Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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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
@virtulis Ironically my brain balked at me at the first 'missing', complaining about unparseable grammar
unsolicited(?) advice, ish
@scanlime I ended up setting up a lot of storage at home as a "NAS" (read: old-ish flat computer case with cables snaking out), with 4 HDDs in a 3D-printed HDD tower sitting next to it with a case fan taped to the shelf to cool them. Works surprisingly great.
The old 'server' behind pixie.town has been replaced by this point I believe, but it ran for years as an old laptop with the bottom cover removed and a few HDDs/SSDs connected to it, some literally hanging out of it. With a cheap Hetzner VPSs reverse-proxying to it. Worked quite well too!
Honestly my conclusion so far has been that if I need actual server-grade stuff, I'll rent something in a datacenter somewhere; for anything that just needs to work, a random old low-power system with some cable spaghetti honestly works fine, and is not a very big imposition on my living space. I certainly wouldn't put *server* hardware at home though, it tends to be extremely loud and unpleasant...
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someone made an icon theme for VSCode that brings back the old VS2010 file icons and oooh my god I Love This. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jez9999.vsclassic-icon-theme
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Mrs Wainwright, secondary school Geography teacher used to always say "The answer is in the question".
40 years later I see things like this, and can hear Mrs Wainwright's voice clear as day.
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Talked to a very smart person this afternoon who reminded me: climate fatalism ("it's too late") is a soft form of denialism.
Everything we do from here is worthwhile. It counts, it makes a difference. No matter what damage has been done, we can still make things better than if we had done nothing. We can still look after the world, look after our friends and family. Action has results.
Everything we do from here is worthwhile. It counts, it makes a difference. No matter what damage has been done, we can still make things better than if we had done nothing. We can still look after the world, look after our friends and family. Action has results.
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@chloeraccoon @patterfloof @DreadShips Aside: Do note that if you casually watch lockpickinglawyer near your three-year-old daughter figuring she won't pay attention to it as it's way over her head, you are soon to find you have made a grievous error that will haunt you for the rest of your days.
The stories about my wife's brother and his little girls have been delightful. He deserves everything he gets...
PS: Sister #2 (now 3 years old) has learned to use a screwdriver and has been wreaking havoc. Dad has still not learned his lesson.
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I sent an email to Winamp asking if they'd share their source code in 1998. Twenty-five years isn't a bad response time really.
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We joke about how cats chase laser pointers, but have you ever seen people interact with laser effects on a theme park ride
@bumblebeedc@strangeobject.space (This thought brought to you by observations from Vogel Rok and Fata Morgana)
We joke about how cats chase laser pointers, but have you ever seen people interact with laser effects on a theme park ride
@benjojo It occurs to me that this probably constitutes medical data (because transition) and so falls into the Extra Spicy category of the GDPR
moderation, politics
(This is not to say that I never disagree with court rulings, to be clear - there are plenty of morally bad rulings. But they are almost always clearly consistent with the spirit of the law, and the spirit of the law is what the actual problem is.)
moderation, politics
Like, to clarify, the Dutch legal system allows judges a lot of leeway in making rulings; they are not *bound* by precedent, and they are expected to contextually interpret the legislation to filter out loopholes and 'clever' schemes on the executive layer, even when they were not literally accounted for in the law.
In other words, basically the exact same thing as "moderators have final call on what constitutes bannable behaviour".
moderation, politics
It will never stop amusing me how any time there's a discussion around codes of conduct, there will be a lot of people clutching their pearls about 'miscarriages of justice' and 'making moderators the arbiter of truth' and making analogies to legal systems of nation states...
when this is *literally* how the Dutch legal system works, and it is arguably the only part of the government that actually works correctly
Ever noticed how innovation in version control systems basically died the moment Github became a thing?
@hazelnot WU does let you send money from their website in many places nowadays, and their fees are a lot lower than they used to be. Not everywhere, but enough that it's become an at least somewhat viable option IMO.
(I've used it a couple times to send money, it was nearly indistinguishable in process from any online purchase)
- 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
