Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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- 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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Boost with CW: ableism, covid, responses to mistaken beliefs about what chronic illness is like
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The developers of that revival engine were pretty pissed off about the leak and said the launcher is "incomplete" and that it never should've been released, and that they're still working "behind the scenes" and made "a lot of progress" in it...
It's been DECADES since then and nothing else really materialized from it, and the launcher honestly works flawlessly for most of us, so honestly if it weren't for the leak many of us would've never gotten to use it at all :/
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To elaborate: When EA shut it down in 2003, one of its developers got pissed off and leaked a developer build of the game that has (VERY) limited offline playability.
Then, later, some people tried to work on a revival engine for it, but it became vaporware and never amounted to anything... then its developers had a schism and one of them leaked the mostly-functional GUI launcher for playing it in single-player... purely out of spite.
And now everyone who still plays the game nowadays uses it!
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I know nobody really cares about this stuff, but
I find it both funny and sad that the only reason I can even still play Motor City Online nowadays is because of two different people leaking important files out of spite
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Want to say to anybody who is disabled and financially struggling:
You didn't fail. Society fails. There is enough money to take care of you. Please don't add self-blame and self-doubt to your struggles.
Society failed you. They chose to not see your needs.
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Check in with the caretaker friend in your group
The person who seems to have it together more than the others. Check in with that person.
CVE posting, but like, going on a tangent
@benaryorg FWIW, I'm on gbit fiber, and at first I thought the demo was broken - it barely rendered any observable latency for me
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
- 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
