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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Captchas were neat back when they were used to help digitise old books and newspapers.
The fact of the matter is that they're rarely better than a single `<input type=hidden` with a random value and fail2ban.
Kunnen we nou allemaal eens kappen met die term 'domrechts'?
Dat soort validisme is totaal onnodig, en moedigt mensen alleen maar aan om de dreiging van fascisme te onderschatten.
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the normal amount is zero
request for historical/scientific context, food/nutrition 
There's this widespread claim that "highly-processed foods are bad for you". I'm not just talking about things like "high in sugar" here, but merely the property of it being 'processed' being considered bad.
Where does this idea come from? Does it have a legitimate scientific basis? I am seeing this argument pop up suspiciously often in the context of defending particular industries (meat, dairy).
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PSA: If someone says their work/research/teaching is in “Ethics in AI” and they do not actively engage with social injustices caused by AI, nor with the work of marginalized scholars in this area, then they are not, in fact, doing Ethics in AI at all.
the mrbeast allegations (2)
Can't edit my original post, but video CW addition: contains some AI-generated imagery.
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Important train station ritual: taking a photo of the parking sticker so I can find my bike again.
the mrbeast allegations
Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5xf40KrK3I (video CW: gambling, also the second video in the series talks about torture-level stuff.)
The allegations in this video are presented kind of chaotically, and it seemed like an odd mix of trivial and significant problems - while I don't doubt that at least part of it is true, I was kind of uncertain whether *all* of it was accurate.
And while I still feel that way... seeing the response from a current MrBeast staffer (https://x.com/chucky/status/1817832019063148818) led me to conclude that however shaky the original allegations may have been, the defense is far *shakier* than that, and there's probably fire here, not just smoke.
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@eniko congratulations!! Monumental achievements.
Just as an FYI for those who don't know why is this important. What is known behind steam publishing is that getting a 500 overwhelmingly positive rating puts a game in a select pile on steam. It "unlocks stuff and visibility skyrockets", so to speak.
Probably steam reps will not agree, but from anecdotal accounts things do change a lot for a game when this happens.
The again congrats eniko for this achievements. Well deserved 🦊 🎊
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One of the reasons I don't like and don't use "enshittification" is that it's inherently agentless and undescriptive
an opinion I feel is validated as I've seen its usage drift into "things getting worse over time" rather than the active thing-being-done by the capital holders
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The more I research into it, the more I think people should be grabbing their FA archives immediately.
Unfortunately the states involved in the legals don't just give you free access to business data like I'm used to, so I can't be entirely sure. Only mostly.
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a preschool was having a shutting down sale and I got a bunch of cheap string and paper but also these vintage stickers and a rubber stamp sets
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How the hell do you use the command line
https://highlysuspect.agency/posts/command_line/
linux hot take
(And they are not *wrong* to feel that distrust, even if total customizability is an awkward workaround for this problem at best)
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Microsoft are homophobic prudes
So I’ve been using Microsoft Stream at work to auto-caption videos. Part of my job is quality assurance so I double-check the captions for errors.
One recent annoyance is that the captioning software censors some words, replacing them with asterisks. One word in particular that has been a thorn in my side is the word “nipple”. I have had to work on several BREASTFEEDING videos. Needless to say, I’ve been retyping in the word “nipple” a lot.
Come to today, I’m working on a video about transgender and non-binary folks. The speaker said, “There is no such thing as straight sex and gay sex.” Lo and behold Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to censor the words “gay sex”. “Straight sex” is uncensored.
I’m fucking livid, but I have no real way to contact Microsoft on this. But, mark it down and spread the word, Microsoft are fucking homophobic prudes.
linux hot take
While there are undoubtedly some people who genuinely need the customizability of an assume-nothing Linux environment on their PC, I think a lot of people who feel they 'need' this mostly just cannot trust any of the existing desktop environments to deliver a good-enough out-of-the-box user experience, and the customizability is an escape hatch for them to compensate for that
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and another esp32 hack, the same board (esp32-c3 super mini) enabling pm2,5 logging from an ikea vindrikting oh and added a 100 and 460 ohm resistor in parallel with eachother and with the fan to actually slow it down and make it quiet (5V, 40mA fan, so should be running at 3.3Vish now)
this sort of soldering is super nightmarishly fiddly with our motor skills, but we managed it, do need to get some more helper clips and the like
hoping the leds aren't too bright for the bedroom
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oh and while we're at it, what are some good (and cheap) FFP 2 or 3 masks? need some for events etc (and wanting to socialise with people who do not even mask in public transport) and since i want to switch them at least every 6-8 i need quite a lot (and i do not have a lot of money)
pls boost? ><
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Do you know anyone who works in a press office?
Ask them "Why do so many press offices give their exclusives to X? Why not post to X on, like, a 6 hour time delay (or not at all... though this might be too much for them)"
We gotta stop news from "breaking" on there. Break it on blueSky, break it on tumblr I don't even care (though really break it here please and thank u)
- 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
