Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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
CW-boost: transphobia, evidence that the Cass Report was malicious
Another day, another fight with a Linux command-line utility misparsing my arguments
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politics
Should be stated.
Patriarchy does not really respect men.
And white supremacy does not really respect "white" people.
They're toxic, self-devouring systems that are built on oppressing the out group much more than the in group, but restraining them both.
food (vegan), low-salt bread recipe
Success! Some small adjustments need to be made (forgot to add water in the oven so the crust was too tough, and the liquid ratio was too high in the dough mixture and I needed to adjust that later), but overall I'm very satisfied with the result.
The outcome: a roughly 600 gram bread containing only 2 grams of salt, yet at about 0.3/100gr salt, it tastes slightly nicer than your typical supermarket bread in NL (which is usually around 1/100gr salt), and has a much nicer texture. Without using potassium salt, and therefore kidney-disease-friendly!
The original recipe:
- 2gr dry yeast
- 2gr salt
- 350ml lukewarm water
- 400gr flour
- 1 teaspoon ground fennel
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 tablespoons cooking olive oil
- 2 tablespoons oat flakes
- 1 tablespoon peeled sunflower seeds
- 1 teaspoon broken flaxseed
- a bunch of pumpkin seeds
Mix all at once, *except* for the pumpkin seeds, knead thoroughly, let sit in bowl overnight at room temperature (would've been around 10 hours for me), *do not* add sugar or use an oven (dough proofing is deliberately slow).
Next morning, flatten and fold like you usually would with bread. Add some cuts at the top, make a bit wet, and add some pumpkin seeds on top until it looks nice.
Let sit for an hour, then bake it for 40 minutes in a preheated 200C (convection) oven. Add an ovenproof bowl of water in the oven, to keep the environment humid. Beware that it will increase significantly in height!
(Picture is missing the top, because uh, well, see previous post - but the rest of the bread was salvageable, and still nice!)
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in maths and theoretical cs, we’re in desperate need of editors for our books. I can no longer take this amount of bad writing, jokes that don’t land, ridiculous babbles about “smartness”, symbols that were never defined, inconsistent notation, etc.
food (vegan)
Oops, burned the top because it expanded more quickly than expected in the oven - but otherwise it seems to be a success! It tastes basically like bread, which is the success condition given the low amount of salt
Something obscure that's fascinating to me as a UX designer, are the many "fan redesigns" of major operating systems and applications like Windows, Chrome, media players, and so on.
They often have UX deficiencies, or don't scale to dynamic and more complex UIs, but that's not the interesting part - the interesting part is how you can infer from them how people are experiencing the "official" UIs, and what they find deficient about them.
It's like an accidental critical analysis of widespread software. Hugely valuable in understanding what makes UIs work or fail for people.
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🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY OpenStreetMap! Today is OSM's 20th Brithday! 🎂 🎂
Here's SteveC's desktop at University College London, the original OSM "server" until 2006. You've come a long way in the last 20 years. 😍
https://birthday20.openstreetmap.org/
#20YearsOfOSM #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenStreetMap #OSM
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I am looking for reliable news on what is happening in Bangladesh which is not written by Indian news outlet or by US News Outlets.
Do you know anyone here who has done a TL;DR thread?
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Ad blockers are not just a nice measure against annoying advertising. They protect against malware (see malvertising), save bandwidth and therefore energy and help us to stay focused, as many distractions are removed.
So they are good for security, the climate and our mental health.
Ad blockers are awesome!
ageInYears++
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Well this is a cool blog on designing content for transport displays
https://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2024/08/01/design-language-basics-for-displays/
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We tend to think of Big Tech as innovators, but in most cases, when that was genuinely true, they were Small Tech. Big Tech rarely innovates from within. It usually buys it.
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Experimenting with long-exposure photography via live webcams; averaged pixel values and brightest pixel values over a three-hour exposure of the Sydney harbour, using video scraped from https://youtu.be/IhWWW2l-pP0
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When you make a dishonest argument debating "AI"—during a bubble where supporting the bubble has a potentially huge financial upside—those of us who are watching have to assume that you ARE dishonest and that dealing with you will just expose us to risk
So I, at least, won't
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Since I'm seeing a lot of "I have covid" posts, reminder that the WHO actually published a protocol for recovery after the illness to reduce the odds of Long Covid.
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Tip if you have autistic friends*:
You know that thing where you're talking about wanting an orange, and they suddenly start rambling about status symbols in ancient Rome?
Info dumping is a display of trust and affection. Many autistic people have been repeatedly punished for being their true selves, often to the point of serious trauma. If they're letting you see into their very minds and sharing what they care most about, it's an act of vulnerability and trust.
Info dumping can also be because their brains are just full of stuff they've been obsessing over, and getting it out is their way of giving up what they love to make space for your conversation.
So, if you REALLY want to make their day, return the favor. Focus on their conversation instead of yours. The magic words are: "Really? Tell me more."
Just make sure you mean it. Authenticity matters. Then, sit back and enjoy a random TED lecture.
#ActuallyAutistic #neurdivergent #autism
* Disclaimer: If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person. Won't apply to all, but probably to most.
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Also, are there any universities or conferences that put lecture & talk recordings on #peertube yet?
My Wayland implementation is in JS; it doesn't use libwayland, so I've had to figure out a lot of things from scratch because there's quite a lot about the protocol that just isn't documented. But once you can send and mmap file descriptors (two things Node.js does not do natively), it's very much viable!
The protocol is honestly not that complicated to implement. The problem really is just the documentation.
- 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
