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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- 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 case you didn’t know, the Met Police in London looked to get a cut of all uses of police boxes in Doctor Who merch.
The U.K. Patent Office found against them, on the basis that, by now, a police box was just the TARDIS, and the Met were no Time Lords.
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Little vent about modern feminism and racism
It's funny (fucking exhausting) how much modern mainstream feminist rhetoric is filtered entirely through whiteness as the default.
"Men never have their bodies policed!"
"Men have all the power in this society!"
"Men can do whatever they want!"
"Men never have to control their anger!"
No, you mean White Men. You're talking about White Men. All of your talking points apply to White Men. White Men are not the only Men that exist in society.
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"I don't want to play Monopoly anymore"
Sticker spotted in Boston, Massachusetts
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Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)
https://github.com/haileys/bark
It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.
I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.
It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:
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Anne C.A. Baanen
TransZorgNu announced they will be protesting in Nijmegen, September 30th. Actually something that I had been contemplating organising myself.
> On September 30th, we are organizing a sit-in with Trans Zorg Nu from 07:00 – 00:00 on the field in front of the RadboudUMC. We are demonstration for 17 hours: 1 minute for each day a trans person has to wait for just an intake interview. An inhumane and unnecessary waiting list caused by the lack of self-determination in transition care.
> There will be performances, speakers and workshops, as well as a lot of space for your input. That day, we will protest, but also celebrate the community and trans joy and have a good time together. SHOW UP! And please share with others.❤️
>
> Practical information about the program, safety, accessibility etc. will follow shortly.
https://transzorgnu.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/10/officiele-aankondiging-sit-in-op-30-september/
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This social network could have been a forum.
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@ricardoharvin “Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
– Naomi Shulman
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If you value civility rather than kind honesty, you are part of the problem.
Civility and niceness are tools of oppression, meant to blunt all incisive expressions of truth.
"Nice [i.e., civil] people made the best Nazis."
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the lesson here is:
always carefully document the solution in your forum threads, even if you managed to figure it out yourself or found it elsewhere. You never know who might be having the same issue a few months or years further down the line. It could be yourself
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Tech cos: we will prosecute and harrass anyone caught scraping or pirating us. ☠️
Also tech cos: Ai was trained by scraping and pirating you ❤.
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Anyone near Cambridge UK wanting old, possibly non working, 80s computer shit and able to collect in the next week?
I think I have a C64, Amiga 1200, maybe a ZX81
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I've been returning to that imagery a lot lately... juicing people. Like the system is mashing you up against the reamer, squeezing all your juice into a cup. That's your life they're squeezing out. And the fundamental conceit of capitalism is that the system not only -exists- to juice you, but only so that someone else can collect and own your juice. That the point of civilization is for someone in a nice suit to juice you dry, and leave your juice to their kids.
You? You're the pulp and rind.
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Dates.
When you share a note or post or something similar about a software tool, your audience needs to easily, quickly know the **date** of when you're sharing this info.
I keep stumbling into posts or videos that are years out of date— but this is only obvious after digging into them in depth because the authors think it's cute to make a web log that obfuscates dates (one of the most basic facets of a log).
Related: if your site has search?
Yep, your audience would really appreciate it if you display the date associated with each. (It's me. "Your audience" is me.)
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-> yassie_j@labyrinth.zone
Great news! Humans are now slower and perform worse at solving Captchas than machine-learning bots!
Article here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108
Article here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108
This also applies for a lot of other 'debate topics', by the way.
You will never meet the challenge of providing a better option than the propagandized one, because the propaganda will claim that its option is impossibly good without needing to provide proof, a bar that is impossible to meet by anyone or anything.
When someone challenges you on abolishing copyright by asking "well, do you know a better way to protect artists": don't answer that question.
The problem with the question is that it presupposes that copyright protects artists; something that it demonstrably just doesn't do, propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding.
By answering the question - even by legitimately suggesting protections for artists! - you implicitly accept that copyright is effective at protecting artists, and that sets a bar that you will never clear in the mind of someone defending copyright based on propaganda.
You'll be fighting a ghost, a propagandic framing that is impossible to argue with. You may *intend* to show people better options that actually work, but what people will *hear* is "so you agree that copyright is important".
Instead, deconstruct the premise that copyright protect artists. Only once there's agreement that it doesn't work, is it possible to have a useful conversation about how artists should be protected.
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Apropos of nothing in particular, I would like to remind everyone of one of the first things I learned in my career as a math library developer:
“Prioritizing performance over correctness” is a nonsense clause. Talking about the performance of an incorrect system is meaningless. You are measuring nothing. A system has to produce a correct answer before you can talk about how efficiently it does it.
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Irregular reminder (to myself) that if you read something in internet you wrote 5-10-15 years ago and think how stupid you were, it's a good sign as it means that you progressed since.
Don't want to say I ain't stupid now. Future me is gonna have exactly the same thoughts, I'm certain of that.
- 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
