Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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it may feel like everything's falling apart (and that may be because it is). but please remember (as i'm trying to) that there's still goodness and joy. there are still kind people and caring hearts. there's spring and autumn and trees and bees and cuddly things and blankets. there are snacks!
please remember to take care of yourself and find even just a smidge of joy and comfort today. you are so very worth both.
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Sigh....
One of the most important things I have learned about protecting my very precious brain spoons these days is to recognize when somebody is not listening, and to just quit trying to communicate with them.
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uspol, world tariffs
Looking at the list of USA tariffs, one is struck by how artificial it is—top country is hit by 50%, the next 49%, the next 48%...—and also by how much it's punishing very poor countries. starting at 50% for Lesotho, the most heavily affected countries are Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos, Madagascar, Vietnam, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Falklands, Syria, Mauritius, Iraq, Botwswana…
what are they even thinking with this? what's the idea? is this the "networked states" faction deliberately sowing chaos to undermine the world order and crash everything on purpose? is it the Musk/eugenicist faction trying to quiet-genocide non-white people?
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Matrix
Matrix won't let me leave a room that permanently displays a notification.
Element developers say it's a Synapse bug (https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/28599), Synapse devs tell me that it requires matrix.org admin intervention (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/18007).
matrix.org admins tell me they can't remove me from the room because they "observe very strict privacy policies" and I should ask the room admins to kick me.
The room admins have left (they upgraded the room), and can't join it back to do it.
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Housing as an open-air casino for rich people
Housing as a human right
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Use of a slur that I am okay with using for myself for rhetorical purposes but I know that a lot of queers aren't okay with
What if one of us fags didn't want the cishet sexual repression you call "love" and just wanted to fuck and fuck but also wanted to have basic human rights?
What then?
@flesh Different things tend to work for different people (and flavours of AuDHD), so YMMV, but:
Smear out unpleasant/dysfunctional tasks across multiple days, and decide at the start of the day how much you can realistically get done. Then cut off a third of it. Once you're done with those things, you're *done*, even if you feel like you could 'do a bit more and complete it' if you pushed yourself.
Remove tasks where possible. Get a dishwasher (even a shit, cheap, tiny one) instead of washing dishes by hand. Store things in closed boxes so they don't get dusty. Get a cheap botvac that can run unattended. Enable the automatic medication renewal at your pharmacy. And so on.
Push yourself to complete those 'investment tasks', if needed - they are one-off setup tasks and will save you a lot of spoons in the long term, so they are the ones that it's worth spending your spoons reserve on.
To improve time efficiency, pre-plan your tasks, especially chores. You can partly unload the dishwasher while you're watching the rice cook, or fold the laundry or go shopping while the paint is drying. Time yourself on different tasks so you know how long they typically take, and then schedule a single 'flow' that lets you interweave many of them and get all of them done, before starting on the first task.
In my experience, most of the "time loss" isn't actually in the stuff you're doing, but rather in the gaps inbetween - the 'sitting down for a quick break' and then getting distracted by something on social media, the travelling to the shop to "buy something real quick" (that you could've also gotten with tomorrow's grocery haul), the staring at a screen trying to force yourself to do something when it would've been more effective to briefly step away and complete a different chore that your brain is less opposed to at the moment.
So basically: track where your time is *actually* going (it is probably not where you expect, because time blindness) and then find ways to optimize those things specifically, either by making things easier to start on, or by improving the efficiency of the process itself (by eg. batching or splitting tasks).
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just remembered this screenshot I took of the board being routed, it looks like a lovely small metro system :3
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finally came around to assembly this beauty~
oh and trans rights are human rights!
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there is no strong opposition movement in the United States because the mainstream Democrats **don't want one** and they have done everything possible to discourage the formation of one.
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for the people in Europe wondering why Americans don't protest, they did. 2020-2021 saw the biggest protest movement in American history. and then the cops beat the shit out of everyone, and when the Democrats re-took power on the backs of those protesters, they gave all the cops raises and threw the movement under a bus.
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Gah, I hate the "love is love" slogan so much
Just say "respectable gays only" already and be done with it
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@joepie91 outside of SQL :p
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oddly relatable Dwarf Fortress bugs selection
- dwarves stuck on loop repeatedly picking different boots and socks when they should just pick one and go
- dwarves leaving their clothing articles all over the place
- 'elven spies do not respect visitor cap and I currently have 180 of them, all claiming they came here to "relax"'
- Trade wagons (made of wood) become horrified at violence and spontaneously explode
- cannot order drink at my own fort’s inn—tavern keeper claims “I don’t work here”
- farmer walks to furniture stockpile, picks up an entire bed, walks to farm plot and plants the bed
- magma crab drowns in magma
- dwarves indifferent to being set on fire
- the dwarves who are indifferent to being on fire want to drink from (highly flammable) alcohol stockpile
- tamed wild animals who have killed dwarves in the past continue to kill them and do not act tamed at all, but dwarves still believe them to be pets and ignore the attacks
- animals can develop religion and then get depressed due to unfulfillable need to practice it
- NPCs will drink anything at all that is inside a mug if you offer them a mug of something. including non-liquid objects.
- scouters who are secretly vampires brag about their past kills while scouting
- when a mayoral mandate is not obeyed in time, mayor sentences themself to physical punishment
- babies ride mothers like horsies. as in, they steer them. because babies have no survival instinct the rider and steed just wander around until they starve
- "is it better if they're carried in the front?"— mothers not wanting to abandon their babies would charge into battle with babies on slings. (does not end well for babies.)
- if a building destroyer monster finds a door jammed open by an object, they will politely wait for someone to close the door before proceeding to destroy it along with murdering the dwarf
- dwarves become raving lunatics due to extreme mood swings caused by going outside in the rain
- dwarven poets overuse caesuras and reverse syntax
- babies are born with a strapped knife
- composing music and poetry ignores surrounding enemies, therefore magically teleporting you away from attacks and back to the map screen
- some children have negative age. they're shown headless in the autogenerated portraits, and are impossible to hit due to having negative size. once they age into 0 years they become normal babies
- tutorial mode does not check randomly selected embark location for safety. it's not unusual for first time players to spawn right in the middle of a cursed acid mist or something and die immediately at the "welcome to the tutorial!" window
- dwarves failed to care if you melted down their masterpieces
- musicians never get to playing the costly instruments installed at taverns
- when a musician drops an instrument mid-performance, dwarves never interact with that instrument again
- farm animals do not breed due to being "unwilling to commit to marriage"
- ghosts count as fortress members if everybody else dies. since ghosts only go away if the living memorialises them and there's no more living citizens, this results in an unkillable non-interactive fortress. visitors come hang out with ghosts while plants grow wild.
- ghosts unintentionally make post-mortem citizen petitions that can be accepted. if you put them on a squad their colleagues keep trying to spar with them and repeatedly get disappointed to discover they're intangible
- dwarves get depressed without alcohol. vampire dwarves cannot drink alcohol, only blood. so they grow ever more sad and lethargic as the years pass. (this has been declared not a bug and is now officially part of vampire dwarfdom.)
- mountains wanted to make music, but cannot because they have no instruments and no singing voice. as a result, the universe explodes
(Also, this is the first table I've ever built, I think?)
@hugh Weird. The return machines here either have near-360-degrees scanners, or they rotate the object until they find a barcode. I haven't had a rejection (of an undamaged bottle or can) in years, I think? And I just put them in at a random rotation.
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If you're involved in the #BookWyrm project as a user, admin, developer or in any other capacity, you may wish to weigh in here: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/2513#issuecomment-2774887987
subtooting NixOS community stuff
You'd think that "if your community conflicts constantly end up at an accountability black hole, there's probably a problem with your decisionmaking structure that you need to fix" is a pretty obvious take, but here we are
@hugh Huh, you have to insert things into that return machine in a specific orientation/rotation? That's one finicky machine...
The plant table is done and installed! Quite happy with the result, considering that it was a practice project and all the wood involved was crap 😄
- 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
