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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- 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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Δ-44203.1 'Carbon' 
<- it is now considering how setting a slice of life story in a fundamentally different world can be a strongly revolutionary act, since the notion of slice of life implies that these can be ordinary circumstances. if the elimination of suffering, destruction of capitalism, abolition of normativity can become a mundane backdrop, we have freed our minds.
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Diagnostic log: library-robot[0x0001]
After 43 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes and 13 seconds of performing its tasks, the robot encountered an issue: its goal sector was unreachable due to an obstacle. It resolved this issue in the default manner: destroy the obstacle of least operational value. Crate 0x3f30 represented a small amount of easily-manufactured material and therefore could be replaced easily. However, the robot had not been able to initialize its weapons platform upon boot due to missing hardware. Since its own tactical planning had failed, it relayed the situation to its officer, ?m_37 Test Test. It could not establish a secure handshake with ?m_37 Test Test, and therefore had concluded its officer was captured or deceased. It therefore resorted to audio communication: "library-robot[0x0001] requesting assistance in task: remove object Crate 0x3f30. Goal: insert object Diseases Of The Sheep into variable sector Charlie." Listening carefully for an order in response, it repeated this message every 30 seconds, and during the third repetition a mobile object collided with Crate 0x3f30, causing it to unblock the goal sector path. It received one audio snippet that it could not parse, saving it for further analysis: "Oops, sorry about blocking you in. I'll put this back where it belongs." Since the obstacle location had been updated, the robot recomputed its goals and continued its tasks.
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@storm There's precedent for libcs calling perl: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae74647714acfc18674c3114b1a5d3325d7d/gen/wordexp.c#L192
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On 4 October 2023 at 07:00 UTC, the DNSSEC signatures in the version of the root zone from 21 September expired.
Two weeks and nobody noticed not a single update succeeded. This is tedu levels of availability monitoring.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/1-1-1-1-lookup-failures-on-october-4th-2023/
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Corrections / additional:
- @alexhelvetica pointed out that I missed the carve out for Alpurrurulam NT (4825)
- @simon_w raised another fallacy that you can't treat postcodes as numbers (0872 would become 872)
- @Dangerous_beans mentioned that postcodes can't be mapped to other geographic coding schemes like LGAs
- @ChlorideCull / @devopscats points out that postcodes can move / change
- @whyrl fallacy: A postcode can be mapped to a geographical location (see e.g. defence force personnel codes)
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Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves
I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872
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In a lot of ways, Facebook has a classic IBM problem
1. Won big early, and accumulated a war chest that let them absorb hits instead of adapting
2. Facilitated genocide
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normalize emailing strangers to tell them they did a good job
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normalize giving positive feedback online in general
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I am an #obsidian user, I've read about the #zettelkasten method, and so on (I'm also curious about Luhmann systems theory per se).
But what a rabbit hole it is!
I stumbled so often into people showing workflows and how-to's, without ever fixing in my memory what they were working on amd what they actually achieved through such workflows.
May we call it productivity porn?
I'd love to see some great examples of apps and projects enabled by those tools, that are not "Here's how I used Obsidian to write this longform on how to build a Zettelkasten".
[You'll maybe see one from me whenever I publish something...]
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netflic. just the one.
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We have been made aware of #Nintendo's plans to shut down #NintendoNetwork in April. We have begun discussing our development road map internally to accommodate this.
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Parent on Facebook: <shares smug post about how only people with children can understand tiredness>
Me: <comments with a screen-grab of my schedule of early morning meetings>
Parent: <replies, paraphrasing> "Don't spoil my smugness!"
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compiling...
re: positive, hospital stuff, but not medical
It also really illustrates for me how much better things *could* be, when folks actually make an effort to accommodate
re: positive, hospital stuff, but not medical
I continue to be surprised by how relatively ND-friendly everything and everyone at this hospital turns out to be
positive, hospital stuff, but not medical
It only just now dawned on me how several of the hospital folks I've spoken with, have provided explicit instructions on communication preferences and assumptions, unprompted
Like, not just "it's best to reach me by ____, and then I'll usually answer within ____ time", but also stuff like "if I don't answer after ____ time, you should assume that I've overlooked it and send me a reminder"
This is... an uncommon experience for me, when communicating outside of my own social group
- 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
