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
NixOS community/governance
@KFears The one thing I'd sort of disagree with would be that the Zulip wasn't productive - it established beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no singular NixOS 'community' with a cohesive system of values, and that the fragments of community that do exist are fundamentally irreconcilable in a number of ways.
That's not the outcome that I'd hoped for, but it certainly helped to get a clear and unambiguous answer to "is there a way out of this swamp without drastic measures", that answer being "no".
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𝕛𝕦𝕝𝕖𝕤 
The year is 2098.
Nobody knows anymore what an arch or a linux is, but for historical reasons it still is the only wiki documenting operating systems accurately
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I’m just saying that if you think you can’t do shit because it’s “too weird,” nothing you can do will ever be as weird as the fact that we all exist at the same time together.
Do your weird little thing, friend.
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how do i explain to 18th century alchemist that turning lead into gold is not possible but turning plastic gloves into grape soda is
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Boven klinkt geloei.
En geluid van deurklink.
En gefrustreerd geklaag.
Diederik blijft proberen de slaapkamerdeur open te krijgen.
Want ooit, in tijden van Horizontale Klink, kon hij dat. Als een bruin hopje hing hij aan de klink, en duwde de deur open met zijn voeten.
Die tijden zijn voorbij.
Tijden van Verticale Klink braken aan.
Erop springen kan, maar Grootsch Wegglijden is het gevolg.
Hij heeft het heel moeilijk.
Dus er klinkt boven geloei.
En geluid van klink.
En gefrustreerd geklaag.
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De hele week dacht ik 'Oh ja, waxinelichtjes, moet ik in mijn mandje gooien!'
Vandaag komen de boodschappen.
Zonder de lichtjes.
eten (vegan)
@domo AH heeft blijkbaar ook een huismerkversie van de 'gevuld ei'-variant, ben benieuwd of dat wat is.
@rail_ I assure you, you will not enjoy the Dutch interpretation of a baguette
@gsuberland@chaos.social Right. The Blokker one has capacitive buttons. Not something that is likely to break (despite my misgivings about those types of buttons in general).
@gsuberland@chaos.social (On a related note, the Blokker kettle is literally available on AliExpress, just without the Blokker logo and packaging (and possibly with less QC). So it's not like they did some major engineering effort to produce a high-quality product.)
@gsuberland@chaos.social I did have one temperature-controlled kettle that failed within 3 years. I replaced it with another (the Blokker one), and although it did experience a problem after some 3.5 years, it wasn't in any way related to the temperature control - it was rusting around the spout.
I don't know, I'm not really convinced that they're particularly more prone to failure on a fundamental level. Temperature control isn't *that* complex either.
@domo The claim is that without plastic, they would spoil faster and the resulting waste would have more climate impact.
I'm not sure yet whether I believe that line of reasoning, especially because it fails to interrogate the impact of common supermarket policies like "always overstocking the store so that the shelves look full because that increases sales".
@gsuberland@chaos.social See here, though: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/114285597979605699
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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
- 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
