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
Love LCSC's "internal" API for their site, it's *so easy* to index their whole catalog including stuff like stock levels
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PSA For Anyone On Meds:
Baja Blast contains grapefruit! Do not drink it! Grapefruit de-activates a wide variety of medications!
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When people misuse the words concrete, asphalt and gravel, it's just cementics.
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Anne C.A. Baanen
this is pretty much exactly my gender most of the time
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JFC, I'll take a slew of half baked 2000s era Under Construction 🚧 websites any day to this utterly barren internet wasteland of search results that are machine generated copies of other sites that are machine generated copies of other sites that are machine generated to only appear in my search in order to attempt to sell me something.
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I get so tired of academic publishing. I am trying to get something peer reviewed ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/807693v2 ) that I spent a huge amount of time writing and typesetting to make readable and accessible without all the dogshit we do to papers, like hiding away all the detail in supplements that you have to flip back and forth from to understand anyway. That means that the document ends up being like 45 pages, but that's because the text is 2/3 width with 1/3 for margin figures and margin notes, lots of whitespace, about 100 diagrams, figures, pictures, etc. interwoven with the text to support the reader!
If I render it in the typical reader-hostile way, remove all the parts where I'm trying to make it accessible to nonprogrammers, remove all context that informs the state of prior art and the motivation for the work, and remove all the figures except the ones plotting data it is normal paper length.
I can't get it reviewed! It's "too long" and it's a "user guide, not a paper." So now I have to chop it back up, shoehorn it into typical paper format, make it worse to read and harder to understand. That, or I guess I could do the usual perfunctory 5 page code paper that just says "we made a package to do experiments, here it is doing experiments" without any effort to contextualize it or describe how and why it works that way.
Is this really how we want it to work? Only things that hew exactly to the traditional style are allowed to exist, if you try and experiment with new document forms you're just wasting your time, the only thing that matters is that it "looks like science."
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Is there a place where people developing third party tools and clients for Mastodon are hanging out?
For those not familiar: the Zune theme was a theme released by Microsoft for Windows XP, to promote their (ultimately failed) line of MP3 players.
Crucially, it was released late, relatively obscure, and most developers wouldn't have known about its existence. From a QA perspective, it effectively functioned as a third-party theme despite being published by Microsoft.
People be claiming that "it's just not possible to have a UI toolkit that's both reliable and themeable outside of core OS styles" and yet none of them ever seem to mention the XP Zune theme which did precisely that
re: fossil fuel industry
The exact method of shutdown is left as an exercise to the reader, of course. Pretty big solution space there.
fossil fuel industry
> BP scales back climate goals as profits more than double to £23bn
> Energy company faces calls for toughened windfall tax as it reaps rewards from high gas prices
This is why you don't negotiate with capitalists. You either regulate them or, failing that, you shut them down by force.
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@threeofswords I realized recently that I really miss people CWing food. Not that I care about food, but a lot of people don't know they're talking about diet culture and weight loss, they just think they're talking about food!
So without those CWs, I get exposed to a lot more toxic and triggering stuff. :(
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CHALMERS: You know, this email is quite similar to the ones companies send out when they've had a security breach.
SKINNER: Ohohoho, no! This is just a normal precautionary password reset. Old company tradition! Mmm, password reset!
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I also definitely noticed that my queer only posts get much more traction than anything related to fatness or ableism bc as a whole the left doesn't care about about body liberation either. Regardless of if it's due to genetics, illness, injury, or poverty, the left cannot bring itself to care about disability and advocating for accessibility for all of the kinds of disability not just the ones you personally deem acceptable🤷♀️
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Attention: it is now 13:37 CST. Please go hack something.
This toot brought to you by my 15-minute search for drain cleaner
I swear, the local hardware store *deliberately* puts everything in the most illogical place possible. I can never find anything on the first try there.
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Reply guys who mention something irrelevant to your post should be called “Scope creeps”
- 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
