Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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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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"you cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit"
— Edward Said, a Palestinian-American academic and postcolonial scholar
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Today 2K Games and 31st Union join the growing list of organized workers in Spain 🔥
At a time when individualization prevails and we only hear talk of profit margins, losses, and layoffs, we believe that the only way to assert our interests as workers is by standing united.
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it's kind of messed up to just use an ai transcription service and then leave it at that. you gotta at least go through and edit that thing meticulously. i'm tired of seeing videos put up with lazy captions. the hard of hearing deserve better and it's useful to everyone else too
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As an adult I am embarrassed to say that I learned very late how to care for my teeth.
I wrote this short post to share what I have learned.
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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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It's okay to be a bit broken sometimes. I believe we all are at various points in our lives. It's not a permanent state. We can work on healing if we want to.
It's not okay to be unaccountable though. When you won't take responsibility for your words and actions, that's when you do irreparable harm to those around you. That's when repair takes a back seat and people have to protect themselves from you.
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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?
- 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
