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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- 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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Long story short there's a possibility that I end up in #Malaysia in a couple of years.
My problem:
Can I get testosterone and even maybe #trans care at a private clinic?
I know public hospitals are out of the question.
Also I haven't legally changed my gender so I don't know if "as a woman" I can get #testosterone for "menopause issues"?
Boost won't change your life but it will help mine and in a world full of transphobes it does make a difference.🙏
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Wrote some (incomplete!) notes about my travels of figuring out the possible options for building desktop applications in Node.js: https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/building-desktop-applications-with-nodejs
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I feel like I talk a big game about 'Degooglifying' and moving away from proprietary services, but it's really fucking hard. In the arts, everything runs off Google because 1) its free 2) everyone is poor 3) the people who took arts subjects at school didn't get taught about tech in the level of detail that is required to understand how to Degooglify in 2025. I am an anomaly in that I took ComSci and Theatre A-Levels, but we need more solidarity uniting artists and compscis.
#foss #arts #theatre
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New Mozilla TOS diff. This is what they just removed:
* Does Firefox sell your personal data?
> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
The purpose of the new TOS appears to be to enable them to do this - such as for their advertising and AI sidelines.
https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e
salad dressing recipe (vegan)
Made an experimental salad dressing today, to go with the salad with vegan bacon that we made. It turned out to be really nice!
Ingredients (roughly in order of volume): ketchup, olive oil, sugar, reduced-salt soy sauce, chili flakes, cumin, kervel, cinnamon, cardamom.
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IrnBruKid32 sent these pictures. first pictures I got of NT running on real gamecube -- a Panasonic Q no less! -- and the ascii keyboard controller working under real hardware too
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Boycotts work when they cover a time scale long enough to affect quarterly earnings reports.
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Work, expiring certs
A bunch of people reported problems today and it was discovered that they had all been issued certificates with a 10 year expiry.. 10 years ago. And the certificate authority used doesn't exist anymore
Don't worry, everyone, it wasn't DNS this time.
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I think this thought a lot when I hear people discussing Mastodon outside of Mastodon lol
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Docker: what if every utensil and ingredient in your kitchen was locked inside a different, tiny steel box, and also all the boxes hated you
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It turns out, this was originally an optimization for the ActionScript stack machine–I guess everyone else has just been uncritically copy pasting these functions into other languages for the last 23 years. :)
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Holy shit they released the source code of C&C Generals, Renegade, and the first two games (the original source code release for those two was based in the remastered version) and added Steam Workshop support for a bunch of the C&C games 😳
https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izmpmb/cc_steam_workshop_support_source_code/
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bahncard 100 but it's for the entirety of europe and also it's free for everyone
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Komend weekend worden door heel Nederland weer geredde jonge #bomen en struiken gratis uitgedeeld. Het betreft de allerlaatste uitdeeldagen van Meer Bomen Nu voor dit seizoen.
En om deze tweedekans bomen en struiken daadwerkelijk een tweede kans te geven, is het belangrijk dat zij dit weekend worden opgehaald en worden geplant op de plek waar zij wél uit mogen groeien tot volwassen bomen en struiken.
#MeerBomenNu is een campagne van #Urgenda, ondersteund door #ASNBank.
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mozilla
@joepie91
Even ten years ago they probably could have floated a vague ToU and we'd have given them benefit of the doubt. Today? No chance. They need to have everything vetted by their legal team and by some sort of "don't burn our remaining goodwill" unit, before jamming it down users' throats.
mozilla
I'm not so sure that those legal terms from Mozilla mean what people seem to think they mean, and I think that at least a big part of it is essentially a misunderstanding.
But at the same time, it's absolutely Mozilla's responsibility to be extremely clear about this and not just throw in some legal boilerplate without explanation, if they want to foster trust towards them, so I don't have a lot of sympathy for them either...
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Overigens: reis je in Nederland wel eens met de trein en wil je ook weten hoe je (tijdelijke) problemen met de geleidelijnen voor blinden en slechtzienden moet herkennen, meld je vooral en dan leg ik een keer uit hoe ze werken. Het is niet ingewikkeld, en het kan helpen om dit soort problemen sneller te vinden en op te lossen 🙂
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DEpol, Nazis, negative
And so it starts ...
Neonazis, a mix of skinheads and guys in military jackets with combat boots and facial tattoos, have stationed themselves at the train station and carefully watch the stream of travelers. Whenever they notice someone who's not white, visibly queer or wearing something Antifa-related, they step in their way and tower over them with a mean expression before letting them pass.
An intimidation attempt and a warning, I reckon.
Happened to me. Happened to a Black woman before me. Happened to a couple people behind me who I recognized from antifascist protests. All in plain sight of a bunch of cops in their cars, who just ignored the whole thing. I actually hailed down one of them to point the guys out, but he just shrugged and said well, as long as they don't insult anyone and aren't getting physical, they're not doing anything illegal, so there's nothing they can do.
Bestie and I also saw an uptick of visible fash on public transportation. We had two kinda boxing us in on the tram today, just watching, but I was still on high alert ready to get bestie and me the hell out of dodge if necessary.
But yeah. That's Germany after the election. Fash can just silently harass you in the streets in line of sight of cops and you're told that's something you have to live with. The AfD didn't even have to win, the CDU under Merz making a hard turn towards right-wing politics was enough.
- 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
