Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
TIL that there's a utility called kio-fuse which just completely solves the "cannot open files from remote filesystems without copying first in KDE" issue on #NixOS
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Janneke 🍋 
Eten we binnenkort eendenkroos?
#koken #eten #food
"Oorspronkelijk wordt kroos in Europa nauwelijks gegeten, al vonden de onderzoekers er wel een verwijzing naar in een Nederlands kruidenboek uit 1644. In Aziatische landen is het gewas meer in de keuken te vinden. Als het aan de onderzoekers uit Wageningen ligt, gaat het grote publiek in Europa er over een paar jaar ook mee kennismaken."
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CW-boost: politiek (VS en NL)
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I used the internet archive's wayback machine to look at an old version of a site, which contained a link to the wayback machine, showing the site itself.
It tried to see if the wayback machine had archived itself, which it turns out the answer is NO.
I'm not sure if this is just my recommendations bubble, but I've been noticing a significant uptick on YouTube lately of non-Linux-nerds publishing "why I'm switching to <FOSS thing>" videos, with their motivation being mainly practical, political or ideological (rather than technical).
It's interesting to see and I'm not entirely sure where this pattern started.
Hi yes hello content warnings please for the awful shit that Trump and Musk do, also for boosts
To clarify: I'm talking about using the incremental node location mechanism to find the closest N nodes to a given key, except instead of the key being eg. a content hash, it's *also* a node ID.
And then each peer just maintains a session with the N closest publicly-connectable nodes to it, and someone wanting to connect *to* a firewalled/NATed peer finds those same N closest connectable nodes and asks one of them to relay traffic to the target peer for it.
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Hey y'all, if you want a cloud sync that doesn't involve you giving your files to a third party, then SyncThing is pretty great.
Free, open source, open protocol, Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, frequent updates, works well between version changes, etc.
If you're a bit nerdy you can have all your things sync to your own server, along with versioning in case you make an oops.
If you're less nerdy you can still get your phone+laptop+desktop all in sync, which is grand.
Okay, am I overlooking something or would it be really trivial to adapt a Kademlia DHT to be a relay/routing protocol (for connecting to unconnectable peers in a P2P network) instead? This seems like a really obvious thing to do, but I've never seen anyone mention it?
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We are back! After three years, Eth0 has been RESURRECTED!
Eth0:2025 Autumn will be in Someren, the Netherlands from Friday, 31 October 2025, 18:00 and last all weekend, until 2 November 17:00. Dinner and a bed are included, making it one of the most all-inclusive events around! Just bring your project, talk, and sleeping bag. And all of this for just €62.50, with budget options available.
Get your tickets now at https://tickets.eth0.nl !
More info at https://wiki.eth0.nl
See you there!
CW-boost: politiek (VS en NL)
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With US Black History Month arriving soon and the generally sorry state of affairs in this cosmic joke of a nation, I want to start another Black‐centered #mutualaidthread.
If you are informed you may know that in the wake of the LA fires Black ppl's gofundmes have recieved less attention and fewer donations than white ppl's.
So if you're Black and interested, pls comment this thread with ur gofundmes/kofis/whichever fundraising method u use 🖤
Others, pls boost + donate.
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PRO TIP: check out books from the library — their funding is often tied to circulation, you can literally keep them in operation by just shamelessly borrowing as many books as you can carry.
PRO TIP2: bring a book bag
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As an autistic person, I sound like I'm just an AI pretty frequently with how I write texts. However, unlike AI, I am perfectly willing to discuss pipe bombs.
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A/B testing is kinda a good representation of the lack of trust and consent in modern tech
it's basically gaslighting your users because either you don't trust them to know what they want, or because you want something that's counter to their needs
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Reminder that being nice rarely changes anything, MLK & Rosa Parks
>> In the months leading to the moment Parks was arrested and taken off that Montgomery bus, she (...) had participated in strategy sessions and discussions about challenging segregation laws and social codes."
And above all - there were MANY MORE people who participated in civil disobedience and disruptive behavior.
Asking nicely will not change the Status Quo.
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Reminder that being nice rarely changes anything, MLK & Rosa Parks
>> (Rosa) Parks was not simply a woman who showed up on the bus one day while going about her daily business, refused to move, got arrested and immediately changed America. She was a committed activist and civil-rights warrior who over the course of her lifetime had grown used to fighting (sometimes physically). >>>
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Reminder that being nice rarely changes anything, MLK & Rosa Parks
>> During his lifetime, (Rev Martin Luther) King was often called a communist, and jailed and banned from cities. People — white and black — considered him disruptive, impertinent, impatient, a fame-seeker and more. He was tailed and surveilled by the FBI and, of course, ultimately murdered because of his activism and ideas. >>>
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Reminder that being nice rarely changes anything, MLK & Rosa Parks
"Activism is, in most instances disruptive. It is often messy. And activists themselves are often imperfect, saddled with enough idealism and naiveté to do something but sometimes do it in less than ideal ways. (...) their ideas are often rejected, ridiculed or demonized. >>>
- 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
