Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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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- 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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nutrition, plastics suck
non-expert speculation: i'd bet some amount of "ultra-processed" foods' health outcomes impact is due to plastic packaging.....
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"The Toxic Manosphere of Fedi"
https://dotart.blog/welshpixie/the-toxic-manosphere-of-fedi
I wrote a thing. It's long. It has many feelings in it, and posting it is skyrocketing my anxiety which is already at pretty shit levels after this month, but I have to say it.
Thank you to everyone who's supported me through all of this, and who helped me write it, and big hugs to all of us who went through this together and are still dealing with the emotional fallout.
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big instances really seem like a fucking drag because you're expected by these assholes to legislate and debate every fucking little thing
v. much encourage people to run their own little instance and just pootle about with their close mates
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yknow, ~11 or so years ago when the browser engine market share was significantly less lopsided, there wasn't drm, and you could still run a web browser on fairly old/limited hardware (netbooks were a thing! seriously!) i thought the idea of moving everything to webapps was pretty cool
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"Ah," the robot said, "now I understand."
"Understand what?"
"The concept of 'uncanny valley', where something is subtly wrong, unnatural, but you can't pinpoint why. I've experienced that now."
"Oh? How?"
"I talked to ChatGPT."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Well, I've found the answer and it's incredibly cursed: migrating the Oculus account to a Meta account got it into a weird inbetween state where it was simultaneously a developer account but also not.
So half of the device thought it was in developer mode, but the other half (the part that adb interacts with) thought it wasn't, so it didn't show up...
After re-enabling developer mode on the account side, it works again. I fucking hate tech companies so much.
#Android question: Oculus Quest headset is not detected by adb under Linux.
Things I've tried:
- use a USB 3.0 cable (A to C, running in 5gbps mode)
- set up udev rules (they are correct)
- restart adb server (did not fix it)
- headset is in developer mode, connection is approved
- vendor ID added to ~/.android/adb_usb.ini
Now what do I do? It doesn't seem like adb has any sort of verbose output option...
Love trying to debug an issue and every forum thread is just some variant of "I changed a bunch of unrelated things on my system and I guess one of them fixed it" and there's zero overlap between the threads, and nobody has an actual fundamental explanation of how it's *supposed* to work
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"Bestel hier je gratis #MiGreat raamposter!
Het is campagnetijd, in november zijn de #TweedeKamerverkiezingen. Het moment om van de ramen te schreeuwen dat ieder mens recht heeft op vrije beweging!
Wij van MiGreat geloven dat #migratie de wereld een betere plek kan maken. Dat iedereen het recht heeft om te verhuizen en te migreren, en om fatsoenlijk behandeld te worden, waar ook ter wereld."
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Digitaal kapitalisme is mijnbouw, geen luchtige, bijna onzichtbare “cloud” (Big Tech-serie, deel 2) https://www.doorbraak.eu/digitaal-kapitalisme-is-mijnbouw-geen-luchtige-bijna-onzichtbare-cloud-big-tech-serie-deel-2/
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Steun het burgerinitiatief voor een gratis en toegankelijk openbaar vervoer! https://www.doorbraak.eu/steun-het-burgerinitiatief-voor-een-gratis-en-toegankelijk-openbaar-vervoer/
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You know how vocal I am about the shit that goes on on fedi, how upset white guy bullies get when you stand up to them?
Just think of all the people who *aren't* speaking up
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Doing research on wikipedia for a shitpost, and other perfectly neurotypical things to do
All of this "leave it to the professionals, like journalists" handwringing about stuff like exposing corporations and doxing nazis would be a lot more credible if journalists didn't, y'know, constantly publish clearly unresearched nonsense
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We’re now in the find out stage of mandatory return to office.
Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. In other words, employers knew the mandates would cause some attrition, but they weren’t ready for the serious problems that would result.
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Uspol
I literally don't care about any legal decision news until he is physically in a jail cell. Do you all not see that he has been indicted several times but the law doesn't even apply correctly because it's so corrupt and no one cares the US is sliding rapidly into a fascist dictatorship.
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Steven Moffat and Russell T. Davies were interviewed in 1999 about what it would take to get Doctor Who back on the air
#DoctorWho
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modern tech fucking sucks why is everything touchscreen
i want my god damn fucking buttons back
where are the buttons
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Don't run high current through a coiled extension cable. The cornering forces the electrons to the outside of the curve, where they rub on the inside of the copper, generating heat.
- 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
