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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Honey I Scaled the Kids Back to Regular Size But There Are a Lot of Antialiasing Artifacts
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Honey I Resized the Kids and Forgot to Check the 'Maintain Aspect Ratio' Box
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It occurred to me that I don’t want to experiment with Gen AI the same way I don’t want to engage with conspiracy theories.
I think they are dangerous and I know a little about how they work but, as a result, I do not trust my own intellectually and emotional immune system to keep me safe.
Better minds have fallen.
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mastodon UI needs a button for "block both the booster and the boostee"
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when you're trying to increase an electronic device's lifespan but end up completely butchering it in the process, that's maimtenance
If the complexity of the stacktraces is any indication, my database project is starting to become a serious thing 
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Deze voetgangersbrug staat hier wel een beetje plompverloren in het landschap #3Frieslanden
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Best. Invention. Ever !
Le photochatcopieur 😺
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poll for cats on the fedi 
check all that are okay for you
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Bit of an #autism based rant: so, Kero and I get our veg delivered from a local community farm. It's a charity and does good work feeding people who would otherwise struggle.
However, I'm #ActuallyAutistic, and like a lot of us, there are things that aren't food to me.
Here's the problem: the farm only allows us to have 3 banned vegetables, and plays stupid word games with the ones you've banned.
I don't care if its a rare variety without the word cabbage in the name. It's a fucking cabbage.
RS3 Dead and Buried quest spoiler
Dead and Buried was honestly quite well-done, if quite a bit more emotionally intense than the usual Runescape quest fare, but then they had to put in a fucking *sliding puzzle* 😫
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I find it an odd choice to 'launch' what's supposedly meant to be an application-agnostic universal network, without any actual documented way to use it besides bindings to one specific application/UI framework
Am I missing something or is there literally zero API documentation for #Veilid whatsoever?
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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.
- 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
