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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ACAB
@kescher ah yeah, that's a problem.
i genuinely wish movies and tv series included settings or some alternative visuals that are more disability/seizure friendly. like you could switch them on like colorblindness filters on your phone
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Hey tech folks. Real talk. What companies do you know that seem to mostly avoid sacrificing long-term quality for a fast bottom line?
I'm talking about this tendency people have been noting for decades now, where companies rush for a big feature announcement and build something that barely holds together, and when it doesn't make enough money they rinse and repeat.
Who do you know that doesn't do that, or that does it less?
Please boost; I'd really love to hear broad responses.
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I love that with #GoToSocial, I can do full-text search on my toots (and toots that are replies to mine), without running an external indexer.
I love that it doesn't try to encourage opting into a public index. It doesn't even support that. And that's great.
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honestly the world of league of legends/arcane is so amazing and stunning. it has so much potential. it's giving magic the gathering and shit. it's just so sad they wasted it all on a videogame populated by white incels who have the patience of a grenade without a pin
i guess arcane saved that potential, in a way, though
personal vent, vague
Where's the magical switch that stops unqualified people from endlessly telling me "you are not going to achieve the results you want" when I have 15 years of evidence that my approach does, in fact, work
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Masculinity, trans men, personal experience
There was a point in my life where I felt like being a man was bad, where being masculine was something inherently wrong, I must admit that Fedi did a great job at making me feel worse about it…
I guess that the reason of why I vibe with trans men so much is because… they were there for me, they taught me that being a man was good, they were extremely supportive of me, no cis person was ever able to make me feel this happy about my own gender, and I feel like that is something important that has to be mentioned.
Trans people make my existence better, I love you all.
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After 6 months and about 333 commits I proudly present:
Faircamp 1.0 – A static site generator for audio producers
https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/
To recap the highlights of the past months and learn what's new in the final 1.0 release, check out the blog post: https://simonrepp.com/posts/faircamp-1.0/
Development of version 1.0 was made possible through the amazing support, funding and expertise of the @NGIZero programme and coalition, led by the @nlnet foundation and financed by the European Commission's @EC_NGI initiative – thank you so much for giving me and everyone benefitting from a better Faircamp this incredible opportunity!
Also, many thanks to all faircampers, contributors, testers, translators, bloggers, podcasters and encouraging voices for supporting this journey - for the final 1.0 release specifically to @branpos for release candidate testing, @n00q for bugreporting/testing, @limebar for the external artist page feature inspiration and @Vac for their diligent translation work.
Along with this release I've published multiple new documentation resources - from an official Linux/macOS/Windows tutorial to a 1.0 migration guide, from an overhauled reference manual to a beginner's guide to publishing faircamp (or any!) static sites - check out the website and recent posts in the #faircamp hashtag to discover them!
That's all!
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honesrly the most difficult part of art is unlearning the fear of sucking. as a kid you don't really have that, but somewhere along growing up you come to fear it not being good, but that's the devil talking. Art is true fuck around and find out, and you'll never find out if you're scared to fuck around.
Your drawings of hands are gonna look shit at first, but every good art of hands is built on thousands of bad drawings of them. Your perspective work is gonna look weird as shit at first, but the more you do it the more you'll figure out what you need to do.
Everyone is so extremely quick to shame art that looks beginner or unskilled and it helps nobody. Embrace that your art is unskilled, and do it badly rather than not at all. Whether you just want to draw or want to be good at it, you have to embrace sucking and lose the fear of it, and everyone else has to learn to shut the fuck up unless you asked for criticism
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fun fact: Egypt has some of the cheapest metal foundry services in the world, contributing to a good chunk of their GDP. they mostly run arc furnaces and their grid distortion is often horrendous as a result. I've heard tell of equipment failures coming solely down to how noisy the grid power is. not all that surprising when your industrial loads primarily consist of pseudorandom megawatt pulses. kind of amazing that the grid stays functional at all really.
Primary offender (but not the only one): spurious claims about supposed 'human nature' that really are just someone's one-dimensional personal belief that they're projecting on everyone else.
Very little pisses me off as much as people refusing to acknowledge the nuanced complexity of the world, and using it to prop up a pessimistic view of others.
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Web search engines suck so much these days. I've found so many useful resources not through Google et. al., but through old-school surfing the web and the Fediverse.
I encourage everyone to share their #favouriteWebPages and #blogs, which might be difficult to find through search engines.
Some of my favourite sites that took some effort to find:
- https://embrace-autism.com/ is a great resource and #blog about #AuDHD, #actuallyAutistic , #ActuallyADHD; the blog has an #RSS feed
- https://genderdysphoria.fyi/ is a great multilingual resource for the basics of #gender and #genderDysphoria
- https://thisismold.com/ is an interesting online #magazine about #food, #design, and #sustainably; also with RSS feed
- https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ is a #solar-powered magazine about #lowTech; with RSS
- https://www.radio-browser.info/ is a wiki-like page for finding streaming URLs for #radio broadcasters; requires JavaScript
thoughts on computers
I don't think I like computers anymore, because the magic is gone. Not in the sense that I've become disillusioned or anything, but rather because the magic has been taken away by a cocktail of influences that mostly revolves around capitalism.
They're not really personalizable anymore, everything must be in a perfectly 'professional' (read: deathly boring and homogeneous) style. Customizing and personalizing things is now a high-spoons time and energy investment, not a thing you do on a lark in a few minutes.
They don't really empower anymore, instead you are perpetually battling an ever-tightening net of scams, deceptions, data greed, enshittification, and good old exploitation.
They don't really emancipate anymore; the cliff between "those who use computers" and "those who make computers do things" is only becoming bigger, and nobody really seems interested in genuinely changing that, other than to 'make everyone a programmer' (usually with profit-minded purposes like labour cost reduction).
Every new system is more locked down than the last. It feels like anything you do still have control over is on borrowed time; until it gets replaced by something you don't control, which you will have no choice but to adopt (see: eg. companies and governments that require you to use Android/iOS apps).
What is the fun in computers anymore? Where's the magic, the wonder, the discovery? What "computers" are today, holistically speaking, has absolutely nothing to do with personal enjoyment or empowerment, and everything with being a tool of control, a tool of oppression.
Can that magic be brought back?
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I forgot who originally said this but doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is the definition of practicing
Responding to this by trying to re-litigate the allegations, when that wasn't the point of the post to begin with, is not how you gain trust with me. This apparently needs to be said.
If nothing else, the response in various communities to the ruckus at #38c3 (basically, a protest regarding CCC's poor response to sexual violence) is telling me a lot about which communities I should probably stop bothering with.
health, immunosuppressants, meta-ish but personal
Soon, I'll be receiving a kidney transplantation. A kidney transplantation doesn't just mean that you get a new kidney - it also means that you will have to take immunosuppressive medication to prevent it from being rejected by your body as foreign matter.
How long will I have to take that medication? For the rest of my life, most likely.
Here are some of the consequences that immunosuppressive medication will likely have for me (not exhaustive):
1. I can no longer get vaccinations.
2. I can no longer attend events with high risk of infection - for me, that means eg. hacker events like Congress with no safety precautions, *especially* as long as COVID is a thing (which seems like it will be around for years to come).
3. There are certain medications for other health issues that I will never be able to take because of interactions.
4. I will be dependent on the *availability* of immunosuppressants for the rest of my life. If there is a shortage, there is a pretty good chance that I will die.
5. There are certain categories of foods that I will never be able to eat again; including grapefruits and adjacent fruits, smoked meats, and a couple of other things.
6. An assortment of different side-effects from the medication itself, ranging from mild to pretty serious.
The exact degree of some of these things will vary, depending on the needed dose I end up with.
But however it goes, this transplantation is a one-way street that means I will never have a 'worry-free life' again, from a health perspective, not even temporarily.
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hexchat seems to be steadily migrating to the left whenever i lock my screen, it's now gotten out of my appindicator area and into my clock
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De aalscholvers weten de molen weer goed te vinden.
Mijn collega was ooit met zijn kinderen en een natuurgids aan het wandelen. Toen de een grote vogel zagen vroeg de gids aan de kinderen "Weten jullie wat voor vogel dat is?"
Één van de kinderen herkende hem en riep enthousiast "Schijtlijster!"
"Ja", zei zijn vader, "die hebben we op de molen ook."
Sindsdien is dat dus onze officiële naam voor de aalscholver.
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My kingdom for a science YouTuber that biases towards research documenting failed experiments.
I just watched a video on a very new model called Time Scapes that tries to do better than λCDM. It was interesting, and described (from a lay person perspective) an easier to understand model than "oooh it's spooky dark energy 👻". But, I was left with this feeling that the two videos I watched, were hype in the way that Popular Science is hype. And, it left me wondering if there's science reporting (video preferred, oddly) that covers content more in the vein of "here's this idea everyone liked a lot but it turns out it's probably wrong the authors are doing 'something' about it" for some value of something.
So idk tell me about videos or blogs I can go to and/or boost?
(It's important to note that I'm very much a lay person in this subject. I like hearing about it because I like being immersed in the vibe and I pick stuff up.)
- 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
