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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Apparently Doordash is adding the ability to finance your takeout order with Klarna, and if the next financial crisis is caused by too many people defaulting on their burger loans instead of their mortgages I'll be going to live in the mountains
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That's a problem for future me. I'm sure future me will be angry at past me about it - but thankfully I am current me, and neither past nor future me, so therefore *I* will never have to deal with the consequences
racisme
Brandbommen en varkenspoten aan het hek bij een AZC-locatie, maar nee hoor, Nederland "heeft geen racismeprobleem"...
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the fediverse is so full of communists that instead of having many spammers we have one spammer and we all have to share her
governance advice
One insight I've gained from many years of being involved in governance discussions...
If someone responds to governance advice with some variation on "prove to me that it works", rather than an interest to non-judgmentally understand its mechanics or effects in depth... then they are exceedingly unlikely to ever take your advice no matter how much proof you provide. It's probably not worth having the conversation at all.
When people are genuinely interested in your advice, they do not demand proof - they ask to learn from you. They open a space in their heart or mind where the new ideas can go.
If someone demands proof, chances are good that they're just trying to strike down your idea without making it look like they are to others - in a way that lets them claim that they've considered the idea, when they really never had any genuine intention of doing so and were just looking for the nearest way to make you 'wrong'. They're setting you an impossible-to-meet challenge.
Thanks, Plasma, not like I'm actively playing music *right now* or anything
So in my quest to redesign a couple of Matrix protocol things, here's one thing that has been incredibly frustrating...
It's very easy to design deterministic algorithms that are efficient in most cases and only slow in uncommon cases. But those algorithms are completely useless in systems where an untrusted party controls whether something is the slow uncommon case... which is the case for most of a messaging protocol.
And designing deterministic algorithms that are efficient in most *real-world cases*, and resistant to artificial worst-cases... *that* is much more difficult!
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The polylibrary story by @foone lives in this one's memory banks rent free
CW: kink, tattoos, body mods, various kinks are mentioned
https://foone.tumblr.com/tagged/Polylibrary
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HEY FEDI! How might you make some DIY trading cards?
I want something sturdy enough to stand up to a few decades of kicking around in a junk drawer. Ideally, I want custom wax packs to wrap them in, but I'd settle for printed foil.
I'm in favor of either a fully DIY option or a service I can hire.
Any ideas? Brainstorm with me!
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random thought: I don't think Wikipedia will downfall in the coming decades but I think it might transform into one of those "infrastructure thingy a lot of stuff depends on but most people don't know about". For the foreseeable future it will be a popular household brand name
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NEW by @rrix: Blocking Aggressive Scrapers at the Edge
In Limiting expensive to render nginx endpoints , I describe how to use a few nginx limit_req module to substantially limit the amount of aggressive scraping traffic to my Gitea instance without impacting "normal" "human" behavior.
There's three layered rate-limiters in here that are applied to only certain URIs:
One does a per-IP limit excluding my Tailscale network and some ASNs I connect from. Each IP can make one costly request per minute, otherwise receive a 503.
One tries to map certain cloud providers in to a single rate-limit key and gives each of these providers 1 RPM on these endpoints. Each group of cloud IPs can make one request per minute, otherwise receive a 503.
One puts a limit to 1 RPS of all traffic on each "site feature" in Gitea.
So now if you try to browse my Gitea instance http://code.rix.si or make a git clone over HTTP that will work just fine, but a handful of expensive endpoints will be aggressively rate-limited. If you want to look at the git blame for every file in my personal checkout of nixpkgs, you can do that on your own time on your own machine now.
So far installing this on my "edge" server seems to work really well, cutting the load of the small SSL terminator instance in half. Let's see if this is Good Enough.
https://cce.whatthefuck.computer/updates#20250320T130459.421338
Hot take: employers shouldn't be allowed to tell you what clothes you are permitted to wear at work.
(Don't bother responding if your analysis doesn't go beyond "but the company needs it!")
That's a problem for future me. I'm sure future me will be angry at past me about it - but thankfully I am current me, and neither past nor future me, so therefore *I* will never have to deal with the consequences
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video game recommendations?
I’m gonna be extra sick for at least 2 wks, might as well get some dopamine as a treat.
Looking for game recs which meet the criteria
Req:
- easy or story mode, ideally changeable difficulty at any point
- subtitles
- accessibility options including no bright flickering lights
- unlikely to drown or fall and die
- PS5 or Switch
Fav games:
- Horizon Series
- Journey
- Ghost of Tsushima
- ACNH and the Sims (decorating/dress up)
- Hades
- Gris
- Stray
- Dream Daddy
Computer touchers shitpost about gremlins and shit when tech mysteriously fails, and I wonder how much of historical folklore is just this exact same thing happening for other stuff and some people taking the shitpost a little bit too seriously
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Every Tesla is a surveillance device. This is worth knowing regardless of whether you plan to engage in protest activity.
This chart shows the locations and ranges of the cameras, presuming they have an unobstructed view.
Fashion tips for preserving your privacy around Teslas:
Hey @hosting, I reported a mass spammer to you like 4 hours ago and they're still spamming people all over the place. What gives?
Surely you don't have such big moderation coverage gaps, given that you're running an open-signup instance?
Yeah okay I guess I'm done with talking on Matrix for today, if the server can't manage to process my messages in less than 10 minutes
- 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
