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
TIL that AliExpress has an image search, you can just paste an image into the search box
home maintenance gore
The whole house was like this, by the way. I would not be able to list off a single component of the house that wasn't broken or incorrectly installed in some way.
home maintenance gore
Just found some old pictures, including a picture of the place I used to live, with a shitty landlord who never fixed anything until the city started threatening him with fines.
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Was about to reply in a thread but felt it might be hijacking, so here are some thoughts about how to learn about the mostly forgotten history of violence against the Chinese in the US.
"The Chinese must go" by Beth Lew-Williams goes into detail about the Chinese exclusion act and all the sinophobic violence that preceded and succeeded it. And how awful it was to be Chinese and living in California as it was one of the last states to remove anti-chinese laws.
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I'm considering offering free (encrypted) Borg backup space for marginalized creatures (mainly meant for personal stuff, space is somewhat limited, think tens of GB per user rather than hundreds) in two locations, NL and US.
Would anyone be interested in this? No availability guarantees but it's the same backup space that I use for my own stuff as well. Note that the server for the NL location is operated by a US company.
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Let's see what happens when I try to upgrade a #NixOS 17.09 system to 24.11
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yt-dlp let me download an arbitrary range of a livestream when
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When I tell people that I don't really use "AI" assistants, "AI" bros will always tell me: Yeah so you can't criticize them because you don't use them, $whateverrandom model I use is awesome and does everything perfectly and you just don't invest the time to find which model under which conditions and prompt works well enough for you.
My sweet summer child. If "AI" startups want me to do tests on their products, they can ask me for my daily rates and I'll do it. But I don't work for free to try to be their PR person. I argue from structural reasons, reasons that don't change just cause someone massaged their prompts better or trained their network for some benchmark.
What a ridiculous idea: You don't drink every day? How can you criticise alcoholism? The Vodka I drink every day makes me smarter.
Sure thing.
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take the hormones (even if you're wrong they're not gonna make you grow tits overnight). schedule the consult (you can always cancel the surgery date if you're absolutely sure you don't need it later). a day you wait is a day you're delaying your own happiness, and asceticism isn't worth it trust me
OH (discussing hackernews):
"So it's a collection of people who are being wrong at each other"
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Y'all, ableism is NOT a minor detail or fringe issue. How many times do we have to fucking go over this??
"Oh well you keep policing my language" it's just not that big of an ask. It's not that hard. If you've got to do a little learning and a little shifting of your perspective, why is that such an unthinkable option? Are you committed or are you not? Do you give a shit about the most marginalized or don't you?
If you're going to start whining about the SJWs bothering you every time someone asks you to reconsider your actions (AKA the bare minimum of solidarity) then you can get the fuck out, and I mean that shit. Get out.
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Linux UX opinions
Seriously
Can you tell if this window is scrolled up to the very top, or is it just close to the top?
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Linux UX opinions
This terrible window is a great encapsulation of a lot of problems with modern Linux design choices (see image description for details)
There's three unlabelled menus in the title bar; guess what options are in what menus! There's literally no other way to know
What part of the window do you click on to move the window? There's no visual cues to tell you that either
And there's no way to add a theme to fix the parts that make it difficult for use for people with bad eyes
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this morning i was reminded of the HALL OF GENDER FORMS which i made eight years ago after getting mad at gender forms. thanks to michaelsoft it's still up eight years later
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re: medical history, racism, cops
"The police felt like Freedom House had taken their jobs away, but Freedom House believed that the police — with their poor training — were a threat to the patient. Moon says that Freedom House would have a police scanner on to monitor the calls and would try to get to emergency situations before the police did to make sure care was given properly."
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medical history
Basically the first real ambulance service in the United States, bunch of young black guys from the hill district in Pittsburgh who were treated as "unemployables" were the ones who are the reason there is a proper EMS service over there (and they influenced it internationally!) today.
At that time an ambulance was usually a cop or a coroner, these guys were some of the first to do actual medical interventions in the field.
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Does anyone know what these screws that also function as standoffs (you can screw a smaller screw into the screw!) are called? Cause I’ve been seeing them in computers recently and I think they’re neat!
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I don't know what I was expecting, but have a list of the chief exports of some countries and you can raise your eyebrows a whole lot like I am
Germany: Cars
France: Planes, helicopters, and spacecraft
Italy: Packaged medicines
Spain: Cars
United Kingdom: Gold
Netherlands: Petroleum gas
Belgium: Vaccines
Switzerland: Gold
Austria: Cars
Sweden: Cars
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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
