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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There was a great short story on Reddit where the billionaires all fucked off in a giant, luxury space ship leaving a ruined Earth behind them. The people cleaned and healed the Earth and redesigned our society with equality and compassion. When the billionaires saw Earth had healed, they returned and told us they would resume their lives. We destroyed their ship in orbit and lived happily ever after. Please, Jeff and Elon, take your sociopathic pals, and head on out!
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@joepie91 I’ve never wanted to pay for a browser more than right now.
Jesus christ, we really need an actual proper community-run browser project.
"Mozilla this week said it has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym [...] Asked whether Mozilla has any concerns that its user base, many ardent ad-blockers among them, will oppose Anonym, a spokesperson for the Firefox house told The Register advertising as a business model is what allows the internet to be free and open to everyone, though there's still room for improvement."
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_betting_privacy/
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Nothing quite like seeing an asshole in a loud sports car making rounds around the city center and then an hour later seeing that exact car being towed by city services 🧡 karma
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Redoing the lab storage, however a particular lab haj came up with the sorting system and sorted itself...
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They're once again trying to delete the Wikipedia article on TESCREAL 🤔
A thoroughly peer reviewed paper, numerous articles and all sorts of mentions later...
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Fedi Friends: I really want to display the text of my most recent mastodon post on a webpage. Not an embed - just the text. And the most recent, automatically.
Are there any tools or resources, tutorials, etc, you can point me to?
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It's important to know your rights! Even though a mask ban is now law in Nassau County, NY, cops can't:
❌Make you provide a doctors note proving your disability
❌Force you to disclose private health info
❌Make you take off a religious face covering
the matrix thing
Remember how I dropped out from trying to contribute to Matrix because of two core developers being abusive towards folks trying to fix their governance and technical problems?
Yeah. That.
Today's project: writing an explanation of Matrix state resolution in simple English. Mostly for my own reinforcement of understanding, but I'll probably publish it if I'm sufficiently happy with it.
The conversation around "metadata" in messaging security, and what qualifies as "good enough", has gotten really weird.
Lots of people bring up Signal's sealed sender as "this is what qualifies as good", but then are unable to explain exactly how it works, or why it would qualify.
And I've been unable to determine this myself as well, since Signal are very cagey about the technical details. What I've found has not convinced me that it actually does protect metadata.
So. As far as I can tell. The bar to meet is "your product is literally Signal" and nothing else? This makes no sense to me.
(Not a subtoot nor related to a parallel converstation I'm having around metadata, this is describing a pattern from the past few years)
Why? Because "selling yourself" and "doing the work" are entirely separate skills that have basically nothing to do with each other, and being excessively outspoken about everything is more likely to be a red flag than anything else.
Honestly, if I were a hiring manager, I'd probably be interviewing first the folks who have trouble describing or marketing themselves, and whose resumes are either non-existent or kind of crappy.
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huh, this makes a lot of sense and is kinda cool
so, I was wondering why mahjong tiles use all the standard numerals for digits except five, which uses the "financial" version
backing up a bit, in latin scripts, we tend to write out numbers in full on financial documents like checks to prevent them from being altered. it's very easy to change a 1 to a 7 but much more difficult to change one to seven
but in chinese and languages which use chinese characters, the numerals are the words. with extremely simple numerals it's trivial to change them by adding in extra lines:
一二三四五六七八九
so, there are "financial" versions of the numerals that are much more complicated and can't easily be changed to match each other:
壹貳參肆伍陸柒捌玖
out of these numerals, one stands out as being much more similar to its original: five (五). in particular, it's the same character, but with a "person" radical next to it: 伍
it's also the only character which uses its financial version on mahjong tiles instead of the original
so, it turns out that apparently, this is to ensure it has a different tactile feel from three (三), which differs from five by two lines, assuming that this reddit comment is accurate: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/16liu0b/why_is_%E4%BC%8D_used_on_mahjong_tiles_instead_of_%E4%BA%94/
since mahjong tiles are small and harder to hold/hide, a lot of people rely on feeling the tiles instead of looking at them to determine which tile they are, and this makes the tiles feel more different. (unlike playing cards, mahjong tiles are pretty much always engraved)
which is a cool case of a game being made more blind-accessible even if it wasn't necessarily the intention originally
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Military service
Here’s your reminder that no matter the situation, no matter how liberal and/or democratic your country may be, no matter how righteous the cause may seem, mandatory military service is a violation of human rights
ukpol-adjacent
Rule of thumb: if you get to complain about your "freedom of speech" being "suppressed" in major media outlets, your claim is basically automatically false
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I follow a great selection of #maths #teachers on twitter, but most are either not jumping ship or they're going to BlueSky or (yuck) Threads.
I lament their loss from my timeline and feel that if I were to find some more excellent people here I might be able to coax a few over, so...
If you're a teacher...
... especially of maths...
... and especially in the #UK...
I'd love it if you'd make yourself known.
[And if you're not any of these things I'd love it if you'd...
a) Let me know what we _do_ have in common (if you're interested in connecting with me)
b) Boost me in case you have some people who are those things in your networks]
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Nobody should have to agree to a commercial entity's terms of service to access state services or participate in democracy
Wanted: a language that is similarly easy to work with as JS, has automatic memory management, has similar (or better) performance, and whose code can be embedded in codebases in arbitrary other languages (including C/C++) with minimal integration overhead. 
(Note: *all* of the properties must be satisfied. "Most" properties isn't useful here!)
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transport operator: i cannot give you the link to our GTFS file but i can give you a file in either json, csv, parquet or excel format that contains 4 cells, 2 header and two values, the second value holds the link to the GTFS file
- 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
