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
terfs being cowards
today saw a terf say that she believes trans women are "men" but doesn't say so bluntly out of politeness.
see? they're afraid. we can win.
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Get in the habit of bringing up accessibility at meetings, in stand-ups, and in demos. Bring up things you've done to address accessibility. Likewise, don't be afraid to ask, "Have we tested this on a keyboard?" or "What's the experience like on a screen reader?"
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Realizing how the antiblackness of the fediverse shapes how I think about it on some very fundamental levels
I'm never going to think of defederation/instances not being able to talk to each other as a real problem, because when Black ex-twitter users experienced racism, we were told "well just go to a different instance."
So *clearly* the idea that "I *have* to be on *this particular server* otherwise I'm *losing my community & connections*" isn't really........real. Lol.
youtube drama?
Ended up on the LTT subreddit by accident, on a thread about the Honey scam, and all I can say is: what on earth is going on there?
Everybody there seems to be losing their shit about MegaLag's video supposedly being a hit piece on LTT and I have to wonder whether they saw an entirely different video than I did, because I'm not sure anyone outside of that community is perceiving it as such. Far as I can tell there was some mild criticism in the video about LTT not denouncing their sponsor more clearly and that's it?
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We’ve been led to believe that repeat Covid infections are:
1) inevitable
2) good for us & “building immunity”
3) mild unless you’re “vulnerable”
None of it’s true. A well fitted respirator offers excellent protection against COVID.
It’s virus soup out there. Sick of being sick? Mask up!
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“Kin had no app store and no third-party apps could be installed on the phones.[43] PC World described this as "baffling".[35] Further, the web browser did not support Flash web applications,[44] and there were no games for the phones.[44]”
the opposite of the n-gage, “got any games on your phone?” “absolutely not”
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>systemd-journald dumped core
what
fedi thought, sort of meta
The 'emergent communities' mechanism of fedi is kinda neat, like how communities form from mutual relations without clear boundaries, however it also means that there's no way to say "this community is at its maximum sustainable size, we are not accepting any new members" and that's a problem actually
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-1 days since last causality violation incident
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"intelligence" is a fake category that pretends "fluency in White social etiquette" is an objective quality of the brain
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The fact that lotsa pharmacies keep home covid tests behind the counter is an indication of something to do with how valuable they are/how your health is gatekept, regardless of the not-exorbitant price
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Triquerta (Infinity Knot) art installation at #38C3
Higher resolution version at https://youtu.be/Ri9h9R3Zhhg
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I swear, 2025 is going to have to be when I stop being even a little bit nice about "AI." We've had almost three years of this hype cycle, and we've got fucking nothing to show for it but theft of artistic labor at truly staggering scales, massive increases in energy usage, and mind-boggling wealth transfer to an end times cult.
(This has been my first successful day off in 15 years, I think, and I mostly slept through it)
Just neurospicy things: yesterday I successfully took a day off and rested! I did nothing!
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Here's something I've been working on for over 2 years, and I wanted to have something to show before Public Domain Day tomorrow: a fully accessible ebook, completely in the Public Domain. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
The conversion of all 75,000 texts in Project Gutenberg to Accessible EPUB3 is an ongoing collective effort, but the last missing piece for Pooh was to supply image descriptions in alt text worthy of this iconic work. I hope we've mostly succeeded!
With work being done to implement the Marrakesh Treaty, national "authorized entities" are now able to share accessible versions of in-copyright works with each other internationally, but we don't have to wait for that in the case of works in the Public Domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh_VIP_Treaty
Project Gutenberg's accessible version of Winnie-the-Pooh can be shared freely throughout the world. If you don't like the added alt text, you are free to change it! (but maybe you'd prefer to work on one of the thousands of books that don't yet have image descriptions for the visually impaired!)
Creating alt text for a work of fiction is both hard work and a lot of fun. The descriptions have to fit in to the narrative of the text, without adding subjective interpretation of the illustrations. Not easy at all!
For example, the alt text for the illustration showing Pooh peering up at the bees can't call them bees, because in the next sentence, Pooh thinks: "That buzzing-noise means something. You don't get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something."
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.html#img_images_illus15.jpg
For Pooh, some technical corrections were necessary as well. The horizontal rules around the illustrations needed to be silenced with the HTML5 aria-hidden attribute. Six illustrations needed to be moved up or down a sentence to fit into the narrative.
In Chapter 7, the sentence: "If this is flying I shall never really take to it." had been rendered across 3 lines with margins and spaces, jumbling the word order. A change to vertical-align rendering makes it more accessible to everybody - I could copy and paste it!
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.html#images/illus73.jpg
We've played with AI for image description, and the results are quite good for complex figures and the like, but it will be quite a while before AI image descriptions can be set loose without human editors, especially for works like Pooh. AI's can completely whiff on the simplest images!
We're working to create UIs for alt text editing and creation to enable more people to help out in accessibility mitigation. Maybe one of these people will be you! There are thousand of books that need help.
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racist conspiracy theories by ladybird dev
so yeah, the ladybird dev is boosting conspiracy theories and claiming he's been instructed to participate in "reverse racism" against white men as an exec, and how he was "scared to rock the boat".
if you weren't convinced by his transphobia before, then yeah.. here's him diving even deeper into this garbage.
it's always the same. starts with transphobia and pronoun hating, devolves into this bullshit. this is basically him saying he believes in white replacement theory.
https://archive.is/ZtQpj
if you weren't convinced by his transphobia before, then yeah.. here's him diving even deeper into this garbage.
it's always the same. starts with transphobia and pronoun hating, devolves into this bullshit. this is basically him saying he believes in white replacement theory.
https://archive.is/ZtQpj
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Part 2 of "how to emulate fused multiply add" is up!
This one is about 64-bit floats (or, more accurately, the largest float type available to you)
https://drilian.com/posts/2025.01.02-emulating-the-fmadd-instruction-part-2-64-bit-floats/
Turns out there are a lot more edge cases in this one (the kind the papers tend to overlook 🙃
- 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
