Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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 should write about my experience of living disabled - not a grim story (even tho it kinda is), but essentially one of how to not end up grim and learn to accept oneself
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Has anybody made a Json schema to nixos Module converter (in pure nix)?
It seems to be easy (as in all the concepts can be easily mapped) but tedious. If someone else already did it that'd be awesome.
Also means we could piggyback on Json schemas for a lot of options
systemd, unix philosophy (follow-up)
Look, if you're going to reply to this post with some grand yet unsupported claims because you personally don't like systemd, then the response you get will have an equivalent amount of effort put into it, which is to say very little.
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When you become disabled - everyone will start suggesting fixes to you. People can’t comprehend the chronic nature of chronic illness.
Trying to accept that your life is forever changed is made harder by those constantly suggesting a magic cure will get you “back to before”.
When tempted to ask “have you tried yoga?” Please don’t. Take a breath. Realize we’re grieving the loss of our old life & body & trying to learn acceptance. You’re hindering that important process by making it seem like there’s a quick & easy fix.
Sit with us in our grief. Don’t try and fix us.
#chronicillness #acceptance #accommodations #spoonie #disability #ableism #mecfs #longcovid #support #disabilityrights #pots #mcas #health
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Did you know that at one point during chattel slavery, enslaved Africans who tried to run away were diagnosed with "drapetomania"
Because a Black person who wanted to get free was clearly sick in the head
Now think about how often Black activists today are also portrayed as being some kind of unhinged
And that's just one example of the afterlife of slavery............ Orlando Jones firing is just another
Factory tour of an LED factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwpbDuHWXjs (CW: flashing lights at some points)
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thank you people who write alt texts for their screenshots that explain what the interesting thing in the screenshot is
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Came across "ethically sourced Lena image" recently https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/ and found an excuse to make use of it in a test today 😁
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dental hygiene, advice wanted
I'm looking for a couple things
1. A good place to get unflavored charcoal toothpaste, both with and without fluoride
2. Something to help me brush under and floss around the retainers that are permanently bonded to the back of my front bottom teeth
Can someone point me in the right direction?
This is *particularly* useful for catching cases where a company does something that could *technically* be defended as accomplishing the stated purpose, but it is deliberately inefficient to serve an ulterior motive.
It catches it because even a defensible action would be very far from the optimal solution, but that only becomes visible if you start reasoning from the optimal solution instead of the other way around.
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Handy way to determine if some behaviour from a company is deliberately malicious or not, while minimizing personal bias:
Think of what they would optimally do if they *were* malicious, and of what they would do if they *weren't* malicious and genuinely had the claimed intentions.
Whatever they are actually doing, which of the two answers is it closer to?
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My anxiety is really strong curse at times, but sometimes I look at people's decisions and wish I could gift them some of my anxiety.
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Datalek bij de politie, je weet wel, die organisatie waar straks miljoenen false positives met privé foto's naar toe gaan, want kinderporno. ofzo.
just stop oil, court case
"The pair of you came within the thickness of a pane of glass of irreparably damaging or even destroying this priceless treasure"
So what you're saying, Mr. Judge, if I am getting this correctly, is that... there was no damage, as was expected? Yes?
Funny how a bit of framing changes the implied meaning, isn't it?
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Wow. Got a letter from the landlord; they are doing the scheduled window frame repainting in the block now, but they've received complaints from some residents that the new color is unpleasant. So they're changing the color to a more neutral color in the middle of the painting round, and repainting them in gray instead???
What is this, a landlord listening to feedback?!
Hi can every electronics company be like this please, thank you
One really cool thing that they told me, was that apparently "repair over replacement" is their standard policy; they do sell new machines, but only if they can't repair the old one within a reasonable cost.
I assume that's also why they have the trade-in policy where if you try a repair, and it ends up unfixable, they will apply the repair costs as a discount if you buy a new machine from them. As that makes repairs low-risk for the customer, and presumably helps them with customer retention at the same time.
Update: repeat visit from another tech today because even with the fixed shock dampeners, it still made more noise than it should (albeit less now); after a lengthy investigation of a really-not-maintenance-friendly machine (welded front panel...) it turned out that one of the front concrete counterweights had shaken loose.
This was very annoying to figure out, because, well, the front panel was welded - they ended up asking in the repair tech group chat whether anyone had any ideas, and someone came up with the idea of concrete block tightening, and shared that on these machines you can remove the rubber seal and tilt back the machine, and then stick a hand inbetween panel and drum to get at the front blocks.
Took them a bit over an hour to diagnose, repair, and run a test cycle to confirm. Total cost was... 0 EUR, because it apparently fell under the warranty for their previous repair, being the same issue within the limit of 2 months. Awesome.
- 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
