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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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please don't abbreviate Adobe Illustrator these days thanks
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ACAB
i have a very personal connection to the word 'plethora'
it means a lot to me.
:D
get it?...get it?
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🔥 😮💨 (any/all experimental)
I'm not sure just how much people know they depend on TLS certificate authorities to function for the web (and therefore the internet) to basically work at all
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and they really seem to love this stick in particular. I thought they'd stay somewhere dark and underground but I see entire families hanging out here 
It's kind of annoying how flaky the availability is, though. I can't tell whether it's really popular or just very inconsistently supplied, but it's out of stock *so often* and has been for years, across multiple different branches... or there's like, a single bottle sitting on the shelf when you'd want to stock up
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I thought I'd never see the isopods in my terrarium but lately they're coming onto the light more often for some reason. hope it means they're well settled in and having a good time 😌
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Edited with a lot more resources and ways to get involved if you actually wanna get involved.
Hey non-disabled #Linux folk, sure would be fantastic if everyone pitched in on helping the blind and sighted allies making Linux more accessible to disabled users rather than warning us about the end of Windows 10, like we don't already know. Telling us something we already know doesn't help us switch to Linux because while you're lecturing us, Linux still has accessibility issues in the underlying infrastructures.
To start, Here’s a small, impactful thing you can do for now. There are bigger needs but making a fully accessible place one can research and compare distros would be a start. This website is linked to a lot. It’s inaccessible to screen magnifier users because the test is coded in such a way where elements appear behind other elements. All the links in the navigation area are empty and need labels. Making the quiz screen reader friendly by having regular web elements for questions such as radio buttons and other HTML elements without enabling an accessibility mode would be a fantastic start. https://distrochooser.de/
Here's some background on the recent state of Linux accessibility, and a project you can contribute to.
https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/
You can help the Fedora team make their KDE spin more accessible than it already is. https://fedoraproject.org/kde/
You can join their core accessibility group, https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/dei-team
Learn about the state of modern Linux accessibility. Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9c
Make more repositories, wiki's, websites, like Linux Access ORG, of accessible mainstream distros and other flavors/spins. Make accessibility guides. Do what big tech does for accessibility but do it better than them.
Help contribute to sites like https://linuxaccess.org/
Gnome's accessibility breakdown... ish. It's old but still valid for most. https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/
and contribute to projects such as Access Kit. https://accesskit.dev/
Lastly, there are a ton of blind mailing lists out there for linux. Read what they have to say. Here's just one of them, this thread provides more. https://inbox.the-brannons.com/blinux/CAO2sX30cKU4i_Nsskitw5gLeYjwjswfMRphf5krmjMH1DK69Cw@mail.gmail.com/#r
And once again the weird 'WC gel' that Lidl sells saves my ass. Years of caked-on oils and grime on the shower walls gone with basically no work or executive function required.
I don't really understand why nobody else seems to sell this stuff, or even really what is making it so effective compared to normal bleach or even toilet cleaner...
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ik zal het maar weer moeten doen
maar daarna gooi ik de gdpr naar hun kop om te zien welke gegevens ze hebben opgehaald en opgeslagen, want dit is gewoon extreem dodgy
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Noodfonds Energie btw, altijd leuk als een niet overheids organisatie vindt dat ze gewoon eventjes over je schouder mee mogen kijken naar welke gegevens dan ook en zij beslissen wel over hoe dat kan en nee zeggen betekend gewoon geen recht hebben op het geld of een zinnige reactie van ze
@bitsoffreedom heeft hier vast ook nog wel een mening over, want dit is gewoon zot
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Ah ja, als je arm bent heb je geen recht op privacy:
"Waarom moet ik een extensie installeren als ik de aanvraag op mijn computer doe?"
"Het indienen van de aanvraag gaat via een digitaal proces waarbij je DigiD gebruikt. De extensie zorgt ervoor dat je gegevens op een veilige, snelle en betrouwbare manier worden opgehaad. De overheidsorganisaties waar we gegevens ophalen zijn het UWV, de Belastingdienst en Toeslagen."
Waarom kan ik niet gewoon de papieren indienen, digitaal of per post?
A construction in someone's backyard down the street caught on fire like a week ago, and I have to give props to the demolition company that removed it, because I didn't even notice that they'd been demolishing it until I saw the dumpster full of burnt wood sitting on the street.
That was a very quiet demolition!
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Being a joke, it's not *perfectly* accurate, there's plenty of amazing research that's been done over the years under the moniker of AI. At the same time, there's a pretty sizable germ of truth to it all.
If an ML product just works, it used to be that no one would ever call it AI, because that's just the internals as to how the thing works. E.g. spam filters, medical imaging, any thermostat that's even slightly more complex than a PID controller, ...
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The old joke throughout grad school was that machine learning is statistical inference that doesn't work, and that AI is machine learning that doesn't work.
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Has anyone written some sort of comprehensive analysis of how protocols were designed to be used, how people ended up using them instead, and what lessons can be drawn from it?
Across multiple different case studies, ideally, not just one protocol.
It kind of annoys me how Matrix core devs never seem to acknowledge a fundamental risk in their protocol design: that untrusted third parties can trigger intensive computation on other systems (by creating complex state graphs).
It's not that there's no way to (sufficiently) mitigate this, but you do actually need to acknowledge that this problem exists, instead of fucking around in the margins with 'making stateres more efficient'.
As long as the graph complexity isn't forcibly bounded in some way, this is going to keep being a problem.
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Fedimeta, pol, defederation
I think the news are already out for some time, so I won’t repeat it here, but fosstodon.org got infected with an active fascist among their mod team and they openly state they’re happy with it.
#fediblock will commence in 24h if the action isn’t taken and public apology isn’t provided.
I recommend #fediadmin-s to look into that and make a decision as well. This is a dangerous precedent and how fedi reacts is important.
Upd:
https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948 - thread is located here
#fediblock will commence in 24h if the action isn’t taken and public apology isn’t provided.
I recommend #fediadmin-s to look into that and make a decision as well. This is a dangerous precedent and how fedi reacts is important.
Upd:
https://fosstodon.org/@mike/114394345053697948 - thread is located here
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got up and ran into my cat in the hallway, who looked at me wide eyed, screamed, then ran away
good morning to you too, cat
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Mijn dochter is geen kostenpost. Het pgb is geen speeltuin voor oplichters.
Uw uitzending zaait wantrouwen, stigmatiseert ouders, en mist elke nuance.
Ik schreef u een brief. Als vader.
Lees hem hier:
#pgb #wederhoor #menselijkheid #zorg
https://kanteldenker.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/ik-ben-woedend/
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
