Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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Ik snap niet hoevaak we nog tegen voorbeelden van "de zorg is geen markt" aan kunnen lopen voor dat het een keer doordringt?
Medicijntekorten raakt mensen meteen, zoals ikzelf letterlijk vorige maand nog heb meegemaakt.
Hot take: if a company builds a product to be dependent on a service they run, then they should be on the hook for running that service for as long as people want to use the product, actually, even when it gets really old and expensive.
If you don't want to be stuck running an old service, then don't make your products dependent on it. If you choose to do so anyway, then that is *your* business risk, don't make it the problem of your customers.
I don't expect that this rewrite is going to be accepted as a PR upstream, given how significant the changes are, but in the worst case I just publish it as a fork :)
Despite the complete internal rewrite, and the move to async iterators instead of streams and promises instead of callbacks, it actually doesn't break any of the existing API; it's fully backwards compatible (and still passes all the original tests aside from some internals tests).
The new features probably won't all be supported with the old API, but internals improvements will.
Project status: nearly done with my LevelGraph refactoring, now I have a version that uses async iterators and promises and that should be much easier to extend with support for statement-level annotations and other neat features (without breaking stuff)
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Weirdos who had unrestricted access online growing up in the 1990s/2000s: "The children need to have their internet snooped and logged! Evil pedos on every corner! Shock sites! It's an outrage!"
Me when my parents watched my every move online: "If I look one thing up they don't approve of they'll lock me out of my only way of talking to social peers in this rural area. I'm not even allowed to have a screensaver with a password. A flash drive they didn't know about was near treason."
Me whenever I didn't have that spy shit: "Oh wow, this explains a lot to challenge what I was told by them. This explains the concepts of sex better than the books. This tells me the history of the world my family didn't know or didn't want me to know. No wonder they only wanted approved media, it fed me lies they wanted to use."
Also me: ha ha funny pony show they didn't like :3
I deeply cannot express enough that if your family (or any hierarchy for that matter) wants to lock down what you can see, say, or do, disobey them.
You *might* fuck up, but it's better to be free and learn mistakes than repressed or held back and socially outcast from your peers.
Your parents aren't cops. Your boss isn't a cop. The cops are fuckin dipshits. Fuck em all.
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Today's site photo! No new tents today but things are coming along inside them.
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US politics
A post from my old account from 2017
Still somehow relevant
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Vegan tip: sinds een aantal weken geleden zijn vegan producten een standaard onderdeel geworden van de wekelijkse themaproducten bij de Lidl, dus er liggen nu constant nieuwe dingen :)
Vegan tip: sinds een aantal weken geleden zijn vegan producten een standaard onderdeel geworden van de wekelijkse themaproducten bij de Lidl, dus er liggen nu constant nieuwe dingen :)
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Tech reporters stop casually mentioning that companies are Chinese-owned
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The new OpenAI “safety and security” committee is staffed by the CEO, 3 directors and 4 “heads of”, as well as its chief scientist. Even though the CEO is not the chair of the committee everyone reports to the CEO. This is true for everyone in a company eventually, but a lot more for the people in this committee, and a lot more directly.
So eh. Yeah. You can’t even call this smoke-and-mirrors or cloak-and-dagger drama. No 3D chess here either. They’re not even trying. That’s how little they care. And of course all the media outlets proudly stating how good this all is.
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Via the wonderful Just Seeds website! #Unions #CreativeCommons #Graphics
https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/
(Of note: of these parks, Disneyland Paris is the only park with a paid fastpass system)
These statistics all come from https://queue-times.com/, which aggregrates queue statistics from many parks; I'd recommend looking there if you want the full data.
For no particular reason: here are the average maximum-queue times for the three biggest theme parks in Europe (10 busiest rides only), in 2023.
Some interesting insights about capacity planning to be gleaned from this; visitor numbers from 2019 are 9.8 million for Disneyland Paris, 5.8 million for Europa Park, and 5.4 million for the Efteling, so not *that* far removed.
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Some day soon a child will ask “what is the smallest ant in the world?” and discover that, unless they want to become an expert they simply can’t know.
This is the death of polymaths— a hurdle for interdisciplinary learning— and a return to a kind of human gatekeeping for real information: you best ask someone qualified if you are not expert enough to tell on your own. (this was already true for contentious topics, but now it will be everything)
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Once you could count on some things posted online probably being true because, well, why would anyone bother to put out misinformation about a topic so obscure or uncontroversial? now the simple fact that someone might want to know a bit of information makes it worth faking if it can get their eyeballs on an ad— or improve the search ranking for some company. The harmless act of *being curious* about the world causes misinformation to spring to life. We have made wanting to learn destructive.
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Today I went to the store to pick up yeast, and I came home with:
- radishes
- daikon
- carrots
- bathroom spray cleaner
- vinegar
- basil seed and honey soda
- milk
- fennel
- a bookmark
- a tiny little Vaseline
..what I did not come home with:
- yeast.
- 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
