Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
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"Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month" is factually true but leaves out the true story. It's not that people _want_ false AI summaries, it's just that a monopolist can do whatever. Google could add a cat picture to every search and then claim how their cat pictures now reach billions of people. It's not about the product that centered but the market dominance that isn't.
https://www.theverge.com/news/655930/google-q1-2025-earnings
"In 1743 opende Jacob Hooy een kruidenkraam op de Amsterdamse Nieuwmarkt. Hier begon, met de verkoop van kruiden en specerijen, de rijke historie van het bedrijf. En aan de firma kleeft niet alleen historie, maar ook een brok nostalgie. Nostalgie vooral naar het oude en vertrouwde handelen in kruiden."
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Just found a lovely new blog for my RSS reader and it wouldn't have happened if someone hadn't boosted a picture of a nonbinary cat furry staring at a CD
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The lovely home of a local radio station, encountered purely by chance in Broken Hill earlier this week.
#RoadTrip #BrokenHill #Radio #Buildings #Hipstamatic
#RoadTrip #BrokenHill #Radio #Buildings #Hipstamatic
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I would encourage every Fediverse software project to implement a “dead-man switch" on registrations: if nobody with moderator permissions has been active in the last week, then disable new account creation.
The Fediverse has a significant number of abandoned instances that are used by bad actors to create accounts and send spam.
We implemented this in Mastodon (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29318) and it has been highly effective.
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Edit: Fixed. Confirmation: https://musician.social/@mirlo/114398624792193021
Original message: Heads up musicians, it looks like mirlo.space's domain has lapsed and been snapped up by domain squatters. Suggest you don't visit the site with an unprotected browser till it gets sorted out. You can manually put the old IP address (216.24.57.1) into your hosts file if you know what you're doing.
For those in NL, this is the one: https://www.lidl.nl/p/dikke-bleek/p44285
The equivalent in Belgium is this one: https://www.lidl.be/p/nl-BE/wc-gel-met-javel/p10000124
(You may find the Belgian one in Dutch branches sometimes, instead of the Dutch one.)
Pay close attention to the label and the bottle designs because they have a bunch of products that *look* similar but aren't.
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please don't abbreviate Adobe Illustrator these days thanks
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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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:ms_deminonbinary_flag:
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
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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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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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.
- 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
