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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@xgranade "Necessary but not sufficient" applies to so damn much.
@robinsyl (The main takeaway here is that "the reason people say they don't use something" and "the reason people actually don't use something" are almost never the same thing)
@robinsyl A lot of this has to do with people moving along with their social networks, and a lot of the open-source options don't manage to build up these social ties. It's difficult due to the network effect, but a lot of them don't even really try.
Tech companies can just throw a couple million dollars at a marketing campaign to have everyone move over at once, and that's how they solve that problem.
gpn, safercops, covid, hypocracy
@sammy Honestly the whole "we can't enforce it" is nothing more than an excuse anyway, you don't even *need* to enforce it for it to be effective, but somehow this never seems to have been considered
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If dumping RAM on Qualcomm-powered feature phones wasn't over-the-top enough for getting UI screenshots, the same process with JTAG might just be!
Memory searching and JTAG test points were utilized on the #Samsung SGH-X427m and Gravity TXT to get clean rips of their interfaces.
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autotools be like
checking for number system base ... base 2
checking for signed integer system ... twos complement
checking for galaxy ... milky way
checking for laws of the universe ... standard model
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American companies building software that doesn't support non-American naming conventions (surname first, mononyms, unnamed infants, compound/very long surnames, many middle names, etc) is cultural imperialism
@smveerman I think it's been ongoing for longer? "Kapotte bovenleiding tussen Breda en Lage Zwaluwe" by this point seems to be pretty much one of the default rail failure announcements, from what I can tell, and I've been hearing it many times over the years...
@smveerman Are those wires made out of spare bits of string, or something?
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So, diode.zone is asking people to look for other peertube homes ... Can anyone recommend a well-moderated, queer-friendly instance for my somewhat rarely published video content?
I have one music video so far that I'd like to keep on the web, and possibly some other music-related stuff to come, probably mostly music videos.
@xgranade@wandering.shop (This kind of feels like yet another implementation of lateral violence tbh)
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PSA for any trans person getting feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy through the NHS
Most NHS gender clinics across the UK have heavily restrictive oestradiol (estradiol; E2) target ranges, which are not in line with international best practice or guidance 😮💨
Some target as low as 200 to 400 pmol/L (54 to 109 pg/mL).
Many target an arbitrary, narrow 400 to 600 pmol/L (109 to 163 pg/mL) range.
Only a couple are more in line with international guidance, using a wider 350 to 750 pmol/L (95 pg/mL to 204 pg/mL).
If you test above their range, they will typically reduce your E2 dose, even if you feel better with a higher E2 level.
As such, it is always morally justified to take steps to make your E2 level lower when they demand a blood test to stop your dose being lowered 
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Edit: This post about E2 ranges from NHS GICs is from 2021, but given how glacially the NHS moves, it's probably still accurate.
#NHS #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransLiberation #TransLiberationNow #HRT #GAHT #OpenHRT #trans #transgender #transition #NHSEngland #NHSScotland #NHSWales
@xgranade@wandering.shop I feel like this about most of the XML ecosystem, to be honest.
There are a lot of great ideas in there that absolutely did not stick the landing due to some seemingly minor design choice that made it awful to work with.
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reminder:
you should block/mute/unfollow people who make you feel uncomfortable, make you feel horrible about yourself, feel weird to see on your timeline, etc. there is no shame in it.
you should block/mute/unfollow people who make you feel uncomfortable, make you feel horrible about yourself, feel weird to see on your timeline, etc. there is no shame in it.
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one of the largest science buildings is now rationing CO2 because we have turned away so many gas deliveries. Maybe the scabs still working will have to stop their experiments anyway
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@pisscotheque The problem is that nobody tells you which things are the other part
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one thing that having unmedicated adhd for 37 years has taught me is that you don't need to pay any attention to most stuff
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@whitequark @mcc "The Recall team didn't make a conscious decision to exclude DRMed content" is relevant to the conversation about whether they put any thought into what they should be recording or not
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my only contribution to the "kink at pride" discourse this year
- 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
