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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
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Via een sympathisant kregen we een lijstje met sketchy bands doorgestuurd. Een lijst van meerdere metal bands. Met een ranking van safe, mild sketch, moderate sketch, major sketch en nazi.
Naast de usual suspects, ook wat bekende bands en voor ons wat onbekende bands. Het zijn voornamelijk bands die in de death of black metal genre vallen.
De Metal Archives is ook altijd een goede om te controleren of metal bands fout zijn.
Een simpele manier om te kijken of een band fout is:
Logo(s) op de albumhoes/cover, overduidelijke rechtse symboliek
De naam van de band, termen zoals, Aryan, random Duitse woorden
Achtergrondplaatje, Duitse soldaten of Germanen
De naam van de liedjes, termen zoals weerwolven of dogwhistles
https://www.hellseatic.de/wp-content/uploads/Sketchy-Metal-Bands.pdf
"Cheap rubberized (furniture) wheels with a mounting plate" turns out to be a surprisingly useful thing to have in stock, time to put *everything* on wheels!
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@_benui Proposal for the next version: "tries to solve social problem with technical solution (and fails)"
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Why I Refuse to Use "AI"
https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/
It occurs to me that LLM companies are possibly the first to find a form of copying that *is* in fact stealing; they're not just replicating, they're actively appropriating people's work and taking away from them, displacing them and drowning them out.
Like, the best way I can describe it is that stuff like classic trance felt like it was designed to be played in a small venue with a few hundred people tops, whereas current EDM feels like it's designed for festivals with many thousands of attendees.
It's not *bad*, per se, and I enjoy it every now and then just like every other kind of music, it just shouldn't be the *only* thing that still gets made
I dislike how almost all new EDM seems to be 'festival-style'; I'm not very particular about (sub)genres, but I always greatly enjoyed the kind of classic trance that was... quieter, more intimate, almost? And there just doesn't seem to be much left of that, other than minimalist EDM which really doesn't have the mood I'm looking for.
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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?
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- 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
