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
Outdoor thermometer says 38.7 celsius right now, at least it's still around 25 celsius in my office, and around 26.5 celsius in the living room
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My friend apparently received a physical credit card from the UK (where his bank is located) and Post Nord calculated he should pay 29 cents in VAT and 21,5 euro in "import fee"
@zipkid I've found this to be an excellent summary of most of the issues with it: https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/
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I think i'll need to defend my stance on not wanting to promote and use 'AI' at work to management soon. So i will be looking for good arguments that i can write down beforehand and use, so i can try not to go off the rails.
I am already reading 'The AI Con' by @emilymbender & @alex, but more suggestions that may be easier to use are welcome.
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@natty The thing I've seen more and more people do is getting basic household things (think scrubbing sponges, dishcloths, flashlights, cheap tools, stationery, etc.) off AliExpress or Amazon, because "the local stores are so expensive for this stuff", and that's more the thing I was thinking of with this PSA
@natty Ah yeah, you're probably not going to find that sort of thing at Action. Usually, anyway...
At one point I got two cheap 'mechanical 3D puzzles' there that were clearly just a few sheets of lasercut plywood, and it definitely felt like someone's hobby project had gotten out of hand and somehow ended up on the shelves
@natty Now I'm curious what sort of thing you normally order 😄
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i read a post a month or so ago and it detailed how to get more Windows 10 updates past the Oct deadline for this year? for like 2+ years?
i thought i had bookmarked it, or the person deleted their post
anyone know what i am talking about?
edit: see replies for multiple options, but the one(s) i replied to are what i was looking for specifically
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@elilla An australian friend of mine said they use cunt[endearing] for mates[endearing] and mate[derogatory] for cunts[derogatory].
spicy thoughts
*Is* cycling actually more environmentally friendly than public transit, what with the energy needs of the creature powering the bike?
By "depending on how you travel there" I mean stuff like "obviously don't drive there unless you actually intend to buy a trunk worth of stuff, instead take the bike or public transport or something".
PSA: If you're in Europe and frequently buy things from AliExpress, and there is an Action store near you (https://www.action.com/), check if they have the things you need first.
There's a lot of overlap in type of products and pricing levels, it can save a bunch of transport emissions (depending on how you travel there), and it's frequently cheaper too.
Ensuring A/C efficiency by slamming a door closed
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Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.
> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?
There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.
> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?
None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.
> But are you / they in the cloud?
No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.
> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.
*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*
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a "hypothetical" question to the reader, capitalism
Suppose that the reader is living in a country where there are just less jobs than people. Thanks, automation and amount of people that exist.
However, the country has not realized that with this, the reason for having capitalism and forcing everyone to work just sorta disappeared. Therefore, the reader is still forced to live through the inhumane bullshit that is not getting money because they can't get a job, and some unemployment agency constantly nags them to get a job.
What would the reader do?
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Why everyone is talking about gravy today
It's an anti-scraping protest. Bots are scraping Mastodon(.social I guess)'s trending topics list and feeding it into the slop machine. Thread: https://godforsaken.website/@pisscotheque/114772705899034101
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sci-fi
The mood in the observation deck was weird. On one hand the launch had gone off flawlessly, all five massive ships made orbit perfectly. No one had been left behind, all the work from the last few years had been validated.
On the other hand the launch had to happen a month early, forced to flee rather than fight the might of the United states military. Rather than let a group like us live in peace and build ourselves a new home they'd choosen to invade.
On yet another hand there was a feeling of anticipation. We were due to be in sight of our launch site when the eraser triggered in a minute or so.
When the hydrogen bomb triggered it would prevent anyone finding any clues accidentally left behind, and it would send a loud message about our capabilities.
But it would also remove the only place these great ships could safely land. Not just burning our bridge back but literally nuking it. No returning.
This better work.
@bananas (The incident in question involved someone spilling a significant amount of soup over a powerstrip and my ziploc bag of electronics stuff, causing a power outage and soup-ifying various of the contents of said bag, including possibly the soldering iron after all?)
@bananas I'm not sure it's a design issue, in this case. I'm starting to suspect that the soup spill incident at MCH2022 was a bit more impactful than I thought
- 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
