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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I just tested positive for COVID. If you saw me recently (especially if you were at the Stonewall IO during 38C3, or at my live set at CCCHH) please get tested!!!
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Reminder that it’s super easy to turn your #38c3 wristband in a bracelet you can wear and take off whenever you want ✨
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The most German solution to pedestrians crossing the railway line due to a missing crossing : a sign.
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I've been trying to train my eyes to see the little intricate details of our day to day lives lately. Someone recently described my photography practice as "finding the little intimacies" and it's so spot on. So often the photos that I make aren't about people, they are about feelings or places or moments.
I think this photo is just pretty and neat. The colours turned out so amazing, with the overcast coming in from above via a large skylight in a mall. I find myself regularly finding subjects and photos at this spot on my photography walks, but I managed to catch it nearly empty on this particular wander of mine.
The composition is really lovely, with all of the geometric patterns made out of haphazardly placed objects that hint at humanity's impact, feeling possibly nostalgic to times with friends perhaps?
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Tech is political.
You encode your values, your attitude and your bias into the code.
The tech you create can give you legitimacy. It can give you influence. Get rich enough (or start out rich enough) you get doors opened to you.
It's all power.
We can see what some people in tech do with that power.
We can however choose to not contribute to that enablement.
You're in FOSS you've made some sacrifices.
What's a little more?
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My wonderful gardener Kathryn has, good for her, got a new full-time gardening job. I'm pleased for her as it will financially make her life easier.
But it's also bad for me, as now I need to find a new gardener. It was hard enough finding her. There are lots of "slash & burn" gardeners out there, but for some reason, not many gardeners with plant knowledge and interest in working with me to develop my garden.
So if anyone knows of a gardener in the Penarth/Cardiff area, let me know!
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A lot of things folk wisdom calls "bad luck" are more practical warnings than anything else.
Walking under a ladder? There's probably someone at the top with a hammer or a paint can that I wouldn't want falling on my head.
Opening an umbrella indoors? Good chance I'll knock something over unexpectedly.
Break a mirror? I'll be finding bits of glass in this room for *years*.
Walking somewhere and I see a black cat? I'm probably going to be late now.
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can anyone recommend game reviewers that critique games as art not not just a product?
i.e. what the the story means, the feelings the game passes, if the gameplay compliments the vibes, a breakdown of its unique systems, etc
not just "how good is it to pew pew for 50 hours"
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that's right this file opens up in wine internet explorer!
me groaning as my C++ project is being loaded and displayed by wine internet explorer. me questioning my computer and why it has determined .cpp files belong to wine internet explorer
As far as I can estimate, the issue seems to have started when Plasma started supporting HDR mode
Okay, am I imagining things or has someone else observed things going wonky with color balance in KDE Plasma on a multi-screen HDR setup?
I'm seeing a frankly absurd color difference between two identical monitors that are both in sRGB mode over an identical display protocol and that didn't exist in the past.
For a concrete example:
"Static typing will catch some subset of type errors at compile/build time" can be an objective truth; it is measurable and/or provable exhaustively within clear parameters.
"Static typing makes software more reliable" is an opinion. There are many factors that go into reliability, not all of which you may be personally aware of, and some of which may be mutually exclusive with static typing.
"Static typing makes programming easier because you see errors faster" is an opinion. There are different ways to get that kind of advantage, some of which may again be unknown to you and at odds with static typing.
And you may feel very strongly about those opinions, and you may well be able to cherrypick twenty different studies that seem to confirm it, but it is still just an opinion! You would need to have exhaustively evaluated every possible approach that could theoretically exist to consider it an *objective fact*, and nobody on this earth has done so (or likely will ever do so).
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Reminder that charging ports of Teslas can still be remotely unlocked without a key, and that spray foam and superglue exist.
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I recently learned about ListenBrainz (although I've been acquainted with MusiczBrainz for a long time) and am considering importing my 20 years of LastFM data since they are a non-profit, and make anonymized listening data available with a CC0 license. If anyone has experience or opinions about this I would appreciate hearing them!
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My whole life I have seen advertisements for desk jobs that required people to have driver's licenses, use of a vehicle, and insurance, even when there was no driving involved in the job at all.
Requiring a driver's license for employment is now prohibited in California if driving is not reasonably expected to be part of the job duties. This is a huge victory for people who use transit and cycling for their mobility.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/28/new-in-2025-protecting-more-workers/
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I have a Thinkpad X270 with an Intel i5-7200U. Windows 11 says the cpu is not on the allowed list to upgrade. In a few months Windows 10 reaches end of life, and the laptop works perfectly fine. I can't realistically move to gnu/linux on this machine because the accessibility is not good enough yet.
Thoughts?
(I attempted changing some registry keys to bypass the cpu check without success, though maybe I need to restart it first.)
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✨ June
Ok Fedi, what do y'all know about histamine intolerance bc I just heard about it and apparently it allegedly can cause a lot of the issues I'm on medicine for???
- 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
