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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- 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
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There's a lot of noise around Linux accessibility software. I used to work on that and I have opinions: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72379.html
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my actual motivation was trying to create trauma porn so bad and cringe that it can't be exploited for mass consumption
guess i underestimated who i was up against
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there was an open call for queer ephemera, and i submitted an xy chromosome panel made from bright pink pipe cleaner pieces, with googly eyes glued on to them, covered in glitter, and wrote a text calling it "reclaiming gender"
it looks like a really shitty kindergarten art project, there's drops of hot glue all over it
it's in an exhibition now and the cis love it and think it's really profound
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I wrote a little something about the Sony PRS-300 on my blog:
https://blog.not-outdated.com/entries/prs300.html
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@queen_fennec En dan is er ook nog dit heldere stukje https://www.securityinnovationstories.com/soevereine-cloud-de-vegan-kipfilet-van-de-digitale-wereld/
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Your periodic reminder that not only is using hue as the sole way of differentiating things in a document an accessibility issue, it also renders the information inaccessible via a greyscale display or printer. Not everyone reads on screen, not all screens display colour, and not everyone who prints wants to print everything in colour.
@antiaall3s@chaos.social Hmm. From what I remember, the water needs to be undisturbed for weeks to months for mosquitos to successfully breed in it. So I think that if it's a faucet in active use, it wouldn't be sufficient for mosquitos.
@antiaall3s@chaos.social Even without all of that, this seems absurd. Isn't the whole point of mosquito reproduction that it happens in *still* water? In other words, the thing fountains specifically do not have?
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they should make it illegal to operate a leafblower in the mornings while there is a heatwave
@colinstu Mostly water-based paint, but I need to find an answer for all sorts of paint, since I don't know what I'll be using in the future. AFAIK all sewage goes to a treatment plant here (Netherlands), but I think there's an overflow to sea during heavy rainfall.
I'm familiar with the wrapping trick, but that's ultimately not that useful to me with the irregularity of my projects... 😕
@epilanthanomai I've resorted to just asking fedi, to be honest. Using the AskFedi tag in particular.
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Where do people go for technical recs these days?
Like, today I want an overview of current Linux distros, but other days it's RSS readers or hardware or whatever. In the past there were reputable forums and review sites. If I didn't know them I could search, skip the obvious ad bait, and next would be the good ones. But now either I can't tell the good from the slop, or it's all slop.
What's the methodology now? Where do you start for high-level tech recs?
Boosts appreciated.
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"heh. well. have anarchists ever considered that [topic anarchists have written 50+ essays debating over the past 100+ years]"
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Het ei was er eerder, want het ei bestond al voor het ontstaan van de vogelsoort kip. Alleen als er met het ei een kippenei wordt bedoeld, dan is het de kip wat er eerder was. Want het kippenei (bevrucht of onbevrucht) ontstaat in het lijf van een kip en komt dus later dan de kip.
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Steam just added screen reader support in the latest Big Picture Mode beta. On the Deck. On SteamOS. On Linux.
Not hacked in. Not community-patched. Built-in. From Valve.
There's an accessibility tab. There's a screen reader. There's high-contrast mode, UI scaling, color filters, reduced motion, and more.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but: I need a Steam Deck now.
Accessibility isn’t just coming to gaming — it’s here, and it’s official.
Let’s make some noise so they keep going.
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/games/689922/steam-is-adding-screen-reader-support-and-other-accessibility-tools
#Accessibility #Gaming #SteamDeck #ScreenReader #Linux #valve
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@sandradejong Het ligt niet aan jou. Het was al drama met SEO-boeren en affiliate-zooi en het is met LLMs alleen maar erger geworden...
fruit
Turns out that strawberries from my own garden, when picked at the right ripeness, taste vastly better than anything I can buy in a supermarket here any time of the year
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Edit: Thanks everyone. Several first-hand recs for Unifi, Monoprice, and Digikey (all of which I've dealt with myself, just not for cable).
Original: Can someone recommend a currently reliable source for (non-counterfiet) Cat6 / Cat7 cable? Small quantity; maybe two or three 1000 foot spools. I remember the last time I needed some, this was a like buying a used car.
- 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
