Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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
@gsuberland@chaos.social @tsrberry @baldur One thing I'd want to add to that is that if it's not feasible to find experienced designers (funding reasons, community politics, whatever reason), it *is* possible to just learn how to do this stuff yourself on-the-fly as a maintainer, but it makes the "be humble" part all the more important, and to make that work, you *need* to have an attitude of "if a user complains about something, that means there's a bug, even if it's not where the user thinks it is" (eg. it might sometimes be a documentation issue instead of a UX issue, but as long as people complain, there's *a* bug somewhere).
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I change my mind on things carefully and deliberately, after ensuring I understand the reasoning well enough, specifically to avoid falling into reactionary traps - but I think this just looks like stubbornness from the outside?
@gsuberland@chaos.social @baldur Don't know that it's worth much, but if it helps: I agree on all of this, and it has been frustrating me for over a decade.
(And I've experienced the same active resistance to changing that culture, too...)
#AskFedi: If you are (sometimes) without a reliable internet connection on at least one of your devices, or know someone who is: if you could describe your ideal way of installing new software, and it would magically exist overnight, what would it be? 
I'm particularly interested in perspectives from the Global South, although if you fit the definition above for some other reason, you can also respond! And if you only have internet on some devices or locations (eg. on phone but not on laptop), I'd like to hear your thoughts too.
(If you have not met any of this definition in the last, say, 10 years, then please do not reply - boosting for reach is appreciated, though!)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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went on steam to see how expensive an indie game was now that i have a desktop and remembered no everything is way too expensive now because rich fucks vpnd into the country i live in too many times so they could buy games for cheaper
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CVE-2024-5274 (Chrome V8 0day) official ticket with analysis and PoC
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/341663589
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/341663589
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Server transport part 3 :
#3 shrink it
Status : offline, taken apart for transport
And this is how you minimize downtime.
My matrix in online again btw.
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A guide on how to not transport your server rack.
#1 down the stairs
Status : running, online
@hazelnot That one is described as follows, which seems to confirm my suspicions:
"2001-2003: AMD Duron 700mhz - First of my own builds. Had a 64mb GeForce 2 MX, 256MB RAM (I think) and a 30GB Western Digital HD."
@hazelnot This is the same one, I think? http://www.diffusedion.co.uk/images/Computers/Duron.jpg
@hazelnot Regretfully, not a lot of documentation on the internet of OEM cases from back then :( You're most likely to see them appear in very old pictures of people's gaming setup
@hazelnot Yeah then it was most likely an OEM case used by many small 'non-brands' and local computer builders, the MSI sticker would've been included with the motherboard or GPU when they built the system, and they would have just added that on there too
@hazelnot (Though from what I can see from the badge, it looks like it might be one of those local computer shop no-brands that slaps their poorly-designed logo on a generic case. The weird 45 degree angle of the logo is a tell)
@hazelnot Also, the design language of the PC case reminds me of Packard Bell - however, I don't think they ever used that particular colour scheme. The colors are more HP, but I don't think those were quite that curvy.
Gateway or Toshiba, perhaps?
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@hazelnot The webcam is definitely the Logitech Quickcam (Express)!
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I found a photo of the family PC we got in 2000
Does anyone think they could help me identify the case or joystick or really anything going on here (minus the stereo system, I still have that one)? Cause I loved that computer
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This is why we need #degrowth, so much energy and material and economic activity is wasted on shit like this that doesn't actually improve anyone's life in any way. Any challenge to economic growth gets dismissed as "you just want people to go back to living in caves" when in reality we don't need to reduce everyone's living standards to miserable drudgery we just need to stop doing this sort of nonsense
- 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
