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
re: vegan cooking tip; egg replacement
@bananas It didn't for me - that's why I ended up trying the boiling thing, which worked
@elilla Additional caveat for repair: typically USB cables are twisted, shielded, or both, and this is important for the data rate. Repairs should touch as little of the cable as possible to keep that intact; you may still end up with a slower cable after the repair.
@elilla Can repair: technically yes. Usually it's just a broken internal wire somewhere near (but not in) the connector, ie. the point that sees the most stress. You'll have to strip all of the insulation layers, solder the ends back together (potentially with some extra wire), and re-insulate all of it.
Can test: technically yes, but I've not seen any *affordable* ones. USB testers seem to be mostly stationary lab units, not the kind of cheap portable units that are commonly found for ethernet cables. I haven't searched especially much though.
vegan cooking tip; egg replacement
Need to replace egg in a recipe? Try flaxseed!
Supposedly you can mix flaxseed flour with water and it becomes an egg-like substance, but we don't have it in flour form here, only semi-crushed, so I worked out a different solution: boiling it!
Add a little bit of flaxseed (a tablespoon or two) into a pan, add enough water to submerge it but not very much more, then stir and boil it until it becomes an irritatingly gooey substance that's difficult to get off your stirring implement.
Far as I can tell, it's a 1:1 match for egg in terms of texture/consistency/structure. I've used it to great success in pancake batter!
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being a programmer is hard when you wanna share your work like your arty friends but your program output looks like this and no one will ever understand or appreciate the complexity involved
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Imagine how different tech spaces could be if folks developed identities that aren’t “I am the tools that I use.”
I’m not saying don’t be amazing at using those tools and be known for being so. I’m just saying don’t be a tool.
#AskFedi: What are your 'comfort games'? I'm especially curious about anything that has some sort of crafting or building mechanic (it can be an unusual one!) :boost_requested:
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Snark about so much of Open Science advocacy
Before you do your Open Science advocacy thing, may I suggest that you ask yourself this question:
Are you just harassing early career researchers and students who don't get to make decisions about these things?
And if the answer is "no," ask yourself:
Really? Are you sure? Maybe double-check.
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AI
I hate that when I write a particularly good email at work, nowadays everyone will just assume I used ChatGPT. Even if I’m still better at it than the bot. Something I’ve always taken pride in has been commoditized. Without getting into whether or not that’s good for the world, it’s a bad feeling for me personally.
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Heeft iemand van jullie wel eens mensen met de auto naar station Gouda gebracht en kun je bevestigen dat je daar gewoon van zuid naar noord doorheen kan teleporteren? Apple Maps denkt dat het kan namelijk.
@zHXyHkzWuwUI It's also not deterministic, though; see the second property listed on that page
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A TV show about a group of trans people who all live together in a run-down house/apartment, and they live the daily struggle but still manage to find beauty, laughter, and joy between the ugliness, struggle, and sorrow of it all.
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From Life With a Side of the Unexpected:
"A lot of disabilities are invisible. Your reaction to them isn't."
@ben There's quite a bit of history of convergent encryption in P2P software, long predating Maidsafe. Some notable ones include Freenet, GNUNet, and Tahoe-LAFS.
But crucially, there are several known attacks: https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/drew_perttula.html - and so if an implementation claims that it is "as safe as any other modern encryption algorithm", that is a strong claim that requires supporting rationale (which I do not see here).
@dequbed What would a more standard approach be for this usecase?
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Lieve mensen. Ik begrijp dat je niet de tekst van een halve krantenpagina als alt-text kunt toevoegen, maar plak dan in iedergeval de link naar dat artikel. Met in de alt-text de woorden 'Zie link in bericht'.
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I needed to measure my necklace and grabbed the first ruler in sight. Yeah, not falling for that one, having an off-by-one error tattooed on my body is enough already. 
@ben That library is not very confidence-inspiring, to be honest - I haven't forgotten about Maidsafe's original sketchy business model (that they now pretend they've never had), and it speaks of an "additional obfuscation step" but then doesn't seem to provide any details about how that works or why it would be more secure than other approaches (or its vulnerability or lack thereof to known attacks against convergent encryption).
- 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
