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.
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- 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
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autotools be like
checking for number system base ... base 2
checking for signed integer system ... twos complement
checking for galaxy ... milky way
checking for laws of the universe ... standard model
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American companies building software that doesn't support non-American naming conventions (surname first, mononyms, unnamed infants, compound/very long surnames, many middle names, etc) is cultural imperialism
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So, diode.zone is asking people to look for other peertube homes ... Can anyone recommend a well-moderated, queer-friendly instance for my somewhat rarely published video content?
I have one music video so far that I'd like to keep on the web, and possibly some other music-related stuff to come, probably mostly music videos.
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Two things can be true at once:
• It's a dick move to reply to complaints with Windows / macOS with "just use Linux."
• The OS duopoly is bad, and causes real harm that is only getting worse; individual action is necessary but not sufficient to mitigate that harm.
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It is absolutely true that individual action fails as a model for social change, and that's at least doubly true for yelling at folks to go take on that change. At the same time, there's often no path to a systemic solution that doesn't at least partially pass through individual action.
In tech, issues as wide ranging as privacy infringements and DRM have been so widely disparaged as nerd problems that it's almost impossible to get any traction on systemic or individual change.
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PSA for any trans person getting feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy through the NHS
Most NHS gender clinics across the UK have heavily restrictive oestradiol (estradiol; E2) target ranges, which are not in line with international best practice or guidance 😮💨
Some target as low as 200 to 400 pmol/L (54 to 109 pg/mL).
Many target an arbitrary, narrow 400 to 600 pmol/L (109 to 163 pg/mL) range.
Only a couple are more in line with international guidance, using a wider 350 to 750 pmol/L (95 pg/mL to 204 pg/mL).
If you test above their range, they will typically reduce your E2 dose, even if you feel better with a higher E2 level.
As such, it is always morally justified to take steps to make your E2 level lower when they demand a blood test to stop your dose being lowered 
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Edit: This post about E2 ranges from NHS GICs is from 2021, but given how glacially the NHS moves, it's probably still accurate.
#NHS #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransLiberation #TransLiberationNow #HRT #GAHT #OpenHRT #trans #transgender #transition #NHSEngland #NHSScotland #NHSWales
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Shorter version of my earlier thread:
Things in tech likely won't get better without at least one component of that improvement involving more people using Linux. That is a valid but incomplete and not universally applicable mitigation to many but not all of the valid problems raised with Windows and macOS.
You just don't have to be a reply-guy about it, though. Offer support where that support is welcome and asked for, and practice empathy always.
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Anfang des Jahres habe ich eine kritische Barriere in der iOS-App des E-Rezept gemeldet, durch die Nutzer*innen von VoiceOver beim Anzeigen von ausführlicheren Informationen zu Medikamenten oder einem Rezept in der App gefangen werden und nichts mehr tun können.
Der Bug ist immer noch nicht gefixt - der Aufwand dafür wäre wahrscheinlich wenige Stunden.
Stattdessen kann man jetzt Apple Memoji als Profilbild in der App einstellen. Prioritäten von Nichtbehinderten. #Inklusion #Barrierefreiheit
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I like it when you take a picture and accidentally make birdsong seem visible. #birds #birdsong #photography #SongSparrow
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reminder:
you should block/mute/unfollow people who make you feel uncomfortable, make you feel horrible about yourself, feel weird to see on your timeline, etc. there is no shame in it.
you should block/mute/unfollow people who make you feel uncomfortable, make you feel horrible about yourself, feel weird to see on your timeline, etc. there is no shame in it.
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one of the largest science buildings is now rationing CO2 because we have turned away so many gas deliveries. Maybe the scabs still working will have to stop their experiments anyway
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one thing that having unmedicated adhd for 37 years has taught me is that you don't need to pay any attention to most stuff
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@whitequark @mcc "The Recall team didn't make a conscious decision to exclude DRMed content" is relevant to the conversation about whether they put any thought into what they should be recording or not
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my only contribution to the "kink at pride" discourse this year
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why does every note/task/knowledge management system have like a whole ideology attached?
I don't want to reshape my thinking around stoic philosophy; I just want to remember when my next appointment is and what the ingredients are for that good burrito recipe.
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another common thing that happens in error messages, that I've seen, is developers outright using the terms "request" and "response" to refer to HTTP requests and responses of any type, ignoring what the user actually did
like, "invalid response" could mean that the server failed, or that the server rejected a user's input, or that the client generated input which the server then rejected. since multiple requests and responses happen over the course of a regular page load, it's impossible to know which and it's just... useless.
HTTP codes that distinguish client and server errors aren't useful to an end user if the client and the server are both sending things back and forth automatically. the server sends a client page which decides what to send back to the server, and there, if the client messes up, it's still a server problem.
instead, we need web pages to actually distinguish between errors the user made and errors the browser made, instead of just saying everything is invalid and nobody knows who did it
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error messages should provide information that helps you resolve the error. simply describing the situations in which an error may occur is not helpful if they don't lead to a clear solution, and giving an error code that requires me to look up a manual is equally unhelpful. (however, using error codes to offer extra information in a manual is useful.)
I'm tired of errors that just say "whoops! it broke" without any further information. I'm tired of errors that patronise me and exhaustively list when an error might occur without saying which thing in the list occurred. I want useful information and not an assertion that information won't be given
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Oh hey! We kunnen dus wél iets doen tegen malafide beleggers die schaarse handel opkopen om zichzelf te verrijken...
als het om voetbal gaat dan. Niet om woningen.
- 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
