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.
- 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
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Good morning. Today I got a very interesting response to a freedom of information request from Transport for Wales.
They pay almost £800,000 per year to an external contractor for "revenue protection" (which means enforcing ticket fines).
They earn ~£80,000 per year from ticket fines and penalty fares.
Which means they're paying ten times what they're making back from this process.
Edit: petition in thread
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I think one of my favourite things about regularly cycling into town is that I actually see people. Not people I know. Just people. Like the guy with the plushie mouse on his hat (why?) who uses the library on Mondays. Or the kid today who was showing everyone in the square his remote control car (I did my best to show appropriate awe and wonder, though I suck at interacting with children).
I don't even want to interact with people much. It's just nice to see strangers again.
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There are times when I can't believe how much effort it takes to argue for things like bike lanes and public transit, in the face of relentless news about climate disasters, record temperatures, and so on. The evidence is all right before us. *Some* of the actions we can take are very cheap. These choices should be completely obvious and undeniable. #Berkeley #ClimateEmergency
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Boost with CW: Stallman, sexual misconduct
Idea: a web search engine that has an index of exactly 256GB. As soon as it's full, it starts throwing away old index data and replaces it with new items. The same query might result in completely different results the next day.
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Made my first piece of generative art (as in algorithmic art, not the NFT crap), with plain javascript and HTML canvas.
I forgot everything about trig and I really must re-learn it, this one was almost pure luck. But this is exciting stuff!
#drawtober - 14: trails
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Heartbreaking: An interesting personal site you've found doesn't have a RSS feed, so you'll forget about it one day.
More explanation: they tested a monitor in an environmental chamber at -40 C and it started showing red ghost banding exactly like my phone has been doing since the screen replacement. Their explanation was that the driver was having trouble driving the crystals hard enough to twist them under those temperatures.
This made me think back to the correlation I'd noticed where my screen exhibited more banding issues when the phone was stored in a warm area (even if the screen was turned off!), and the replacement screen was missing a foam pad on the back that the original screen did have.
I think the pad was meant to insulate the screen against heat from the SoC to prevent it from getting warm enough to cause driver issues? And now that protection isn't there, and so whenever the phone is warm, it's causing the screen to have issues.
In which an LTT shitpost video led to figuring out the likely reason that my new phone screen is having issues with color stripes
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Glass fiber at the office is connected, but laying on top of the street. KPN is truly an amazing failure 
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racisme, kermis
"Er wordt in Nederland heel krampachtig mee omgegaan. Iedereen ziet dit probleem. Ik denk, zeg ik eerlijk, dat de multiculturele samenleving hier helaas ook écht een rol in speelt."
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In zijn regio "is een groep actief die alle kermissen af gaat". "Ze leveren geen euro op, terroriseren de boel en jagen de bezoekers die wél plezier willen maken het terrein af."
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"We kunnen ze niet weigeren, want je weet nooit op voorhand wie de raddraaiers zijn. En de politie bellen is ook zinloos, omdat die vaak niet de middelen heeft of simpelweg geen grond ziet om ze te arresteren."
Dus, beste Remco Saedt, je weet niet op voorhand wie de raddraaiers zijn, maar je weet op magische wijze wel dat het een groep is die "actief alle kermissen af gaat"? Terwijl je niet weet wie het zijn? Wat is het nou, weet je het nou wel of niet?
Of zoek je vooral misschien gewoon een reden om je racistische opmerking goed te kunnen praten, door een zogenaamde groep met buitenlanders te verzinnen?
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a plea to trans folks in NL, especially trans guys please boost
y'all i'm being so desperate right now. dysphoria keeps kicking me in the ass badly and i dont think i can keep going anymore - and it's still too early for me to pursue the "clean" path of transition
please, if someone got spare testosterone gel or something (very preferred as i despise needles and am too afraid of them) please reach out to me. im willing to pay up i just can't fucking live like that. i just want to ease the pain.
if you want to move to a secure place to discuss this also let me know. im begging on my knees i feel like going DIY-ish is the only way for me at this point
please
please, if someone got spare testosterone gel or something (very preferred as i despise needles and am too afraid of them) please reach out to me. im willing to pay up i just can't fucking live like that. i just want to ease the pain.
if you want to move to a secure place to discuss this also let me know. im begging on my knees i feel like going DIY-ish is the only way for me at this point
please
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if the IA ever dies for good, there's gonna be a temptation to blame them for making mistakes that caused it (not having better infosec, taking off lending restrictions to try to help at the beginning of a global pandemic that shut down the world), but if they go down, they were taken down by deliberate actions by people (book publishers, hackers) not by forces of nature*
could they have played defense better? yes, could they have been less naive about how publishers would react during the pandemic, probably, but they were still deliberately targeted and we shouldn't misplace our anger
*(although there is a tendency to treat malicious hackers and corporations as forces of nature who have no choice but to do what they do, this is not true, these are human beings who make decisions)
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here's your periodic holiday reminder that FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY
they're a queer hate organization. don't fucking donate to them. only shoplift from their stores. tell their solicitors to eat rocks
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mental health medication (+)
Me before starting ADHD meds: "but without being legally allowed to drive how will I live in this city 😭"
Me after starting ADHD meds: "wow I sure am walking a lot more lately"
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Reminder: Users have _availability_ and _utility_ requirements in addition to their needs for privacy and security. If privacy and security were all they needed, they would just stay off the internet.
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The "all the major journals are just letting blatantly LLM generated papers through" thing should be a way bigger wake up call that science is broken than the daryl bem 2011 ESP paper, but since the obvious prescription is "abolish the whole fucking racket" the response is tellingly tepid.
#OpenScience was all fun and games when it was purity tests and window dressing, but when it comes time to refuse to publish in prestige journals and rebuild anti-profitable human-led communication systems, there isn't much appetite for it.
twitter, internet archive
Incredible, someone seems to have succeeded at pissing off literally *all* of Twitter, regardless of political affiliation, by bragging about attacking the Internet Archive
- 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
