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
@clarfonthey @rail_ Note that there's a pretty big variety in screen lenses and coatings, so IPA may work safely on *some* of them but not necessarily all of them, it does not affect all plastics equally
@domi Ah, I can explain that one, I think - Firefox seems to internally maintain some kind of shared connection pool on a per-host basis, and if that connection pool is getting blocked by some slow request(s), it can get in the way of requests behind it in the internal queue.
But setting a proxy changes the connection settings and therefore instantiates a new/separate pool, and private tabs have their own instances of a lot of stuff for security/privacy reasons I believe, so that probably also spawns a new connection pool.
(I haven't read the code, this is based on observing a lot of jank in Firefox over the years and having a general idea of how such things are typically implemented)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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if you ever see someone who has a working computer please notify me immediately. i want to put them into a jar to study
Anything can be a screen if you drive enough voltage through it
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Hmmmm. De AH Bio thee lijkt van dezelfde leverancier te komen als de Lidl-thee. Ik vraag me nu toch wel af wie dat is.
spoiler (character, not plot), re: sci-fi book, sort of uspol
The authoritarian in the story is incredibly egocentric, and sees themselves as the necessary saviour of the world, the one who 'keeps peace', and goes to great length and cruelties as a result, constantly blurring the lines in their internal rationalizing between 'serving Earth' and serving their own personal interests and - most crucially - their own sense of being 'attacked'
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PSA
Cleaning screens with alcohol (e.g. generic IPA) is *NOT* safe and may cause damage to the screen
Please use dedicated screen cleaner spray/foam
@jonny Ah, but that would be Illegal, so that's not something that a Respectable Outlet like the Atlantic could suggest!
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fill your code with asserts, kids
that's how you find out the input data is wrong
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Wenn Union und FDP sagen "Leistung muss sich wieder lohnen", dann übersieht man leicht, dass hier nicht gemeint ist, dass diejenigen, die leisten und diejenigen, für die es sich lohnt, dieselben Personen sind.
@ben I wonder if the AI bros will learn this some day
@ben Find average point, then calculate angle between each point and average point, and sort by angle?
@rail_ Addendum: if you can get Alklanet locally, it's a very good highly-concentrated cleaning agent that works for general-purpose cleaning and window cleaning, and crucially is also screen-safe (sample size: a good chunk of the Dutch hacker scene).
Mentioning this mainly because I've found most dedicated 'screen cleaners' to be absolute garbage in terms of actually cleaning anything off, barely better than water...
sci-fi book, sort of uspol
I am currently reading the Saving Mars series of books by Cidney Swanson, which involves a colony on Mars and an Earth that is globally ruled by an authoritarian. Interestingly, some of the chapters are written from the perspective of the authoritarian and their inner rationalizing.
In the past few days, it has now happened to me several times where I read something said by Trump, and it tracks almost 1:1 with the behaviour and rationalizing of the authoritarian in the story.
It's a little unsettling.
3d printer
@maze@chaos.social Ohhh yeah I remember having that same problem now!
@clarfonthey With other tests it has taken much longer or been much fainter, though, in many cases (it was only fast/bright in some)
@gsuberland@chaos.social Right, I'm asking about Fluorecare because I've seen this happen before with other tests, but I've not seen it happen *consistently* with those, that's what surprises me here
For anyone else using Fluorecare tests: is it normal for a positive (COVID) result to show up almost immediately after inserting the sample?
With other tests I've only ever seen this with (apparently) high viral loads, but so far we've confirmed a positive test in two of us in this household, and in both cases the positive-result line appeared within a few minutes, long before the reading time
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The non-profit radio station I listen to in the morning is doing their fundraiser. Going off all about how much they support local arts and culture.
Their main page has a butt-ugly AI picture of what's trying to be dahlias. Which is funnier than it should be since dahlias aren't even Spring flowers.
I decided it would be a real shame if someone called in and said, *Lose the AI slop if you really do care about local Arts and aren't just blowing smoke.*
- 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
