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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- 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
Just writing a memory allocator in JS, for Wayland reasons
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We've just woken to an empty house after having a friend visit for 2 weeks and I'd love to know if a word exists in any language for the contradicting feelings of:
"Extreme relief to have your space back so you can be a feral gruntle beast again and missing someone intensely and wishing they'd stayed longer."
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Serieuze vraag: zijn er hier mensen met kennis over de politiek van Cyprus? Het gaat me specifiek om de opdeling in twee delen (Cyprus vs. TRNC) en de huidige relatie daartussen. RT = fijn. Tips waar dit soort informatie te vinden is: ook welkom.
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@gsuberland@chaos.social @tsrberry @baldur Also, related to the 'user surveys' point - it's surprisingly helpful to just enter your project name into a search engine every once in a while, and read every blog post, Reddit thread, and rant you come across. Those tend to be *full* of things that never made it into 'properly filed' issues, and give a good impression of the general atmosphere around your project, because people tend to speak more freely and directly.
Of course that does mean that you should refrain from responding to them unless you are absolutely 100% certain that you can do so non-confrontationally, because seeking out confrontation with people talking in their own spaces is (deservedly) a very quick trip to the trash pile. Better to just take notes and work on fixing their complaints in the background.
(Bonus points: you can do this one as an 'unaffiliated' contributor with no formal power within the project. Whereas a proper user survey, although it can have better coverage, tends to require speaking formally for the project.)
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Gnomes use treasure maps as currency, as none of them want to walk long distances with bags of heavy coins.
Humans who use these maps to hunt down the treasure are always disappointed, as they lift the treasure-chest's lid, and find it's full of maps. This is because, as covered earlier, gnomes use treasure maps as currency, as none of them want to walk long distances with bags of heavy coins.
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is there any game that has a "you have to make the room look nice" mechanic that isn't defeated by just spamming the most expensive (or most whatever) object
@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!)
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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
- 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
