Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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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I'm deeply fascinated how we went from "lol your computer can't do floating point math in specific situations so Intel issues a half billion dollar recall" to "computers (LLMs) can't do basic arithmetic and there's nothing to be done about it" in just 30 years.
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(You may have seen a similar poll before, sorry - I set it to the wrong duration back then! So here's another attempt. Please vote and boost again for broader reach! 
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Think of some kind of activist cause - it doesn't matter what, as long as it's something you would like to see improved in the world.
If I could guarantee that there were others who agree with you on that cause, and who are interested in organizing some kind of activism with you, would you get involved?
The biggest remaining issue right now is how the message processing loop is implemented; with the current structure, I need to pick from one of either:
1. Risk of deadlocking when making a query from an event handler
2. Swallowing an error in a number of edgecases, and leaving a client hanging
3. Processing incoming events out of order
None of these are really acceptable, so it's time to rework the message processing loop instead! The new approach will be to split inbound query replies and events; events will be guaranteed ordered, but query replies will not be (as they are tied to a specific query anyway, so any ordering naturally happens in user code).
This way, a query reply cannot be held up by an event that's being processed (case 1), and I also won't need weird error-buffering techniques to make the receiving loop continue (case 2), while still leaving ordering intact for those messages where that might actually matter (namely, events).
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Project update: my paired network layer library works! Example: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/4f366440ac5e97e990f30e748a7b3f0f?ts=4
This is a low-ish level network library that uses mutual TLS to implement a peer-to-peer CA-less pairing procedure (only one side needs to enter a pairing code). It's meant for building custom protocols on top of.
It gives you a bidirectional CBOR-encoded pipe with a built-in request/reply mechanism. It doesn't care what you send over it, values that you write (or reply) on one end come out the other end.
It also lets you specify your own protocol negotiation code; and it is client-initiated, so the server does not reveal anything about the protocol it speaks unless the client already knows what to ask for.
Identities are generated and managed automatically; you don't need to hand-generate or set up TLS certificates or anything, all you need to give it is an arbitrary key/value store. It ships with an in-memory and filesystem-based store implementation, but you can add others.
Soon to be published on a package registry near you :) #pairnet
caffeine
*inserts caffeine to kickstart refactoring process*
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Reminder that people with "mental health issues" are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators of it.
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Over twee weken vindt de tweede Zaanse Woonopstand plaats! Your Local Pirates komen weer zingen en spelen om deze te versterken. Tot dan!
28 april, 13 uur start de demonstratie. Stadhuisplein, Zaandam.
Project update: my paired network layer library works! Example: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/4f366440ac5e97e990f30e748a7b3f0f?ts=4
This is a low-ish level network library that uses mutual TLS to implement a peer-to-peer CA-less pairing procedure (only one side needs to enter a pairing code). It's meant for building custom protocols on top of.
It gives you a bidirectional CBOR-encoded pipe with a built-in request/reply mechanism. It doesn't care what you send over it, values that you write (or reply) on one end come out the other end.
It also lets you specify your own protocol negotiation code; and it is client-initiated, so the server does not reveal anything about the protocol it speaks unless the client already knows what to ask for.
Identities are generated and managed automatically; you don't need to hand-generate or set up TLS certificates or anything, all you need to give it is an arbitrary key/value store. It ships with an in-memory and filesystem-based store implementation, but you can add others.
Soon to be published on a package registry near you :) #pairnet
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For rainy days we have a treadmill but it's locked into the vendor's subscription service if you want to watch videos.
Except...tap the bottom left 10 times, wait 7 seconds, tap 10 more times, up pops a number, use that as a seed to generate a number with lrand48, reduce modulo 999999 (not 1000000!) and type that number back in, and now you have an Android tablet with web browser and access to YouTube.
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man I'm trying to find a website that looks untouched since 2005 and i cant,, can someone help
i don't remember what it's called but it was dedicated to the band Flybanger (aka Jar) and it had lyrics and song meanings and fanart
i don't remember what it's called but it was dedicated to the band Flybanger (aka Jar) and it had lyrics and song meanings and fanart
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🔰 🇦🇺
Linux people, *please* understand this. Sometimes people need to run Windows.
They’re allowed to complain about Windows ads, or tracking, or any other enshittification problems, without you saying “use Linux” every time.
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Update: I regret posting this.
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Update 2: I've addressed the most common comments below. I'm muting this thread now. Lesson learned!
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Okay @notjustbikes has done a very good job of convincing me that the Netherlands is utopian when it comes to public transit, but the reality has not been as kind.
1. The amount of CCTV cameras is insane at railway stations
2. We had to wait two times on one intersection for at least 3 minutes to cross it with a bus.
3. Edit: I literally got scammed by a bus driver.
4. Buses here skip stops even when you press stop
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Would people be interested in a blog (with RSS feed) where I make short posts about the new projects/libraries I'm working on or have released, going into what they do and why they exist?
Most of them will be small single-purpose JS libraries that solve a specific problem, with sometimes larger projects and 'end-user software' mixed in.
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Hello fellow mastopeeps! We found these flowers sprouting up and down a stretch of boulevard grass on our walk in Saint Paul today. It looks like it was probably a garden flower that got loose and it's spreading up and down the entire block. I'm guessing it's probably an invasive species.
Anyone know what kind of flower this might be?
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there are only 2 genders of tv exploits. one is rce in chromium that works because sandbox is turned off. the other is shell expansion
@KuJoe Right, it's more intended as an announcement blog or 'feed'; to communicate what people might want to have a look at and see if it interests them or they find it useful.
The canonical documentation (both the 'why' and 'how') still lives in the project repository and on its relevant package page (if any). This would be an addition to that.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
