Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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NFC#844
★ New blog post: Otherkin-friendly CAPTCHAs, revisited.
Some folks have asked me how I make CAPTCHAs respect my non-human identity. The short answer is I copied code from @mavica_again. The longer-ish answer is this.
https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/
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who is the archivist for all the magnum opuses that get written online and are intelligible to nobody but their creator, that is an enormous body of literature
Uh oh, apparently Atari bought the IP for Transport Tycoon in November of last year. I sure hope that isn't going to result in problems for the #OpenTTD folks...
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Fun fact: it is literally, objectively impossible to legally watch Ultra HD Blu-Rays on a desktop computer, because Cyberlink PowerDVD is the only legal way to watch Blu-Rays of any sort on PC at all and it dropped support for UHD BRs.
Once again, DRM exclusively and disproportionately affects legal users without being a blip in the way of pirates (MakeMKV works just fine)
To my surprise, I actually kind of like GDScript? It's very rare for *any* kind of DSL to pass my first evaluation successfully...
food, vegan
So it turns out that soy-sauce-fried leftover noodles with a sauce of pan-fried banana slices and some fruit jam and lemonade syrup mixed in is actually really nice, and pretty easy to make
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If a company goes out of business in the Netherlands, does the NDA its employees had to sign still apply?
Edit: The overwhelmingly common answer is contact a lawyer, which is good advice. Thanks everyone! :)
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Say it with me:
"IQ IS JUNK SCIENCE INVENTED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST EUGENICISTS TO JUSTIFY THEIR IDEOLOGY"
It is not an "inconvenient truth". It is not an otherwise robust instrument that is misused by some people with an agenda. It is not something that's pretty accurate but that is complicated by societal factors.
It's bullshit. Bupkis. Bunk.
As Johnathan Frakes says in that one show, "We made this one up. It's a total fabrication. It's pure fiction. It's a made up tale. This one was invented by a writer. It's an urban legend... that never happened."
Don't forget. Remind yourself if you have to.
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Chinese Hanyu, known across East Asia, began life as a symbol pictographic system that showed what it described: over time, the symbols became more abstract and it became a full-blown writing system used by billions. #MythologyMonday
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re: rant
Oh yeah, some more interesting findings from poking around webOS:
- It's a surprisingly normal Linux overall! It runs systemd! There's even a Pulseaudio instance, though I'm not entirely sure if it's actually doing anything
- The base system seems to be a lot more flexible than just a TV platform (which makes sense, given webOS' history, but it's impressive how much of it survived)
- Most of the apps are built with QML or a custom JS framework named "Enyo" running on what seems to be a custom Electron-style runtime
- The app suspend/resume functionality is implemented with CRIU (on kernel 4.4.lol, no less!)
- There's a custom message bus called Luna that's used instead of D-Bus for most of the actual apps, but there's also a D-Bus for systemd and such
- There is A LOT of log collection machinery that presumably phones home whenever the TV breaks, and collects tons of diagnostic data. What happens to said data afterwards, I don't know. Probably goes into a ticket somewhere and gets ignored forever?
- It's a surprisingly normal Linux overall! It runs systemd! There's even a Pulseaudio instance, though I'm not entirely sure if it's actually doing anything
- The base system seems to be a lot more flexible than just a TV platform (which makes sense, given webOS' history, but it's impressive how much of it survived)
- Most of the apps are built with QML or a custom JS framework named "Enyo" running on what seems to be a custom Electron-style runtime
- The app suspend/resume functionality is implemented with CRIU (on kernel 4.4.lol, no less!)
- There's a custom message bus called Luna that's used instead of D-Bus for most of the actual apps, but there's also a D-Bus for systemd and such
- There is A LOT of log collection machinery that presumably phones home whenever the TV breaks, and collects tons of diagnostic data. What happens to said data afterwards, I don't know. Probably goes into a ticket somewhere and gets ignored forever?
@maxthefox @mynameistillian (and cc @kloenk): I did enjoy it for a bit, but it didn't feel like it had particularly much depth or complexity to me; it's polished and all, but mechnically it felt like basically just another city/town builder to me, But With Beavers.
Perhaps I'm missing something, though? I did not end up playing it into the endgame.
@cafkafk I'm aware of it, but I did not enjoy it very much - it was too carbrained for me, and even despite that the traffic engineering tools weren't actually very good (even with mods)... I'm looking forward to Junxions releasing though, which seems like a much better implementation of the same idea!
(The actual city-building part of Cities Skylines I've found pretty shallow, personally. Definitely deeper than the SimCity games before it, but not quite on the level I'm looking for here.)
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Linux UX opinions
Bring back the File / Edit / View / etc menus at the top of apps/the top of the screen in Linux
It's a step backward in usability that I have to go looking for where this particular app's devs put the icon to open the menu, then I have to open it, figure out how they designed it, scan through it looking for the option I need, etc
Before, everything was kinda standard, and you could even use keyboard shortcuts to navigate
It wasn't as uh Design I guess
But it was more usable
#AskFedi: It's recommendations time again! :boost_requested:
I'm looking for games that are high in simulation and strategic complexity, but that are not *obtuse*; ie. I should be able to learn and discover the complexity through gameplay, rather than through reading hundreds of pages of manuals.
Good examples are Factorio, Rimworld, Project Hospital, Workers and Resources, Software Inc., Airport CEO, and so on (but those games I obviously already know about).
I prefer games that also involve some kind of layout/design/building process, where the design choices meaningfully affect the outcome. Also especially interested in more obscure games, including indie ones and graphically unpolished games!
Also, no war-themed games please. And preferably no turn-based, as I tend to find those too slow for my liking.
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It's weird sitting in a meeting trying to intuit who's augmenting their takes with AI suggestions. I never imagined being an office blade runner doing realtime Voight-Kampff heuristics to identify the robot in the room but here we are. 6/6
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One of the reasons the "nobody is protesting" take sucks is it denies the empirical reality that some people *are*. People sharing this take are not among them, otherwise they wouldn't be making that point..
Which brings me to the second reason it sucks: it puts agency here on other people. Everyone can do something, can pick something they can do; and furthermore should not belittle the work of people who are doing visible and less visible stuff.
/end rant
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Pro tip: throw out any "norms" that don't help you.
I was taught to brush my teeth standing up, but after I became very ill and fatigued a few years ago, I dragged a chair into the bathroom and sat down.
And it's so much better. Not only do I not waste energy unnecessarily, but I don't rush through brushing my teeth, I do take the full two minutes to brush them, because I'm more comfortable and get less tired.
People look at me like I'm a weirdo when I tell people this, but seriously, find what norms you follow in your life "just because", and see how you can change them to make your life better.
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Re: dansup; pixelfed.social being almost completely unmoderated
If I woke up one day and someone told me "here, moderate this 200k person instance all by yourself, don't worry, photo sharing is just less toxic than other forms of social media so you'll be fine", I would immediately shut down sign-ups and drop everything else I was working on in order to get moderators on board ASAP, and start fixing the reports functionality and moderation tools. I would be fucking panicking and having cold sweats about the potential harms that could arise, and feeling sick in my stomach about all the harms that were probably already occurring on my watch. I would not be fucking gloating about it. The utter fecklessness of this "it'll sort itself out" attitude is revolting to me.
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@fedor @joenepraat alsjeblieft niet zeg. "Buurtpreventie" groepen zijn broednesten van racistische wannabe-politie groepjes die ieder niet-wit of dakloos persoon verdacht maken. Werkt vigilante gedrag in de hand en wekt het idee dat er continue onveiligheid in de buurt is waartegen gewaakt moet worden. Liever buurtsolidariteitsgroepen gericht op mutual aid en verbinding.
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My hot take is that banning masks prohibits disabled, immunocompromised and covid-conscious people from public life.
It should be resisted as vociferously as trans bathroom bills, which are also intended to ban a category of people from public life.
We know why that's bad. We should understand mask bans the same way.
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
