Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
[update] freelance work offer, Rust, Veilid, some JS
Update: I've potentially found someone! You can still apply in case that doesn't go through, but most likely the job will be taken.
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hold the teeny tiny hard drive up to your ear. copy a file onto it. wonder at the whirring and clicking of a mechanical hard drive the size of a compactflash card
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Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043324001298
freelance work offer, Rust, Veilid, some JS
I'm looking to pay someone who enjoys #Rust to do the following things for me:
1. Write some rough documentation on the #Veilid API and how to use it; a list of notes, some self-contained example code, basically anything that shows it at a high level and explains what the different parts are for.
Format is up to you as long as it's clearly understandable and sufficiently complete.
2. Write Node.js bindings for that API, using something like Neon. They don't have to be super well-designed, they can be a 1:1 correspondence, as long as the whole API is realistically usable from the JS side.
This is blocking some of my other projects, and I don't have the spoons to do these things myself, so before responding, please make sure that you would actually have the spoons to complete this! Payment will be upfront.
This is for personal projects, so I'll be paying for this from my own (limited) money - it'll be a one-off freelance thing, and there's unlikely to be any future work coming from it. Just want to be upfront about that.
The result will be used in WTFPL/CC0-licensed projects, so should be compatible with that, ideally under the same license. Those projects themselves will be explicitly non-commercial.
If you'd prefer to contribute it to the Veilid project directly (assuming they are interested in that), that would be fine too, as long as it unblocks my projects :)
It would be nice if you have some sort of past work to show, but I don't care about resumes (and marginalized folks will have priority). Either Matrix or IRC works for me to communicate.
I don't know what this sort of thing would cost, so please let me know what you'd charge for it, and then I can make a final decision on whether I can afford it or not.
I would like a NixOS that makes both the hard and the easy parts easy, instead of making the easy parts hard
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"200 years ago, Luddites rose up against machines. Contrary to the ahistorical libel you've heard, the Luddites weren't angry or frightened of machines--they were angry at the machines' owners. They understood--correctly--that the purpose of a machine "so easy a child could use it" was to fire skilled adult workers and replace them with kidnapped, indentured Napoleonic War orphans who could be maimed and killed on the job without consequence."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying
Preach it, @pluralistic
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piracy
>Vimm's Lair: The PlayStation 3 Vault is now complete and holds every known PlayStation 3 disc in the world. For the file format fanatics out there, downloads in the GameCube Vault are now available in .rvz format.
huh, cool
huh, cool
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I love that there’s a metadata standard called Dublin Core, which is the only XML namespace you can dance to.
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- sure, a well-fitting, high filtering mask is best, but seriously, being visible in any mask is HUGE
- seeing others in masks means we feel less alone, and yeah, a lot of us feel pretty damned alone right now
- It also means we are less likely to be targeted with harassment
Or how many years(!!!) it took for smartphones to gain even the most basic copy-paste functionality, for example.
It's really very obvious that you're supposed to just consume media with smartphones and not ask too many questions or be able to do too much with it
And I'm not talking about "user-friendliness" (most appliances really are not remotely user-friendly either) but about leaving out any kind of functionality that might allow someone to repair, customize, maintain, or otherwise tinker with their system, including basic functionality like "run a filesystem integrity check/repair on a microSD card"
I hate how smartphones are designed like appliances and not like computers
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Very cool that payment processors can effectively censor the entire internet with impunity by restricting what kinds of goods and services people can sell (regardless of these goods and services being perfectly legal).
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A "black" permanent marker can make for some very interesting results on some materials
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reply guy whataboutism is a disease that must be stopped
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The Inaccessibility Cycle
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"i can't stop thinking about this tweet"
submitted by u/kathyeehaw
https://redd.it/1ber1et
#fuckcars
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A "black" permanent marker can make for some very interesting results on some materials
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
