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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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So let me get this straight:
Github scanned a bunch of open source projects.
They trained an AI with it.
They basically ignored the licenses and tried to shove a "because we are basically copying GPL code, it doesn't mean the result is GPL".
And now they are charging for it?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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just stopped to get petrol and when we came out of the kiosk some dick parked at a pump in a winnebago started honking the horn at us. we got closer to give them a piece of our mind and it was a fucking dog
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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All people (yes “users”) should be told that they can control their computer, that they can hack on things. Acting like it's only possible for some elite priesthood is harmful...
re: rant, my bank's phone system
@kescher :(
re: rant, my bank's phone system
@kescher I've been told that some systems respond to yelling/swearing and/or mashing an invalid key
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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blah blah security blah blah not everyone's a programmer
yes I know, but I believe lots of people can (with great effort) do a really simple silly programming thing, and they should 𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼!
@ebel On the "not everyone's a programmer" thing -- technically correct, but to my endless frustration, somehow this is always used to conclude "therefore we should keep them out" and not, y'know, "therefore we should make things more accessible to them"
@schratze IMO both the Dell Latitude series (at least last I checked) and the Framework also deserve a spot in the "not actually complete trash" list, which is otherwise very short
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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RT @joshroby@twitter.com
It's a good cis opinion.
meta
@rysiek@mastodon.technology @meave@toot.site Wait. Really? I'd completely missed that part.
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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 :)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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"
- 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
