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.
- 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
Another day, another homegrown classical inheritance implementation in a JS codebase I'm reading
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dringend, bitte lesen und boosten, suizidgefährdung
Moin, falls jemand hier sich mit Recht (speziell über Kinder/jugendlichenrechte) in Sachsen (oder falls es da genaue bundesweite richtlinien gibt, damit) auskennt, bitte mal mir eine DM schreiben. Ich hab eine Freundin die in einer WIRKLICH schlechten situation stuck ist, und will Wissen, was möglich ist.
Leider bin ich nur eine Schülerin in Schleswig-holstein.
Ich kann nicht glauben, dass das so in deutschland grade ihr passiert, und man da nichts machen kann. Also bitte, bitte, hilfe!
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Before: How on earth could old people fall for scam emails? Ha-ha I'm the best at Internet
(Upon receiving an actual legit financial institution's email)
After: Holy shit this looks like it's a spam. If the dude from the bank weren't sitting across the table from me saying it's real I'd delete it, and even now it's setting off so many alarm bells I'm not sure
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I'm not sure this is the best possible mapping, but this edit was inspired by some of the #Threads and #MastodonThreads apologism I've seen the last few days.
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Everyone always asks Doctor Who, but no one ever asks Doctor How
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“The signal is repeating! We’ve got the whole thing.”
“How many bits?”
“Almost 500k. 454,957 bits”
“I got a hunch, factorize that number”
“Bingo, seven fifty seven times six oh one. Think it could be a rectangular bitmap?”.
“It’s what we used to do back before those assholes let Arecibo fall down. Try bm2png.pl in my bin dir.”
“That worked. Holy shit I know that image. It’s the Pioneer plaque. That diagram from Pioneer 11 of human figures, and a map to Earth.”
“What, thats impossible, it’s only been, what, 70 odd years. That probe would still be in our own Kuiper Belt.”
“Outside it, actually, it’d be about one sixty AU out. They lost contact in the mid 90s. Still basically in our backyard but.”
“It’s too soon! If someone’s found it now, that would mean. Shit. They’re. Already. Here. Inside the Solar system.”
“And all they’ve got to say, is ‘Hi, we liked ur meme’.?”
“Maybe not, can you bring up an image of the original plaque? Are the images identical?”
“I’ll do a layer subtraction. Hey, there /is/ a difference. In the map of the planets. They’ve omitted Pluto from their copy.”
“Fucking hell. Little green reply guys.”
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life lesson: don't hold snacks and 128gb microsd card with your server's entire filesystem in the same hand
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Gathering for the holidays? So are we! But what to do when a big surge of Covid is coming to town? We've made a list and checked it twice to help you and your loved ones avoid any unexpected presents this holiday season: Santa's Checklist for Safer Holiday Gatherings!
We aren't saying you've been bad or good (not our job!), but you don't have to be perfect to make a difference. You might not be able to check off every item on the list, but each one you do adds another layer of protection - and helps make up for the ones you can't check off.
Weather too frightful to gather outside? Open windows and run air purifiers to make it safer inside! Don't feel like masking under the mistletoe? Trust me, we get it! But if you wear a mask at work for a week in advance instead, that can also help to keep you and yours safe.
Asking your guests to get their updated 2023-2024 vaccine and to take a rapid test before coming are great steps to take, as always. Feeling symptoms? Negative tests aren't always accurate, so don't be naughty - we'll save your presents for when you're feeling better.
With a new dominant variant and wastewater Covid levels spiking to heights not seen since 2022 or earlier, the threat of Covid this winter is very high. If you've stopped taking precautions, we invite you to start again - this is the season to protect yourself and others.
While there's no way to guarantee that you won't get Covid, you can lower the risk, so check Santa's list and ask what steps you can take. No one wants to miss the holidays - or bring home an unwanted present - so let's protect each other, so that we can all be together!
[Art by ScoutPawfoot]
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The line for the bathroom is always worst on Monday mornings. 
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"Een tweetal nieuwe stukken over de massademonstraties van de jaren ’10. We zijn het niet per se eens met alle uitspraken en conclusies in de artikelen, zoals over de mogelijke noodzaak van hiërarchie. Maar we delen wel de algemene lijn ervan: dat opstanden alleen revoluties kunnen worden als er een duidelijk idee achter zit en ze goed georganiseerd zijn."
De massademonstraties uit de jaren ’10 en de misgelopen revoluties
https://www.doorbraak.eu/de-massademonstraties-uit-de-jaren-10-en-de-misgelopen-revoluties/
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Mailchimp is hardcore anti-union. Do not use Mailchimp.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled
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Nordic model
@babe A practical example for those struggling:
Pimping is illegal under the nordic model. A pimp can be any third party who makes a profit off a sex worker – so norwegian police would target landlords, force them to evict sex worker tenants or be charged as pimps.
This was literally called "Operation Homeless". Do not delude yourself for even a second that this was in any way for sex workers' benefit.
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Nordic model
The nordic model is a way of criminalising sex work 'without' criminalising the sex worker.
Instead the idea is to target the clients of sex workers as criminal to decrease demand.
When people's actions are criminalised it drives sex work further underground and increases the risk enormously to sex workers.
A lot of mitigating safety practices are also commonly criminalised in tandem, so the "not" criminalising goes out the window fast. https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-decriminalized
Market segmentation is just inconvenient progressive taxation with complicated extra steps
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Chiropractic PSA
Never let a "chiropractor" touch your body.
... but given the sheer amount of ad fuckery going on on that site, I assume that all the developers probably only visit it with an adblocker...
I wonder if 1337x has realized yet that one of their ad providers broke the comments tab
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basically there are so many examples of bullshit racism in maths history but I will always mention the chinese remainder theorem as the titular example because it's very often used and very clearly racist
we know the exact book they got it from and its author but we still just say it's "chinese"
the guy who did this was a missionary, btw. because of fucking course he was
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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
