Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
@mynameistillian I generally have them deliver it but given that I don't have a car I am probably not exactly the typical customer
@mynameistillian There are tools like lshw, but any physical properties that the computer reports are quite possibly a lie, so that's not actually that useful.
It depends on the laptop but for the more serviceable ones (refurb business laptops mainly) I've often found it easier to just pop off the cover and look inside.
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can anyone recommend game reviewers that critique games as art not not just a product?
i.e. what the the story means, the feelings the game passes, if the gameplay compliments the vibes, a breakdown of its unique systems, etc
not just "how good is it to pew pew for 50 hours"
As far as I can estimate, the issue seems to have started when Plasma started supporting HDR mode
Okay, am I imagining things or has someone else observed things going wonky with color balance in KDE Plasma on a multi-screen HDR setup?
I'm seeing a frankly absurd color difference between two identical monitors that are both in sRGB mode over an identical display protocol and that didn't exist in the past.
For a concrete example:
"Static typing will catch some subset of type errors at compile/build time" can be an objective truth; it is measurable and/or provable exhaustively within clear parameters.
"Static typing makes software more reliable" is an opinion. There are many factors that go into reliability, not all of which you may be personally aware of, and some of which may be mutually exclusive with static typing.
"Static typing makes programming easier because you see errors faster" is an opinion. There are different ways to get that kind of advantage, some of which may again be unknown to you and at odds with static typing.
And you may feel very strongly about those opinions, and you may well be able to cherrypick twenty different studies that seem to confirm it, but it is still just an opinion! You would need to have exhaustively evaluated every possible approach that could theoretically exist to consider it an *objective fact*, and nobody on this earth has done so (or likely will ever do so).
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Reminder that charging ports of Teslas can still be remotely unlocked without a key, and that spray foam and superglue exist.
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I recently learned about ListenBrainz (although I've been acquainted with MusiczBrainz for a long time) and am considering importing my 20 years of LastFM data since they are a non-profit, and make anonymized listening data available with a CC0 license. If anyone has experience or opinions about this I would appreciate hearing them!
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My whole life I have seen advertisements for desk jobs that required people to have driver's licenses, use of a vehicle, and insurance, even when there was no driving involved in the job at all.
Requiring a driver's license for employment is now prohibited in California if driving is not reasonably expected to be part of the job duties. This is a huge victory for people who use transit and cycling for their mobility.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/28/new-in-2025-protecting-more-workers/
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I have a Thinkpad X270 with an Intel i5-7200U. Windows 11 says the cpu is not on the allowed list to upgrade. In a few months Windows 10 reaches end of life, and the laptop works perfectly fine. I can't realistically move to gnu/linux on this machine because the accessibility is not good enough yet.
Thoughts?
(I attempted changing some registry keys to bypass the cpu check without success, though maybe I need to restart it first.)
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✨ June
Ok Fedi, what do y'all know about histamine intolerance bc I just heard about it and apparently it allegedly can cause a lot of the issues I'm on medicine for???
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Has LegalEagle just started the largest collab in youtube history 
Basically, learn to say "I don't know" or "the best solution I've been able to find...".
I really dislike how shaky of a grip developers seem to have on the distinction between 'truth' and 'opinion', and how little care they often take to distinguish between the two in how they communicate.
You can measure objective truth for something with clear, exhaustive parameters and outcomes. You can't do so for something that's based in personal beliefs or limited perspective! And likewise, when there *is* an objective truth, it's not a matter of opinion either.
It's not a surprise that misinformation spreads so readily in software development circles, if you look at how eg. a lot of new programmers are constantly faced with 'senior developers' framing their personal preferences and conclusions as the ultimate and only truth.
youtube drama?
@rune That's something I'm honestly not too concerned with - it's difficult enough to get people to care about *any* kind of scammery that I'm happy *something* made the cut, even if the reason is probably just that this one affected creators too
re: engaging with the bigoted rhetoric, against better judgment
@eloy @xgranade@wandering.shop This is precisely why I consider agnosticism to most closely align with my feelings on religion.
engaging with the bigoted rhetoric, against better judgment
@xgranade@wandering.shop If they truly cared about 'scientific method' and 'rational analysis' so much, they would have recognized that their biological model was inadequate given that it cannot account for eg. intersex people, and it would therefore be irrational to continue believing in it.
Doubling down on it reveals that their 'rational view' really is just another religious belief that they do not wish to recognize as such.
- 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
