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.
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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
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Auto’s zijn de oorzaak van files. https://mastodon.nl/@volkskrant/113011491070720559
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"Would you prefer if sites were funded by ads instead of paywalls?"
No Mr. Bond, I'd prefer those sites to die.
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Just saw a "Tim Walz is one of the helpers Mr. Rogers promised us" post
and I must once again emphasize that Mr. Rogers said that to children. Because children often can't be helpers in these big issues. He wasn't talking to adults.
Adults, you are supposed to be the helpers. Politicians will not save you. There's no one size fits all way to help your community, but you're not the ones that are supposed to be looking for the helpers.
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It's always a good evening when you find a new Deviant Ollam video.
Fire codes \o/
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Have you ever wondered how to drink tea in style whilst cruising through the Eurotunnel?
Well, I have answered that question for myself.
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I do like systems that randomly have to come up with underground station designs, only to be used once. In Bergen, this would be Haukeland sjukehus station, which is the only underground station other than the airport station, which is more in a cutting than anything.
Quite a striking design and deeep deeeep underneath the surface (it’s underneath a hill) and connects the university hospital and other health centres with the rest of the city.
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"we have added AI to our product": the 7 magic words to get rid of half your userbase
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“We’ve implemented end-to-end encryption.”
Hurray!
“With OpenPGP.”
Oh no.
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Hey, transfeminine folks! I had a convo with my (very trans-friendly) audiologist, and she asked an interesting question based on some anecdotal observations:
Have any of you noticed a correlation between feminizing HRT and hearing loss?
I'm not a good example, as I had hearing loss long before I started HRT in November 2020, but she's consulted with other audiologists who've noticed a similar trend. This may be a fluke, or confirmation bias, or related to something completely unrelated to HRT, e.g. transfems also tend to listen to really loud noisecore hyperpop or whatever, but I said I'd reach out to get some more anecdotal information. 😊 Thanks!
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Muis gaapt altijd drie keer.
Maar hij hield het bij twee. Ik was heel verbaasd.
"Muis? Moet je niet nog een keer gapen? Die 'nu ga ik actie ondernemen'-gaap?"
Hij keek lichtjes om zich heen en vooruit.
"Heb ik dan je middelste gaap gemist?" vroeg ik hem.
Geen antwoord.
Ik wachtte.
Na een minuut kwam De Derde Gaap.
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Holy shit y'all
There's a black-crowned night heron at the pond
These are supposed to be nearly extinct in Germany but I'm looking right at one
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Wait no, postcards are FREE while the app is in beta
Dude. No. You shouldn’t have told me about your app. This is like when they didn’t have ordering limits on USPS flat rate boxes so as a teen I ordered 10,000 flat rate boxes to my house and the local post office in my rural Iowa town had to shut down for the day to process them all. Something like that might happen.
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Plurality question, 
Fedi has a bunch of plural critters, so let me ask here:
How would I, as one part of a system, unambiguously refer to a pre-plural self? Both "I" or "we" seem off there, and writing it out all the time sucks.
Context: System is a split with two headmates.
Links to external resources are also welcome.
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spicy take, cryptocurrency
A lot of the scammy shit in cryptocurrency-land is basically the exact same thing that happens in the 'traditional' financial markets, just not behind closed doors this time.
And that's not a justification of cryptocurrency; it's an indictment of the 'traditional' financial markets, which are mostly fraudulent, and the absurd degree of regulation needed to keep them in check suggests that maybe we should not have them to begin with.
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Did you know it used to be illegal for a company to buy back its own stock? It was understood to be stock price manipulation. (Because it is.)
Reagan's "deregulation" changed the rules in 1982.
Like everything else, companies now pay politicians to keep it the way it is.
- 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
