Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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.
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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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Valve won't let me transfer ownership of Ben Lubar (Steamworks partner group) from Ben Lubar (account created because you can't make a partner group while being in a partner group) to Ben Lubar (normal account) unless I print out a letter explaining why I need to do this on company letterhead and get the CEO to sign it, then scan it in
which is hard because I don't have letterhead or a CEO
@jonty@chaos.social But what do we do after the year 2100???
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cw boost: leaked US cop manuals, police violence
I uh. How do I report to a developer of a Steam-hosted playtest a bug about their bug submission system not working?
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adulting advice
🌠 Never underestimate the power of a job half done. Really, doing *some* dishes makes doing the rest of the dishes later that much easier. You don't need to completely finish the thing, just do the next step and come back to it when you can.
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How many characters must one type on a keyboard to make a heart?
Less than three.
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"you're hot"
Cis People: thanks! Guess I just won the lucky draw
Trans People: thanks! The most powerful people in the world tried to stop me and i did it anyway
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@nyquildotorg @joepie91 You can read this post from one of the authors, I've linked it below, but TL;DR; it's a debug MMIO register region seemingly belonging to the GPU, and the "secret hash" is 0xC5ACCE55 - it's part of official ARM documentation.
https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/
I find it a stretch to call it a "hardware backdoor", a big fuckup, sure, but it doesn't seem deliberate.
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re: uspol, google maps
@joepie91 I definitely agree. Considering the names of international bodies of water are regulated by the International Hydrographic Organization, there is no reason other countries should even care about what the US calls it.
If anything, only the US version of Google Maps should show both names, to signal that there are two regulating bodies that disagree.
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A mobile pop up library/hammock stand? Yes please!
#spoonieTown
https://mastodon.social/@JasonThorne/113974645569309178
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USpol, exhortation to stop pretending the words they use mean to them what they mean to us
uspol, musk, tesla
@ai6yr @jimcarroll I find the "I didn't know he was so awful" to be a very weak excuse, to be honest. A lot of people have been sounding the alarm about Musk for many years, and a lot of Tesla owners chose to ignore that alarm.
Musk didn't magically turn into a nazi overnight. He's been behaving like this for many years, and the signs have been obvious for a long time if you were willing to look, it's just only recently started affecting the demographic that many Tesla owners are in.
So all I can say here is: should have listened to the (usually marginalized) folks trying to warn you.
uspol, google maps
@StroomAfwaarts The only policy I can think of would be that in the case of shared (legal) ownership over a region, it is named by all of the owners' local names for it.
Problem is, I am not aware of them applying this kind of rule for any other region.
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Everyone is talking about Apple trying to resist the UK's demand to put backdoors in their software, but hardly anyone is talking about the backdoor they actually put in their hardware.
"Kaspersky’s researchers affirmatively and without question found a deliberately concealed, never documented, deliberately locked but unlockable with a secret hash, hardware backdoor which was designed into all Apple devices starting with the A12, A13, A14, A15 and A16"
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transphobia PSA, Sadasia club Dortmund
just noting down for the NRW BDSM bubble that DifferentEvents/Sadasia Dortmund defines "woman" as "no penis" in their events.
uspol, google maps
Google showing the Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America" for users in the US, likely really is consistent with their usual internal policy - similar locale-specific differences exist for many places in their dataset.
Showing *both* names for users outside of US/Mexico, however, likely *isn't* consistent with their internal policies... and it smells of obeying in advance.
ph+, medication
Today's post-transplant medication update: prednisolon dosage has been reduced (20 -> 15mg daily, and one medication moment instead of two), and tacrolimus dosage has been reduced from 14mg to 10mg after they found my tacrolimus levels were *still* on the high side.
Gradually becoming less immunocompromised!
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Dit is gaaf, 55 minuten lang meekijken met diverse technische werkzaamheden in VIRM in de NS-werkplaats Haarlem.
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Real talk: Google, Meta, X and Amazon have been stifling innovation in the tech space, for decades at this point, by eliminating competition via buying or burying them. They're at the top of the pile not because they're the best companies, but because they're the most ruthless.
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All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a #language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on.
The same pattern is universally found across human languages bit also occurs in #whale song.
This complex signaling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each individual from others.
#biology
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html
- 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
