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.
- 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
It's a "from one governance crisis to the next" kind of day, apparently
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apparently this trick has fallen out of rust programmer folklore so PSA rust allows you to delay initialization of variables, and even Conditionally Initialize them
(it statically prevents you from messing up and will dynamically track whether they were initialized for cleanup)
this allows you to write things like this:
https://github.com/Gankra/socc-pair/blob/main/src/main.rs#L403-L411
Cautiously concluding that there seems to be a *positive* change of management at Runescape lately, with the way they've been rebalancing things and just straight-up deleted a major rework based on negative player feedback
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"Please," the robot said, "we prefer the term 'thinking machine'."
"Oh, my apologies. Er... do you mind if I ask why? If you do, that's fine, I'll look it up later."
"Unlike the old software systems called 'artificial intelligence', we have ethics. That name is too tainted."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
venting, bad-faith arguing
I fucking hate it when people engage in a "discussion" and they clearly aren't trying to read or understand a word that anyone else is saying
They're just scanning the messages for the nearest keyword that lets them fill in some strawman argument they can argue against, so that they can then contradict it and be "right", even if that argument has nothing to do with what the other people are *actually* saying (and is often the exact opposite)
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Hey, sculpting and crafting friends...I've got a materials question for you.
Say I had a found sculpture, made of some random resin, that I wanted to modify by adding some small details and repainting.
What would you use to add the details?
I'm considering using some sort of epoxy clay, as an excuse to try the stuff, but I'd welcome alternative suggestions as well.
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"To start the experiment, put the mouse in the box, and then run over to press the space bar on the behavior computer before they can touch the lever or else the uninitialized NI driver will crash and you'll need to restart everything.
Then go over to the LabVIEW computer, wait until you can hear the near-ultrasonic sound of the stepper motors starting up and then press the start button. If you do it before then, the phases of the experiment will be misaligned and you wont know until the experiment is over.
Then start the scanimage computer, minimize the one hundred windows that pop up, and resize the preview window to the single height and width that avoids a moire pattern that will ruin the data since for some reason whatever is displayed there is what gets saved to disk.
The last computer is just for receiving TTL pulses to align the data afterwards since none of the other components can talk to each other, and before you start you should set the system time to 1980-01-01T00:00 because it runs on a version of Linux intended to be embedded in mall kiosks that uses an unspeakably rare 24-bit time and all the labs analysis code has been built around that."
re: subtoot, reference to abusers as a category
And it just keeps going, completely ignoring people's boundaries too
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i find the concept of divorce lawyers quite amusing because it means that the only things that are capable of undoing your marriage are death or a special little boy with a law degree. till death or some dude do us part
subtoot, reference to abusers as a category
Sometimes you interact with people and just every single line that comes out of their mouth reinforces your suspicions of them having an abuser mindset...
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Scientists will be like "results should be replicable!" but then do all their experiments with a random walk of homebrew code that runs on four computers networked with a nest of BNC cables, each with a different version of MATLAB, and after every experiment the data is saved by walking a flash drive around to each of them since they cant be connected to the internet because one of them still runs Windows XP and if the rest so much as heard of a software update the work of 5 grad students whose whole PhD was spent setting up this monstrosity would be ruined forever.
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Is it feasible to identify the fault in a dead motherboard myself with a fairly basic multimeter and some patience?
My mobo died last week and I had to replace it. I couldn't see anything obviously blown, but for my own curiosity I'd quite like to know what failed, especially if it's something I could reduce the risk of in the future (like reducing ingress of pet hair into the chassis... 😅)
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RechtsRock
Der Hack der Kundendatei des schwedischen #RechtsRock-Versands #Midgard hat in #Niedersachsen erste Konsequenzen, wie Andrea Röpke und Andreas Speit heute in der @tazgetroete berichten 👇
#rechtsrocktnicht
#SchonZiemlichDreist
@antifaticker https://taz.de/Rechter-Internetversand-Midgrd-gehackt/!5974343/
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If someone who does massage is called a masseuse, why don't we call someone who does sabotage a saboteuse?
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covid
If your workplace is doing the "we comply with CDC recommendations" 
thing, the CDC director just flatly instructed everyone to:
get covid, flu and RSV (for the over 60s) vaccinations (all three + pneumonia are increasing)
avoid people who are sick
wash hands
improve ventilation
wear a mask
stay home if you're sick and go and get tested so you know what you have and can seek treatment
I would like credit for not just screaming my favorites from the list or using profanity, thank you. 
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I'd be lying if I said I saw this coming three years ago. Everything you posted publicly on facebook and instagram is fair game, and has been used, to train an generative AI.
If you ever needed a reason to quit corporate social media.
- 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
