Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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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The very first web browser, created by the inventor of the web, was released five months after the ADA was signed into law.
Folks signing it were not surfing Usenet or Gopher or BBSes.
This claim from #accessiBe is curiously wrong.
Quote source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231008020854/https://accessibe.com/blog/news/ada-tax-credit
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Software has regressed to the point where we now have billions of dollars invested in hardware and software stacks to automate the equivalent of "Buy a new computer every time you want to run a program just to make sure it works" and I hate this so much.
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All day long, the name "Abraham LinkedIn" has been bouncing around my head like a DVD player's logo screen saver.
What do you want from me, brain. I don't know what to do with that.
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there should be a video game that never breaks the fourth wall except in one scene a character gets mad at you for not telling them something and your dialogue options include an option that explains how dialogue trees work
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Also featuring a positively ancient pick-and-place machine with a CRT 🙃
This is a pretty cool behind-the-scenes of how the audio controllers for haunted houses in some theme parks are manufactured... literally in someone's backyard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPJdgxmSiE
I hate how it feels like all of my social spaces are constantly falling apart, and it's always the same reason: a handful of people refusing to be considerate of others, in progressively-harder-to-moderate ways
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At the inauguration in 2013, the 40 meter wide LED videoscreen in the station hall of Rotterdam Centraal was the largest in Europe. It was a gift from the Port of Rotterdam. Since then, it has become “View of the port”, showing an endless loop of three minutes long silent movies of the largest port of Europe, without any advertisements.
Underneath the video screen you can also see the cloud. This light installation can be found on five international train stations in The Netherlands, and is meant as a meeting point. Most of these clouds have the blinking disabled, but the one is Rotterdam is still working as intended.
(I am aware of iFixit, but aside from that being a company, it is also much more limited in scope - as far as I can tell, it only really covers repairs of hardware for its original purpose.)
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Side note: anyone in the twin cities area that's in need of injection supplies (especially for HRT).... Can very strongly recommend 555 clinic in st. paul. 
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- issue is created describing CVE with steps to remediate
- maintainer closes the issue with “we’ll release a fixed build soon”
Ah yes. Naturally. The best way to communicate CVE issues. No notes.
Some things (not exhaustive) I'm thinking of that would be useful:
- Manuals, schematics
- Part numbers for replacement parts (and where to get them, or what their equivalent part numbers from other brands are, etc.)
- Internal tools for flashing new firmware or unbricking devices
- Historical firmwares
- EOL information
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mental chillness, is this anything ?
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Griping about academic awards; Strong language
I kind of hate academic awards
Institutions often point at them to waive off legitimate criticisms that they aren't providing financial support to people who need it
Just say you don't give a shit and be done with it
#AskFedi: Is there already a wiki or something that tracks old devices/models (of anything, not just one category like phones), and documents how they can be repurposed/liberated/unbricked/etc. to prevent them from becoming e-waste?
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oh my god
one of my male coworkers sent me a slack message saying "good job on making your PR. You may have felt a bit of impostor syndrome, which is normal" and then linked to the wikipedia article on impostor syndrome
I have been working at this company for three years, and have opened several dozens of PRs on this repo
- 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
