Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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calling people who are anti-woke “the racism community” is very funny and good, I will do that more
TIL the CW counts towards the post length limit
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@joepie91 (and for the latter case, it's more helpful to explain why something is more difficult than it seems, so someone who wants to go ahead anyways knows what to watch out for)
like, "okay. this is a hard problem. generally things fail because they don't consider X, Y, Z"
which then leaves room for "oh i have a solution to X"
"Telling someone that something is impossible" is a good habit to unlearn. It's easy to find reasons why something cannot work; much harder to find ways in which it *can*, and insisting that it cannot will do nothing but demotivate people and sap away energy that could have been spent on finding solutions you weren't aware of.
There's one exception: if you are very experienced in a topic, and you feel that someone is underestimating the difficulty of something (especially if it's common for people to do that); it can be worth warning someone about it. But if they indicate that they understand this, you need to take a step back.
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shitpost, hyperbole
»System determinant files (formerly known as #Nix Flakes) are named `determinate.nix` at the top-level of your repo.«
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In May 1909 The Netherlands created their own time zone. We named it the Amsterdamse Tijd, and was... 19 minutes, 32 seconds and 13 milliseconds later than GMT/London Time. This was the exact time of the tower of the Westerkerk in Amsterdam, a church that later became famous in the dairy of Anne Frank.
The Amsterdam Time proved not to be very practical, so in 1937 it was improved, and the time in The Netherlands became 20 minutes later than GMT/London Time, also known also as Gorinchemse Tijd or Loenense Tijd, because both towns had a church tower almost exactly on that time longitude. This didn't survive very long. After the invasion of the Germans in May 1940 they abolished the Dutch time zone on 16 May 1940. It never returned.
Hmm, Preact is looking like a much better option today than in my last evaluation of it
police, shooting
If you believe that "they were scared and responded in self-defense" is a legitimate justification for a cop to shoot someone, then I have one question for you:
Why, specifically, do you believe that a cop is inherently more qualified to carry a gun than any other random person?
(If you do not believe it's a legitimate justification, then this toot is not aimed at you)
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Sketchbook randomness ✏️ (part of my "drawing directly with a ballpoint pen" training)
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pol rant
If someone is publicly advocating for a political action, is it so much to ask that they explain how they expect that action to facilitate a positive outcome?!
It's very weird how most answers to a question of the form "what's the difference between thing A and its fork B" tend to be about nearly-irrelevant and subtle technical differences, even though the majority of forks are because of *governance* differences
What is people's experience with running Nextcloud?
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Hot art tip for saving money:
You can refill your Micron (or similar) pens when they dry up. There are several YouTube videos, but basically pop the end off, shake out the sponge-tube, drip whatever ink you like into the sponge slowly until it's wet through, then re-assemble. Voila! Like new!
I think I originally discovered this through a post on Mastodon, but I’ve long since lost the original post, so if you’re out there, thanks OP!
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fedi, hat nicht zufällig jemand ne ZSA Moonlander oder Voyager herumliegen, die abgegeben werden möchte? 👉👈
Me: "I will try Lisp if you try Javascript!"
Them: "Promise?"
Me: "Yes"
Them: "Okay!"
Them (halfway down the stairs): "... does Parenscript count?"
Me: "No!"
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Ik heb vier frambolientjes kunnen downloaden en 1 rood pepertje. De tuin was droog en tot mijn verrukking bleek de jaren (en jaren) geleden 'eenjarige bolchrysant' van Den Aha ook weer te zijn uitgekomen 🧡
Ik had er twee maar een had ik per ongeluk geen water gegeven, zo jammer dat ik die nu kwijt ben. Deze heeft het gered. Ooit had ik jarenlang fel-fuchsia cyclamen die elk jaar trouw opkwamen, die mis ik nog steeds.
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Went outside to smoke, shut the door, turned around and found myself face to face with a coyote.
He skidded in his tracks into a sit, did a 180 on his haunches, claws skittering on the cement, and LAUNCHED himself down the street, clipping his rump against my partner's car and setting off its alarm which set off MY car's alarm, and then the garage floodlight turned on, which turned on the NEIGHBOR'S lights.
All in a span of less than five seconds.
I witnessed a moment of pure, unadulterated chaos, leaving me with a deeper understanding of the animations of Scooby Doo and Wil E Coyote.
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Since US election day is approaching, it’s time to re-post this picture of the only proper way to use blockchain for voting. (I wish I knew where this photo came from. I’ve tried to find out but failed.)
Update: the image is apparently from the 2017 Catalonia independence referendum, per https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/08/04/the-end-of-the-parliamentary-blockchain-party-guest-post/ and https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_82357860/referendum-katalonien-ploetzlich-knallt-es-vor-dem-wahllokal.html
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American style pickup trucks are insanely large, and as @notjustbikes noted they’re also increasing common in Europe. One is parked near me, and despite being 30 feet farther away, and in front of relatively large luxury cars, you can see the useless 4 foot truck bed is still higher than the roof of the midsized sedans. These vehicles are a danger to everyone on the road. Pedestrians and cyclists of course but also other road users. These MUST be regulated away before Europe gets the hellscape that is American roads.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
