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
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"I don't want to be censored" is a very different statement than "I want my voice to be heard"
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I couldn't understand why AVX registers were randomly going back in time on Ryzen, turns out it's a known CPU errata 😬
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ONGOING: #Indigenous #Sámi youth and environmentalists are occupying Norway's Ministry for Oil and Energy, protesting the government of #Norway's inaction after Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Sámi agains the #Fosen #windturbine plant.
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By the way: if you decide to feed local crows, PLEASE DON'T FEED THEM WHITE BREAD, especially during mating season.
Urban hatchlings are sometimes flightless and not long for this world due to bad nutrition.
Give them seeds, dog treats, nuts, fruit, and corpses of your enemies to feast upon.
Remember: crows are too metal for white bread.
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The subtler effects of the authoritarian mindset and authoritarian propaganda: I basically BSOD'd a friend of mine when I told him that neighbourhoods aren't "official" or "formally defined" in most cities.
He seems legitimately uncomfortable with the idea that people can just... define the names and areas of the spaces they live in without a higher authority drawing lines on a map.
He's also coming up with these weird hypotheticals like "but what if people suddenly decide to rename these two neighbourhoods in the city into "Bilbo" and "Frodo"? What would stop them from doing that?"
Thankfully he did realize that makes basically no sense and that it's a gradual, organic change.
re: rant, programmers
Also, to clarify: of course it's fine to bring up any *legitimate* concerns you have about the instructions or suggestions you're given. This is definitely not about that.
This is about the "I know what I'm doing, and it's your fault if my transcription isn't enough" crowd. The ones where the ego leaks through from the first message.
re: rant, programmers
Side rant: if you were unable to figure out from the output what the source of the problem is by yourself, what makes you think you are so confidently qualified to determine what part of the output is "relevant"?
rant, programmers
I really cannot stand people who ask for programming help in a public channel, are asked to provide a pastebin of the exact output unmodified, and then will spend endless time arguing that their lossy transcription of the output "should be good enough" or do basically anything other than "making the damn pastebin"
(This also applies to being needlessly difficult about other instructions, and it's usually the same people)
Like, people are asking you to do this *for a reason*, you are asking for free help from volunteers, and the least you could fucking do is not make their job harder by nitpicking every suggestion or instruction for the sake of it
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Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite.
Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace
If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.
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arXiv of our own
So apparently the Mastodon 4.x public toot view has copied Twitter's long-thread bug where you can scroll from the end to the start but not the other way around
Incredible, this is even worse than the barely-legible "Read more" button it used to have
Garbage collectors here (Den Bosch) were going to strike for 5 days. The strike was ended after only one day, because the city gave in and agreed to a salary increase of 12 percent instead of 5 percent. Nice!
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I mean ... that is a blue LCD display so I suppose it has blue rays...
my thitiger
But the best part is:
New! !
this is called (extra) delayed excitement
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Blind person asking for pointers. Please boost and thank you.
Does anyone have any tips for a blind user for how to scan a QR code on Mac? I thought it was just one at first, but I can’t hit any of them. I used to be able to do this with PC. I’m locked out of some of my accounts now. To clarify, I need to scan the code on my Mac screen with my iPhone and can't hit the target. It is keeping me from using WhatsApp for desktop.
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when someone tells you to stop doing a racist thing, you literally just have to stop doing that. they're not making an accusation about who you are as a person.
then again if you take an accusation of racism personally, like, I just might believe you that racism is a core part of your identity lmao.
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y'all it's actually so tiring how often people respond to a request to stop doing racism by saying "how dare you call us racists."
no one is saying you are irredeemably a racist. I personally don't think anyone is. but everyone is swimming in white supremacy and unless you actively stop acting white supremacistly then it's periodically gonna come out of you. it's literally that simple.
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Pfffft... Wildebeest is going well I see.
https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest/issues/303
"The admins can read your DMs" is old baby news. How about "Everyone can read your DMs"?
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In case you considered thoughts and prayers to be the least they could care. In case you thought they couldnt be more bored with this shootings at school thing.
Vanderbilt University Caught Using ChatGPT To Console Students After MSU Shooting
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I see another person is getting press for "inventing sign language gloves" so now is a good time to remind you that a) someone supposedly invents these at least once a year b) they basically never actually work and c) the Deaf community has repeatedly said they don't want them and that they don't really help.
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Random Soapbox: I am against citation formats that include only authors' first name initials. They are Anglo-centric in assuming that there exist more variations in last names than first names; and they also assume the existence of last names!
- 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
