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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- 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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Maar ik ben gek en stel me aan omdat ik luchtreinigers gebruik...
https://nos.nl/artikel/2569167-rijnmonders-op-de-vlucht-voor-de-vieste-lucht-van-nederland
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@mattblaze Flashbacks to the "more CVEs means more security issues, right?" nonsense...
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You owe nothing to governments or companies, only towards your community
Like, I was getting kind of tired of most of the music mixes containing the same 100 tracks in a genre, but "every mix is 'new' AI slop that is different yet somehow the same as everything else" is actually *worse*
Add "music on Youtube" to the list of "shit ruined by AI", I guess
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Apple’s App Store has become an embarrassment. It’s nearly impossible to find apps that do not expect you to subscribe even to use the “free” features: three day free trial and then you are subscribed. What do these apps do? Convert videos to GIFs. We’re not talking about the labor and creativity of a master programmer here. Pure exploitation.
@vfrmedia @colapunk @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us This reminds me of the phenomenon where corpo lobbyists are overly trusted by journalists and politicians alike, merely because they have a phone number that you can call 24/7 and get a representative to speak to you, while eg. activist groups have no such thing
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Today's progress in Project Workshop Density: installed some overhead storage hooks for long things, so that they finally aren't in my way anymore; and installed an auto-retracting hose spool for my compressed air onto the ceiling.
Also worked on the plant tables a bit; cut and added all the ledges that the 'floor' planks will rest on. Assuming it's sufficiently dry tomorrow, I might assemble and install them outside tomorrow! Can't do that in the garage, because once fully assembled they won't fit through a doorway anymore.
@colapunk @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us This is exactly it, as far as I can tell. It's the same dynamics as clickbait - sensation and provocation sell.
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today on cursed electronics: a firewire car charger.
looks really complex, right? it has a serial number and all, and i bet this was expensive back in 2000.
...it's two 1n4001 diodes (just for safety) and an led + resistor. firewire is 12v. so are cars.
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#spoonieTown has a red light district, but it's mostly people basking under infrared lamps.
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The WAPBackMachine works! There are lots of WAP sites in the waybackmachine. It seems that the WBM crawler actually followed links on WAP sites, despite them not being HTML, which means that there is a lot to find if you know where to look!
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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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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!
Basically I'm trying to fit everything efficiently in what one might call a one-car garage if one were generous. Efficiently enough that there's actually enough space to work on projects. While also storing gardening tools and a bunch of miscellaneous stuff in there.
Today's progress in Project Workshop Density: installed some overhead storage hooks for long things, so that they finally aren't in my way anymore; and installed an auto-retracting hose spool for my compressed air onto the ceiling.
Also worked on the plant tables a bit; cut and added all the ledges that the 'floor' planks will rest on. Assuming it's sufficiently dry tomorrow, I might assemble and install them outside tomorrow! Can't do that in the garage, because once fully assembled they won't fit through a doorway anymore.
- 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
