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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- 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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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People in the US are looking at what's happening in Venezuela like “Oh, my God! It's so terrible over there! What are they doing?"
Has one person stopped to look at what Venezuela would have been like if the US wasn't trying to undermine the Venezuelan government at every turn?
Like, what do y'all think the CIA does all day?
advice-ish
@clarfonthey (To make this explicit: this means that employers often paid several times what eg. students would pay, and everybody was aware of this, and nobody had an issue with it at all)
advice-ish
@clarfonthey I ended up in a very similar situation years ago; providing free help (often practically tutoring) on IRC for Node.js, until someone asked whether they could pay me for this.
After contemplating, I did end up accepting, and started offering this as a regular thing; but I've always only charged what someone could afford, and continued offering free help in the channel as I did before.
People ended up not paying for my knowledge or work, but for my guaranteed availability. And in practice, for me, most of it was paid for by the employer of people who convinced said employer to pay for it.
CW-boost: transphobia, evidence that the Cass Report was malicious
Another day, another fight with a Linux command-line utility misparsing my arguments
food (vegan)
@rallias (I ended up researching this for a while and the conclusion seemed to be "you need some amount of salt for dough integrity, but nowhere near as much as people typically use")
food (vegan)
@rallias This is a very typical thing to do, at least for yeast-based bread; it serves a function for the flavor, but also makes the dough less likely to break down during kneading and baking, AIUI.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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politics
Should be stated.
Patriarchy does not really respect men.
And white supremacy does not really respect "white" people.
They're toxic, self-devouring systems that are built on oppressing the out group much more than the in group, but restraining them both.
food (vegan), low-salt bread recipe
Success! Some small adjustments need to be made (forgot to add water in the oven so the crust was too tough, and the liquid ratio was too high in the dough mixture and I needed to adjust that later), but overall I'm very satisfied with the result.
The outcome: a roughly 600 gram bread containing only 2 grams of salt, yet at about 0.3/100gr salt, it tastes slightly nicer than your typical supermarket bread in NL (which is usually around 1/100gr salt), and has a much nicer texture. Without using potassium salt, and therefore kidney-disease-friendly!
The original recipe:
- 2gr dry yeast
- 2gr salt
- 350ml lukewarm water
- 400gr flour
- 1 teaspoon ground fennel
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 tablespoons cooking olive oil
- 2 tablespoons oat flakes
- 1 tablespoon peeled sunflower seeds
- 1 teaspoon broken flaxseed
- a bunch of pumpkin seeds
Mix all at once, *except* for the pumpkin seeds, knead thoroughly, let sit in bowl overnight at room temperature (would've been around 10 hours for me), *do not* add sugar or use an oven (dough proofing is deliberately slow).
Next morning, flatten and fold like you usually would with bread. Add some cuts at the top, make a bit wet, and add some pumpkin seeds on top until it looks nice.
Let sit for an hour, then bake it for 40 minutes in a preheated 200C (convection) oven. Add an ovenproof bowl of water in the oven, to keep the environment humid. Beware that it will increase significantly in height!
(Picture is missing the top, because uh, well, see previous post - but the rest of the bread was salvageable, and still nice!)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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in maths and theoretical cs, we’re in desperate need of editors for our books. I can no longer take this amount of bad writing, jokes that don’t land, ridiculous babbles about “smartness”, symbols that were never defined, inconsistent notation, etc.
food (vegan)
Oops, burned the top because it expanded more quickly than expected in the oven - but otherwise it seems to be a success! It tastes basically like bread, which is the success condition given the low amount of salt
@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.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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++
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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.
- 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
