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
And of course Transmission has no way to restart a deleted torrent without re-adding the torrent, which you cannot actually do in the web interface because it won't let you copy the magnet link, and there's no "force start over" option
I hate software sometimes
??? if the target filesystem for a move is full, SickGear just deletes the source files???
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Anyway, this mini-rant brought to you by me frustratedly manually renumbering video files to the S00 format and getting the exact episode numbers wrong at least twice, because apparently it's not even a contiguous sequence
The TVDB *almost* gets it right, categorizing specials by type: https://thetvdb.com/series/doctor-who-2005/seasons/official/0 -- but they then still number everything as S00, even the specials that are clearly an important part of a season narrative!
Like, some of the specials belong to seasons, some of the specials *are* seasons, some of the specials are "behind the scenes" stuff and so don't fit into the main episode flow, and some specials are wholly stand-alone. You can't just glob all of those together into a huge S00 Specials category!
How has nobody in the TV piracy scene figured out how to deal with Doctor Who specials numbering yet? It feels so broken in literally every piece of TV show management software I've used
How UX apathy leads to corporate capture
Since there have been a number of comments that boil down to "but people should be willing to learn stuff", this thread (not by me) is a pretty good explanation of the difference that I see between "improving UX" and "catering to one's every need", and where the boundary lies: https://eldritch.cafe/@AgathaSorceress/109296512790347301
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FediTip Roundup
• Add Alt Text to images
• Following folks? Fill out your profile and make an introduction post!
• Use hashtags!
• Use Content warnings for long posts and sensitive topics
• Read your instance rules
• Don’t feed Mastodon after midnight
• Use Report to help your admins keep your instance Good!
• Don’t get Mastodon wet
• Have a nice and relaxing time
#fediTips
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One thing that was super common on Mastodon / Fediverse prior to this mass migration was adding image descriptions to help be accessible to our many blind and partially sighted users here. Many people won't boost posts without them.
Please consider adding alt text to your images when you can. 
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discoverability is a false god, niche interests only, no celebrities in the new world, thanks
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How do y'all get anything to ever run under WINE? Like seriously, the only thing I've ever successfully ran under WINE is Netscape Navigator 5, and I see y'all talking about gaming on Linux????
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I wrote a small script to open/close registrations on #Mastodon servers based on user count so that smaller servers can better cope with the current load.
You can find that script on @Codeberg :
https://codeberg.org/Windfluechter/check_mastodon.sh
You'll need to make some changes to the script (editing the limits) and most likely also want to use https://codeberg.org/Windfluechter/cleanup-mastodon-users.sh to automatically remove inactive accounts on your site to reduce the user count again
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Did you know that the first scientist to show that changes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could affect the Earth’s temperature was a woman?
In 1856!
Eunice Foote broke scientific ground that remains more relevant than ever but history overlooked her.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.4.20210823a/full/
Keep in mind that almost all of the fediverse (including almost all Mastodon instances) is run by volunteers!
You should adjust your expectations accordingly - nobody is trying to sell you anything here, but that also means that you cannot make the sort of demands that you might make of a corporation.
And don't forget to send a donation to your instance admin!
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Hugops to every single mastodon instance sysop out there.
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one thing I think that might be lost on newcomers is the fact that this past week has been BANANAS for everyone who's been on the site for years, and if you feel like people are being snippy or pushy about social norms, that's probably why.
on a normal week when people talk about "hey please CW that" or "please don't spam your tweets here with a crossposter" or whatever they're more likely to do so patiently and explain the reasoning behind why we do things that way but on a day like today things are more likely to get a little snippy or terse.
don't take it personally! the old timers are trying to maintain social norms in the face of a flood of change, and they're worn out. keep that in mind if you think to yourself "hm; this place doesn't seem that friendly". give it some time to get back to normal before you bounce.
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New Fediverse new user onboarding instance picker and map interface just dropped!
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This is a recreation of a Twitter thread of my response to someone who said re: scientists moving to Mastodon: "Leaving the global community to enter a silo makes no sense."
I think this represents a common misconception about Mastodon! The entire point of federated social media is that it isn't a silo. On Twitter you are in a Twitter silo. On a Mastodon instance you can interact with anyone on ANY instance.
[thread continues :) ]
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solarpunk.moe now presents...
the glitch-soc cybre.space theme 
!
This theme is inspired on the late cybre.space instance that many of us remember fondly.
Is it 100% perfect? No. But I will continue to tweak it as necessary.
If you have a glitch-soc instance feel free to give it a try. The theme is hosted here.
- 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
