Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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
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it has happened. i am truly, deeply, assimilated into german culture. i fear there is no way back now.
(i sent a fax for the first time in my life)
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ai;dr (AI; Didn't Read)
@ahuggingsam@mastodon.art I only know of this for Windows XP; the "XP Mode" in Vista (and 7?) was basically just a preinstalled clean VM image of a Windows XP install, that you could download from Microsoft directly and also just extract and run in normal VM software.
Don't know if something equivalent exists for other Windows versions, but I do believe that Microsoft at least offers (free) downloads of their current OS versions from their site specifically for testing compatibility. Don't know if they're preinstalled though.
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This might seem silly, but please keep posting about nice things in your life! There are lots of terrible things out there, so knowing about people's projects, successes, relationships, hobbies, nice meals, quiet moments of joy, etc. are lovely! I like knowing people are experiencing nice things, especially in a world that doesnt support that well.
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Mastodon HOA and accessibility.
Just read the most infuriating blog post ever, where this person tries to equate alt text as a HOA, Homeowner association. Fuck you, and can someone make a block list of these jackasses so I can nuke them all in one place?
The first reasoning is also flawed. Maybe it's a screenshot of a different sentence than the one you have as a featured image on your blog. The point is, you know, we don't, and it sounds like this person is using his limited knowledge of screen readers to justify his individualistic brave stance online.
His second point deserves no rebuke.
But I've long since muted him. This also might shock you, but you're also using HOA wrong as well, if you really wanna get nit picky about it. Why don't you actually try learning what the HOA actually does offline to enact discrimination instead of using it incorrectly.
But I'm starting to see this kind of attitude all the time, and it always, always, comes from the mainstream internet, where everybody never had to think about others.
It's getting to the point where I mute/block everyone that uses the word, HOA, because these very Twitter people can't comprehend communities.
I've made it my personal mission to be blocked by these kinds of people by scolding them until they block me. Trust me, they won't be worth your feed.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/on-blocking-mastodon-hoa-edition/
Mastodon HOA and accessibility.
@WeirdWriter Welp, jwz goes on my mental shitlist, I guess. For that, and the article about CWs...
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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
@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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ACAB
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
- 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
