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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Okay Ir. Haj, where did you want your social network moved to?
Zeer interessante documentaire over wat er precies fout is gegaan bij de grote brand bij een transportbedrijf in Hapert in 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDj5EKf4DQ
"Detected a large number of updates inside startTransition. If this is due to a subscription please re-write it to use React provided hooks. Otherwise concurrent mode guarantees are off the table."
That sure is an error message phrasing
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Anne C.A. Baanen
a quick calculation shows it's totally feasible for a train to be pedal powered by the occupants. mss kan je beter fwietsen OwO
A related thing I've learned: even if I personally choose to put a lot of effort into adapting to things like neurotypical communication, that doesn't make it acceptable for people to *demand* of me that I do so. It should be by my own choice.
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[3] This is a pivotal moment where the Dutch government must practice what it preaches. By enforcing this update, they are pushing users away from privacy-respecting solutions and further into the arms of invasive big tech companies. It's a step in the wrong direction.
Source: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/395#issuecomment-1747188652
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[1] DigiD used to work for users that want to evade invasive Internet oligopolies by using privacy-focused alternatives like /e/OS or LineageOS-MicroG. However, as of January this year, DigiD has taken a concerning turn. An update has introduced a hard-coded, unnecessary feature availability check for Google Mobile Services. An honest mistake at best, or masquerading as an anti-tampering measure at worst.
Is this a good thing? No, but it's a reflection of how a lot of social dynamics currently work. And it shouldn't constantly be marginalized folks paying the price of trying to change that.
Something I've learned over the past few years: when dealing with marginalization aimed at you, it's often so much more effective to simply specify expectations and demand things, rather than trying to request things or appeal to understanding.
Requires much less energy, and is much more likely to be successful. Despite the complaints and claims to the contrary.
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i have created this complete and correct taxonomy of every STM32 microcontroller that exists, for your information
i hope you find this useful
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I found out yesterday that one of my favorite Mastodon instances (Simcha.lgbt - a Jewish LGBTQ focused instance) is closing at the end of the year.
I appreciate the reasons the admins are doing this (burnout from dealing with abuse, particularly antisemitic abuse) but I'm still bummed out about it and what it means for the sustainability of smaller instances.
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If you’re a publicly owned public transport operator and your driving force is NOT “how can we transport as many people as possible?” then why should you even exist?
And then if #DeutschlandTicket is imposed on you, your answer needs to be “ok, how do we find a way to transport these new customers?” not whine and complain about the existence of these extra passengers
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Not sure if this is a bad idea, but I'd like an #NVDA setting to turn off the reading of URLs. Specifically, if something is identified as a URL on the text, it could just say URL, or if we want a bit more specificity, web URL, FTP URL, or whatever. Thoughts? I suppose this might be possible to do with a user ditionary.
Like, this is at the root of *so many* problems. People not believing victims (in the broadest sense of the term)? People not taking disability accommodations seriously? People not adjusting to other people's cognitive needs?
It seems like all of these can almost always be boiled down to "the listener is unable to accept what they are being told as true, because they do not understand it from their own experience".
Probably one of the most ingrained toxic beliefs is that you must fully understand something to (even provisionally) accept it as true, and this is soooo difficult for people to unlearn
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@schratze Due to licensing changes, it's now German Godot Day
correction, re: COVID policies, and how to make masking work at events 
I was sort of wrong with the "two people out of thousands" refusing to wear a mask.
Technically, there were several more; this was because, unlike the attendees, the cops watching the protest (from within the crowd) actively refused a mask.
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Gosh, this is so cool: https://www.openaeros.com/opencpc
CPC counters are apparently able to measure PM0.1 presence in the air; which will be useful to measure in addition to PM2.5 and PM10 particles. They're apparently aiming for a design which has a 10x cost reduction over conventional machines (2_000 USD instead of 20_000 USD). All released as copy-left open-source hardware!
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COVID policies, and how to make masking work at events :boost_requested:
@joepie91 same thing worked at a show we organized locally a little while ago :)
re: COVID policies, and how to make masking work at events
(This is also an example of how the whole charade about "we can't possibly mandate masks, how are we ever going to enforce that" is nothing but concern trolling, and the people asking those 'questions' never even bothered to try anything at all, and are really just looking for an excuse not to do it)
- 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
