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.
- 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
@pascaline Is dat niet gewoon een crucible? Is niet ongebruikelijk om die in een magnetron te gebruiken, zelfs voor metaalsmelten...
Maar wat hebben ze er dan in godsnaam ingestopt dat je er een schok van kunt krijgen?!
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@april queer flirting is like easy mode:
1. Announce you are horrible at flirting.
2. Wait for someone to say "omg, me too!"
3. Bond over your shared trauma.
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#fedihired #fedihire I need a broadcast networks engineer for our studio facility.
West London, Not remote, sorry.
Decent pile of Arista 7280CR2/3, many terabits of multicast. ST-2110. Funky SDN stuff pending.
Cisco N9K and friends for "stuff that isn't uncompressed media over IP", and much funky routing & firewalling going on.
Err, please make yourselves known, bonus points if you've been near media and understand that "live means live".
West London, Not remote, sorry.
Decent pile of Arista 7280CR2/3, many terabits of multicast. ST-2110. Funky SDN stuff pending.
Cisco N9K and friends for "stuff that isn't uncompressed media over IP", and much funky routing & firewalling going on.
Err, please make yourselves known, bonus points if you've been near media and understand that "live means live".
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Sharing this post from the rescue place we're fostering cats from.
If you're in South Wales and have a safe home, consider fostering kitties - the shelter provides everything you need (bedding, litter box, food, cage, carrier, blankets, etc.) and also covers all vet costs, so the only thing you need to provide is a warm, safe environment for these kitties to acclimatise in until they're ready for adoption!
Or if you can help financially, they're paypal.me/felinefriends <3
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I saw a post on Instagram from a high profile photographer I admire, talking about how sharpness comes last in his order of priority, with composition and subject at the top. It was refreshing to read and made me think about some of the shots I’ve discarded because the eyes aren’t tack sharp…
#birds #bird #BirdPhotography #BirdPhoto #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #photography
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Afgelopen weekend ontving 'Flow' een Oscar voor beste animatiefilm. Deze film is gemaakt met de gratis open source software van @Blender, ontwikkeld in 1994 door Ton Roosendaal. Het programma kan gebruikt worden voor onder andere animatiefilms, games en VR.
Blender is gevestigd in Amsterdam en heeft in het verleden vaak samengewerkt met Waag Futurelab, onder andere aan het CineGrid project.
Goed om (weer) bevestigd te zien hoe FOSS bijdraagt aan onze creatieve industrie!
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To all the wizards out there please take some time to charge your mana today
@0x2ba22e11 Perhaps 'vendorless printing' would be an apt description 🙃
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The phrase "driverless printing" is amusing. In the abstract it sounds silly, like a non feature. Why would anyone object to a hardware device having some drivers, right?
But if you've actually interacted with vendor supplied printer drivers then you know different. The idea of being able to print something without having to interact with software that was written by someone at Hewlett-Packard sounds like a gift from heaven.
@xgranade@wandering.shop I'd like to propose something more radical: "voting systems", as a category, are overall just a bad tool for policymaking.
It encodes 'popularity' as the fundamental metric, and invites contests that center around it; while leaving no space for mutual collaboration on improving policy, let alone nuance.
IMO, voting systems only serve authoritarian ideologies as they are a tool of power imbalance; they do not serve egalitarian, collective ones which seek to take into account everyone's needs.
A healthy egalitarian political system would look like a conversation, not like a tally.
@xgranade@wandering.shop A related thought experiment: try to define 'democracy' first, and then measure which countries meet the definition you came up with.
And try to get a definition that a) actually produces reasonable outcomes, and b) applies to the majority of countries typically called 'democracies'.
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Hey techy people! Does anyone know if it's possible to archive podcasts offline? Is there a good quality mp3 player sort of thing that would be good for this, which doesn't have annoying online functions? Anyone know how to do this? Just in case of censorship issues down the road. I don't even know what hashtags to add here, my spoons are so low today.
ETA: thank you everyone for the boosts and advice! Anyone else who is curious about this, please check the replies, you all are amazing 💜
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re: Poland, trans rights
Now hold on to your butts, this is the best part.
This is directly because the previous Justice Minister brought this case before the Supreme Court, in hopes of (I kid you not) MANDATING that spouses and parents have a say in one's legal gender.
The subsequent non-shithead Justice Minister tried to withdraw the motion, but the Court ruled that this was not possible.
And then they gave a ruling... that's the opposite of the shitty agenda of the former Justice Minister.
This is... holy shit, the irony xD
Zbigniew Ziobro, Number One LGBT+ ally in Poland LMFAO xD
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Poland, trans rights, Boost please <3
The Supreme Court of Poland has just ruled that changing legal gender will now proceed without trial.
The old system was not actually written in the law, but the route was to sue one's parents (the logic being that someone is legally responsible for assigning the person's gender wrong at birth). Which was humiliating, stupid, complicated and made no sense.
I am shocked. I am floored. This caught me completely off guard.
Needless to say, this is a HUGE step forward, even if a lot remains to be done.
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Odds are good that no matter how much you hate it now, you probably don't hate car culture enough
and I include myself in that
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If anyone's been wondering how Serbia is doing
(stealing the tumblr post because it's funnier)
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in most cases the primary advantage your local protest action can have against cops is surprise and apparent disorganization**. all that shit goes out the window when you’re planning based on something you and the cops probably both found on facebook at the same time
** keyword apparent, you should be organized but no one outside your group should know the full plan or who’s in charge
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Aaaaand there's the push for militarization. As expected.
"Beveiligers die tijdens carnaval op het Piusplein in Kruikenstad (Tilburg) werkten, hebben tegen betaling mensen toegelaten toen het plein officieel al vol was. Onder hen waren ook minderjarige kinderen, die vanwege hun leeftijd überhaupt niet welkom zijn op het plein. Dat bevestigt de gemeente na vragen van Omroep Brabant."
Tja. Als je een soort politie-lite in het leven roept "die minder opleiding en screening nodig hebben" (handhavers, beveiligers, enz.), dan moet je ook niet verbaasd zijn als de geschiedenis zich herhaalt... die opleiding en screening zijn er niet voor niets.
- 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
