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.
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- 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
I have found a hidden mode on my kettle, somehow
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I'm trying to find the name of a flash game that was very popular for a while, where it was an editor of wireframe lines and it had gravity, and wind settings, and you could make some of these lines work like pistons, and make little walking machines or bridges. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
Doing a loose, non-committal survey: if you're a software developer, would you be interested in collaborating on FOSS projects that are:
1. Uncompromisingly open-source (no "open-core" or "enterprise edition" nonsense)
2. Explicitly anti-fascist and anti-capitalist
3. Trying to solve some sort of unsolved/structural technical problem(s) in an unconventional way, even if it means going against 'common wisdom' and 'programming culture' on a lot of points?
I have a bunch of these projects and it's getting pretty lonely, so I'm trying to gauge whether it's worth putting out a call for collaborators. Most (but not all) of these are in JS.
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This blog is just wow. Beautiful interactive illustrations of physics and mechanics.
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PSA: recognizing drowning
> The Instinctive Drowning Response—so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind.
Refresher for anyone who might spend time near water this year.
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scp object idea: a sentient banana peel who is a lawyer specialized in workplace trauma and accidents
Here I was thinking that the Discord -> Matrix bridge was being buggy
... and then it turns out that actually it's Discord itself where messages are being sent multiple times
So do you use Google Chrome, Whitelabel Chrome, Microsoft Chrome, Red Chrome, Loanshark Chrome, or Homophobic Chrome?
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Here's a one-liner to rsync a folder onto a FAT disk that doesn't support special characters, if you don't mind the files being renamed around those special characters.
$ mkdir /tmp/music-posixovl && /sbin/mount.posixovl -S $REAL_MOUNTPOINT /tmp/music-posixovl && rsync -rltuhv --size-only --delete-before --inplace $SOURCE_DIR /tmp/music-posixovl/$DEST_SUBDIR && umount /tmp/music-posixovl && rmdir /tmp/music-posixovl
On Chromiclones: "this browser could have been an extension"
mozilla, advertising, grumble
So Mozilla is just straight-up running ads on MDN now.
When are we all gonna stop pretending that they're any meaningfully different from other companies?
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I'm rehearsing for next Tuesday in Linz and enjoying what I see #creativeCoding #MastoArt
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Happy Pride Month to all the long-dead historical queer couples, doomed to be forever described by museum plaques as “close friends,” “like siblings,” and my personal favorite, “the nature of their relationship is unclear” 🏺 🌈
#Cryptography question: I'm building a project that deduplicates stored data chunks. Chunks are encrypted using their own hash as the key. For this to not break deduplication, I think the IV needs to be deterministic?
What security properties am I losing by doing this, and is there a better way (that does not involve "just use ZFS" or similar)?
Epik
Looks like they're on the verge of bankrupcy
Soon: one less fascist ISP
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@TQ doesn't it just make your heart smile that "phpbb but make it fedi" exists in this world
Save me from all the IPFS evangelists jumping on the NixOS storage issues to shill their favourite toy without thinking for a moment about the availability requirements
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Holy moly, a historian got ahold of the original tape of this famous Martin Luther King Jr interview in Playboy in 1965 where he harshly criticized Malcolm X, really the single source for the idea he vehemently disapproved of Malcolm X, and it turns out the criticism of Malcolm X was completely fabricated afterwards by the interviewer Alex Haley. Haley later wrote Roots, which unfortunately it turned out he'd plagiarized significant parts of.
- 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
