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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My main Linux desktop is sometimes freezing under load. Nothing moves anymore on the screen, the computer is not shutting down, fans are not stopping, etc.
I have tried upgrading the bios, memtested and tried swapping sticks, swapping slots, etc. Nothing fixes it.
If anyone has any idea what might be causing that, I’m interested.
Also, I can’t reproduce the issue by running a stress test, it sometimes happens when I am not doing anything particularly compute intensive.
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The "livable streets*" community in NYC is a good bunch of people who care about things like parks, public transportation, pedestrians and real accessibility. I've been to a lot of events. I know many of the faces.
The most recent protest was different. This became aparent when we were starting up some chants.
One of the chants? It had a SWEAR WORD in it! And well, that might not sound so surprising but I've never seen this group so angry. Or agreed that I was also angry too.
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There needs to be an option one level above unsubscribe, something to say “I have never heard of you before get the the FUCK out of my email”
Like everybody gets one email-nuke per week and it takes ten other subscribers out with you
Zo, @DenBoschPolitiek is echt een uitstekende nieuwsbron. Ik volg ze hier nu een paar weken, en ik heb al zoveel dingen geleerd en opgestoken over wat er hier in de gemeente allemaal gaande is.
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Hoor je er niet bij als je niet wilt meedoen met de digitale wereld? En als je wel mee wilt doen, kan het dan toch zijn dat je er niet bijhoort?
#column
#digitaleinclusie
PSA, powertools, physical injury
So here's a PSA: if you intend to buy an angle grinder, DO NOT buy one that's continuous-operation. A safe cutting tool MUST have a switch that automatically turns the tool off as soon as you stop holding it, a so-called "dead man's switch".
Consider what happens if you accidentally drop your angle grinder, and it doesn't have automatic turn-off; the disc can hit the floor, which will launch it off in a random direction, which is potentially going to be your legs.
It can and will severely injure you if that happens, possibly fucking up your legs irrecoverably, for the rest of your life.
Do not buy continuous-operation cutting devices.
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I wouldn’t mind a hard cut at Rotterdam Centraal/Dordrecht/Geldermalsen/Arnhem in train services during the carnaval period. This train is looking like a can deposit machine on wheels.
Guess I'm getting the cheaper one with a physical tactile button (which *is* a dead man's switch) then...
Yikes, Lidl sells an angle grinder without a dead man's switch
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toxic masculinity, rebuttal(+)
via https://mastodon.nz/@weekendspy/114063487635028135, added CN and alt text
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One of my dearest friends sent a handwritten letter and included HTTP request headers 🥺
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We're slowly working on an NETV special report about digital reputation management in politics and law enforcement.
Do you have any examples of a police force or politician holding a strange press conference, making an arrest, giving a press release, or generally behaving oddly in a way that might have been designed to burry another story?
Borris Johnson made the news a few years ago for ranting about model busses. Many news outfits dutifully ran the Borris Johnson crazy model bus man story, effectively temporarily burring the story about his brexit busses, which had transformed from politically expedient to politically harmful.
But this kind of thing happens all the time! SEO hacks and reputation management are a huge industry, and its easy to make a big important thing disappear behind a small insignificant thing if you understand a bit about the algorithms and about human psychology.
But, by its very nature, this is a difficult phenomenon to track, so I'm looking for crowd sourced examples.
mozilla meta, subtoot
"This is the wrong reason to get mad at Mozilla for"
Okay so like, what are you proposing? That people can only get angry with an increasingly shitty organization for the one exact reason you personally think is the important one?
That you would prefer "Mozilla can do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences" over "people getting mad at them for a suboptimal reason"? Because that's the practical outcome of that.
Like, what outcome are you hoping for here? How do you believe that criticizing people's specific reasons is going to contribute to positive change?
Also it's carnaval so there's zero chance of getting any kind of help from the library right now 🙃 The whole city is currently nonfunctional
There are three different organizations (local library, national library, OCLC) involved in this registration flow and I have no idea which of them did the oopsie
So I finally got around to getting a library card for the local library
... or so I thought, but it turns out that their entire online registration thing is just... broken? Most of the links point to the wrong URL and the one correct one redirects me to a "Forbidden" page with no further information
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cis people tell me it's weird behavior to want to make a queer/ally focused guild for a game or something, but then act confused when i leave theirs because it's full of people lamenting all "these purple haired game developers ruining the industry" 
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I’m Dutch and I cannot live without Hema. But how can you explain Hema to people not used to it. “Yeah, I buy soup and bed linen and nail polish and bicycle bells and underwear from the same brand in the same store” 😅
- 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
