but not a WiFi driver (at least last time I checked).
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accidentally triggering the cursor enlargement in kde plasma and then feeling compelled to keep shaking the cursor to keep it being large, like i’m doing keep ups
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i released the first version ever of my open source painting program, it's still in early stage but it has the following features:
- No AI, this is a program for real artists
- 100% native, no Web, no Qt, no GTK, no dear imgui
- Advanced Layer System
- Infinite Undo History
- GPU Accelerated Canvas View
- Brush Engine similar to popular manga software
- Bucket Fill with gap closing (proof of concept)
download: https://mrgaturus.itch.io/npainter
Luigi
The political unification that I was suspecting might happen, does indeed seem to be happening
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Look it’s /possible/ there’s some technical reason why your site launch flopped; one that could save your marketing team from the axe. What’s the URL, I’ll have a look.
An “A” record. How quaint. Where’s your quad?
No, Eye Pee Vee Four may have been good enough for Jesus but it is NOT good enough in the year of our lady twenty twenty nine. The only countries that still use vee four are Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of America. Both of them. In the entire rest of the world, including South of the Concord Wall in Greater Mexico, it’s vee six or go home.
@mynameistillian I have complicated feelings about this. On the one hand, I don't *disagree* with any of the things described there. But I also recognize the risk in how those descriptions can be interpreted.
Because there are genuine reasons to expect people to immediately stop and reflect, those reasons just aren't "immediate superficial apology", but rather "training the 'muscle' of self-reflection". And I worry that if this distinction isn't made clear, this type of pushback is parsed as "we should become defensive again", which isn't good either, and gets us back where we started through overcorrection.
And likewise, the post mentions that we haven't addressed structural influence (ie. power) issues, which is true - but what it doesn't mention is that having healthy internal community dynamics (which includes self-reflection and making space) is likely going to be a prerequisite for making that change possible without drowning in unresolvable internal conflict!
I suspect that the author and I actually agree that the takeaway here should be "learn to talk out conflicts, and defensive and fawning responses are *both* problematic substitutes", but I'm not sure that the post makes that clear enough for people to extract that intention from it 😕
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Really enjoying reading this 1993 thesis about how the theories of Linnaeus, Newton and Lavoisier met with very different concepts of matter stemming from Buddhism, Confucianism and Japanese medicine, via the unlikely bridge of Dutch chemistry textbooks that entered Japan via the trading post at Deshima.
Jesus, I have written a *lot* of stuff over the years. Porting all this stuff over to my Bookstack is going to take forever...
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"LLMs are helpful with boring, repetitive work"
I can't help wondering if, in the long run, the better strategy is to address the repetition?
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Oh btw you can actually download any file from Google Maps in full resolution (and with original file name 💀) easily
All you need to do is to click "Report a problem" in the dropdown menu next to image's author
File loaded on the page that will open is a raw uploaded JPEG with just the metadata stripped lol
dreams (2)
For those curious: yes, cohesive dreams are normal and common for me. But usually it's like being in an exciting movie, not an unscheduled disaster drill 😐
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just want to be alone with David Graeber’s ideas for like a week https://graeber.social/@DGI/113595022679672099
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“the trans broadcast protocol”
i thought we called it activitypub but alright
dreams, unpleasant
Apparently my brain decided to do an unannounced simulation and review of "having a stroke" in my dreams, and concluded that my response time and procedure are insufficient for rescue.
Gee, thanks brain.
@russellmcormond Hmm. Is this available anywhere that isn't Amazon? I'm having trouble finding it...
Just wrote and published a new thing: "Cleaning sticky soda spills in a mechanical keyboard without disassembly"
- 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
