Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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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i miss cohosts option to just Nope a post off your timeline forever. i feel bad temp-muting people for a week just cause zhey happened to post somezhing zhat i didnt wanna see again
edit: i still have zhis oops. read zhe zhread
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This is the kind of HR diversity training we need.
(From https://sourcedumal.tumblr.com/post/135594640141/guapet-so-my-brother-was-telling-me-about-this, HT @nev )
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oddities in the train timetables: despite there not being any trains on Christmas Day, TfW have somehow left in a little service from Cardiff Central to Carmarthen 
I only found this out when I was clicking around in trainsplit and it spat out the most bonkers itinerary possible to get to London on the 25th
Does anyone happen to have an ableism bingo card handy? Asking for no particular reason.
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if i submit an ffmpeg patch implementing missing functionality does anyone know if it'll actually get reviewed. last time i tried it was completely ignored
kinda subtoot, personal
Someone complaining in a channel that I always "disappear for a while and then only come back to complain" which, even aside from the ableism in that statement in its context, tells me that apparently they expect people to have an opinion on anything regardless of whether they know about the topic, because shutting up on unfamiliar topics is *why* I only talk sporadically.
I don't think that is ever going to be a healthy community for me, and I'm not sure it will ever be healthy for anyone else either.
(If you don't know what channel this is about, then you're not in it)
@nora Container tabs? I think you can create arbitrary amounts of containers there?
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Funny how every time an email goes out about class-action lawsuits against Google, GMail automatically flags it as spam
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Fun fact: there are actually not very many occurrences of the golden ratio or the Fibonacci spiral in nature. I thought it was a legit thing until I had to write an essay about it and found out that most of the alleged appearances are statistical anomalies or straight up hoaxes.
complaining about element
If you want an example of "Element relying on commercial customers for funding introduces a conflict of interest for the broader community", look no further than the Slack-style threads that basically nobody wants except 'enterprise customers', and which were implemented into the protocol despite much more flexible designs being worked on by others
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SPACE MYTHS:
The Fisher Space Pen did NOT cost NASA millions of dollars to develop.
It cost them $0. FISHER put in the R&D money on that.
NASA only bought the pens as off-the-shelf products. They are nice pens.
And while the Russians DID "use pencils", they didn't really like them, and adopted the pens.
See, inhaling graphite dust and wood shavings in freefall is not that healthy.
There are a LOT of stories about "government waste" that are basically just bullshit, like this one. Be aware.
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I updated my bio. I am still interested in machine learning, and I am continuing my own projects in this area, but this terminology has become synonymous with an ideology and culture to which I am diametrically opposed.
There is great value in tools like optical character recognition, speech recognition, and machine translation (when ethically applied). However, the current regime selling machine learning tools as products is completely disconnected from what I would view as a healthy and productive contribution to society.
I would still like to contribute to practical applications of mathematics in the world, and I hope that academia will continue to support my efforts to contribute in a way that supports everyone, not just a small cadre of plutocrats.
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it's always nice when a mandatory phone number field that doesn't need to be mandatory, also doesn't check the format of what we type into it
so that we can write "like hell" instead of just all zeroes or whatever
@ansuz Essentially what I need is temporal and positional context; which tabs were opened approximately when, and in relation to what else? And this needs to be tracked automatically with no extra effort from my side. Which is pretty much what tabs do, but bookmarks don't.
Folders don't really fix this because you explicitly need to manage them, and I've actually *tried* using those for this and it mostly just ended up breaking Firefox with the amount of bookmarks I accumulated. Apparently it has trouble rendering the menu now...
@ansuz Think "several thousand tabs". I have many different projects that I switch between a lot (ADHD, so no reliable focus control), and if each project needs 50-100 tabs for various research purposes, it quickly racks up the total.
(FWIW, I think Firefox is mostly fine at handling a lot of tabs, it does so better than Chrome. It does have pretty bad failure recovery, but that's probably not specific to having lots of tabs, and I've also seen apparent resource leaks with low numbers of tabs.)
@ansuz Speaking as someone with a lot of tabs, for me it's a workaround for bookmarks not having any contextual memory (in what context the page was open, what other things were open near it, etc.) - bookmarks could absolutely replace my tab usage *if* they were implemented differently from the standard 'entry in a list' design.
(And also, this is a disability aid for me.)
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Canada Post doesn't "lose money". It's a service, it *costs* money. No one ever says the military "loses" billions of dollar a year. No one says the RCMP loses money. No one ever says the police "lose" money.
But when it's something that benefits people - suddenly it's not a cost, it's a loss.
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✨ Fijne 13/12! ✨ Wanneer anders dan vandaag is het goede moment onze visie op repressie en handhaving eens extra uit te lichten 😉
Menselijkheid is voor #BIJ1 de sleutel tot de preventie en aanpak van misdaad. Daarnaast willen we ook #geweld en #misdaad aanpakken waarvoor op dit moment te weinig verantwoording wordt afgelegd. Zoals het vernietigen van de #natuur, het uitbuiten van #werknemers, etnisch profileren en #politiegeweld.
➡️ #Racisme en #discriminatie bij de #politie: aan de hand van de verschillende bevindingen van o.a. Controle Alt Delete stellen wij door de jaren heen kritische vragen over de Utrechtse politie, waaronder over racisme, #privacy schending, etnische profilering en politiegeweld.
➡️ #Pride is #verzet: Pride begon juist als een strijd tegen politiegeweld. Wat ons betreft heeft de politie op Pride dan ook niks te zoeken. Ook hier stelden wij meermaals vragen over.
➡️ #Demonstratierecht: #Demonstreren is een fundamenteel recht. BIJ1 strijdt tegen politiegeweld en #repressie, en voor een veilige ruimte waarin #activisten gehoord worden.
In de raad blijven we ons onvermoeibaar inzetten om deze thema’s aan de orde te stellen, helaas nog niet altijd met direct resultaat. Maar zoals altijd zullen we het systeem blijven uitdagen en strijden voor een rechtvaardiger #Utrecht! 🍎 🍋 🍓 🍌
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I see people are unhappy with bluesky's owning corporation doing corpo shit
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
