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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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I only ended up switching to Linux because a friend harassed me to do it for 10 years. One day he caught me at just the right boredom level and dropped the Superior Linux User persona to very patiently talk me through it.
The main thing that stopped me from trying it for all those years? That persona.
Someone insulting you and your intelligence persistently does not make you want to change to using their Favourite Thing that they're being so smug about.
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“Racists around Britain have been emboldened by the racism of Reform and Farage in Parliament and Robinson’s 15,000 strong demo in London.
“Both must be held accountable as they whip up Islamophobia and throw fuel on the fire.
“Anti-racists are now committed to breaking racists’ confidence again and confronting them where they attempt to spread hatred and attack Muslims.”
Anti-fascists to mobilise across Britain as racists expected to cause mayhem this weekend.
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Damn TIL that not only Half-Life 2's eyes are still considered pretty much the gold standard for character eyes in video games 2 decades later, but also unlike almost every other game instead of using 3D eyeballs they're just almost-flat planes with a shader applied to them that makes them look better than the really 3D stuff
https://cohost.org/joewintergreen/post/3081256-dev-scoops-simulati
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And I know this sounds bizarre, but a healthy railway system inevitably will have a bunch of empty or close to empty trains running
You can’t ever precisely match your operations to the demand. You can’t only run peak hours service (if you do people whose plans change can’t rely on the train)
So aiming for an ever higher % of your seats full might help a railway company’s bottom line, but won’t help rail’s modal share - and its modal share that matters, ultimately
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The publisher that I was on the verge of signing with told me that they have an immovable policy of "no swearing". Why would I work around arbitrary constraints?
They think I've just declined.
What they have actually done is begin an arc that begins with self-publishing and ends with me creating a publishing house that runs them out of business, just because I can sense the weakness in their organization.
🧛♂️
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The officially best news of the $interval:
World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):
(The answer is that it's a Vec<u8>, according to https://smithay.github.io/wayland-rs/src/wayland_backend/protocol.rs.html#31, by the way)
Kind of baffled by how the Wayland protocol documentation just... doesn't define what an 'array' is in the wire format.
This is the entirety of the 'array' documentation: "Starts with 32-bit array size in bytes, followed by the array contents verbatim, and finally padding to a 32-bit boundary."
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New e-Ink displays on trial by :london_bus: - they’ve been mounted at two stops, Borough Station (Stop D) and Waterloo Station/Waterloo Road (Stop F).
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#OmarBarghouti is one of the authors that has been at the forefront of this.
This short, clear article of his provides a powerful summary of the main arguments:
Barghouti, O. (2009). Organizing for self-determination, ethical de-Zionization and resisting apartheid. Contemporary Arab Affairs, 2(4), 576–586. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550910903237145
Available on https://sci-hub.se/
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One important form of resistance against #zionist settler #colonialism is to educate ourselves about the ethically coherent, decolonized alternative that Palestinian authors have been putting forward for many years now.
A secular, democratic state in historic #Palestine, with room for both the *inalienable* rights of indigenous Palestinians, and *acquired* rights of colonial settlers, provided the latter renounce all their colonial privileges and contribute to reparation and repatriation.
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sebbiebikes: *Biking borders; fighting borders*
Sponsor Seb per 100 km: https://www.sebbiebikes.org/donate#donate (the money goes to MiGreat)
"hi! you’ve made your way to my website, welcome! starting august 2024, i (seb, 24 years old) will cycle from Amsterdam to India. an adventure that crosses around 20 “borders”. do those “borders” also seem so unnatural and arbitrary to you, too? it’s only with sheer luck that i have a Dutch passport that allows me to cross them: a privilege only granted to few.
so, come along with me and explore why borders suck. browse my website, read some books, share the fundraiser. by biking, i’ll bring you along in my own learning process about why borders exist, how they function and why they’re so unjust."
#MiGreat #Borders #NoBordersNoNations #Bicycle #biketour #bike
activism advice, burnout/energy
Inspired by another discussion thread:
Don't dismiss the easy wins, even if they're imperfect and unlikely to last. Take them when and where they appear.
But be careful to only spend your energy polishing solutions to perfection, on the long-term systemic changes. Likewise for your energy discussing strategies with others.
"fairness in sports", bigotry
Here's your obligatory reminder that nobody actually cares about "fairness in sports", and any time someone raises that argument to try and exclude someone, it is going to be bigotry. There's no point in trying to earnestly discuss the topic with them, you'll just give them a platform.
If people *actually* cared about fairness in sports, competition brackets would not be divided by gender/race/whatever to begin with, and would instead be based strictly on real-world performance metrics. But you'll never find the "fairness in sports" people arguing for that.
planned obsolescence, long, hot take?
Every once in a while people argue about whether 'planned obsolescence' is a real thing, and I think that discussion completely misses the point. The two typical claims are:
1. Companies actively limit the lifespan of products, so that you will need to buy a new one after a while, to increase profit.
2. Things break down after a while naturally because components wear out, that's not intentional, manufacturers just use good-enough components to cut manufacturing costs.
But like. What is actually the difference between these two? They both have the same goal (maximize profit), and the same end result (things break sooner because of that).
And in the latter case, the manufacturer has no reason to try and actively improve the lifespan; it'd cost them more in component cost, *and* reduce sales. Nobody is going to sign off on that in a company.
So why does it matter which of these two is 'correct'?
However you look at it, whichever of these is 'correct', the conclusion is still the same: the profit maximization incentive of commercial manufacturing leads to products that break sooner than they need to, and sooner than they could have done if quality components were used.
The environmental cost is the same. The end-user frustration is the same. The labour exploitation increase (due to increased manufacturing capacity) is the same. All of the bad consequences are the same.
What matters here is that the incentives of for-profit manufacturing are the cause of these problems. Whether that involves 'planned obsolescence' or not is an irrelevant implementation detail.
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so on a debian system: before doing a major release upgrade (i.e. bullseye -> bookworm), i want to check whether any packages i have installed right now were removed in the next release. does anyone know is that something i can do?
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AI and energy economics
this is one of those frustrating instances of leftists refusing to think economically.
so you think the associated carbon emissions and water use in no way justified by the value the current wave of AI is providing to society. okay, fair enough.
so how about we look at WHY it happens anyways? there is a couple of aspects to this, but one is obviously the price of energy (and perhaps water). to allow net-positive carbon emissions is to subsidize destructive waste.
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I noticed my local fastener supplier sells M42 nuts for under £5
…I now have an M42 nut :3
(M5 for scale)
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Pretty much every infosec person i know has given up reporting phishing sites because 99% of them are behind CloudFlare / CloudFlare domains. CloudFlare takes weeks to respond, will leak your info to the abusers and sometimes not even do anything.
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@smveerman we had a night train leave 2 hours early without any passengers, although according to the info sign it might have been the previous day's train delayed by 1320 minutes.
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
