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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Batman but he finally gets therapy to deal with his parent's loss and realizes dressing up in a suit to beat up petty criminals is a trauma response and begins to invest billions into healthcare, police abolishment, fair housing, and drug treatment which drastically reduces crime to the point capitalists plot to eliminate him and when the succeed, this prompts the Justice Leauge to go after the industrialists responsible for his death, which give the general populace a chance to seize the means of production and the military is afraid to act because Superman has promised to destroy one military base for every civilian life they take.
That would be a pretty cool story.
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"Ben je nog steeds bang voor corona?" Ik ben niet bang, ik ben goed op de hoogte. Ik ben ook niet bang voor krokodillen maar ik weet dat het niet gezond is als ik te dichtbij kom.
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Tesla/Electric Cars
In the weird space that is the brains of many (though not all) writers on the website Electrek, the solution to this problem is for
*** the rest of the car industry to agree that the back left is the best location for the charge port ***
And that, folks, is how you know that Tesla-worship make brain go wonky.
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https://genders.wtf from @effy is extremely good, please submit more bad forms asap
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so now I'm wondering: if you have created and/or run both a Minecraft *and* a mastodon (fediverse) server, which did you find easier to do? (if you haven't done *both* please just choose "Spiderman" to see poll results, and please boost for maximum reach!)
People who claim "browser is slower than native" have probably never compared Fusion 360 to OnShape
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Stlex 
The best thing I've ever done as an IT professional is install adblockers for elderly and non-computer-literate clients. Everyone should use them. It's not even just an aesthetics thing, it's an "ads are responsible for serving tons of malicious scripts that trick people into calling numbers or clicking links that lead to scammy shit" thing.
Fuck ads.
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Hey, so you know how there's this thing where certain groups have highly specific ways of knowing and being in-and-with-the-world which might benefit everyone if shared?
Disabled people have that. Other marginalised groups too. When we ask you to *LISTEN* to us, it's not solely to complain about our struggles, suffering or oppression. It's also because if you listen to us, our experience may help *you*. And when we help each other, it increases the chances we all prosper #disability
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Reminder that I collect weird, whacky, and bizarre form fields related to gender collection at https://genders.wtf and would welcome people submitting more
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Some of you will know that there are character codes which are magic, For example, 8 is backspace, 9 is tab, 13 is enter/return, 27 is escape.
And then there's 127, which is delete. Why?
Because if you're dealing with punched cards, you need to remove errors. And the only code which will work for cancelling out a column is all holes punched, since you can't un-punch a hole
And 127 in binary is `01111111`.
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"Sorry boss that form must have gotten lost. I'll send another one."
*"accidentally" bumps freshly-printed form into filing cabinet*
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Goo Truther 
all negotiating with billionaire bootlickers for infrastructure will ever do is get us this lmao
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i am looking for book recommendations for someone high-school age, interested in space, and still learning english.
she is specifically interested in the solar system and the planets, and in space travel (astronauts & co)
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I can understand if new admins don't know that Soapbox is bigotware and they'll be defederated nearly instantly for running it...
but Soapbox is bigotware and you'll be defederated almost instantly for running it
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Edinburgh rape crisis centre, Rowling, fuck Terfs, donations
Rowling announced today that she is now opening a so-called women's only rape crisis centre in Edinburgh, that is, of course, going to exclude trans women & non-binary people. Unfortunately, all the articles about this seem to have just regurgitated Rowling's press release, so I don't want to link to them here.
Anyway, now is a good time to donate to the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, who include trans & non binary people in their services. https://www.justgiving.com/ERCC
They have been fighting constant attacks from #TERFS, and have had to occasionally close because of the attacks. Recent article about this here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/trans-scotland-mridul-wadhwa-for-women-scotland/
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PostNL’s postzegelcodes are really neat if you’re out of stamps! Hopefully the system can read my handwritten 3x3 alphanumeric grid.
Sovol SV06 update, long, 3D printing
- The automatic bed levelling seems to be a bit buggy, it consistently is too close to the bed on the left, and too far from the bed on the right. I've corrected for now by manually turning the Z screws a bit, and now my prints are perfect.
I'm talking to support about a more permanent fix - the support response was a bit slow (a few days), but I did get a *useful* response, and they clearly actually read my e-mail, only asking me about things I hadn't already checked myself.
I think there's actually something wrong with how the (inductive) probe works, because it's always off by roughly the same amount, even when I deliberately skew the whole X axis carriage. I think it misdetects the bed location somehow.
- The Z-axis auto-calibration is kind of pointless due to a design fault in the carriage; the extruder connector will hit the frame before the carriage hits the end stop on one side. Hasn't affected prints so far though.
- Once the levelling is sorted out, the bed adhesion seems to be *very* good. I've had no curling even with nearly-full-bed prints where the description for the design explicitly says that they are prone to curling. Elephants foot is minimal.
Overall, print quality has been almost perfect; with the only obvious inaccuracy being that the perimeters are a bit jaggy vertically, seemingly due to tiny layer shifts (but not enough to notice unless looking for it). May just be a belt tensioning thing.
- The bed seems extremely evenly heated. Whereas my Ender 3 had a clear 'hotspot' in the middle, I can't detect any such differences on the SV06. I haven't used a thermal camera to confirm this, though. This probably is why things don't curl. Pretty impressed.
- Part cooling is very limited, it's not very good at it. It can do point-to-point overhangs very well, but as soon as you have unsupported lines, even just 1 line away from a support, it starts drooping.
- I have not yet gotten this up to the same printing speed as my Ender 3 without loss of printing quality, likely due to the bad part cooling. However, it is quiet enough that I don't mind letting it run all day long.
- It does seem to handle my crappy eSun filament much better than the Ender 3 did. I haven't measured this, but I get the sense that the nozzle temperature control is much more accurate/stable, as well as heating much faster.
- I have no idea where my filament dryer is (I bought it in a bundle). I assume it needs to ship from China, but I've not even gotten a shipping notification.
- Pause/resume and material change work reliably and cleanly; the "cut-off point" is not visible in the final print.
Overall, I'd say that I pretty much got what I ordered/expected - a Prusa clone at a quarter the price that's "fire and forget" (but without the fire), and with Pretty Good printing quality. I've not had a single print failure since correcting the levelling, not even in 8-hour full-bed-surface prints.
I haven't tested flexible filaments yet. That's the next thing on the list :)
- 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
