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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Anyone got any tips for making accessible SVGs out of eg. Conference posters? Not sure how to do alt text for an illustrator file
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The show you were watching has been removed from your streaming service for your convenience
Pray we do not convenience you any further
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now also available in English:
Are we past peak IPv4? -- Value of IPv4 address blocks has dropped sharply in the last year
https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/are-we-past-peak-ipv4
"The prices fetched by address blocks currently traded plateaued about two years ago, and have actually fallen significantly in the last twelve months. What's more, the price drop appears to be structural, suggesting that we may have already passed peak IPv4. That's a clear (economic) signal that IPv4's significance is in decline."
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FTX should've been called Mt. Gox Electric Boogaloo
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This box of 600+ specimen cards holds a complete snapshot of the last metal type foundries in Germany.
Produced 1958–1971, the Schriftenkartei (Typeface Index) represents the final effort to catalog all the country’s typefaces in production at the time. The cards are useful for researchers and designers as they share a common format and show complete glyph sets. Thanks to Michael Wörgötter, a set of these cards is now in our collection, and his high-res scans are online. https://letterformarchive.org/news/schriftenkartei-german-font-index/
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One of the small delights of a big city is encountering people selling things who just have more customers than they can handle so they become progressively more rude and obscure about how they render the service.
Economists would say they ought to raise the price... but they don't. Raising prices changes expectations, brings different more annoying customers.
Instead you get the best chicken tenders on earth DO NOT ask if you can buy them without the fries. Fries are mandatory.
Sometimes it feels like the internet is just 50 people that I keep running into over and over again in a million different places
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ACAB
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Some other juicy bits about the #Cloudflare outage:
- No 24/7 (experienced) technician availability at the datacenter that hosted their control plane(!)
- No end-to-end service dependency tracking or diagrams
- Therefore, supposedly HA services depending on non-HA infrastructure
- Even if the "redundant" setup *did* work (it didn't), all three locations would be physically within *the same earthquake zone*
This is absolute clowncar level network administration, frankly, for something the size and importance of Cloudflare.
🤔 Cloudflare seems to actually have pissed off the HN commenters this time
I heard there's this well-tested distributed network routing protocol, that is extremely resilient to provider failures. I think it's called BGP - perhaps we should all be using that instead.
"Well, we *thought* we had High Availability, but we never actually tested that"
- Cloudflare, supposed distributed systems experts, processing a double-digit percentage of the world's web traffic
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"Why don't you trust corporate FOSS? It's still FOSS, isn't it? Why are you being so difficult?"
Cloud "oops turns out our distributed system is centralized in a single datacenter" Flare
(It's really unfortunate that the entirety of Airport CEO's mod repertoire seems to be "different fake airline and fuel supplier logos")
#AskFedi: Anyone have any suggestions for complex logistics games that aren't just busywork? I liked a lot about Airport CEO, but every mechanic was *just* too shallow to provide a real challenge, and there was little variety.
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In a world where everything has to be a side hustle, or a potential business idea, or a way to develop skills to put on your resumé, it can be hard to let yourself start a million projects and never finish any of them. Or to spend hours of effort actually finishing a project that explicitly has no use or value beyond "I think it's neat".
But sometimes that's exactly what *you* need to get through the week. Don't worry about it 
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- 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
