Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
Sven Slootweg
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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
@anthropy The thing is that Blokker, prior to their demise, had a temperature-controlled kettle at basically the same price as a normal kettle would be, as a standard part of their offerings (they sold it for years). So clearly it's financially possible.
As far as I can tell, it seems to just be "oh you like tea, then you must surely be willing to pay a massive markup for this feature" and nothing else...
What is it with almost all temperature-controlled kettles being so expensive? A temperature sensor and PCB don't cost anywhere near that much, and that's the only meaningful difference with a non-temperature-controlled kettle...
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The old Canon fd 35mm/3.5 also seems to add a bit of yellow tint to images which has some very nice characters
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The web version of Outlook that my university runs now auto-corrects '1st' and '2nd' by making not the last but the first two symbols into superscript. Brilliant programming, guys. 😂
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this is the correct attitude for open source projects. free software is political.
https://forum.yunohost.org/t/am-i-hacked-or-is-this-something-new/36203/14
eten (vegan)
Nou, de plantaardige grillworst van de Albert Heijn is dus niet voor herhaling vatbaar.
De plantaardige eiersalade, daarentegen, is fantastisch!
re: Matrix, criticism of criticism, negative
@Frisk One that particularly tends to irritate me is the people conflating "Matrix, the protocol" and "the stuff that Element builds" and making grand proclamations about how Matrix as a concept was clearly a terrible idea, and their 'evidence' is all just complaints about the bad implementation quality of Element stuff.
And you can tell that they know virtually nothing about Matrix as a protocol, and haven't even entertained the possibility that maybe they're fixable problems... and the result is that they end up yelling at the people who are trying to fix *the very issues they are complaining about*.
And yeah, it's usually the "IRC is best" folks.
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Matrix, criticism of criticism, negative
I'm fine with the criticism of #Matrix on Fediverse, I do that sometimes myself in private rooms or sometimes blog posts, but holy shit, I wish that criticism didn't have as much toxicity and misinformation in it as it currently have.
On one hand there are Matrix fans who unconditionally scream how great Matrix is and can solve all world problems, and on the other there are nostalgia gremlins praising IRC over high heavens as an alternative to commercial platforms like Discord for literally everyone because Matrix is "literally unusable" or something.
Both groups are delusional IMO.
Sven Slootweg
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CW-boost: uspol, stock market
CW-boost: uspol, catholicism
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Did you know the InterCity 225 is retrofitted with eink reservation displays?
Sven Slootweg
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If you pay for a single from Apple Music, you get an m4a that doesn't contain album art.
But when I play it in the Apple Music player it has album art.
No. It doesn't. They do a lookup of the album art in the Music player. The actual file doesn't have the album art.
You'll need to steal their album art from somwhere else, and then run:
ffmpeg -i input.m4a -i image.jpg -c copy -disposition:v attached_pic output4.m4a
Purchasing music is such pain these days 
I've been trying to purchase music from all my favorite bands for days now, and it's so spread out across so many platforms, if you can even download it at all, and then even if you do, you're not guaranteed all the bells and whistles of what makes a song recognizable in your mp3 player or app. You still need to do stuff yourself.
I want to tell people to do the right thing and purchase music, but jfc, this is an unfederated segmented shitscape...
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something that'd been bothering me a lot about #DGS is that *none* of the 3 dictionaries I use has any Middle East cultural words. no words listed for such things as Ramadan, halal, hijab etc. I know how to sign schnitzel, currywurst, baguette, sushi, but when our migrant kindergarten teacher asked how to say falafel, teachers were like, uh dunno fingerspell it.
I mean I don't blame the teachers for not knowing a word, but the vocab gap in the *dictionaries* is blatant. spreadthesign which is by far the most comprehensive free one doesn't even have döner. what is life in Germany without döner??
(gebärde lernen has it at least: https://gebaerdenlernen.de/vid/doener.mp4 )
that I know how to ask if something is vegetarian or vegan, but not kosher or halal, makes me feel icky. I tried using spreadthesign for Syrian sign to find loanwords, but not knowing Arabic limits my ability to look...
Sven Slootweg
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This 
bus from Arriva has their newest version of the passenger information system and it shows the exact distance in meters until the next stop. It is actually quite ridiculous.
Sven Slootweg
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Kijken of ik “bladwijzer is uit je boek gevallen” nog ergens kwijt kan in een voorronde van de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing
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Voor de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing zoeken we het KLEINSTE kleine leed.
VOORRONDE 3
Als je vandaag een van deze vier dingen moet overkomen, waar kies je dan voor?
(Edit: leuk moet leun zijn, als ik dat aanpas reset de poll dus maar even hier)
Sven Slootweg
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Folks who are new to protesting:
Never sign up for protests online. Never organize online. Just show up the day of with your sign, comfy clothes, and wont-cry-if-you-lose-it water bottle. If you've already signed up, don't do it again.
If you're worried, bring a minute flip phone and write your lawyer's number on your arm.
Random "don't protest/surrender now" commenters will be quashed.
- 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
