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.
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- 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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Can anyone (possibly at a French university) get me a copy of Afnor XP P99-405-6? “Billettique appliquée aux transports - Règles de codage et d'interopérabilité pour la billettique (INTERCODE) - Partie 6 : logement des données dans un code-barres”
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classism
mobile world congress is around the corner, so last night the cops began to kick out the homeless people who lived inside the barcelona airport
with no alternative solution
acab
Also it was clicking and making an intermittent 'sad beeping' noise so I'm pretty sure it's fucked 🙃
Seems one of the HDDs in my NAS died. First time I've seen this particular failure mode - the total drive size is supposedly 0 bytes but it has a 16T partition...
... did I just get transported a decade back in time? http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
"De historisch hoge prijs voor koffie stuwt de winst van koffiebedrijf JDE Peets op. Het moederbedrijf van onder andere Douwe Egberts en Senseo heeft afgelopen jaar bijna de helft meer winst behaald dan in het jaar daarvoor. [...] Volgens JDE Peets overstijgen de resultaten de verwachtingen, onder andere door een zeer sterke stijging van de koffieprijs. De prijzen zijn hier meer dan verdubbeld."
Duidelijk. Die 'hoge koffieprijzen' zijn dus voornamelijk het gevolg van winstbejag van Westerse tussenhandelaren zoals JDE Peets, en hebben weinig te maken met het meer (moeten) betalen bij de bron, de boeren die het daadwerkelijk verbouwen.
Een verrassing is het niet, droevig is het wel.
Actually, why isn't there an accident investigation board for software failures?
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hospital/doctor advice for neurospicy folks
If you get some uselessly vague advice like "don't eat/do things like <list of hyperspecific examples and nothing else>", keep talking and asking (and mentioning your understanding so far out loud repeatedly, even if it's probably wrong!) until they tell you the underlying mechanism.
Example:
"Avoid intensive exercise."
"Okay, what qualifies as 'intensive'?"
"Well, try to avoid sports like football or tennis, for example."
"Okay, but what about VR then? It's virtual so you can't get hit by anything, but I don't know if that's safe enough."
"Ah, well, you should avoid any kind of exercise that causes shocks to your body, like when jumping a lot."
And just like that, you learn the underlying mechanism that the advice originates from (which might be "shocks to your body can cause issues with healing" like in this case), and now you can reason for yourself about whether something is or isn't safe to do, instead of being limited to a (usually heavily neurotypical) set of 'common' things.
(Sometimes you can also just ask point blank what the underlying mechanism is, but it's pretty much luck of the draw whether you get a doctor who trusts you enough to actually engage with that.)
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I was looking up something else I recalled that cloudflare had and found the exact user agent in tech info page for cloudflare always online thing
the thing that uses the internet archive when the website is down
I—
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hospital/doctor advice for neurospicy folks
@joepie91 oh yeah! if i can add, one thing I find really helpful with this kind of thing is, even if it seems clear, ending with a reiteration of your full takeaway for confirmation, and tossing in another example if you can
like "okay, so I'm avoiding shocking my body from jumping, maybe running around, that kind of thing?"
this could just be me, but i always find it SUPER helpful when the conversation ends with a "yes, that's correct"
It's kind of darkly funny to watch people defend Framework's soldered RAM in desktops by going "well it's necessary for high-bandwidth memory" given that that's literally the exact excuse that competing laptop manufacturers used for years
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pol, kink
Activism is the highest form of bratting
Guess we know which outlets do actual journalism and which outlets just post vendor press releases
hospital/doctor advice for neurospicy folks
If you get some uselessly vague advice like "don't eat/do things like <list of hyperspecific examples and nothing else>", keep talking and asking (and mentioning your understanding so far out loud repeatedly, even if it's probably wrong!) until they tell you the underlying mechanism.
Example:
"Avoid intensive exercise."
"Okay, what qualifies as 'intensive'?"
"Well, try to avoid sports like football or tennis, for example."
"Okay, but what about VR then? It's virtual so you can't get hit by anything, but I don't know if that's safe enough."
"Ah, well, you should avoid any kind of exercise that causes shocks to your body, like when jumping a lot."
And just like that, you learn the underlying mechanism that the advice originates from (which might be "shocks to your body can cause issues with healing" like in this case), and now you can reason for yourself about whether something is or isn't safe to do, instead of being limited to a (usually heavily neurotypical) set of 'common' things.
(Sometimes you can also just ask point blank what the underlying mechanism is, but it's pretty much luck of the draw whether you get a doctor who trusts you enough to actually engage with that.)
I increasingly feel like "decentralization" is the wrong goal to have, because it is just an unreliable proxy metric for the thing people *actually* care about, which is autonomy and self-determination
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USpol
Liberals have become disillusioned about the democrats, and chuds are becoming disillusioned about the republicans.
Let's build off that
Framework, what the hell are you doing. What is even the point of 'repairability' from an environmental point of view if you're going to burn untold amounts of resources on "AI" garbage instead (which, yes, is true for 'local AI' too)
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I didn't realize how fucking useful the word 'fucking' is for eliminating AI
Turns out, it's really fucking useful!
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i hope people that invented cloudflare always sleep on warm and uncomfortable pillows 
because what can be a better idea than trusting us-based company to decide if people will get to your site or not, collecting all the possible data in the process and selling it to who knows where /s
because what can be a better idea than trusting us-based company to decide if people will get to your site or not, collecting all the possible data in the process and selling it to who knows where /s
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Posting this in English too because it's just baffling.
Albert Heijn, a Dutch supermarket chain, has been spending significant piles of money advertising their new "AH Terra" store brand, which is supposed to be all about plant-based food.
They've just rebranded their canned beans to fall under that brand, and to 'celebrate', they published a magazine with bean-based recipes.
Half of which use dairy ingredients. 🤦♂️
- 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
