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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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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@algernon (I *think* Hydra can make use of the local Nix store in evaluation?)
@algernon All that's really needed for a binary cache is to have the files exposed through some kind of webserver. Hydra can shift these files to the correct place for eg. an nginx to find them, though the setup was not very well-documented last I did this...
I have a few random notes here but they don't seem to go into the 'cache' part: https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/setting-up-hydra
Okay, and the RSS parsing stream is now published too: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@promistream/parse-rss
@marlies Thanks, I never knew about this!
@marlies Hmm, could you elaborate? I've always known RSS readers as being a tool for unidirectionally following things like blogs, rather than as a proactive sharing thing.
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Updated the post, here is, as it were, the money shot.
You can see that the frequency on the EU side goes low and then rises while the one on Baltic side goes high and then falls right before sync - I wonder if that was intentional! But in any case, you can very clearly see the point where they sync! so this experiment was as far as I am concerned a full success!
https://halcy.de/blog/2025/02/09/measuring-power-network-frequency-using-junk-you-have-in-your-closet/ #BalticSynchro
... and now I'm writing an RSS-parsing stream.
@miyuko No problem :)
To my knowledge, the still-existing CD pressing companies mostly do special releases; a bit like the vinyl record manufacturers, they primarily appeal to nostalgia.
Though I think that optical media may still be in widespread use in Japan? Not sure if that's still true today.
@miyuko You would typically outsource it to a company that does this stuff (they apparently still exist!); they will charge you a fixed cost to create a 'master', which is used as a 'stamp' to then press copies at high speed, at an additional per-unit cost.
Doing it yourself, I think, requires quite a lot of expensive equipment (which is why small-volume CDs usually get burned, not pressed).
StackOverflow (the company) really has shown itself to be fucking awful, hasn't it? They're spotlighting fucking Verkada (a shitty surveillance tech company) on their blog right now.
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wanna know something really fun?
one of Spain's biggest ISPs is blocking connectivity to -all Cloudflare- on the hours when the Spanish football league plays because some pirate streaming servers operate behind them
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|-/
farmer's delight is an amazing one. makes cooking and farming so actually fun and is also very aesthetically pleasing. there are many submods for it that add even more food!
another good one is create if you like steampunk stuff or like making various builds with mechanisms and automation. it's an analog to redstone that uses clockwork and cogwheels.
biomes o'plenty and oh the biomes you'll go are also astonishingly cool
This is weird. I apparently have the NFSU2 soundtrack in FLAC format, and it has an EAC ripping log, describing how it was ripped from a 2CD release.
There's just one problem: to my knowledge, there has never existed a CD release of the NFSU2 soundtrack!
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minecraft is like, my comfort game. you know how people have comfort plushies they hug every time they're feeling bad? this is this game for me
JS packages written and published today:
- @promistream/timer, which is a stream that emits a value repeatedly at a fixed interval: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@promistream/timer
- @validatem/is-ms, a validator that checks whether an input is a valid `ms` time specification (and parses it): https://www.npmjs.com/package/@validatem/is-ms
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Birding this morning was lovely, always good to get out there. Happy we still have our winter ducks around.
@starsider @aeva Unfortunately some sites have started backdating LLM slop...
- 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
