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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- 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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Updated the post, here is, as it were, the money shot.
You can see that the frequency on the EU side goes low and then rises while the one on Baltic side goes high and then falls right before sync - I wonder if that was intentional! But in any case, you can very clearly see the point where they sync! so this experiment was as far as I am concerned a full success!
https://halcy.de/blog/2025/02/09/measuring-power-network-frequency-using-junk-you-have-in-your-closet/ #BalticSynchro
... and now I'm writing an RSS-parsing stream.
@miyuko No problem :)
To my knowledge, the still-existing CD pressing companies mostly do special releases; a bit like the vinyl record manufacturers, they primarily appeal to nostalgia.
Though I think that optical media may still be in widespread use in Japan? Not sure if that's still true today.
@miyuko You would typically outsource it to a company that does this stuff (they apparently still exist!); they will charge you a fixed cost to create a 'master', which is used as a 'stamp' to then press copies at high speed, at an additional per-unit cost.
Doing it yourself, I think, requires quite a lot of expensive equipment (which is why small-volume CDs usually get burned, not pressed).
StackOverflow (the company) really has shown itself to be fucking awful, hasn't it? They're spotlighting fucking Verkada (a shitty surveillance tech company) on their blog right now.
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wanna know something really fun?
one of Spain's biggest ISPs is blocking connectivity to -all Cloudflare- on the hours when the Spanish football league plays because some pirate streaming servers operate behind them
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farmer's delight is an amazing one. makes cooking and farming so actually fun and is also very aesthetically pleasing. there are many submods for it that add even more food!
another good one is create if you like steampunk stuff or like making various builds with mechanisms and automation. it's an analog to redstone that uses clockwork and cogwheels.
biomes o'plenty and oh the biomes you'll go are also astonishingly cool
This is weird. I apparently have the NFSU2 soundtrack in FLAC format, and it has an EAC ripping log, describing how it was ripped from a 2CD release.
There's just one problem: to my knowledge, there has never existed a CD release of the NFSU2 soundtrack!
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minecraft is like, my comfort game. you know how people have comfort plushies they hug every time they're feeling bad? this is this game for me
JS packages written and published today:
- @promistream/timer, which is a stream that emits a value repeatedly at a fixed interval: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@promistream/timer
- @validatem/is-ms, a validator that checks whether an input is a valid `ms` time specification (and parses it): https://www.npmjs.com/package/@validatem/is-ms
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Birding this morning was lovely, always good to get out there. Happy we still have our winter ducks around.
@starsider @aeva Unfortunately some sites have started backdating LLM slop...
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I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY
FINALLY we can all agree on when it's polite to TYPE IN CAPS!
whenever anyone running the client presses caps lock it presses it for everyone
download the client and see the current caps lock status at globalcapslock.com
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anti-trans violence, gatekeeping
the fascists want to murder and forcefully detransition us.
the conservatives want to just deny us access to care and legal rights or gatekeep us to hell and back.
the "nice" liberal "allies" still want to gatekeep and force us into waiting lists in underprovisioned medical systems, dependent on professionals that mostly don't know shit and don't care to learn.
this is why we don't talk about rights, we talk about liberation. this is why we want folks to have the knowledge and resources to take charge of their own care and why we're trying to learn more about how to take charge of ours.
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warning for trans folks under "professional" medical care, HRT
blindly trusting doctors with your care as a trans person is dangerous. if you don't have the ability to check their work ask other trans folks who are more knowledgeable. we have heard repeatedly of doctors prescribing way too low or way too high dose of hormones. for transfeminine people doctors often prefer to keep estradiol levels relatively low cause they are afraid of side effects while prescribing high doses of anti-androgens or progestins with a worse risk profile.
it's our firm belief that if you're well informed and careful DIY HRT is safer than blindly trusting a random doctor and not appreciably more dangerous than trusting a doctor you have good reason to believe is knowledgeable and trustworthy. the problem is vetting a doctor requires knowledge that you would also need to take charge of your own care.
#AskFedi: For people who used Google Reader and who (still) lament its death: what was it about Google Reader that made it different from other RSS readers, for you? 
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"so you agree porn preys on financially vulnerable women"
all work preys on the financially vulnerable dipshit it came free with your fucking capitalism
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i feel so sorry for untechnical people. as a computer-toucher using my own device feels so fucking hostile. i just want to use it, not be sold or tied into more shit i don't need
- 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
