Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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- 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
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Fucking spat my tea, how did the postman whip out his phone to immediately play the bagpipes as soon as he saw a scottish destination on a parcel to go 😭
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I MOVED IN!!! LET'S FUCKING GOOO
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Well? It is back!!
Thanks to @internetarchive indexing it back in 2000 I was able to extract the interface and point it to the DB Navigator API
gaming
Also, I wish such games would experiment with novel research systems more! Surely more interesting things are possible than "provide resources, wait, ta-da, scientific discovery"?
What is it with so many of the first-person simulation games feeling terrible to control?
gaming, frustration
I have an annoying conundrum when playing base-builder-style games.
When playing in sandbox mode, I enjoy the building flexibility, but it all starts feeling meaningless because there is no failure condition at all.
When playing in 'challenge' mode, I enjoy that there is a challenge to meet, but I get frustrated by my building plans being interrupted by stuff like "being just barely short on resources/funds".
I wish more games had something inbetween the two, that provides purpose to the building, but also makes it low-friction.
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IDK it's just really neat to me that something that started out seeming like a chore I had to do for other people ended up benefiting *me* so much. Even informing the rest of my work.
I think things work like this more often than we think.
I genuinely do not understand how one can build such a broken system and remain in business, and it's all the more baffling considering how *old* MapQuest is and how they used to be a major provider of map data for mapping and navigation software!
(Their data in the US is a little better, but not by much)
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I worry that when we say "nothing can be objective" some people take it to mean "it's not worth trying to be objective"
Taking the best objective stance you can is massively useful. It forces you to not just think about what you are thinking and seeing but what other people may think and see. And to look for, in the intersection of all of those perspectives, what is really *there.*
It's because nothing can ever be perfectly objective that's it's all the more important to make this effort.
Also it feels like they got their satellite imagery from a dollar store; there are visible seams between every 'tile', clearly no stitching having been done, and there's horrible JPEG compression everywhere, as if they saved it in like 50% quality
I thought I'd seen a lot of awful and broken websites, and then I learned about MapQuest
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racism, cultural appropriation, news
so a russian designer brand company "yaka" decided to create a line of clothing inspired by Kyrgyz patterns, ornaments and art, and then proceeded to add a COPYRIGHT CLAIM on said patterns, ornaments, and art, and threaten anybody who might "copy" said designs with legal action.
the brand hasn't yet responded to the backlash, but brand owner, Anna Obydenova locked up her social media accounts.
https://kz.kursiv.media/2025-02-14/lfst-rbik-yaka-kyrgyzstan/
so fucking done with white russians.
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☝️ refining ask: looking for feedback from anyone with experience using:
•Libera pay (new to me) https://liberapay.com/
•ko.fi
•Patreon
•features on self hosted WordPress
•any other good platforms not on my radar
More concerned about the logistics and convenience v hassle, fees etc.
Not focused on content or community building on new platforms, more looking for easy ways for folks to throw a lil cash my way when they're feeling it. Path o least resistance, for them and for my own cog.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this other than me 15 years ago, but if you want to be a girl but dresses and skirts and such make you uncomfortable you can still transition. You might find you like them afterwards! Or you might be like me and still don’t feel comfortable in them, but you also no longer constantly want to die!
I cannot stress this enough. Hormones will change your mind and body, and if you’re trans it’s likeluy. You might (almost certainly will) find your style changes - I dress mostly in tank tops and jeans these days when before wearing a tank top made me hate my body more than I already did.
But even if you don’t change styles, if you want to transition you still can! All your clothes will be girl clothes because you are a girl and you own them.
It’s big and it’s scary and yet if you want it, it’s worth trying it. Yes, even now.
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If Phoronix does not start moderating its comments soon, I will ban links to Phoronix from @osnews. I cannot in good conscience continue to link to a site so infested with extreme right-wing propaganda.
It's basically the Twitter of open source news.
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It kind of feels like these people are treating the whole thing like a football match or reality show, and it's really not worth my time or energy
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I think I'm mostly immune to the suggestions you can only play retro games on a CRT, because I remember the motion picture archivists mailing list thread where someone proposed the only authentic way to watch silent films was using no-longer-manufactured projector bulbs since modern ones are too bright.
*mutes people generously for politics-doomposting without CWs*
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I'm a 18 year old transgirl from Eastern Germany. My parents are right‐wing extremists and have a problem with trans people.
My Blåhaj and smolhaj and I need a place to crash. We are both house‐trained and don’t bite. 🥺👉👈
I don't have an place to calm down and have some privacy, really need a place to crash and build up a new life. I am not bount to any particular place.
I am also urgently looking for a job in IT so that i have some income (currently i dont have any income), preferably in systems operations. I have been working with Linux in my free time for a few years now and I am really into NixOS. CV upon request.
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- 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
