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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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
dubious lead, re: crips and photographers: looking for good photo of person using a mobility scooter
@skye It seems that if you search on Getty NL for 'scootmobiel' (the Dutch term for these scooters), it turns up a number of everyday scooter models that appear to be taken consensually, particularly those from 'Els van der Gun': https://www.gettyimages.nl/fotos/scootmobiel
I'm unable to find contact details for the photographer though (for talking about usage permission), but I figured that an imperfect lead might be better than none at all - and the general approach of searching for it in another language might help more broadly.
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Agree with @baconandcoconut who mentioned on the #EuroPython panel about OSS that we shouldn’t celebrate if ppl are able to maintain a library alone for 20 y, we should instead celebrate if they manage to get more ppl on board, divide responsibility, delegate, and over time pass the project on someone else, ideally a team. Over my volunteering career I learned that if the thing I built would die with me, I didn’t actually manage to build it yet. It’s not done until it lives without me involved.
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it's called the "user agent" in the specs for a reason, and i'm not talking about the string
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Voor een (journalistiek) stukje ben ik op zoek naar organisaties die op het punt staan hun email te migreren naar Microsoft of Google, of dat net gedaan hebben. En die mogelijk publiekelijk kunnen vertellen over het waarom, of de problemen die ze eerder hadden. Mail is welkom op bert@hubertnet.nl of op Signal BertHubert.72 - dank u!
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There's this guy on Youtube with a bunch of shorts showing a house being 3D-printed, and *every single one* of the videos has a comment section filled with people pointing out the obvious and disastrous issues with the construction quality.
And the dude just keeps posting new ones and going "it's the future, just you wait". Unbelievable.
@farhaven Not quite :) Same issue as this one: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/112763949440682573
@miyuko Nope! This will break on cross-realm objects (eg. from a worker thread) and null-prototype objects
Today I learned: the `dateTime` XML type is almost *but not quite* the ISO 8601 format.
This discovery brought to you by my database mysteriously producing null results on dateTime comparisons.
@clarfonthey Well, that's the challenge :p
Here's a fun challenge: in #Javascript, how do you determine whether a given value is an object literal (or equivalently plain object)?
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Cursed nix tips: Do you know of a predefined function that gives higher priority than mkForce? mkVMOverride!
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De klantmanager beweert dat het verplicht is, maar zet niets op papier, geen beschikking, geen contract, helemaal niets. Zonder rekening te houden met de mogelijkheden van de man wordt hij onder druk gezet om nog meer vrijwilligerswerk te doen. https://www.doorbraak.eu/klachtenboek-bijstandsbond-roept-baanlozen-op-om-slechte-behandeling-door-klantmanagers-te-melden/
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Fun printer fact: laser printer "toner" is actually very fine plastic powder! The printer uses Laser Magic to put it on the paper in the right places, then feeds it to something called a fuser. What's a fuser? Why, it's a whacking great heat lamp that literally melts the plastic onto the paper.
So, what happens if the fuser fails? Did you guess that the toner falls off the paper and gets absolutely fucking everywhere? Because that's what it does!
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hey fedi can yall help me out? a story went around a while back, where some state's government was working on passing a bill that requires durable medical equipment (ie, wheelchair) repairs to have wait times within weeks, rather than months
i can't find it, don't remember what state, what phase the bill was in/if it passed, etc
edit: someone found it!!! thanks yall!!! https://brooklyn.news12.com/incredibly-frustrating-new-law-will-dramatically-speed-up-wheelchair-repairs
@bananas (This is for seekseek's backend, I got tired of the performance/maintainability issues of the current one, which are mainly to blame on the database)
@bananas Aside from a slight mishap with the query planner (now worked around) it took like, under an hour to work out a sensible and performant task query with SPARQL (the most complex query in the project), with basically no prior SPARQL experience, and very little frustration?
I spent at least a day on the SQL equivalent, and a lot more than that if you count all the time spent doing performance optimizations to make it slightly faster
@bananas Right now I'm basically reworking the backend for my scraping server, moving from PostgreSQL to Oxigraph due to the former's atrocious performance on task queries (and me having run out of patience with SQL)
Oxigraph is bafflingly fast. I'm very curious whether it's going to keep up its current level of performance as the database grows...
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it's fucking wild to me that we have a real life Voight-Kampff test and it fucking works
- 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
