Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
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how do i explain to 18th century alchemist that turning lead into gold is not possible but turning plastic gloves into grape soda is
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Boven klinkt geloei.
En geluid van deurklink.
En gefrustreerd geklaag.
Diederik blijft proberen de slaapkamerdeur open te krijgen.
Want ooit, in tijden van Horizontale Klink, kon hij dat. Als een bruin hopje hing hij aan de klink, en duwde de deur open met zijn voeten.
Die tijden zijn voorbij.
Tijden van Verticale Klink braken aan.
Erop springen kan, maar Grootsch Wegglijden is het gevolg.
Hij heeft het heel moeilijk.
Dus er klinkt boven geloei.
En geluid van klink.
En gefrustreerd geklaag.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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De hele week dacht ik 'Oh ja, waxinelichtjes, moet ik in mijn mandje gooien!'
Vandaag komen de boodschappen.
Zonder de lichtjes.
eten (vegan)
@domo AH heeft blijkbaar ook een huismerkversie van de 'gevuld ei'-variant, ben benieuwd of dat wat is.
@rail_ I assure you, you will not enjoy the Dutch interpretation of a baguette
@gsuberland@chaos.social Right. The Blokker one has capacitive buttons. Not something that is likely to break (despite my misgivings about those types of buttons in general).
@gsuberland@chaos.social (On a related note, the Blokker kettle is literally available on AliExpress, just without the Blokker logo and packaging (and possibly with less QC). So it's not like they did some major engineering effort to produce a high-quality product.)
@gsuberland@chaos.social I did have one temperature-controlled kettle that failed within 3 years. I replaced it with another (the Blokker one), and although it did experience a problem after some 3.5 years, it wasn't in any way related to the temperature control - it was rusting around the spout.
I don't know, I'm not really convinced that they're particularly more prone to failure on a fundamental level. Temperature control isn't *that* complex either.
@domo The claim is that without plastic, they would spoil faster and the resulting waste would have more climate impact.
I'm not sure yet whether I believe that line of reasoning, especially because it fails to interrogate the impact of common supermarket policies like "always overstocking the store so that the shelves look full because that increases sales".
@gsuberland@chaos.social See here, though: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/114285597979605699
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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
@anthropy The thing is that Blokker, prior to their demise, had a temperature-controlled kettle at basically the same price as a normal kettle would be, as a standard part of their offerings (they sold it for years). So clearly it's financially possible.
As far as I can tell, it seems to just be "oh you like tea, then you must surely be willing to pay a massive markup for this feature" and nothing else...
What is it with almost all temperature-controlled kettles being so expensive? A temperature sensor and PCB don't cost anywhere near that much, and that's the only meaningful difference with a non-temperature-controlled kettle...
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The old Canon fd 35mm/3.5 also seems to add a bit of yellow tint to images which has some very nice characters
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The web version of Outlook that my university runs now auto-corrects '1st' and '2nd' by making not the last but the first two symbols into superscript. Brilliant programming, guys. 😂
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this is the correct attitude for open source projects. free software is political.
https://forum.yunohost.org/t/am-i-hacked-or-is-this-something-new/36203/14
eten (vegan)
Nou, de plantaardige grillworst van de Albert Heijn is dus niet voor herhaling vatbaar.
De plantaardige eiersalade, daarentegen, is fantastisch!
re: Matrix, criticism of criticism, negative
@Frisk One that particularly tends to irritate me is the people conflating "Matrix, the protocol" and "the stuff that Element builds" and making grand proclamations about how Matrix as a concept was clearly a terrible idea, and their 'evidence' is all just complaints about the bad implementation quality of Element stuff.
And you can tell that they know virtually nothing about Matrix as a protocol, and haven't even entertained the possibility that maybe they're fixable problems... and the result is that they end up yelling at the people who are trying to fix *the very issues they are complaining about*.
And yeah, it's usually the "IRC is best" folks.
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Matrix, criticism of criticism, negative
I'm fine with the criticism of #Matrix on Fediverse, I do that sometimes myself in private rooms or sometimes blog posts, but holy shit, I wish that criticism didn't have as much toxicity and misinformation in it as it currently have.
On one hand there are Matrix fans who unconditionally scream how great Matrix is and can solve all world problems, and on the other there are nostalgia gremlins praising IRC over high heavens as an alternative to commercial platforms like Discord for literally everyone because Matrix is "literally unusable" or something.
Both groups are delusional IMO.
- 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
