Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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Hey y'all I'm gonna strongly recommend that when you date or make friends with someone that you uh
Listen to them, watch them, learn who they are and take joy in that process
I see so many people trying to find someone who matches their idea of who they want to date, and then learn a little bit and make up the rest
And when it turns out that the rest of their partner doesn't match the made up person, they get scared or angry or resentful
I love learning new things about a person??
Do that
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(nature documentary voice) while these creatures must face many threats, one of the most severe is said to be the loss of their habits
(the creatures are those with ADHD)
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Oh shit happy 45th birthday Pac-Man
(it was yesterday)
Are there any Wayland compositor 'toolkits'? 
I'm thinking something that lets you design your own compositor by writing limited code and configuration.
Not locked into a specific paradigm and more capable than just "customize this off-the-shelf WM", but less work than rolling your own with a bunch of libraries.
(Customizable WMs *may* be suitable answers, if you can customize both their appearance and behaviour far enough that a user would not be able to identify the underlying WM from using a customized installation, as an imperfect yardstick.)
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Any tips for a privacy respecting, free event organization platform? I'm thinking about features like:
- Some rich text + images hosted online for the event
- Subscription form to get updates
- Stats about expected attendance
- ??? (this is my first time)
Edit: I don't charge anything for the event, so percentage commission can work.
- Some rich text + images hosted online for the event
- Subscription form to get updates
- Stats about expected attendance
- ??? (this is my first time)
Edit: I don't charge anything for the event, so percentage commission can work.
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Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
The Rust experience: finding a crate that looks really cool and exactly like what you need, seeing the README claiming that the 'book' contains introductory documentation and a tutorial, clicking through to it...
And then finding the first few pages of the 'book' filled in with information about how to install the crate, but with "todo" placeholders for every page that ostensibly would contain the thing you were actually trying to learn about
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I am releasing this public-domain/CC0 font based on the drawings in Rudolf Koch’s A Book of Signs. I have called it Koch Up.
Although the repertoire is limited, it has contextual alternates for EFHMPZ and some cross-stream kerning (generally following /R).
It is a little strange to release my whimsical font the same week as Poem releases the beautiful Offenbach, both based on Koch’s work. I hope you enjoy both.
https://drj11.itch.io/koch-up-font
Please Boost and download.
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Pulled the last little guys out of the kiln first thing and what a Wednesday delight
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vegan food and recipe
@vegan Me and @scremlin made a veganized chicken tonkatsu ramen recipe by Okonomi Kitchen! It turned out really really close to what we want! (but we may tweak a couple things) We're thinking about adding a tiny bit of miso paste and a tiny bit more sesame paste.
Still, the photos came out really nice too, even though we didn't use the right noodles (the thick flat noodles worked better for this recipe anyway because they hold more delicious creamy sauce). We used the Garden Gourmet chick'n style schnitzel for the "chicken" and the Mong Lee Shang Taiwanese flat sliced noodles
Notes about this recipe: You have to use sake, don't sub. You have to use east asian sesame paste (don't use tahini). Use a "cooking" oat or soy creamer thing. Don't use anything that is not made to be cooked, so no "soy drink" or "oat drink".
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A flowchart I made about the immigration process going from the US to The Netherlands
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So i got into Linux, IT, DevOps etc.. by way of being a musician and finding out the hard way that there are more jobs for fixing broken Macbooks and Firewire interfaces then there were as studio technicians and session guitarists. I feel like I'm constantly meeting other people in my field with similar stories - my current infra team at work for example is visual artists, gigging musicians and a calligraphist.
Infra friends, whats your art backstory?
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work, trans inclusion, ukpol
Struck by how many cis people I’m contacting would rather tell me how distressing this must be for me than commit to saying “trans women are women” in public
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abolish instagram. destroy it. burn it. hack it to pieces with sharpened spoons and eat it. use literally anything else to organise I beg you
uspol, actionable personally
If you have a formal autism diagnosis (completed or in progress), and you are in the US, now is probably the time to call around your healthcare providers and ask and/or pressure them to delete it from your medical records. Optionally keeping a paper copy yourself.
The government wants to go digging in private medical records to put autistic folks in a registry (that is most likely going to function as a kill list), and it'll probably take them a small amount of time to start doing so, but they probably won't actually be stopped from doing it - so you're going to want to make sure your name doesn't pop up in that process.
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One guy is using an excavator to move dirt, two people are raking it flat, and the crows are flapping around to check the dirt for grubs. Helping!
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There's currently some landscaping being done outside our apartment. The workers include three people and two crows
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
