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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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'copilot' is a very funny name for an AI because imagine you were trying to fly an airplane and the pilot next to you was pressing the wrong controls 20% of the time and was saying things like "planes don't actually need wheels to land"
I look forward to a world in which the typical response to "can you stop doing that please" in a community is "okay, sorry" instead of some look-at-how-contrarian-I-am "devil's advocate" horseshit.
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re: musings on (cis) "gay" travel, transphobia mention
A quick personal example of a trans experience traveling is that in the Netherlands, every time I go to the immigration office, they misgender me. My gender is already changed on my ID, passport, and birth certificate. The government of the Netherlands has literally never known me as my birth gender, but I still get she/her, even after they look at my ID and I correct them. This is an example of something I'd want to know when it comes to traveling to the Netherlands as a trans man, because it's something I need to prepare myself for mentally to handle. The Netherlands is a "safe" country for gays. It is legal to transition here, but the obstacles are immense. If you used a "gay travel index" to choose where you wanted to visit or move to, you would miss out on the fact that there's a 4-5 year waiting period to see an endocrinologist (even if you have already changed your legal gender in another country). You wouldn't realize that you will get followed down the street outside the immigration office by a group of boys calling you names and then the construction workers will also join in. You probably also wouldn't learn too much about the fact that the language here is incredibly gendered, so if you're nonbinary, there will be some weird moments. You may also not realize that if you need healthcare while visiting, you have to visit a doctor that has signed a specific oath that they will help trans people, because otherwise, they till treat you like shit. Not a ton of places have gender neutral bathrooms either. Yeah, there's certainly quite a few trans people here, but the country is currently largely ruled by a couple of parties that do not like trans people.
This country would get a +10 on the "gay" travel scale, but if we had a trans scale, it would probably be closer to a +2 or 0, because of the barriers to transition and street harassment. It's not illegal to be trans here, but it's certainly not easy.
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Friendly tip: uBlock Origin has a helpful "Disable all JavaScript on this site" button that effectively removes paywalls from most websites. It works even when tools like 12ft.io are blocked!
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My favorite speedrun-related exploit would have to be in the puzzle platformer Forward to The Sky.
It was discovered shortly after the game's release that there is an undocumented speed button. Presumably used for level testing, if you hold the Z key whole moving forward then you will walk noticeably faster.
The game also defaults to WASD, but keeps the same key positions if you change keyboard layout, except that the speed button stays as Z. When you change your keyboard from QWERTY to AZERTY, the "walk forward" button is then double bound with the speed button, making you passively move a lot faster. It is now commonly understood that, if you want to speedrun Forward To The Sky, you have to use AZERTY to be competitive.
This makes Forward To The Sky the only sport other than fencing where being French gives you an unfair competitive advantage.
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retitling the tab “new years resolutions” to “KPIs”
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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
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
