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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- 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
@mei The integration problems are not so much technical in nature as they are political; the integrated ticketing is an extremely long-running topic of controversy.
There are certainly technical factors involved as well, but they're mostly of the "this is a decades-old system that is really difficult to modify and we don't really want to" variety which tend to require politics to resolve
re: kde question
@Ember That does sound like a bug then; I have not really modified my launcher config at all, it's pretty much the default
re: anecdote from a local space re: PSA, powertools, physical injury
@navi I mean, making a stationary tool out of a handheld tool *could* at least be a reasonable thing to do... assuming that the person doing it has done sufficient research on safety and ergonomics (which sure doesn't sound the case here)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Mijn zus en ik bellen dagelijks met onze bejaarde moeder (82) op Skype. Ze leert heel moeilijk nog nieuwe apps en programma's en heeft daar ook stress van.
Zij werkt altijd op een iPad, dat is gemakkelijker dan een smartphone. Mijn zus heeft android, ik Apple. Welk alternatief voor Skype?
anecdote from a local space re: PSA, powertools, physical injury
@navi I would be having Words with that person if I saw that
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achievement culture is toxic unless you achieved safety, health, happiness, or achieve helping others get safety, health, and happiness :neocat_floof_angel:
kde question
@Ember Just tried it out here and typing "4+2" and hitting enter just puts the result in the search box but does not copy it
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FISH 🐟
DOORBELL 🔔
TIME ⏰
In the Netherlands, spring fish migration has begun! This literal live stream from a manually operated canal lock in Utrecht lets you click a button when you see fish, which sends a screenshot and lets the lock-keeper know to open the lock and let fish through.
The #Visdeurbel returns March 3 and there will be some exciting additions: updates from 4 fishways (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder) across the Netherlands! The latest Visdeurbel news report explains: https://youtu.be/BQNPNQ6Ui2Q
@mei I imagine this is because we don't have (standardized) integrated ticketing and so some operators probably pre-purchase and then re-sell tickets using their own fare structure basically, with no connection to DB's pricing engine
re: PSA, powertools, physical injury
@gilgwath Yeah, I was surprised too. I thought this was legally required by now in EU. Apparently not?
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Can we go back to when pods were still music players
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The "livable streets*" community in NYC is a good bunch of people who care about things like parks, public transportation, pedestrians and real accessibility. I've been to a lot of events. I know many of the faces.
The most recent protest was different. This became aparent when we were starting up some chants.
One of the chants? It had a SWEAR WORD in it! And well, that might not sound so surprising but I've never seen this group so angry. Or agreed that I was also angry too.
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There needs to be an option one level above unsubscribe, something to say “I have never heard of you before get the the FUCK out of my email”
Like everybody gets one email-nuke per week and it takes ten other subscribers out with you
@senhara In theory you could (assuming you control the other end's implementation) but I do not get the impression that this thing was built by particularly security-conscious developers
Zo, @DenBoschPolitiek is echt een uitstekende nieuwsbron. Ik volg ze hier nu een paar weken, en ik heb al zoveel dingen geleerd en opgestoken over wat er hier in de gemeente allemaal gaande is.
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Hoor je er niet bij als je niet wilt meedoen met de digitale wereld? En als je wel mee wilt doen, kan het dan toch zijn dat je er niet bijhoort?
#column
#digitaleinclusie
PSA, powertools, physical injury
So here's a PSA: if you intend to buy an angle grinder, DO NOT buy one that's continuous-operation. A safe cutting tool MUST have a switch that automatically turns the tool off as soon as you stop holding it, a so-called "dead man's switch".
Consider what happens if you accidentally drop your angle grinder, and it doesn't have automatic turn-off; the disc can hit the floor, which will launch it off in a random direction, which is potentially going to be your legs.
It can and will severely injure you if that happens, possibly fucking up your legs irrecoverably, for the rest of your life.
Do not buy continuous-operation cutting devices.
@senhara (And I suspect that that password is getting string-interpolated into some kind of API call or shell command that goes into another system which needs to create a local account for every system-wide account, or something)
- 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
