Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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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Looking into the inside of a USB-A plug to see if it's got the USB 3.0 contacts, like I'm inspecting a horse's teeth.
hot take, "open core"
"Single sign-on is an Enterprise feature" only holds up when you believe that large-scale collaboration is beholden to corporations, and FOSS is only for unserious single-person projects - it is *not*, in fact, a reasonable stance to take on a supposedly open-source project
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The next day, there was another human in the house, shouting and pointing to scratch marks on the walls and threatening to throw the cat and her human out.
The cat snuck up behind the intruder and perked her ears at her human.
The human caught her eyes. 'Yes, Satan. Today.'
The cat smiled, too widely and with too many teeth, and looked down at the intruder from her full height.
She pounced.
(Thanks to @LexPendragon for the prompt!)
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The cat pounced with claws extended upon her unsuspecting human's bare feet.
'Ouch!' the human cried. 'Not today, Satan!'
The cat's enlarged pupils shrank, and her excited wiggle stilled. She slunk away.
The next day, she frolicked among the ripped-up pieces of the curtain she'd dragged from the rails when her human scooped her up. 'Not today, Satan,' the human said wearily.
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It's getting on that time again - remember that a lot of people have issues around holidays, particularly compulsory holidays and family-associated holidays, and Christmas is one of those holidays.
Content warnings *would* be helpful.
Thank you.
- 🦇 🎒
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hi everyone i'm creating an open source fast and simple digital painting software
right now i have:
- brush engine similar to popular manga software
- antialiased bucket fill with gap closing
- opengl canvas view
- first bits of intuitive ui/ux
i'm preparing a demo for linux folks, next i will do layer system also similar to popular manga software
repository: https://github.com/mrgaturus/npainter
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hot take on hrt.
you could fill an entire “they have played us for absolute fools” meme template with things endocrinologists say, recommend, demand and prescribe to trans people.
🤔 I wonder if the "have an antivirus installed" step of PCI compliance could be technically satisfied by installing a program that detects the EICAR test string and nothing else
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ian danskin just dropped new video, and it is painfully relevant. to everybody who cries about how sensitive and unfair people are when they ask for content warnings, please watch this
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@joepie91 yeahhhhh, I'm worried too. We might also see a resurgance of malware, as people stop updating instead of throwing away tho...
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@joepie91 it's honestly outrageous that I can play modern games on my hardware but not run windows 11. Why isn't any government suing the shit out of Microsoft?
The myth of patents as a protector of innovation is dying, and I love to see it
(You do not get to respond to this with "use Linux" unless you intend to spend your next year working on perfect Windows application compatibility on Linux)
Deeply concerned about the imminent mountain of e-waste when Windows 10 support ends in 2025/2028.
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the nightly eep
Instructions on eeping
Step 1
Flop 
Step 2
Cover 
Step 3
Close eyes 
Step 4
Eep 
Step 5
??? 
Step 6
Profit 
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Ik zoek (gratis) oude winkelinrichting - vooral kledingrekken en van die rekken met een paar 'graaibakken' boven elkaar. Het mag kapot of versleten zijn, zolang er nog maar functioneel bruikbare inrichting van te maken valt.
Dit gaat voor een kleine weggeefwinkel zijn, dus vooral de wat compactere dingen zijn ideaal. Laat het me alsjeblieft weten als je iets hebt staan, of iemand kent die wat heeft!
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To the surprise of nobody whose worked on any collaborative projects at scale — people with toxic styles of engagement burn out the people actually doing the work and negatively affect the entire project.
This paper is specifically about Wikipedia, but like no shot this doesn’t apply to open source as well:
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/12/pgad385/7457939
EU politics, waste reduction, positive
"On Monday night, Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on revising the EU’s ecodesign framework for sustainable products. [...] Specific product requirements will be outlined by the Commission through secondary legislation.
[...]
Negotiators agreed to specifically ban the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear, two years after the entry into force of the law (six years for medium-sized enterprises). In the future, the Commission may add additional categories to the list of unsold products for which a destruction ban should be introduced."
(Note: this is a *provisional* agreement, many things can still change)
- 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
