Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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If you haven’t been following this: what happens is one company will do layoffs (despite excellent if not record profits), and all of them take the cue and follow suit. The layoffs disproportionately affect people with more seniority and higher compensation. A couple of weeks later, they all slowly fill the positions back up again, at lower pay. Because the job market was flooded with people who’ve now become concerned if not desperate, they accept. A couple of months pass and the cycle repeats.
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At some point a legislator will catch on to the wage suppression effort currently being perpetrated by the big tech companies. Unfortunately that’s probably not any time soon.
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Oh but the best part
Dude dumped the rom by CRASHING A GBA AND RECORDING THE CRASH SOUND FOR HOURS https://youtu.be/0-7PSmYYHF0
Yea so it turns out if you crash a gba game and wait long enough, the "crash sound" starts playing the entire address space, so if you take enough recordings and do a majority vote on differences, you can dump a ROM
How the fuck do people figure this shit pit
Dude dumped the rom by CRASHING A GBA AND RECORDING THE CRASH SOUND FOR HOURS https://youtu.be/0-7PSmYYHF0
Yea so it turns out if you crash a gba game and wait long enough, the "crash sound" starts playing the entire address space, so if you take enough recordings and do a majority vote on differences, you can dump a ROM
How the fuck do people figure this shit pit
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The idea being to maintain a collective pool of media storage (Tahoe requires less mutual trust here) that everyone shares, so that the media get deduplicated across instances, but it still ensures enough redundant copies across instances that outages don't break everyone
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I wonder if something like Tahoe-LAFS (in convergent/deduplicated mode) or even Garage wouldn't significantly improve the storage requirements for small fediverse instances
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joining something much bigger than you are
(world-spanning polycule)
also I'm now a connection point between two huge polycules, this is literally like a 16th century marriage of state
(world-spanning polycule)
also I'm now a connection point between two huge polycules, this is literally like a 16th century marriage of state
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Ik ben eens naar een voorlichtingsbijeenkomst geweest waarin ze uitlegden wat het werk in zou houden.
Je moet dus zelf voor een fiets zorgen. Dan moet je eerst 5km fietsen om de post op te gaan halen (circa 15 minuten, onbetaald), dan kun je ongeveer 2 uur post rond brengen. Tegen het minimumloon. En dan kun je weer 5km terug naar huis fietsen (ook weer onbetaald).
Ik heb dus even verder gezocht.
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Disabled people have been saying “normalize disability” for a long time now but we did not mean that the state should let a level 3 pathogen rip through the entire population and then tell everybody that severe brain fog, heart palpitations, lung damage, and chronic fatigue are all normal so make sure you just keep buying shit and going to work.
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Everyone who knows anything about how to stop fascists: "Yeah so you have to make it so economically, socially, and physically punishing to be a fascist that fascists get completely demoralized and simply don't bother. You have to make it impossible to exist as a fascist."
Liberals: "Yeah so you just have to talk to them and listen to them and win debates online. They'll see reason."
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Folks tend to get private property and personal property mixed up way too much and that's why socialism and communism are viewed in a negative light by them.
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re: harsh words for those who travel
the reality is that conferences could and would enforce strict masking guidelines, implement mass air filtration, and encourage more online participation if people actually refused to go to cons that didn't willfully infect thousands of people
but people don't put their foot down, they shrug and get infected with a blood plague and then complain about it like it's not entirely their fault
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harsh words for those who travel
as someone who has to struggle to transport themself all the way to the grocery store, let alone anywhere else, it's incredibly frustrating to see people fragrantly disregard the wellbeing of others and fly around constantly to conferences to spread viral illness far and wide
I know it's lonely, but fuck, none of us chose this, and you're using your privilege to make it harder for the rest of us just because you can't stand to burden yourself even a little bit
fuck you
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my dad sent a mastodon post in the family group chat and it was so surreal
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💡 Did you know that in #blender3d if you just want a flat color with no shading, you can plug an RGB node directly into the #b3d material output? #blendertip
*This setup is for Eevee.
Updated for Eevee and Cycles: https://mastodon.art/@zerodean/111779731861865458
The idea being to maintain a collective pool of media storage (Tahoe requires less mutual trust here) that everyone shares, so that the media get deduplicated across instances, but it still ensures enough redundant copies across instances that outages don't break everyone
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I wonder if something like Tahoe-LAFS (in convergent/deduplicated mode) or even Garage wouldn't significantly improve the storage requirements for small fediverse instances
This thought brought to you by me describing "standard" to someone as a magic word that serves as an 'infection vector' for a hype cycle, and then suddenly realizing that this metaphor applies more broadly
Only just realizing how much sense it (seems to) make to think of tech hypes like they are infectious diseases, with infection vectors and pandemic policies - and it fails in the same ways too
- 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
