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.
- 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
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In #spoonieTown there's a shop with a soundproof back room you can scream and throw china and glassware. Smashy smashy happy happy.
In the front of the store they sell mosaics and stained glass and all sorts of beautiful things, built from the brokenness.
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did an AI statement https://hidde.blog/ai/
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ropol, British liberals having Takes
Lmao The Economist (self-described as "radical centrist") downgraded Romania's democracy index status to "hybrid regime" because the elections were cancelled and are being restarted so a neo-nazi can be stopped from becoming president
Because to liberals, following the rules is more important than stopping fascism, and so many people are falling for this hand-wringy shit that at this point is more fascist concern trolling than anything 💀
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I feel like the entire history of gdpr cookie consent banners so far has been like:
corporation: okay, okay… we heard you, but, listen… we’ve come up with a new dark pattern to work around what you’ve told us while technically staying in—
courts: no.
corporation: ah. okay, then.
corporation: *quietly does it anyway*
Some #GDPR news from Austria:
"The Supreme Administrative Court confirmed that the first layer of a website’s cookie banner must provide the option to close the cookie banner without giving consent. This option must be visually equivalent to the option to consent."
Once again showing that the majority of 'cookie consent' dialogs actually violate the GDPR.
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We finally got around to actually proving out a cursed idea for getting access to USB devices from *Firefox* (which refuses to support WebUSB)
this approach is horrible and inefficient, but it allows access to a device without requiring *any* user intervention or permission prompts (the device has to opt-in to this hack of course, it doesn't allow access to arbitrary things)
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Well, if you need something to do to keep your spirits up during these trying times, why not learn to draw with this 1913 book.
https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz
Via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
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are you a perfectionist or has your life just been so precarious that you feel like if you're not perfect all the time you're fucked
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You might notice a new button appear on the wiki, it's a hassle-free way to send feedback about specific articles directly to wiki editors. This means that contributing to the Minecraft Wiki is now even easier.
Here is a summary of the feature: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft_Wiki:Article_feedback
Message end. Boop. 
In the philosophy of "most people are benevolent", the important bit is the "most".
It's not an excuse not to have collective defenses against malicious intentions and behaviour, or to excuse it away.
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@welshpixie It's really not that hard to realize that as a white person (regardless of your other minority statuses) you have been indoctrinated into being white supremacist by society. Which means your opinions on racism et al. are biased towards that full stop. And to be "not racist" (or preferably anti racist) you need to undo that programming actively.
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@welshpixie white trans folks please learn that you can be trans and racist and that being trans doesn't shield you from criticism of the racism.
(Am white and trans, haven't been banned, this shit really isn't that hard tbh)
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Can't fall asleep so instead I've been drawing 'uwu' faces in a spectrogram by whistling
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This weekend, talking to a guy who does IT at a Dutch bank.
Me: So everything runs on Azure or AWS these days?
He: Yes
Me: So they can see all the data.
He: No it's on separate servers, on EU soil. That was a thing before we decided to go ahead with this.
Me: So... They can see all the data.
He: No it's encrypted and threw some acronyms at me.
Me: So, you download the data, decrypt it, and work on it?
He: No that's done on the servers.
Me: So... They can see all the data.
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my slides for tomorrow have a lot of dynamic DOM action behind the scenes — to the point where it started causing jank of about 0.5s on some transitions
so, of course, I opened the profiler to see if there's any low-hanging fruit to be reaped
and found that all the time was being spent by the Bitwarden browser extension traversing the DOM all the time! idk, I guess they're looking for shit to autofill? doesn't make much sense considering they don't actually have *auto*-fill, you need to confirm...
anyway, I tried a fresh browser profile, without any extensions, and what do you know. butter smooth, even on battery and the power-saving governor that entails
I wonder how much of the performance shittiness I get in normal browsing is caused by fucking Bitwarden
so, of course, I opened the profiler to see if there's any low-hanging fruit to be reaped
and found that all the time was being spent by the Bitwarden browser extension traversing the DOM all the time! idk, I guess they're looking for shit to autofill? doesn't make much sense considering they don't actually have *auto*-fill, you need to confirm...
anyway, I tried a fresh browser profile, without any extensions, and what do you know. butter smooth, even on battery and the power-saving governor that entails
I wonder how much of the performance shittiness I get in normal browsing is caused by fucking Bitwarden
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About the article on alcohol consumption today
Also lol at the "multiple analyses in this study may increase the risk of type I error" at the end
Translation: "We sliced this data so many ways that even we admit the result we found is probably a false positive"
CW-boost: nlpol, Rutte, Trump
- 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
