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.
- 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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You know how in Minecraft many mobs have an idle component that makes them wander to random nearby positions without purpose
I have that too
I can understand people being snarky or a smartass about things sometimes, but what I don't understand is people who do that about something they got so wrong that even a cursory internet search would disprove them.
Like, if you're going to be snarky about being right, you should probably make sure you actually *are* right, first
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De achtste en laatste voorronde van de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing! Wat is voor jou het kleinste leed?
Put the 3D model for the paint storage bins online here: https://www.printables.com/model/1260340-gridfinity-12ml-paint-tube-holder
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new strategy for internet searches: start with "before:2000 your query here" and walk the year forward until you find results that are useful
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I saw a post recommending adding "before:2022" to google image searches to remove ai sludge from the results, but I experimentally used "before:2009" instead on some regular searches and found that it is also really good at just purging a lot of seo sludge too. You'll still get the terrible "ai overview" butting in on a regular search, but it doesn't seem to inject ads at least.
EDIT: it'll still add product listings for some queries :/
CW-boost: uspol, funny
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Normalize fucking exploding headquarters of corporations with a fucking nuke
(in cyberpunk)
(in cyberpunk)
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Wat zou het mooi zijn als mensen zouden beseffen dat je woorden niet zomaar letterlijk moet vertalen, omdat 't dan vaak niet meer klopt.
Tariffs zijn niet "tarieven", een paragraph is niet een "paragraaf", een bolt is niet noodzakelijk een "bout" en een screw niet altijd een "schroef". En zo voort.
Ik overweeg een lijstje te maken. Welke Engelstalige woorden die vaak foutief letterlijk vertaald worden, moeten daar nog meer bij?
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to any academics who want their work to outlast their current hype cycle, the next publisher downsizing, or government book burning:
make your work available for free.
as a PDF or HTML document (or, fine, JATS)
from a URL that requires no login or javascript to access.
having your work only available behind some heinous publisher paywall or 'enhanced reader' is a straightforward statement that you don't care about your work being part of the shared pursuit of human understanding. it is, in fact, your job to make sure that your work available.
sincerely, someone trying to preserve your work.
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I've also hacked together a rough dirt sieve from skewers and metal wire, to remove branches and roots and such from soil before I reuse it for something else
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Today, I've made a Gridfinity paint tube holder, for the cheap tubes of paint sold at Action (that still didn't have a place of storage here)
CW-boost: uspol, important advice on dealing with, well, everything
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Mocht je aanvoelen dat jouw onderwijs- of onderzoeksinstelling op het randje staat om X te verlaten maar nog geen weg weten te vinden naar #Mastodon, misschien dat de community server social.edu.nl van @SURF ze over de streep helpt om het uit te proberen.
Op LinkedIn zou je ze kunnen wijzen op een post waar we aangeven dat er al 37 instellingen toegang hebben voor al hun studenten, onderzoekers en medewerkers! Wie weet is dat net het steuntje dat ze nodig hebben!
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wladimirmufty_mastodon-makesocialssocialagain-onderwijs-activity-7286362521651871744-xysD
We're probably all familiar with the "tech youtuber turns out to be a fascist shithead" thing (which happens way too often), but it's nice to also highlight the opposite for once: I've found TechAltar to be good people, from their posts I've seen floating by.
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@joepie91 hear hear! I have the same experience at a Jenaplan school. The teachers knew their students and knew what their strengths and their pace were. They assigned work accordingly. And there was great freedom in planning, and the teachers were always available for instruction and questions.
There was also plenty of time left for reading comics or chatting on the classroom sofa, playing music, rehearsing dances, tinkering, board games and taking care of or playing with the classroom pet (ours was a grey rabbit called Charles)
And never ever did we have homework. Maybe some research for a project.
CW-boost: uspol, abuser tactics
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@joepie91 (this, but with about 90% of current tech and software)
- 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
