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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- 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
@jasmin A lot of people seem to be happy with masklab, though I haven't tried them.
Something obscure that's fascinating to me as a UX designer, are the many "fan redesigns" of major operating systems and applications like Windows, Chrome, media players, and so on.
They often have UX deficiencies, or don't scale to dynamic and more complex UIs, but that's not the interesting part - the interesting part is how you can infer from them how people are experiencing the "official" UIs, and what they find deficient about them.
It's like an accidental critical analysis of widespread software. Hugely valuable in understanding what makes UIs work or fail for people.
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🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY OpenStreetMap! Today is OSM's 20th Brithday! 🎂 🎂
Here's SteveC's desktop at University College London, the original OSM "server" until 2006. You've come a long way in the last 20 years. 😍
https://birthday20.openstreetmap.org/
#20YearsOfOSM #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenStreetMap #OSM
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I am looking for reliable news on what is happening in Bangladesh which is not written by Indian news outlet or by US News Outlets.
Do you know anyone here who has done a TL;DR thread?
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Ad blockers are not just a nice measure against annoying advertising. They protect against malware (see malvertising), save bandwidth and therefore energy and help us to stay focused, as many distractions are removed.
So they are good for security, the climate and our mental health.
Ad blockers are awesome!
ageInYears++
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Well this is a cool blog on designing content for transport displays
https://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2024/08/01/design-language-basics-for-displays/
@elilla Oooooooohhhhh
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We tend to think of Big Tech as innovators, but in most cases, when that was genuinely true, they were Small Tech. Big Tech rarely innovates from within. It usually buys it.
@thomholwerda I'm reminded of the GDPR, and how many people fell for the marketing industry's propaganda about how it would ruin everything and be impossible to implement (when in reality it means almost nothing if you were already trying to do the right thing, and only hurts when you're trying to do sketchy shit)
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Experimenting with long-exposure photography via live webcams; averaged pixel values and brightest pixel values over a three-hour exposure of the Sydney harbour, using video scraped from https://youtu.be/IhWWW2l-pP0
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When you make a dishonest argument debating "AI"—during a bubble where supporting the bubble has a potentially huge financial upside—those of us who are watching have to assume that you ARE dishonest and that dealing with you will just expose us to risk
So I, at least, won't
covid policy grumping
@runes It's telling how the Dutch translation originates from Belgium and not from the Netherlands... given that government-level COVID denial is still the standard here in NL
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Since I'm seeing a lot of "I have covid" posts, reminder that the WHO actually published a protocol for recovery after the illness to reduce the odds of Long Covid.
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Tip if you have autistic friends*:
You know that thing where you're talking about wanting an orange, and they suddenly start rambling about status symbols in ancient Rome?
Info dumping is a display of trust and affection. Many autistic people have been repeatedly punished for being their true selves, often to the point of serious trauma. If they're letting you see into their very minds and sharing what they care most about, it's an act of vulnerability and trust.
Info dumping can also be because their brains are just full of stuff they've been obsessing over, and getting it out is their way of giving up what they love to make space for your conversation.
So, if you REALLY want to make their day, return the favor. Focus on their conversation instead of yours. The magic words are: "Really? Tell me more."
Just make sure you mean it. Authenticity matters. Then, sit back and enjoy a random TED lecture.
#ActuallyAutistic #neurdivergent #autism
* Disclaimer: If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person. Won't apply to all, but probably to most.
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@twijs (Een ander probleem is overigens dat het voedingscentrum geen bronnen citeert; en ik dus geen idee heb waar hun beweringen op gestoeld zijn. En aangezien het meeste onderzoek over dit onderwerp echt van bedroevende kwaliteit is, is dat best belangrijk.)
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@twijs Helaas haalt ook het voedingscentrum "ultrabewerkt" en "voedingswaarde" door elkaar, terwijl dat toch echt twee verschillende dingen zijn. Dat benoemen ze wel heel even in het artikel, maar vervolgens is de rest van het artikel alsnog geschreven alsof het een en dezelfde categorie is.
Dat is dus helaas niet noemenswaardig anders dan de meeste bronnen die hierover gaan. Ik zoek echt iets dat op de materie ingaat, en specifiek over de bewerkingen praat (zoals de podcast die gelinkt werd in https://chaos.social/@mvgorcum/112927867581226740).
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@fraxinas@chaos.social (Aside, it observes that plant-based alternatives were not 'associated with risk' - even though these are typically processed in very similar ways to the 'risk groups' mentioned there. This alone should call into question their conclusion of "higher consumption of UPFs increases the risk [...]", because it strongly suggests a confounding factor.)
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@fraxinas@chaos.social This unfortunately seems to be yet another 'correlation study' that just observes that two things appear together, and makes no attempt to explain their relation (or provide any evidence that there's a *causal* link), if the abstract is any indication. Likewise makes no mention of poverty.
The data isn't entirely *useless*, but it also doesn't support "highly-processed foods are bad for you" either. Most nutrition studies are like this, and it's a big part of why I'm suspicious of the claims.
My Wayland implementation is in JS; it doesn't use libwayland, so I've had to figure out a lot of things from scratch because there's quite a lot about the protocol that just isn't documented. But once you can send and mmap file descriptors (two things Node.js does not do natively), it's very much viable!
The protocol is honestly not that complicated to implement. The problem really is just the documentation.
- 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
