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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@0xabad1dea When I was at $ISP tech support in 1998, we had an all-staff email asking us to go to the break room to scream, because although we could mute our own phone mics it was picked up by others.
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You know what’s not talked about enough …
Mourning a friendship that doesn’t exist anymore.
Mourning for people who are still alive but are no longer apart of your life.
Mourning over memories.
Mourning over relationships/friendships that just aren’t the same.
Mourning over parts of your story that are no longer talked about or brought up because the people in those memories have taken different paths.
It’s really sad and such a strange feeling to experience.
Anyway. If you’re struggling with this, and thought you were alone … I’m here to say you’re not. It’s real and it sucks.
By the way, I hope this didn't need to be said, but never buy "backlinks", doesn't matter from where. It means you're paying for a spammer's linkfarm. Even if they look legit on the outside.
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boost this pls
trans people who changed their legal gender and name in Netherlands (especially if you're not a Dutch citizen but still an EU citizen): can you outline the procedure for me? i am familiar with the vague basics but i want to know everything step by step and especially the cost of it
i know i cannot pursue it yet but i need to put my brain to rest about that: if it matters i am also interested in changing my last name besides my given one so if theres a different path for it let me know
(i know changing the gender marker to X is a bit more complicated but my case is F to M change)
#queer #transgender #netherlands
trans people who changed their legal gender and name in Netherlands (especially if you're not a Dutch citizen but still an EU citizen): can you outline the procedure for me? i am familiar with the vague basics but i want to know everything step by step and especially the cost of it
i know i cannot pursue it yet but i need to put my brain to rest about that: if it matters i am also interested in changing my last name besides my given one so if theres a different path for it let me know
(i know changing the gender marker to X is a bit more complicated but my case is F to M change)
#queer #transgender #netherlands
Oh hey, I ran across one of those companies that runs a shitty linkfarm for spamming search engines, unsurprisingly they call themselves a "SEO" company, seem deeply embedded in the SEO community, and are talking about ChatGPT/"AI" use for SEO
Native/fluent speakers of languages other than English: please send me an idiomatic translation of the following phrase, and a list of words (excluding stopwords) that you would expect a correct stemming process to result in: 
"Can you believe that? Unbelievable!"
(I'm integrating various stemming libraries into an anti-capitalist search engine project and would like to verify that it works correctly for as many languages as possible, at least on a basic level!)
(Note: the bloom filter has nothing to do with 'scaling' in this case, and everything with reducing memory requirements, preventing unnecessary requests, and a secret third goal of the project that is not public yet)
Things done for my search engine project today:
- Improved duplicate indexing prevention both in terms of history size and memory use, through the use of a bloom filter
- Added robots.txt support
- Improved performance measuring
- Added detection of corporate websites
- Added language detection and stemming of varying quality for some 25 languages - please let me know if you know of any good language-specific stemmers!
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Interesting. In the ferry cabin's en suite bathroom there is a speaker for the PA system.
The speaker is located somewhere near, and below the toilet.
Have you any idea how creepy it is when a PA announcement starts below your arse while sat on the loo?
Going around the house collecting translations of a phrase to test my multilingual text handling
salty, programming, JS, "you"
And no I don't care if you think it is "moving the ecosystem forward", the material reality is that you are sabotaging people's ability to rely on the tools they are using, and you are a giant asshole for it.
If you think that "moving the ecosystem forward" is done by deliberately breaking people's shit without technical necessity, then your visions of the future are garbage accelerationist bullshit
salty, programming, JS
There's a special place in hell for people who use a transpiler to JS from another language and *intentionally disable* the CommonJS support to force ESM usage, frankly
Language handling with half-assed libraries 
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Calling it "adulting" makes a lot of sense because "adult" is a culturally constructed role. When you are "adulting" you are often performing tasks to satisfy society, not yourself. You are doing tasks that have been obligated to complete simply by virtue of being an "adult".
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I like the term "adulting" because it implies that you are doing an activity that isn't the default state of a human
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Welcome to my new search engine All The Words You Searched For which either returns results that contain all the words you searched for or says that there are no results that contain all the words you searched for.
Current status: trying to work out how to do stemming in different languages reliably despite the frankly shit language coverage in many relevant libraries
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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
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?
- 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
