Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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i wish PC tech reviewers (and the market at large) gave more of a crap about power efficiency
twice the power consumption for being 10% faster than a competing part is criticised in passing, but ultimately treated like no big deal; a new generation bringing just a 5% performance uplift at 33% lower power is a "missed opportunity"
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Mastodon Web remember the selected post language for a thread challenge 2024: impossible
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Really wish that the steady drip-drip-drip of privacy violations over the last decade or two hadn't completely fucked our collective will to do literally anything about it
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“blakewatson.com - Neglecting the scrollbar: a costly trend in UI design”
https://blakewatson.com/journal/neglecting-the-scrollbar-a-costly-trend-in-ui-design/
IMO, what's happened to the scrollbar over the years is evidence that the software industry is deeply unserious about UX and in fact makes all of it money through oligopoly market manipulation.
If UX and software quality mattered at all—had even the slightest effect on business outcomes—a widget as singularly productive as the scrollbar wouldn’t have been degraded to the extent it has
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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?
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
- 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
