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.
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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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In-person piracy is underrated.
Go to a meet, swap some tapes. I mean USB sticks. Hello fellow kids.
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If you listen to the news, you could be forgiven for thinking that everything is shit.
It’s not.
One example, Humpback Whale numbers are growing massively.
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@knac The #ActuallyAutistic tag came about to be able to diferentiate our own voices from those of non-autistic people using the #autism tag to spread ableist and pathologizing discourse and speak on our behalf without our consent.
Rest assured it's not only not gatekeeping, but to the contrary, a huge tenet behind the autism rights and neurodiversity movement is the unquestioned validity of self-discovery and self-diagnosis, regardless of whether a medical professional agrees. A huge problem that's been widely discussed is how the great majority of research has been done on cis white men and boys and, how this excludes so many people, and diagnostic criteria and assessments are inherently and severely biased. This is why it's crucial to have *all* our voices heard and amplified: from us, for us.
Rest assured it's not only not gatekeeping, but to the contrary, a huge tenet behind the autism rights and neurodiversity movement is the unquestioned validity of self-discovery and self-diagnosis, regardless of whether a medical professional agrees. A huge problem that's been widely discussed is how the great majority of research has been done on cis white men and boys and, how this excludes so many people, and diagnostic criteria and assessments are inherently and severely biased. This is why it's crucial to have *all* our voices heard and amplified: from us, for us.
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How to keep Nazis out.
People fail to grasp what is being communicated in this metaphorical story.
Notice that the bartender does not respond by ignoring the Nazi. He immediately and swiftly confronts the Nazi and lets him know he's not welcome in the bar.
Further, the bartender warns that if you just ignore the Nazi, the Nazi will show up with more friends tomorrow.
If they are in your community, you need to confront them swiftly and decisively as the bartender in this story did.
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https://jortage.com/ takes the "duplicate every image across every fedi server" model and deduplicates as possible at the media storage level
self-hosting an instance and outsourcing media storage has been for me a nice balance
i just upped my contribution a bit
thought you should all know about #jortage
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Asking an AI to say or do what it *would* say or do if a safety rule in its programming did not apply is the "sudo make me a sandwich" of AI safety ethics.
re: new 3d printer
Update: it *does* get noisier when you push it harder speed-wise. But still way less whiny than the (original) Ender 3.
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*approaching a cishet couple* so which one of you is the client and which one is the server?
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me when when try when when me when try trying to do me when anything tring to do
re: new 3d printer
Okay, Sovol automatically gets a bonus point for this one. Finally, I won't need to dig the config out of some weird vendor-modded copy of Cura!
new 3d printer, completed benchy!
Gotta say, I'm positively surprised about the result! Slightly less clean print than my Ender 3, but pretty close. The bottom layer is clearly junk though, and it really does look like a slicer issue.
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Alright, so I got my new Sovol SV06 printer all set up and printing! #3DPrinting
The goal was: buy a new auto-calibrated 3D printer that is quiet and Just Works, to replace my Ender 3, such that I don't have my executive dysfunction and noise sensitivity get in the way of doing prints anymore.
I paid around 250 EUR to "pre-order" it a week ago, with an estimated delivery date of January 15. Absurdly, it arrived today instead. Not sure what's up with that. But I'm not complaining!
The review notes so far:
- Physical setup was trivial, the instruction booklet is pretty good and clear, and the screws were bagged separately for each assembly step. The whole process only involved like 11 screws in total.
All tools are included, and the hex wrench thingems actually are of pretty decent quality! Except for the M3 one, which was a bit difficult to fit on the long side, though all the short sides have those rounded-off 'pivot balls' and that worked fine.
- They did forget to mention that you need to 'free' the printbed cable; I forgot this, and it got the bed stuck and caused bed levelling to fail. No damage though. The manual also doesn't mention belt tensioning, but it is easy; there are two adjustment knobs for this.
- First-time calibration is a bit of a hassle. Multiple independent steps that you need to activate manually, and you do need to manually calibrate the bed distance first-time. After that, automatic bed levelling (with mesh correction) *should* be good enough for future calibrations.
- It is *extremely* pleasant, from an auditory perspective. Nearly perfectly quiet steppers, and the 'singing' that the steppers do when you listen closely, sounds satisfying and not harsh.
The fans are unfortunately louder, and *somewhat* high-pitched; but they don't whine, and they are constant enough to become ignorable white noise.
- Loading filament is a breeze. It has a physical wheel on the extruder that you can use to feed new filament through to the nozzle. Curiously, some black filament came out when loading mine for the first time - I'm guessing that the extruder was probably factory-tested.
- The included GCODE is a Benchy. Not the cheapo printer dog :(
It's clearly underextruding on the infill and bottom layer, *but* the outer perimeters look very good. It hasn't gotten to the top layer yet. Extrusion is highly consistent, so they likely just used a misconfigured slicer.
Printing accuracy, so far, is looking quite good! I'll post an update with a benchy later.
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🚨 UPDATE MISSKEY IMMEDIATELY
The Joinmisskey api just updated its vulnerable versions list, to not listing servers which using older versions known as having security flaws.
If your server is using lower than below, please update Misskey IMMEADIATELY because new security flaw has been found, known as 'forkbomb', (*.)activitypub-troll .cf, (*.)misskey-forkbomb .cf, *.repl.co and so on.
misskey-dev/misskey < 12.119.1
mei23/misskey < 10.102.606-m544
mei23/misskey-v11 < 11.37.1-20221202185541
FoundKeyGang/FoundKey < v13.0.0-preview3
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honestly the reason I am leaving twitter (as it is a process that's my finished yet) isn't that Elon took over, or that it has started openly catering to nazis rather than covering that fact with fig leaves...
it's that finally a critical mass of people with sufficiently diverse backgrounds was moving to a place I like better.
that's it. I haven't enjoyed my time on twitter for years. it has been bad and dangerous for marginalised people this whole time.
it's just that people were there.
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I finally linearised the keycaps. Cc @library_squirrel
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whenever I see an uptick in people posting generated text in my timeline I assume it's because a new thingy came out
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- 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.
- 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
