Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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Friendly tip: uBlock Origin has a helpful "Disable all JavaScript on this site" button that effectively removes paywalls from many websites. It works even when tools like 12ft.io are blocked!
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My favorite speedrun-related exploit would have to be in the puzzle platformer Forward to The Sky.
It was discovered shortly after the game's release that there is an undocumented speed button. Presumably used for level testing, if you hold the Z key whole moving forward then you will walk noticeably faster.
The game also defaults to WASD, but keeps the same key positions if you change keyboard layout, except that the speed button stays as Z. When you change your keyboard from QWERTY to AZERTY, the "walk forward" button is then double bound with the speed button, making you passively move a lot faster. It is now commonly understood that, if you want to speedrun Forward To The Sky, you have to use AZERTY to be competitive.
This makes Forward To The Sky the only sport other than fencing where being French gives you an unfair competitive advantage.
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retitling the tab “new years resolutions” to “KPIs”
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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 
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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'
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@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.
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.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
