Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
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“Many Procreate users can breathe a sigh of relief now that the popular iPad illustration app has taken a definitive stance against generative AI. ‘We’re not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products’, Procreate CEO James Cuda said in a video posted to X. ‘I don’t like what’s happening to the industry, and I don’t like what it’s doing to artists’.“
Ohhh, nice!
offer of software/help
@amy I've been working for a while on a better streams specification for JS (interoperable with Node streams and papers over their bullshit because wow they are terrible); would you want to try out those and see if it works better?
Caveat: API is simple but documentation is incomplete and there may still be some rough edges in the reference implementation (which I'm working on polishing out of the design before releasing it). And I can answer any questions about how to work with them of course, and fix issues.
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Fedi, what are your comfort TV shows?
grumbling about cars
Just get out of your goddamn car and walk up to their front door, instead of repeatedly honking loudly and bothering the whole neighbourhood with it.
Fucking carbrain.
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Je zou ook, ik noem maar wat, mensen waarvan je weet dat ze recht hebben op toeslagen de toeslagen kunnen geven.
CW-boost: transphobia, pink news, capitalist BS
@marlies Pink News has a long history of sketchy things so I'm pessimistic on this one
CW-boost: transphobia, pink news, capitalist BS
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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)
- 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
