Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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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Need a primer on finding community in the pacific northwest as a black enby.
I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!
Seriously though, I've been impressed at how put off the locals are when I actually start talking, in most instances. Though, there does seem to be a group of folks that I connect with; I just have no idea where to find them outside of saying hullo in the supermarket.
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@theresnotime curl -H 'Accept-Encoding: text/infodump ' -H 'Accept-Content-Length: unlimited'
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@aeva old arcade games were the same way, but were typically always left powered on. There’s an episode of Seinfeld where one of the guys finds an old Frogger cabinet that still has his high score from back in the day. He tries to buy the cabinet and hilarity ensues.
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I've written a tutorial of sorts, showing how to write a streaming XML sitemap scraper using Promistreams! https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/example-project-scraping-xml-sitemaps
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Promistreams are now officially in beta! 
(Which mostly just means I have added a little infobox at the top of the page 
)
https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/what-are-promistreams
Basically, they're streams for #JavaScript that are actually nice to work with, have first-class Promise support, handle errors correctly, handle concurrency reliably, interoperate with other stream implementations, and just generally make more sense than Node streams.
You can use them for streaming data, but also for things like task queues or distribution patterns. They can work in any JS environment, and are not limited to Node.js. More documentation will become available soon (especially for more complex cases), but the basic stuff is already explained at the link.
Please give them a try and let me know how it went, and whether you ran into any issues!
matrix spec venting
Just saw a comment from an SCT member that pretty much confirms what I have long suspected: the intended model of the MSC process and the SCT is "you, the community, make appeals to the SCT and their interests for your feature to be accepted", and not the "you, the community, collectively decide the future of Matrix" that is often implied in its presentation as a 'community project'
lewd
@elilla My version:
Timespan 1: all I want is to hook up with at least one kinky top per day, is that really so much to ask
Timespan 2: all I want is to find someone who wants to collaborate (radical definition) on this software project with me, is that really so much to ask
Timespan 3: all I want is to find someone who wants to Go Out And Do An Activism with me, is that really so much to ask
(Usually each timespan takes a few days, though the selection is random and not in order)
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A reminder that there are good guys out there. @dnalounge, a nightclub in San Francisco, shows this to its attendees every 15 seconds or so.
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@gittaca@chaos.social I'll probably be going to WHY2025 - being in the outdoor air does help a lot with air safety and quality, even in the absence of formal measures. Also hoping that a next eth0 event will have good safety measures like the previous one again, then I'll probably go there as well.
But neither are quite the same as Congress of course 😕
abusive behaviour, on a meta level
Mentioning this for no particular reason: gaslighting doesn't happen accidentally. It's something that requires intention and understanding to pull off.
It *can* be a learned defensive response, it can even be driven by trauma, but it's not something unintentional.
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I stand by my contention that we shall know when we have created actual, sentient artificial intelligence when it is capable of telling us, "No."
What we have is an ecology-wrecking plagiarism machine, a glorified autocorrect serving the purpose of eternal war in Orwell's 1984--to consume.
I will take Synapse seriously when it stops spontaneously taking 7 full minutes to send a message.
@gittaca@chaos.social I have conflicting thoughts on that. Nominally I recognize that it would be a good idea, but the appeal of Congress for me is to have a space I can roam around in and socialize comfortably, something I don't get to do very often.
Being essentially isolated in a small area, with no support from orga, doesn't really tick that box for me, and by that point I'd mostly just be showing up to do work, rather than enjoying myself. And being immunocompromised, I would simply not be able to roam the broader Congress safely.
By that point I feel like maybe organizing a different event would be a better use of my time and (scarce) energy...
I'm sad about not being at #38c3. Not because of regret for not going, not because it's far away, not because it's expensive, or because tickets are hard to get and I didn't get one.
No, my reason for being sad is that it absolutely would have been possible for me to go, if it hadn't been for being socially excluded because orga couldn't be bothered to take even the most minimal air quality and/or public health precautions, turning it from a rare enjoyable social event into a direct risk to my life.
@wmd@chaos.social I guess that also explains the Congress Flu every year...
@theresnotime@fox.nexus From the article:
> Someone with ADHD may go through life regularly missing appointments, forgetting important tasks, and experiencing the consequences of this. Therefore, they may subconsciously start to compensate by waiting for extended periods to make sure they don’t miss an appointment or event.
This is *exactly* why this happens for me, and it's also a major source of my anxiety issues, with certainty. My brain keeps looping over "don't forget Thing" to keep it around and make sure it doesn't get lost, and that's *work* and severely impacts my ability to do anything else productive....
@McHollander Bijzonder moment om dit te publiceren ook, zo tijdens de feestdagen terwijl iedereen met andere zaken bezig is.
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Dit is dus precies waar we al die tijd voor gewaarschuwd hebben, he?
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5481682/onterecht-verdacht-structureel-vingerafdrukken-gezichtsfotos-politie-en-justitiedatabanken
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remember, united we are strong ❤️
Trans people in the UK, France, Germany, Eastern Europe, North America, Brazil, Taiwan, India, Russia, Australia, North Africa, South Africa, New Zealand- more places every day- are thinking and talking about ourselves in similar terms, and making similar demands. This has never happened before. Moreover, cis people are slowly realising they are cis. We really have reached a “tipping point,” no doubt in part thanks to the internet. The bodily autonomy of trans people is bound up with the bodily autonomy of all people, particularly cis women who have also suffered for far too long under the paternalistic medicalising gaze. That’s why I think the Colonel Korns of this world are doomed to fail: they are trying to do medicine and management on a civil rights movement.
Abigail Thorn- 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
