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
(I've figured out my own but want to see if there are any better options out there)
Are there any established algorithms for merging multiple overlapping but gappy sequences of items into a single sequence?
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One of weird things about being autistic is when I make observations about people and then they get creeped out or tell me it was unsettling.
Like, I'm literally commenting on something so obvious to me that it would have felt weird not to say something.
And I should note that I am saying this with an acute awareness of React having problems of its own, and being unamused by its internal complexity, and not *really* liking it.
But I've also learned not to trust promises of solutions that don't come with a clear understanding of the problem domain attached, because it usually means that someone is trying to sell you something, for money or otherwise.
I would take criticisms of the React model a lot more seriously if those criticisms actually critized, y'know, the React model, and weren't just picking on a bunch of badly designed libraries that happen to be built on top of it, or complaining about websites that happen to use it.
The same applies to supposedly 'better alternatives' for React. I'll take those seriously once they demonstrate an actual understanding of the problem space that React tries to inhabit - because very often they are 'better' by simply jettisoning some of the design goals that inform React's design, and so they can't actually replace it.
(Inspired by, but not a subtoot of, another toot about React)
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Anyway! People talk to me about feeling weird about writing and there’s this whole complex about innate talent and like, “who should calls themselves a writer,” and meh, I’m not having it.
Clearer and more structured thinking through writing is our birthright, and although we all start at different points and with different brain architectures, if you want to write you should write! And if you do it like any other mindful and reflexive practice you will develop deeper and subtler power. 🌬️
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I want to think out loud about writing for a second before I go into proper weekend mode, so if you hate that and find it self-indulgent or whatever, this is your warning. (I think feeling weird about feeling weird about writing is what keeps people from writing, and I don’t think gatekeeping about it is anything but an unproductive and ego-protective bummer, myself, but that’s just me.)
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Social Media Sites if they were Table Top Roleplay NPCs, a thread.
1) Tumblr. A very well dressed, witty and urbane goblin, that keeps stealing sandwiches and making a nest out of stripy knee length socks. Has ninety seven different celebrity shrines.
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@reinderdijkhuis I submitted ten of my best puns to a pun contest, knowing that one of them would win. But no pun in ten did.
Are there any game-agnostic(!) mod managers for Linux that are compatible with the Steam Workshop and ideally also other mod sources, and that are not complete garbage?
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i'm not citing shit and i'm not bringing receipts but we have the best in-character bot-like-but-not-bot accounts in the fediverse who will absolutely break character to share love and comfort when times are particularly hard. that's community shit right there. fuckin love it. hell yeah, y'all anonymous folk runnin those accounts. much love.
I wonder how many solutions to scientific or technical problems got dismissed and "lost" because they didn't quite have the right set of tradeoffs for the problem that someone was trying to solve at the time, even though they could've solved many other people's problems
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I was doing two activities yesterday when I noticed I was getting tired of doing them. I exercised self control and stopped doing them even though that was very difficult. Today I am trying not to do them until I'm sure I want to do them and I'm not just trying to fill time.
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i sent this devon price piece to a friend who has expressed stuff like this (i think archive .is is back up if you don't substack)
Dr. Devon Price - How Do I Become Less Obedient?
https://substack.com/@drdevonprice/p-137545860
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talking about resistance but you're too embarrassed even wear a mask in public
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I know that for anarchists and sociologists society gets in everywhere, but the tow lot is a very interesting study.
Nearly everyone there is mad as hell because they have to pay for a service they didn't want. Is the tow lot's clerk, who has to tell people about their fines and fees, and who grants or refuses access to the vehicle, a cop? Or is it just a necessary function to make sure the tow workers are paid for clearing private property left in the public way?
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When I tell people to try Linux I literally never mean "go all linux everything"
What I DO mean is dig an old laptop out of the cupboard that runs slow because it's on Windows 7 and spend a saturday putting linux on there so that you can actually use it again. A lot of the value of Linux is that it runs REAL fast on old hardware and can be a really great tool to cutting down on e-waste because it gives things that are long past their commercial viability a second life
(Most of their furniture is now cardboard honeycomb structure internally. The same is true for much of their in-box padding)
It occurs to me that there's increasingly little difference between the internals of IKEA furniture, and the padding with which it gets packaged
- 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
