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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"If you block me it means you think I'm right" actually it means you're annoying and I wasn't enjoying our interaction. Life is too short to use my energy on strangers who suck.
I have extended my tech corp detection to corps in general by also detecting a "Careers" button
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This week I finally finished a project I've been working on for the last few weeks: A map, laser-engraved into a ca. 60x70 cm piece of plywood, showing the @spaceapi opening states of hackerspaces in central Europe using red/green LEDs. All of that in a nice wooden frame, now on the wall at @CCCBasel.
Details on the project can be found in our Wiki (in German): https://wiki.ccc-basel.ch/index.php/SpaceAPI-Karte
or in the git repository (in English): https://git.kabelsalat.ch/s3lph/spaceapi-led-map/
Not happy about the CPU time yet; it's currently clocking somewhere between 15 and 50 milliseconds of CPU time per request, which really isn't acceptable, so that needs much more optimization I think. Profiler time, I guess?
lmfao, I've implemented a feature that ignores tech company sites effectively by looking for any occurrence of the text 'Pricing' as the sole content of a HTML element
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dependencies, hot take, potentially confrontational but honest
Avoiding dependencies as a matter of course suggests that you believe yourself to be the most qualified expert in every possible aspect of your project, not just the core idea, and makes me trust your judgment of ability a lot less because basically nobody is
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“You’re so lucky! I wish I could lay around all day.”
No. You don’t. The reason you think laying in bed all day sounds “fun” is because for you it’s a CHOICE.
It’s not fun when you can’t leave your bed. When you’re so sick you can’t watch tv, listen to music or talk to others.
Also don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of non disabled people acting like we’re “lucky” to be housebound/bedbound or that disability is some vacation - when they wailed and screamed about temporary stay at home orders.
When staying home was suddenly NOT a choice - it was the worst thing to ever happen to them and a violation of their freedom.
I can’t get out of bed - but I’m “lucky”. Ok then.
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saw a waiter at the coffee shop. he brought me tea and i saw that he had a palestine pendant. i told him "free palestine, my brother" and he smiled.
i am not alone
My search engine crawler so far seems to be perfectly fine with about 20MB of heap size (ie. "true" memory use), though it doesn't do the actual content indexing yet. Promising results so far though!
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laziness is a myth created to shame poor, working class and disabled people into working their life away.
you have value even if you cant work. you have value even if all you do is survive. fuck this shit and burn it down.
never seen a billionaire called lazy? yeah there’s a reason.
At first glance, I seem to be getting a roughly 4% robots.txt rejection rate on a pile of personal websites, which is honestly lower than I had expected
idle thought maybe hot take
The whole thing with "official fan $thing" and the paradox therein, seems like it's really just a version of the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" phenomenon, where someone is trying to appear grassroots and independent, but really their actual hope in doing so is to become the Big Guy, not for legitimate grassroots reasons
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Disentangling colonial thought patterns, whiteness is a death cult (reading links on extinction, genocide, colonialism)
When you wish extinction on *everyone*, you're wishing violence on the people we forced to be complicit in our sins; through slavery, through colonialism, through domination and subjugation, through abusively wielding global power.
The human race is not the problem. White people and white supremacy are the problem.
I find it slightly ironic that I found out that my suspicion of robots.txt matching in my crawler being broken was correct, by noticing it trying to crawl a Twitter page, a site which famously disallows any and all robots.
Time to fix that I suppose, and figure out why on earth it's not working...
bitwarden, enshittification, etc., personal frustration (2)
So like, consider this your early warning for Tailscale and all the other currently-hip "open-source-friendly" things that are rapidly buying goodwill with neat technical blogposts. We'll see where they are in a year or five.
(And this one isn't exactly an 'early' warning anymore, but Microsoft "embracing open-source" is absolutely one of these as well.)
bitwarden, enshittification, etc., personal frustration
And once again, a "FOSS" thing that people *assured* me was legitimate FOSS when I refused to use it because of its commercial VC-y setup... is starting to lock down their project after increased VC funding.
How many times does this need to happen before people stop trying to argue about this shit with me and just accept that there is a very good reason I will not touch anything that looks VC-y, no matter how "we're FOSS, honest, promise" it claims to be?
When will people learn that corporate FOSS with an unclear business model *will* end up backstabbing them, and it's just a matter of 'when', not a matter of 'if'?
"But this one is different!" No it's fucking not, and I fucking *told* you that this would happen and why, but you didn't want to listen did you?
- 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
