Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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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.
- 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
@aral Hmm. What would the usecase be for localhost HTTPS in the first place? AFAIK the HTTPS-only feature restrictions already don't apply for localhost.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
im going to do kitchen nightmares but i visit instance servers and i rag about them having poor moderation and no backups
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The tragedy of the commons is a pernicious myth.
The demise of the commons of Britain and Europe wasn't the result of misuse by commoners, but enclosing by the landowners. The original hypothetical was made up for storytelling purposes, and the term was popularized by an ecologist with anti-immigrant and racist views.
Here is my recommended reading for heading into 2023:
https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth
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how long does it take from opening a piece of software to actually being able to use it and why do all the programs that I can convince other people to use have times exceeding 100 seconds
@jonny For auto-linking to SciHub, it may or may not be illegal depending on jurisdiction. In the Netherlands, it probably would be, based on past rulings regarding Usenet indexers. Whether anyone would actually care enough to do anything about it, I don't know.
Auto-linking to author-provided preprints/copies/etc. should be legal everywhere that I know of, however. The author is generally allowed to distribute copies, and therefore it is reasonable to assume that you are allowed to link to them. Worst case you may have to remove some entries in case of a dispute between author and publisher.
(Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I just keep close track of copyright-related stuff)
@scoots I don't really even *have* a CV myself, so take this with a grain of salt - but from what I've seen, a common approach is to just list that entire period as a single 'job' called "self-employed", and giving some examples of (types of) customer projects that were worked on.
@mattwelke@mstdn.ca @ariadne@treehouse.systems There is no such thing as "running a particular package from apt". Apt is a package manager, not a package *repository*. It's just a piece of software that installs from a specified source based on some standard(ish) repository API. Without a source, it does nothing.
Which means that this shouldn't be called "install from apt" at all, because the implementation detail is the *package manager* and what actually matters is *where* it installs from, which package repository (ie. distro), because that determines what packages you actually get.
@aeva The absolute most infuriating part of this is that *this is already how most appliances work*, in that the same internals get used with tens/hundreds of different faceplates sold under different brands... just none of these faceplates are user-serviceable/replaceable.
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Somewhere out there in the grand cosmos of infinite possibility that we'll never see is a parallel universe where the grand innovation of decadent materialism was interchangeable face-plates for all of your appliances, so you'd buy the basics and they'd be good enough to last your entire life and then some, but you'd "upgrade" your kitchen every year by buying new façades for everything. This variant of planned obsolescence continues to go strong into the current day, even with mobile devices.
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Copyright is a terrible thing. The fact that its literally only today that the entirety of Sherlock Holmes is public domain is a crime against culture.
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I am looking for recommendations for #mmo #gaming mice. I want something with the 12 buttons on the side. But my hands are teeny tiny. I've been using the Corsair Scimitar, but it's definitely uncomfortablely large, even w adjusting the side panel. I've been using it for years, however. But the scroll wheel is starting to skip, and I havent been able to fix it. It's not a huge deal right now. But I want to start collecting a list of small-hand friendly mice for the day I eventually am forced to replace it. #mmorpg #GamingMouse
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"am i trans?" -> do you want to be?
it seems impossibly simple but that's really all there is to it. every other test is a gate being kept by you or someone else.
@hollanditis@kolektiva.social Is er ook ergens een tekstversie van de podcast te vinden?
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Asking for a friend, boosts appreciated: is there any wiki software that is free, user-friendly and doesn't require self-hosting or is very easy, (for people with very limited technical expertise) to host?
@kendraserra Depending on the exact needs, TiddlyWiki *may* be an option: https://tiddlywiki.com/
It's built for a highly specific usecase (personal notes wiki and not much else, basically), but in the absolute simplest mode it can run as a wholly self-contained HTML file that's just stored on your PC.
@f0x What I'm reading is that honeypots would be an effective defense against scrapers
- 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
