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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In één klap snapte ik waarom de pogingen tot een inclusievere wetenschap gedoemd zijn om te mislukken https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/in-een-klap-snapte-ik-waarom-de-pogingen-tot-een-inclusievere-wetenschap-gedoemd-zijn-om-te-mislukken~b17bb137/
@nytpu This is one of those, I believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip641WmY4pA
@nytpu (There's even some really cool designs out there that can eg. generate 'notches' at variable distances dynamically, essentially emulating tactile feedback through motor backpressure)
@nytpu Do you mean the motorized knobs/sliders that physically move when remote-controlled?
As the thing I'm thinking of doesn't even require that kind of thing, it can just dynamically decide to provide backpressure based on the current value and motor feedback
@nytpu Also if they *really* cared it would totally be possible to have a servo/motor setup that works like a rotary encoder but that physically resists going beyond min/max while still allowing software control.
I know of at least a few hardware projects that do this, by this point.
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The main argument I've heard for having only buttons for volume control is so it can be controlled by a remote or software, and while that prevents using potentiometers, I don't understand why that somehow prevents using a rotary encoder for volume control. Sure, you don't have nice hard stops at the max and min volume, but twisting a knob is still much better than having to button mash volume up/down
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@whreq "De brandweer was uiteraard snel ter plaatse."
Eh, tja... 😅
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I do laundry at my aunt and uncle’s house and take them dinner as thanks. Part of the evening ritual is watching the news, which is jaw-droppingly off the hook for someone who gets most of her news from Mastodon and word of mouth. The ads are Very Special, too. I am sooooo far out of their target audience it’s like an alien culture.
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I'm so deeply ad-blocked and click-bait blocked (and I don't really do things like Netflix or cable) that when I see an add on a screen on the subway I'm like a person from the past and horrified, scandalized, astonished, and generally much less able to cope than most people I think.
Because it's the only video ad I've seen all week ... maybe longer.
*clutching pearls*
"A motion picture advertisement! What is this nonsense!?"
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you trying to tell me that LibreOffice almost had the coolest looking mascot ever and they just said... no??? wtf??????
RE: https://lethallava.land/notes/a4776tvc51
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the scope of every IT job continually creeps until it includes printer support
Apparently there was a fire earlier today at... the local fire department
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Anyone here know what happened to Ektoplazm, by any chance?
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"Simple session middleware for Koa. Defaults to cookie-based sessions and supports external stores. [...] The session is stored in a cookie by default, but it has some disadvantages: Session is stored on client side unencrypted [...]"
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uspol, israel, europe, tech companies
@piegames Oh sure. That was the implicit context in this case, given everybody suddenly panicking about 'loss of sovereignity' over here for the past month or so.
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Two hours of first-person footage of firefighters responding to a major forest/heath fire in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiwPuEkh810
(CW: It can get pretty scary/intense at times)
off-fedi subtoot
Calling yourself "the best Node.js framework" with no further qualifications or context is a surefire way to make me distrust your project...
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- 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
