Sven Slootweg @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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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Rust is woke and that's great actually: https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/19480.html
Tomorrow, when the plant table is fully dry, I can continue with my *actual* project (for which the table and the garage were dependencies): pre-planting seeds for my vegetable garden.
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There's a lot left to do here, but I'm very happy to finally have the whole thing in a usable condition, at least! Instead of having to constantly navigate around all kinds of crap scattered on the floor (instead of being stored where it belongs).
Wat een teleurstelling dat Hellendoorn een slopgenerator heeft gebruikt voor de nieuwe posters bij de Rioolrat; het doet echt afbreuk aan de anders zo goede thematisering...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sxd4sSQZ24 (CW: flitsende lichten)
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Pet peeve: people using abbreviations with twenty-five different meanings and not specifying which of those meanings they mean
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Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(
This can of paint is one of my bargain bin cans - the local hardware store usually has a cart with assorted stuff on it that they are trying to get rid of, usually because they're no longer selling it. Discounts between 50% and 99% are not uncommon - at one point I got some 35 EUR table legs for 1 EUR each.
Sometimes there are cans of paint on there as well - presumably these are the result of some employee accidentally mixing the wrong color for a customer, and them deciding to try and recoup some of the cost for the erroneous can by putting it on the cart at a discount.
So I've been picking up some of these cans every once in a while, and now I have a decent collection of semi-random (and often unusual) colors for projects like this where I don't need any particular specific color!
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Your Outie uploaded a mildly popular Flash animation to Newgrounds.
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Update after April 2.
I was able to determine that, at least, my social security is still intact! But still no deposit as of yet, but the good news is thanks to the #Fediverse I was able to cover April's rent and deposit will resume in May! I am 99% sure I was the casualty of some rapid database breaking somewhere. I probably won't update this post again, but if you do have social security, the best thing I can tell you is to prepare for what happened to me, to happen to you as well.
This means downloading all previous records and statements while you still can. No telling if it will help you, as a *LOT* of people in my country really really want social security to be privatize and this means purging just because they need to be so called efficient. People in my country *want* social security to run like a business rather than a public good, so make it easier to sue them if they deny you in the future, and this means keeping any documentation you can.
See earlier post below.
On April 1 I Woke up to no social security deposit and I use that to pay rent.
Thanks to the Fedi, April rent has been paid for! My social security is still intact, and I was told deposit would resume in May.
There was no notification, no email, no letter from Social Security, and this was a scary thing to wake up to!
Even though April is covered, I still need mutual aid as a preemptive measure.
If you are in the US, Zelle is kingettr@gmail.com and other options at https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Disability @anarchomutual @mutualaid@a.gup.pe @mutualaid@kolektiva.social @mutualaidmedia
Currently painting the new plant table; weirdly, the cheap primer I used claimed on the can to need 12 hours to dry, but it was fine after like 2 hours? I just applied the top (color) coat on top of it, and had no issues whatsoever.
Or to put it more succinctly: if you want things to actually change for the better, you need to understand when to leave your pet peeves at the door.
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uspol
🥽as much as I do think Booker’s filibuster matters, it’s also a clear demonstration of Democrat’s inability to fight.
That the moment he stood down the democrats allowed unanimous consent rather than continuing to drag out the confirmation hearing speaks volumes.
They could all go up and do what Booker just did, one by one, for shorter lengths of time, and grind the senate to a halt.
Instead, Booker does something inspiring and even important, but the democrats fail to capitalize on it in favor of patting themselves on the back and proceeding as if it’s business as usual.
Booker’s actions are absolutely being effective, but possibly not in the way he intends it.
Yes, 'vibe coding' is a completely absurd and irresponsible idea, but "it's just as bad as having lots of dependencies" is just as terrible of a take, and it's not achieving what you think it's achieving.
The whole point of dependencies is that you can inspect them and see what they do, that you can test them, and that they have a development history that encodes the problem space and the work that people have collectively done to address it!
You know why people use LLMs for programming? Because then they don't have to figure everything out from scratch. Which just so happens to be *the problem that dependencies solve responsibly*. Dependencies are not "just as bad", they are *the responsible alternative.*
Treating programming LLMs as an opportunity to complain about dependencies is doing literally the opposite of "convincing people to stop using LLMs". Fuck's sake.
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in retrospect it's kind of incredible how many people fell for the ponzi schemes from a place called "silly con valley"
Hand soap and sand turns out to be an *excellent* combination to get rid of half-dried paint on your hands
There's a lot left to do here, but I'm very happy to finally have the whole thing in a usable condition, at least! Instead of having to constantly navigate around all kinds of crap scattered on the floor (instead of being stored where it belongs).
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This is, in my opinion, a good April Fools day joke.
It's a joke.
It's a funny joke.
It's labeled as a joke, so there's little danger of it becoming disinformation.
It's a joke that doesn't really hurt anyone, other than possibly the manufacturers of non-repairable devices.
It is, I stress, actually funny, and got me for a fraction of a second before I realized.
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
