Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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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- 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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Maybe some of you hardware/security hackers can help me understand something:
Mobile phones have an NFC chip tied to a Secure Enclave for doing NFC payments, as I understand it. Why, then, does Android (or maybe only certain vendors) disable NFC payments if the phone is rooted? The transaction details stay encrypted between the Secure Enclave and the POS, so having root on the phone won't impact any security guarantees.
Is it just typical anti-consumerism on Google's part, or is there a real technical reason?
Mobile phones have an NFC chip tied to a Secure Enclave for doing NFC payments, as I understand it. Why, then, does Android (or maybe only certain vendors) disable NFC payments if the phone is rooted? The transaction details stay encrypted between the Secure Enclave and the POS, so having root on the phone won't impact any security guarantees.
Is it just typical anti-consumerism on Google's part, or is there a real technical reason?
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This is genuinely one of the nicest pieces of public art in Sydney - using the 80-year-old wooden treads from the former escalators to create a stunning statement in Wynyard Station, a busy transport interchange.
I am left wondering why Veilid's Python demo uses unauthenticated encryption APIs
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journalism is full of opinions. everyone knows this, and it's why we separate out different news sources by their political affiliations.
so, we can safely conclude that explicitly labeling articles as "opinion" is editorial bullshit used to either excuse bad journalism, or discount good journalism that doesn't align with publisher goals.
"Change bump to major version 3.xx to signal that this branch supports Python3+ only"
o...k
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sometimes i get a glance into the american lib side of the fediverse, and it's a strange one, with very serious and impassioned speeches about how you gotta vote for some dude to stop fascism
Honestly, from what I know of the libwebp vulnerability, and how many things are affected and how unclear it is which things those are, I feel like the only effective advice for 'normal' computer users at this time is "do not use your computer". But good luck getting that to fly :/
Like, I appreciate the desire to experiment with character switching in combat, but uh, maybe you should make sure it's possible to reliably target opponents first?
The problem with Runescape's combat system is that it's so clunky and awkward that any attempt to do anything interesting or novel with it in eg. quests just becomes a source of frustration because all the responses are delayed
queermisia, mocking
"There was no social inclusion or LGBTQ+ community in medieval Europe, this is unrealistic!", the totally-not-a-bigot player complains about their 'medieval' video game with dragons, teleportation and time travel because it dares to draw attention to pronouns
idk but pundits should maybe be drawing lessons from the immense popularity of manual labor simulation games and how people can enjoy repetitive tasks under the right circumstances, instead of ignorantly repeating "people just don't want to work" narratives
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My wife has to travel to conferences for work. That means flying sometimes.
People are back to 2% masked on planes and coughing like crazy. Planes are the one place, other than hospitals I guess, where you should Definitely mask up. What the fuck is wrong with people? COVID can still completely wreck your shit.
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It's so offensive how Windows 11 tells me my display brightness is too high and I'm increasing my carbon emissions because of it.
Oh right, and they also notice that I use the light theme instead of the dark theme which apparently also uses more energy and also increases carbon emissions.
Fuck right off with that. What about all those carbon emissions your bullshit chat bots are creating???
Motherfucks. Like.. I need to be able to see and read what's on my screen assholes.
Stop trying to make me feel guilty for having to use a computer that can't stay powered for more than 3 hours because Infineon only builds their debugger service for Windows.
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Papers, Please but instead of a border control dystopia with a passport interface, it's a corporate Agile dystopia with a Jira interface
What "decentralized government" is claimed to do: share authority so that there is better local representation in government
What "decentralized government" actually seems to do in practice: diffuse accountability such that there is nobody to turn to when things are fucked
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Just a reminder:
DO NOT…
… buy hardware that does not support standards-based boot, or does not provide the affordances for standards-based boot to live outside of the operating system storage media.
Bonus myth, re: Things that "everybody knows" that are wrong 
(has references to crimes)
Bonus round!
THE LORD OF THE FLIES
This novel featured a group of kids, alone on an island after a plane crash, regressing into conflict and violence, and is often named as a cautionary tale of how things will immediately fall apart when there is no law and order.
Unfortunately, that story is entirely made-up nonsense. A similar incident actually happened in 1966, where a couple of kids from (near) Tonga stranded on the island 'Ata, only being rescued 15 months later.
Contrary to the story in Lord of the Flies, they successfully governed themselves, developed ways to resolve conflicts among themselves, kept themselves healthy even despite injury, and survived the experience.
Apropos of nothing, inviting both LLM speakers *and* someone from Wasmer to your conference is a pretty good way to make me distrust your judgment 🙃
Reading through a conference schedule and gradually expanding my list of "tech people who shill LLMs and who I will not work with in the future"...
- 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
