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
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If I had a buck for every dumbass who replied "Publically valued companies only have a duty to their shareholders" I'd... probably be part of the problem.
But my brother, do you understand that you're telling me "the purpose of this company that sells me stuff is not to meet me half way so that both sides are happy with the transaction, but to bilk me silly" and you're happy with that? Do you believe you're ushering me into a grand discovery? What neutrino thru yon brain sludge passes?
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How did you get your gender?
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More on the topic of EU-wide rail ticket booking
Deutsche Bahn has an amazing opportunity in ticket sales, but is too blinded by Flixtrain to seize it
New #CrossBorderRail Analysis on my site 👇
https://jonworth.eu/deutsche-bahn-has-an-amazing-opportunity-in-ticket-sales-but-is-too-blinded-by-flixtrain-to-seize-it/
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The W3C's recently published Privacy Principles note has a section on "privacy labor"
This is a very interesting framing of the issue of tech companies putting too much of the burden of protecting privacy on the person using the service
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Hey friends?
Stop hoarding joy.
Watch the show, eat the food, read the book, play the game, laugh at the joke, take the trip, wear the outfit...
In the face of unspeakable horrors, have courage and embrace your joy.
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I wonder what people use in #godotengine games to identify objects in *save files*. Not just the ID of instances, but what type they are. Some ID manually setup in resource? A name? Path of the scene? Name of a script? UUIDs? I believe most people don't really do anything involved, or even have a game with such needs.
But I make a plugin that needs to handle this, at scale. So I'm often running into this problem, and so far all options I considered have annoying downsides.
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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’
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@afewbugs I like using old (or new from the poundshop) silicone baking trays or mats to make new seals for that sort of thing. They won't degrade like the rubber ones. Compass cutters are a very useful tool.
I just installed two CCTV cameras using seals cut from a baking tray that was too disgusting to cook with but perfect for making a seal or four.
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This is why #ZeroWaste as an aesthetic, all those reels of someone in a perfect kitchen waving a Kilner jar allegedly containing a year's worth of waste, is nonsense. For a start the seals on Kilner jars eventually perish & if you don't want to be picking bits of orange rubber out of your muesli you need to replace them. This replacement came in a packet of 12 in 2 plastic bags (which I threw away before thinking to take the photo and don't really fancy fishing back out of the bin).
#AskFedi: for those whose first computer experiences were with Windows 95/98 (or NT) and who look back on it fondly:
What would be needed to rekindle that early experience of wonder around computers and/or the internet? What stands out in your memory as the cause for that sense of wonder back then? (The answer to these two questions can be different!) 
@Scmbradley @researchfairy I may or may not have had that exact same problem when I was without a bike for a while 😅
@Scmbradley @researchfairy Yeah the AH bags are similar in quality (I have one of those too), the major issue I have with them is that their carrying capacity is very low; they have at most half the capacity of a 'big shopper' bag. A partly related issue is that they are a lot more "fixed-shape"; they don't deform that easily.
I've found the Lidl/Aldi style bags a lot more practical because a) they deform easily and so can accommodate a large variety of items that would seem to be oversized, and b) the capacity is basically "one full side pannier" so I can just take two of these bags, fill them to the brim, and lift them into my bike panniers wholesale.
I'd say the AH bags are more suitable for small groceries on foot, whereas the large bags are more suitable for transport on wheels (bike, car, whatever).
@scanlime (And unfortunately I understand why this happens, it's the digital version of the whole "no third spaces" phenomenon, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating)
@scanlime Yeah fair, that pretty much clarifies it for me, and was exactly what I was thinking of
@researchfairy Related frustration: many stores here now only sell heavy-plastic bags that need to be folded and are difficult or impossible to ball up and stuff into your pocket. Which is probably a good part of why people rarely reuse them!
Meanwhile I bought a handful of cotton bags from Lidl like a decade ago when they had those for a brief period, super sturdy ones, easy to stuff into a ball, washable, and we're constantly using them to this day, with not a single one having broken or become otherwise unusable in that time. Like, if it fits, it'll hold it, guaranteed.
But for some fucking reason no store sells these kinds of bags anymore. It's all just heavy plastic that's annoying to transport and impossible to machine-wash. I ended up buying a bunch of extra ones at an Aldi in Germany when I was there for an event, because they haven't been available in NL for years...
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pandemic rhetoric
you really do have to wonder if the whole general idea of "strengthening your immune system" came out of the same toxic rhetoric that encourages toxic masculinity and nationalism, where you have to be stronger in its own right for no particular reason, and not just because of bad science
like, it seems pretty indisputable that, while it's pretty difficult to avoid all germs and you actually should not do that, exposure to the kinds of germs that make you sick is pretty much always worse than not
we have vaccines to get immunity now and getting sick "naturally" just opens you up to being miserable or worse, permanent damage, so, seems pretty bad
there are a lot of toxic men who feel like they can "tough out" an infection and that's simply not true. you can't fight a cold like you fight a bear, and like fighting a bear, you can easily just die
idk. feels like we need to particularly hone in on this rhetoric as being toxic, fascist nonsense instead of it being anything like fact
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I just want my friends to understand that if you message me a link to a YouTube video there is less than a 5% chance I will watch it. I’m sorry.
@scanlime I'm curious if you have any particular examples? This sounds roughly similar to one of my frustrations but I'd like to see if we're thinking of the same things
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After hearing about Eric Schmidt's guest lecture in an AI class, I looked up the transcript, and yes he really did say that if a Silicon Valley entrepreneur were to "illegally steal everybody's music" they would just "hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up." Then I was curious and looked up the syllabus for the course and based on the topic schedule, the most explicit ethics topic seemed to be "opportunities and risks" for which the guest speaker was... Eric Schmidt. 😕
- 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
