Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
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@rysiek@mastodon.technology @meave@toot.site Yep, that pretty much exactly matches my experiences (including the having operated big sites and DDoS magnets...)
It's also kind of interesting that "micro-caching" is now apparently an established thing with its own name - I did something very similar back in 2011 or so, except with database queries. Every read query (keyed by query + parameters) was cached for about 2 seconds, and that one change alone allowed it to survive being frontpaged on various large aggregrators, despite running on a cheap tiny VPS :)
@chrissi@snug.moe Good luck :)
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Firefox Nightly includes (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763660) a built-in tracking query param stripper! 🤓
The default set of stripped params is quite limited for now, but you can add your own via the `privacy.query_stripping.strip_list` pref (space-separated).
@welshpixie Looks like the short answer is "because that way they take less space for the same pictures", but I have no idea how many things support it or whether it can be set to store JPEG instead
@schratze Russian roulette is probably statistically safer
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@meave@toot.site That's the thing though, in most cases the alternative is "just don't use it". That's it. There's *huge* swathes of people who are using it because they *assume* they need it (often due to external fearmongering and/or hype), rather than because they've looked at their actual needs and determined it to be a good option.
@Dee No worries, Cloudflare's Always Online will ensure that your jokes are always avail-- wait
@bob I'd argue that it's very questionable whether "the DDoS problem" even really exists to begin with. I've lost count of how many people claiming "I need it against DDoS", upon inquiring further, turn out never to have actually been the target, but just *assumed* that they would be.
Fearmongering is, after all, the classic grift in the DDoS mitigation industry...
@sigitta @evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Ye olde "Can't go wrong buying IBM, errr, AWS"
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@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev As a user AWS is cursed. As a dev in employment it's great because for some obscure reason it is more socially acceptable for my site to go down with the rest of the entire internet and even if my site is less available on AWS through some magical means less things are my fault since most people forget that I was the one who put it there.
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@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev I mean, that's basically just a think tank, isn't it
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computer, insert three spare hours at current time
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Last Saturday there was a #Demonstration for #Anarchy in #Amsterdam North. Although everything was peaceful, the cops went violent when they saw two #ACAB 
banners! Pavlov effect 101!
They didn't succeed to crap the first banner (that is in the beginning of this video) and from what I have heard, they where able to confiscate the second banner (at the end of the video).
This is the police in the #Netherlands nowadays. Even if you organize a demonstration far from the much to touristic city center (called 'Amusement Park Amsterdam), it still isn't good enough for those ..... [fill in preferred slur]! 😡
It is also against their own laws what they did. The original and only valid definition of freedom of speech, is that you are allowed to criticize the state and its institutions. It's in the fucking Dutch constitution and EU treaties! Big change a judge will condemn is, at least on European/international level.
⚠️ Anyhow, Content Warning / Trigger Warning for the video, because of police violence!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsm36Ocf3zI.
Faces are blurred, like it should be in these circumstances. Thank you Oscar!
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Scope issues aside, SPI appears on paper to be a much scarier protocol than it actually is. So here's the summary.
You have lines for clock, data out, data in, and chip select. Chip select must be unique for each device that you're controlling.
To send a message, assert CS for the target device. Write a bit on the data out line. Then toggle clock on for a moment. The device may be sending a bit to you on your data in line.
Change the lines when the clock is low, read when clock goes high.
brain bad day
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doctor who fans: "it's implausible for everyone on Earth to just forget about the various Dalek invasions or things like the entire planet being moved"
me: *the only person wearing a mask in a crowded supermarket*
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"technically possible" ≠ "ethically responsible"
job stuff
@maia Now I'm curious which company this was
- 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
