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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- 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
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Internet search in…
1990: ask people you know for their FTP server address
1995: scroll through twenty pages of Altavista results
2000: ten blue links
2010: ten blue links below ten ads
2020: one useful link to Wikipedia below the fold, all ads above
2024: AI summary followed by ads followed by a Wikipedia link
2025: AI summary followed by AI summaries of ads followed by a Wikipedia link behind an AI summary
2026: ask people you know for their archive torrent address
@WeirdWriter From what I can tell, adaptive mode increases the contrast and font size; markup-wise, it changes the form elements so that the label is attached to the checkbox input through a for= reference, rather than nesting the checkbox inside of the label.
Both approaches should be valid and equivalent to connect the two elements, but I wonder now if some screenreaders handle these cases differently somehow.
(If I can find the time, I'll try setting up a screenreader to see what it makes of it...)
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Systeem: "Preview? Nee dat kunnen we niet. Je moet publishen om te zien of het werkt."
Ook systeem: "Ja, je moet wel even handmatig de cache resetten, anders zie je het niet"
Ook systeem: "Je reset de cache te vaak, onze systemen kunnen dit niet aan."
Nou, mijn systeem kan dit niet aan. Error 503. Brain not available.
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@baldur It doesn't happen often nowadays that I read something that makes me go "yep, this is what journalism should look like", but this one absolutely fits the bill
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We are almost there folks hang in there
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swappable battery is cool and all but I wish my phone would allow hotswapping it if plugged into a charger, so it could stay booted (I wouldn't mind modem etc. restarting, just the main OS should stay up imo)
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@quinn This seems awfully like Israel's Iron Dome, But In Space
hot take, social media
@KFears I think it's a bit of a "trial by fire" situation; people learn organizing because they *have* to, and in the process learn (some) community building skills.
Unfortunately that's learning to build a *very particular kind* of community, one that aims to fight something that already exists. But once the problem is solved you need a different kind of community, one that *builds things up* and sustains them for the long term, and that requires very different skills.
I don't have concrete data to back this up, but my suspicion is that this might play a role in the tendency for revolutions in dire circumstances to result in decades of misery afterwards; because the revolutions are carried out by battle-minded folks, and they are not prepared to do the second, constructive part of the process.
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Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
Ah, the German heptateutonic scale.
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sorry about the ipv4 address shortage . i was a bit hungy
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Apps that log you out because you haven’t used the app in over a week. WHY? It’s isn’t even a crucial app like a bank or something.
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Wizards of the Coast did as they promised, and released a System Reference Document (that is, the basic rules and game mechanics) for the 2024 edition of Dungeons & Dragons under an extremely open Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) licence.
D&D isn't necessarily the game for *you*, but it *is* historically significant and still extremely popular, and I think it's cool that any part of it is available under such a licence.
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With both #Eurovision and the Papal conclave happening in May, it’s gonna be a big month for Europeans who love overly complex, confusing and dramatic ways to select a winner that are run by international bureaucracies, include smoke for dramatic effect and feature excessively extra outfits
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@anildash Several years ago we created a man-in-the-middle system - basically a two port Ethernet bridge - that implemented what we called a "constipation engine".
It would recognize an incoming TCP connection and based on supplied criteria would distinguish between connections to be allowed and those to be constipated.
The TCP constipation manipulated the TCP window size parameters so that from the attacker's point of view a TCP connection would be open and in a connected state but the data flow would be a trickle. Thus a web page fetch, nominally very fast could span many minutes, even hours,
Most attackers, driven by software not people, would not notice this slow down of data delivery to a few bytes every few seconds.
Although this would not stop web scraping it would slow the attacker to a crawl, likely preventing it from ever finishing its scraping or moving on to other victims.
The cost for the website was basically some TCP state control blocks in memory and very little CPU or network I/O burden.
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So far on #EarthDay walk, I’ve seen Lilac, Periwinkle & Lavender flowers! It is really cool to meet the namesakes of our human colors. 💜
I was amazed when I met Fuscia a few years ago!!
Do you have any favorite color-namesakes? Please tell or show me about the pretty things
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6 years later and I still wonder what happened to this door I encountered in an abandoned building to make it look like that
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Wij eisen een einde aan misleidende frames. NOS, Wees Eerlijk! Bij persvrijheid hoort verantwoordelijkheid. Zaterdag 31 mei 12.00 uur: bezetting mediapark voor het NOS-kantoor.
Nieuwssites en kranten e.d. hebben nogal de neiging om de oorzaak van incidenten en rampen helemaal weg te laten uit de berichtgeving, waardoor je geen verbanden kunt leggen.
En als je ze daar dan op aanspreekt, dan is het excuus "ja maar de oorzaak weten we niet met zekerheid op het moment van publicatie".
Waarom publiceer je er dan uberhaupt over?! Wat is de toegevoegde waarde van je nieuwsartikel voor de maatschappij dan nog, als je zelf ook nog geen idee hebt wat er aan de hand is of welke lessen je daaruit kunt trekken?
- 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
