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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Een observatie waar ik even van schrok, in het magazine van de vrienden van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Toen begin jaren ‘90 met het Verdrag van Malta de Nederlandse #archeologie een ongekende impuls kreeg, werd het beleid om vondsten zo veel mogelijk in de grond te laten zitten. Daar zouden ze het best bewaard blijven. Nu met de #klimaatverandering en de kunstmatig lage grondwaterstand (om de boeren te gerieven) is juist zo snel mogelijk bergen het devies, voordat er niets meer van over is.
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They target trans folk because they think cishet folk will look away. They're counting on you not defending those who aren't like you.
They target Black and Brown folk because they think white folk will look away. They're counting on us not defending those who aren't like us.
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thinking about how in videogames you walk around talking to people. they tell you their problems. you go and solve their problems for them. then they give you treasures as rewards. you collect the treasures. they make you able to go to more places and do more things.
whereas in life you go around talking to people. they tell you their problems. you can't solve them for them. sometimes they tell you themselves the solution, and you say yes, you should go for that. then maybe later you hear that your nudge helped. or you never hear about that again and you only hope it helped. in other occasions there's no solution at all. mostly you just talk to people so they have someone be witness to their problems. that doesn't help often the problems but it helps with something else. you don't become able to go to more places or do more things, but you feel like your life has more life in it somehow.
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Just learned about pretendo today.
Pretendo is a free and open source replacement for Nintendo's servers for both the 3DS and Wii U, allowing online connectivity for all, even after the original servers are discontinued
This is so cute and good! 
@Vampire Ah yeah that's what they say on the *front* of the box, if I'm not mistaken
I spent like, a couple of euros buying these various teas from them while they were on discount, and I don't think I've ever gotten this much disappointment-per-euro before, which I guess is an achievement?
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It is also worth noting that none of the self-hosted infrastructure around NixOS ever seems to have this problem
Tech people always defend the SaaS providers with "well they are the experts at running things at scale, we need them" and then nixpkgs breaks Github for the fifth time for no apparent reason except that the repo is big
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CW-boost: palestina, 4 en 5 mei
CW-boost: pewdiepie, linux, fascists
https://fe.disroot.org/objects/d7fae2e9-03b6-459b-9e8b-b2154b5e2aa6
I don't know about the "vast majority of his fan base" claim, but the other points are good ones regardless.
@jbz Obligatory warning that "Morpheus Research" looks like a short seller.
These are traders who try to profit from shorting stocks by creating a controversy, whether well-founded or not, to crash the stock.
They do sometimes dig up legitimate issues, but their motivation certainly isn't one of "informing the general public" and they have a tendency of embellishing things to create a panic.
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Aww yeah, the Godot game engine 4.5 dev 3 snapshot is out.
For those of you to whom that's just alphabet soup, 4.5 dev 3 integrates AccessKit! This means that the editor UI, and any game UIs made with it, are screen reader accessible out of the box.
I just spun up an instance in a Fedora distrobox. Haven't gotten far, but the intro and project creation dialogs are certainly usable. Though the creation dialog seems to set its content as the label for all fields which is verbose. Filing that issue but still this is an amazing development!
re: politics
@mjdxp @ramin_hal9001 This is kind of a weird response?
Like, you're arguing that it "doesn't mean they should be barred from using an operating system", but nowhere in the original post was that even suggested?
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For me, this is the best image symbolizing what Gen AI actually is. A black box, burning the planet, understood best, paradoxically, through technological means.
What you see here is a thermal image of xAI's Datacenter in Memphis, where 33 methane power generators are burning without permission.
Photograph: Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for Southern Environmental Law Center.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
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@joepie91
Plastic and also crappy, that's awesome!
Right up there with when I learned the "Celestial" in "Celestial Seasonings" tea refers to their extraterrestrial cult and isn't a cute play on their sleepytime tea or something.
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saw a facebook reel showing a tram being rebooted by putting the pantograph down and back up again and i have never felt a greater sense of community with everyone else who has to suffer with computers
- 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
