Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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
@xgranade@wandering.shop (I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop on npm, too)
@xgranade@wandering.shop Yeah... it's unfortunately a pattern that keeps repeating. Company builds centralized infrastructure, actively encourages people to use it as much as possible, and then surprised pikachu it's expensive to run and not sustainable and oh no now they're starting to make it worse.
Would be nice if people learned to recognize the bait *before* the switch at some point
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if web 2.0 was so good why isn't there a...
no wait fuck go back
@xgranade@wandering.shop Guess they're starting to tighten the thumbscrews as VC funding runs out?
@GLaDTheresCake Wat voor mij altijd heel tekenend is aan de discussies op Tweakers is dat men chronisch incapabel lijkt om onderwerpen vanuit een maatschappelijk perspectief te bekijken.
Dan benoem je bijvoorbeeld een maatschappelijk probleem als gevolg van iets dat in het artikel staat, en dan kun je de klok er op gelijk zetten dat de reacties iets gaan zijn wat puur en alleen over de persoonlijke situatie van de poster gaat, en volledig voorbij gaat aan het maatschappelijke probleem waar je het eigenlijk over had.
Alsof iedereen iets dat boven het individualistische gaat, simpelweg niet kan begrijpen op een heel fundamenteel niveau.
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Continuation of ereader battery replacement thread: I replaced the battery in my own ereader too (it's the same PRS-505 but in black), and I would like to remind you that we thought about batteries very differently back in 2007.
Did you forget that in 2007 you didn't have to plug your phone in every night? Remember the INDIGNITY you felt when you bought your first colour phone or even smartphone, and it sucked so much energy that you had to turn the screen off when you weren't using it?
Anyway, I put in a new battery and charged it five days ago, read for a couple of hours every day, and can report that last night the battery display dropped from four bars to three.
So that's probably three weeks between charges aye. On a 750mAh battery smaller than a box of tic-tacs.
Look what they've stolen from us. Demand better. We deserve better.
We zijn inmiddels 10 jaar verder en iedere discussie op Tweakers over piraterij is nog altijd een exacte kopie van de discussie van 10 jaar geleden, met dezelfde (non-)argumenten, dezelfde lege morele aantijgingen, dezelfde misvattingen, dezelfde dooddoeners, en vaak zelfs dezelfde mensen.
Moedeloos word je ervan. Geen enkele indicatie van zelfontwikkeling of uberhaupt serieus ingaan op de punten die er genoemd worden.
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I’m looking for music reccomendations! 🎶🎧
Especially female vocalists like Neko Case, boygenius, Laura Veirs, Gillian Welch, The Secret Sisters.
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Muis en Diederik komen niet bij.
De schuifdeur is open om de kamer te verwarmen (werkt nog niet echt), een vriendelijke koeienmestlucht waait door het huis.
Maar bovenal: schuifdeur! Open!
Dat betekent dat opeens door het dichte deel naar buiten kan worden gekeken (logisch). En dat EEN POOT door de schuifdeuropening kan worden gestoken zodat aan Terras, Takje, Blad, en Buitenlucht kan worden gevoeld.
Kat VD Buren 1 is door Diederik verjaagd door ernaar te kijken. Helpt. Nu Kat VD Buren 2 nog.
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It feels almost bizarre to say, but at the end of this year almost all fossil fuel vehicles will have been eliminated from public transport in the four largest cities of the Netherlands. I remember when the large scale electrification of the bus vehicle fleet first started at the end of 2016, and that isn't even ten years ago!
@dajb Hmm. I have to say that as someone with an information security background, "proprietary secure Safe" without any further details makes me hesitant to recommend this to people 😕
Stuff like SecureDrop is open-source precisely so that third parties can verify that it actually provides the safety guarantees it claims to...
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Bumping this because I've once again come across Breadchain Cooperative in the wild. This is a reminder that it's not a cooperative because it operates on "one share/one vote" not "one member/one vote." It is a redwashing of a perfectly ordinary blockchain grift.
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The trial period with the eCitaro at 
is going better than planned, starting Monday the eCitaro vehicles can be seen on all bus lines. This will also mean HTM is finally starting to retire the old CNG buses from 2009-2011 (these are considered old for Dutch standards).
From Monday 3 March, the articulated eCitaro will also be put on trial on line 24.
https://www.htm.nl/persberichten/nieuwe-elektrische-bussen-start-proefbedrijf/
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remixed WW2 propaganda, USpol, Elon's punchable face
dying at how well this person captured Elon's fist-magnet of a facial expression
(closest I can get to the source is an Imgur link from Feb 16, props to whoever actually did the remix) https://imgur.com/gallery/when-you-ride-tesla-you-ride-with-hitler-Z8jWD29
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Tipp für Journalisten: Bevor du etwas über Züge schreibst, frage vielleicht jemanden, der sich mit Eisenbahnen auskennt, um einen Kommentar. So verhinderst du vielleicht, dass dein Artikel zwischen PR-Geschwafel und völligem Mist landet.
@jon Honestly that should be journalism 101 to begin with - do not publish anything a company says unless you've talked to at least one source who isn't (involved with) the company.
Emphasis on 'should' because this sure isn't the standard of journalism today...
CW-boost: bird flu, health PSA, cats, reference to uspol
Alright, I should now have daily automated client-encrypted backups of all* my servers to two locations, one in the US and one in the Netherlands.
* except the 'workbot' server, which is a dedicated server that only handles high-resource workloads on ephemeral bulk data, like the seekseek crawler backend, and is not allowed to contain any critical data to begin with
@gsuberland@chaos.social Every time it makes my brain go "huh, is there a discoloration on my screen?"
- 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
