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
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story time, long, supermarket revenge
I think I've told this story here before, but I might as well do it again.
In the shopping center of the town where I live, Rosmalen, we have two branches of Jumbo, a supermarket chain. The two branches aren't *quite* within viewing distance of each other, but only really because the view is blocked by a building inbetween.
Why? Well, according to local legend, that story starts with a newly-to-be-built neighbourhood...
De Groote Wielen is a major expansion of Rosmalen; it adds about half the town's size again, to the north of the existing urban area. It's a mixed development, but like the rest of Rosmalen, pretty Dutch-suburban in its nature; Rosmalen is glued to the side of Den Bosch, a bigger city, and so mostly functions as a commuter town.
De Groote Wielen has been under construction for a long time now; I believe more than 10 years. Every once in a while, a new zone gets completed and people move in. Even though the project is not done yet, it is already a living neighbourhood.
Now of course, a neighbourhood needs shops! So the plan was to build a shopping center for De Groote Wielen. Jumbo acquired a promise from the city that they would have the primary supermarket location in that newly-built shopping center.
But these plans got delayed, and residents complained about the lack of a supermarket for so long, so a stopgap plan was set up to build a temporary shopping center out of portable building units. Jumbo couldn't immediately construct a functioning temporary supermarket, so Albert Heijn, a competing supermarket chain, offered to do it instead. The city agreed.
But then things got murky. Albert Heijn started making noises about not wanting to give up their branch, and saying that now that they were already serving the community, they should have first right to the primary supermarket location in the new shopping center - the spot that had been promised to Jumbo!
Jumbo was not amused. So what'd they do? Well, the primary shopping center of Rosmalen was getting partly renovated, and a new supermarket location was being constructed as a part of that. Jumbo already had a branch in the old part, but they expressed their interest in establishing a branch in the new part too.
I guess people assumed they would move their existing branch to the new location. But that's not what happened. Instead, they kept operating both branches concurrently, and there is no plan to get rid of either of them; the one in the old part was recently renovated too!
So the rumours are that Jumbo is deliberately occupying both supermarket locations in the central shopping center as revenge on Albert Heijn for their backstabbery in De Groote Wielen; because AH had wanted to establish a presence in the central shopping center of Rosmalen too, but now they can't, because there are no free locations - Jumbo is occupying both of them!
Now, how much of this story is exactly true, I don't know; there's no formal documentation of all this anywhere. But this is the story that I've now heard from multiple folks around here... and it's difficult to find a different explanation for the two branches!
@gsuberland@chaos.social Ah they sometimes do that here, but then they do send you a message saying "we will wait for you until the start of the official timeslot, if you're not there yet"
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it really doesn’t sit well with me that German documentaries on something about Poland always feel the need to clarify what whatever place was called before the Oder-Neisse line
“Rzepin, das frühere Reppin” no. stop. you lost that right circa 1945
has the same vibe as some Dutch presenter saying “Jakarta, the former Batavia”, eww.
@clarfonthey @rail_ (Particularly if you have a glass screen lens without any additional coatings, it will likely be safe to use, but with a coating it may not be)
@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)
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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!
- 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
