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
@lilyvanilla I'm actually not quite sure how it works!
@lilyvanilla We've had quite good results with flaxseed as well, as long as we boil it in a little bit of water first until it becomes goopy
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Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.
This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.
To get a fucking window with a button in it.
I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.
(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)
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I'm attending Arisia science-fiction convention this weekend. THEY HAVE A MASK MANDATE. And it has completely reversed the usual ratio: 95% of people masking, majority N95 or KN95, only about 5% of people maskless.
It's so pleasant and relaxing to see most people masked again.
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“alright, that’s enough fedi for today”
*closes laptop fedi*
*opens phone fedi*
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i bought unripe bananas and my bf told me that i could put them next to carrots and they'd catch up. and it worked! but they sapped all life out of those carrots. like literally. what kind of a soul exchange ritual have i just committed? how am i gonna answer for that after my death
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#spoonieTown has lil garden plots all over the place where you can just grab and nibble on a fresh veg as you walk by.
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It turns out the reason our hybrid heat pump wasn't hybriding was that the installer *never connected* the gas boiler to the control bus. The color coded and keyed connector is just flopping around behind the panel.
advice, re: circumcision, body autonomy, sexual issues, genitals
@mynameistillian For what it's worth, there are various creams and lubricants available that 'dull' the sensitivity to deal with this kind of problem, usually sold as ways to 'prolong ejaculation' and such
@bananas This is about 'organized' FOSS projects, not about personal projects.
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One analytical lens I love for interactions is "consent vs control". Here you see a Gmail pop-up for their GenAI "assistant". Do I want this? No. But my choices are "Learn more" and "Continue". My consent is assumed, making it a controlling interaction. You see this a lot these days, like where you choices aren't yes and no, but yes and "ask me later". It always makes me wonder what kind of personal relationships the people who do this have.
@gsuberland My point is that the entire assumption of it being about 'ideological purity' is misplaced. And I have heard these exact same arguments a million times, particularly about "the realities of actually getting work done" and the common factor has always been that the people declaring it impossible never made a serious effort to see if it actually was.
@gsuberland I am well aware of this, and waving away these concerns as being down to "ideological purity" is very much a part of the pet peeve.
health update, transplantation, very positive
It is now day 4 after my kidney transplantation. Today's improvements:
- Showered standing up
- Walked hallway independently
- Walked up and down stairs at a reasonable pace (under supervision, but without help)
- Went to toilet independently
- Wound drain has been removed
- Been sitting instead of lying down for a while now
@daughterofrao@weirder.earth (The inspiration for this is StayFocusd's "nuclear mode" which hard-blocks a configured list of sites as well as its own settings panel, and you can only get past it by typing out a long string with special characters that's shown on the screen)
@daughterofrao@weirder.earth I would lock it behind something that takes a lot of effort to get past. Whether physical (eg. a deposit box in a city far away) or virtual (eg. a difficult math puzzle, or arduous string to type out by hand). Enough effort that it's not worth it impulsively.
Pet peeve: FOSS projects which depend on closed/proprietary/hosted systems for their development process because "we do not have the capacity to maintain all this stuff ourselves".
Ever heard of the concept of 'solidarity' and cross-project collaboration? Why are you assuming that you, as a sole project, must fix these issues on your own? Why haven't you sought collaboration with others who have the same problem, and distributed the workload?
@quincy Externalizing responsibility, basically
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i wonder what trans/enby creatures were obsessed with before we invented a concept of robot. faes? golems? trebuchets?
- 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
