Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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One of our main volunteers, KemoNine, has been gracious enough to find an inexpensive, easy method of re-wrapping cat scratchers for us. They even wrote a mini guide on how to re-wrap cat scratchers so others can do the same.
Their mini guide is available at the below link.
https://blog.kemonine.info/macrame/2025-05-25-cat-scratcher-rewrapping/
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yelling at clouds
A: "We should integrate AI into feature X."
B: "I'm opposed for ethical and philosophical reasons."
A: "I get that but..."
Me (thinking): Did you!? Did you REALLY "get that"? DID YOU MOTHERFUCKER!? Cuz I don't think you did, in fact I'm pretty sure you did NOT! Your answer does not address any ethical and philosophical concerns!
Me: *clicks on downvote*
I've snapped some crappy (because lack of daylight) pictures of the in-progress woodworking project! As well as the little spacer tool I made to ensure the planks are at the correct distance from each other, and will match up at the ends.
I now have four of these 'half tables', that will then be transported outside and combined per two into a whole table, adding the two missing legs. That's why the spacing is important - it needs to match between all of them, or the point where they get joined won't line up!
I've also been working on finishing my plant tables for the garden today, but I don't have any usable pictures yet. Today's work is mostly just fixing the parts I already put together; there wasn't enough room for imprecisions in the wood so I've had to change the design a bit, and move a couple of planks.
Today's workshop improvements! Reused an empty 3D printing filament spool as a spool for the long extension card in the garage, installed some hooks to hang my (non-electric) scooter on (finally, it's no longer in my way!), and finally added some nonslip tape to a working surface so that I can safely put stationary tools on it without them moving around and without having to bolt them down permanently.
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My office is in a location where I do get a wifi signal but there are good wifi days and bad wifi days, and I can only think that this is the result of daily fluctuations in the solar winds blowing past Earth, causing RF interference, and that makes it less frustrating and easier to deal with, knowing that I'm experiencing the effects of something beautiful and much grander than, say, a bit of incompetence by whoever set up the nearest wifi access point.
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anarchism doesnt mean being an agent of chaos! that is a separate decision, that i have also made
re: cursed, brands
@jt_rebelo Like, it's not really called Parkside Cloud of course, but yeah, they are trying to compete with AWS
re: cursed, brands
@jt_rebelo Oh yeah.
I wish for a world in which people recognize that they have a certain amount of responsibility towards others, regardless of circumstances and regardless of whether money is involved
cursed, brands
Parkside, Parkside Performance, Parkside Cloud
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@Rairii @praxeology That seems like it could be done much better by dynamically replacing the password field upon detecting an affected username
@praxeology There once was a legitimate reason, for phishing prevention - showing you some information specific to you entering your username, so that a phishing page would need to actually talk to the origin server and couldn't just be a static page or simple script, making it harder to build one.
But now with ready-made phishing toolkits being widely available, and most split-form sites not actually doing the 'showing information about you' bit, I don't think that's the reason anymore; my suspicion is that the newer cases are the outcome of "UX" folks who entirely rely on A/B tests... which often results in weird and frustrating outcomes like this.
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10 SCORES AGAINST TECH FASCISM
⟶ CALL FOR PROJECTS
This call for resistance is not about global fixes or sweeping victories — it’s about finding ways to challenge the current systems with the means available: misdirection, opting out, and pushing back. Resisting in solidarity with others and carving out spaces in which we can develop technological systems that align with collective needs rather than exploiting us.
Apply now until 17 June 2025 for grants ranging from €1’500 to €7’000.
Read the full call for projects here
⟶ https://error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fascism-not-acceptable
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From @pluralistic :
"Just a QR Code" is a new site that generates QR codes, operating entirely in your browser, without transmitting any data to a server or trying to cram ads into your eyeballs. The fact that it runs entirely in-browser means you can save this webpage and work with an offline copy to generate QR codes forever – even if the site goes down:
QR code generators are mostly bad news, so this is great news.
Echt, wat is Tweakers toch ook journalistiek waardeloos. Jaren later en nog steeds klakkeloos de sensationalistische onzin van LLM-bedrijven overnemen.
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"why do people download x instead of streaming"
I dunno man, why do you buy clothes instead of just assuming the clothes shop will always be there
- 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
