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.
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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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Need a primer on finding community in the pacific northwest as a black enby.
I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas!
Seriously though, I've been impressed at how put off the locals are when I actually start talking, in most instances. Though, there does seem to be a group of folks that I connect with; I just have no idea where to find them outside of saying hullo in the supermarket.
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@theresnotime curl -H 'Accept-Encoding: text/infodump ' -H 'Accept-Content-Length: unlimited'
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@aeva old arcade games were the same way, but were typically always left powered on. There’s an episode of Seinfeld where one of the guys finds an old Frogger cabinet that still has his high score from back in the day. He tries to buy the cabinet and hilarity ensues.
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I've written a tutorial of sorts, showing how to write a streaming XML sitemap scraper using Promistreams! https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/example-project-scraping-xml-sitemaps
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Promistreams are now officially in beta! 
(Which mostly just means I have added a little infobox at the top of the page 
)
https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/what-are-promistreams
Basically, they're streams for #JavaScript that are actually nice to work with, have first-class Promise support, handle errors correctly, handle concurrency reliably, interoperate with other stream implementations, and just generally make more sense than Node streams.
You can use them for streaming data, but also for things like task queues or distribution patterns. They can work in any JS environment, and are not limited to Node.js. More documentation will become available soon (especially for more complex cases), but the basic stuff is already explained at the link.
Please give them a try and let me know how it went, and whether you ran into any issues!
matrix spec venting
Just saw a comment from an SCT member that pretty much confirms what I have long suspected: the intended model of the MSC process and the SCT is "you, the community, make appeals to the SCT and their interests for your feature to be accepted", and not the "you, the community, collectively decide the future of Matrix" that is often implied in its presentation as a 'community project'
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A reminder that there are good guys out there. @dnalounge, a nightclub in San Francisco, shows this to its attendees every 15 seconds or so.
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abusive behaviour, on a meta level
Mentioning this for no particular reason: gaslighting doesn't happen accidentally. It's something that requires intention and understanding to pull off.
It *can* be a learned defensive response, it can even be driven by trauma, but it's not something unintentional.
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I stand by my contention that we shall know when we have created actual, sentient artificial intelligence when it is capable of telling us, "No."
What we have is an ecology-wrecking plagiarism machine, a glorified autocorrect serving the purpose of eternal war in Orwell's 1984--to consume.
I will take Synapse seriously when it stops spontaneously taking 7 full minutes to send a message.
I'm sad about not being at #38c3. Not because of regret for not going, not because it's far away, not because it's expensive, or because tickets are hard to get and I didn't get one.
No, my reason for being sad is that it absolutely would have been possible for me to go, if it hadn't been for being socially excluded because orga couldn't be bothered to take even the most minimal air quality and/or public health precautions, turning it from a rare enjoyable social event into a direct risk to my life.
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Co2 levels in Hall H are 1500ppm #38c3 This is low enough oxygen to affect your thinking. Please keep this in mind and get some fresh air once in a while.
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Dit is dus precies waar we al die tijd voor gewaarschuwd hebben, he?
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5481682/onterecht-verdacht-structureel-vingerafdrukken-gezichtsfotos-politie-en-justitiedatabanken
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remember, united we are strong ❤️
Trans people in the UK, France, Germany, Eastern Europe, North America, Brazil, Taiwan, India, Russia, Australia, North Africa, South Africa, New Zealand- more places every day- are thinking and talking about ourselves in similar terms, and making similar demands. This has never happened before. Moreover, cis people are slowly realising they are cis. We really have reached a “tipping point,” no doubt in part thanks to the internet. The bodily autonomy of trans people is bound up with the bodily autonomy of all people, particularly cis women who have also suffered for far too long under the paternalistic medicalising gaze. That’s why I think the Colonel Korns of this world are doomed to fail: they are trying to do medicine and management on a civil rights movement.
Abigail Thorn
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I feel desperately sad when thinking about all the non-technical people with nobody to help them. This industry is making them feel stupid and frustrated, purely for profit reasons.
Don't build dark patterns into your UX. Refuse. Complain. Call them out. You're actively hurting people in the world.
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We've received the first few submissions for #fluConf2025 and are looking forward to seeing even more!
With that in mind, some people reported having trouble finding the link to the application form, so it is now styled as a big button on the home page.
We've also added a navigation header with some important links to the top of the page:
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Fuck it, we can call them all out - please collect the worst consumer electronics UX nightmares you see this Christmas and send them over. Take photos, videos, describe it - jonty@jonty.co.uk
I'll shove them all on a website and try to embarrass companies into fixing them.
Press friends: I shall be in touch
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"Because #AI the 4 day work week can come true".
This is bullshit. Recent studies show that we could feed and house and take care of literally _everybody_'s needs with everyone just working 30% of what we consider "full time" today. We literally could all work less than 2 days every week and be fine. Capitalism just doesn't allow for that conceptually. Don't fall for that bogus argument.
"Firefox has performance problems though"
I'm sure it does, as all browsers do, but doesn't it seem a bit weird to you that it's always *Youtube* that people are complaining about, a site which barely has any complexity in it besides showing you a video?
- 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
