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
@rune Word of advice: expect to grab a pair of scissors and spend a few minutes every time you need to get 1 (one) battery out of that style of packaging, you'll very quickly discover why
@silvermoon82 It started a year or 2-3 ago, so that seems unlikely to me.
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@joepie91 My conspiracy theory is that they've kept suing IA as a back pocket move for bad days. When business is bad and shareholders are screaming that they've getting a bad ROI, labels and such can just say it was IA's fault and we are suing them to rectify the situation.
I have no evidence, I don't get invited to shareholder meetings, but I am convinced.
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@joepie91 If I were to hazard a few (perhaps not particularly well informed) guesses … any or all of
1) the land grab for making proprietary spotify/netflix-a-likes for everything
2) fear of AI companies scraping their content from the Internet Archive for training
3) the publisher lawsuit prompted everyone else to start kicking them while they’re down?
but I’ve not been following the IA’s legal trouble recently due to having so much else to think about
So here's a question... why do record labels, publishers, etc. suddenly have such a big interest in suing the Internet Archive in the past few years, despite the Archive having been around for many years doing basically the same things, and there being 0 chance that the IP companies didn't know about it?
@blitter I've recently ordered a (25 unit) bulk pack of Fluorecare combination tests (COVID, Influenza A/B, RSV) off Praxisdienst, which is a German supplier so presumably also ships to German-speaking countries. Claims to be for professional customers but will sell to individuals too
They were quite a bit cheaper on a per-unit basis than pretty much every other seller I've found that ships to NL (which all just sell like 1 or 5 tests at a time).
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Grappig weetje over #Amersfoort. Als je met de trein vanaf het centraal station wegrijdt naar het noorden, is er bij de Eem een gebouw waar elke maand een andere nadenkspreuk op het dak staat. Sinds er ooit “Welkom in Alkmaar” heeft gestaan ben ik elke keer weer nieuwsgierig wat er staat.
@riley Practicality; you need the key to access the file's contents either way, *and* an address to locate the data to retrieve and decrypt in the first place, so if you were to use the hash of the ciphertext as the address, you would effectively double the size of the address; the actual address plus the decryption key.
By using a hash of the decryption key as the address, having the decryption key alone is enough to locate *and* decrypt the file, and it still lets you share that hash with others to give them access to the ciphertext only (which is necessary for some low-trust maintenance tasks).
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"De Verenigde Staten van Amerika zijn in handen gekomen van Trump, dus nu is het nodig om de Verenigde Staten van Europa te beginnen, want dat model werkt duidelijk zo goed. Oh ja en iets met polarisatie."
Volt snapt er weer he-le-maal niets van. Zou mooi zijn als ze het militaristisch ingestelde deel van de partij er eens uit zouden keilen.
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I *needed* this to be in the font. Feel free to steal and use.
I've seen so many cool themes come by through @macthemes - I honestly wish I could use some of those on a Linux system today.
@jonah ("Malicious participants" here does not just include people who seek to join the cluster with malicious intentions, but also people with honest intentions who are compromised through their system getting hacked, stolen by cops, infiltrated, and so on)
@jonah Mainly that Garage does not have strong resilience against malicious participants; it's a high-trust system towards all participants (or at least it was when I last evaluated it).
That's fine for a lot of cases, but as conditions worsen, it becomes more important to have such resiliency, and it's not something you can trivially patch into the design after the fact, unfortunately.
(If you're going to do this, think about how much you would charge to be willing to do this kind of work, and double it. Then double it again.)
I guess now is the time, as a freelancer, to start building up a reputation as "the guy who comes in to clean up the mess that the LLMs and LLM-bros left behind... for a fee"
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unsolicited advice for folks running macbook laptops from the early/mid 2010s
also now that my fan isn't on literally ALL the time, and with a new 3rd party battery, I can easily get 4–5hrs of light usage on a single battery charge, which feels close to what I got when it was brand new (despite apple's advertised figure of 10 hours on a single charge)
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unsolicited advice for folks running macbook laptops from the early/mid 2010s
thermal paste apparently breaks down after a few years, so yours might not actually be conducting heat that well anymore. between the fan and the paste, my processor now keeps cool enough that it doesn't throttle frequency at 100% load, which makes a ton of difference for (e.g.) sharing your screen while on a video call. it's a tricky procedure but not impossible and ifixit has a bunch of guides https://www.ifixit.com/Search?doctype=guide&query=macbook+thermal+paste
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unsolicited advice for folks running macbook laptops from the early/mid 2010s
if you have the skills and inclination: consider replacing your thermal paste! my 2013 macbook air has always been a tolerable daily driver, but after i changed the thermal paste it tipped back over into being a joy to use. plus while you're in there, you can ACTUALLY clean the fan (I thought I'd been cleaning the fan, but when i actually removed it from the heat sink I saw that there was a huge chunk of lint in there)
(If all goes as expected, it should also be a neat way for different fedi instances to share the storage cost of static media among each other, instead of everyone needing to keep full copies, because it's a deduplicated storage system)
Anyway the idea here is to have a distributed storage system that can be run on spare mismatched storage space by a group of friends, or a group of sysadmins, or whoever else, and be resistant against compromise and censorship. Both for personal data storage but definitely also for things that are meant for public access.
Which seems to have rapidly gotten a lot more relevant since I started on this project...
- 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
