Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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TIL that the scp command does not, by default, compress files it transfers, and that you need to add the -C flag to make it do that, and by doing that I have sped up my transfer speed about 40x, and without this knowledge I have probably wasted literally days of my life waiting for things in the past.
I wonder why e-mail clients don't ever seem to have implemented a "this sender normally contacts you from a different domain" warning as a phishing mitigation
LLM shit
"Ben and Ceora talk through some thorny issues around AI-generated music and art, explain why creators are suing AI companies for copyright infringement, and compare notes on the most amusing/alarming AI-generated content making the rounds"
Not "thorny" enough for StackOverflow not to make an entertainment article out of it, apparently
meta, religion
I gotta say, I do appreciate the other christian folks raking that christofascist over the coals for their hateful interpretations
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
wait what the fuck i knew Paw Patrol was just kids' copaganda, but it also features a child billionaire that provides the town with all the emergency responder puppies!?!?
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plastic recycling problems
Here are some of the widespread issues with plastic recycling, some well-known, others less so:
- The recycling process produces microplastics that end up in the environment
- That's because most plastic recycling processes require large amounts of water to clean the plastics; the only exception I know of is "dry-pressing", but that's useless for packaging, which is one of the biggest contributors to plastic waste
- Each recycling 'pass' reduces the polymer chain length, thereby making the plastic weaker, meaning it can only be recycled a finite amount of times
- 'Virgin' plastic (ie. produced from raw oil) is cheaper than recycled plastic to produce
- In some countries, the definition of "recycling" includes "burning it for power"
- A major bottleneck in the recycling process is the plastic type sorting stage; these machines are expensive and have limited capacity
- While soluble and metallic contaminants can often be automatically removed, others (such as fabrics) cannot, and require humans to pick it out
- Most sorting processes are optical, and just straight-up cannot sort black plastics because they cannot 'see' what type it is; all light is absorbed
- Sorting by plastic type is a hard requirement; not doing so means you will end up with uselessly weak plastics after recycling
- Only packaging plastics can be recycled in most recycling streams; non-packaging plastics typically have additives that interfere with the recycling process, or aren't even food-safe
- Plastic 'film' is notoriously difficult to recycle into anything useful; we're not just talking saran wrap here, but also for example plastic bags and the shrinkwrap around drinks bottles or cans! Basically anything you can fold without breaking it.
- Composite plastics (ie. things made from more than one plastic type) are essentially just unrecyclable; this often includes things like 'plastic tubs with aluminium lids glued to them'
- Did I mention that virgin plastic is cheaper? Plastic that's collected for "recycling", if not burned locally, is often just shipped to poorer countries to get rid of it, typically with large amounts of contaminants
So yeah, about that 'recycling'...
So uhm. Everyone is aware that what Microsoft is doing - setting a deadline for Minecraft account migration - is illegal, yeah? Like, you can't just take away someone's purchase, no matter what your EULA says.
re: medical, funny
By the way, the baking soda tablets are prescription-only
medical, funny
So I got a new medication for my kidney issues, sodium bicarbonate pills. Very important to manage my bicarbonate levels!
Baking soda. They're baking soda pills. 🙃
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jeff, question
Anyone remember where I can find that summary post of newsie jeff and his various bullshit? I've seen it before but can't find it now
Jeff's latest new instance seems to be humanist.social
plastic recycling problems
Here are some of the widespread issues with plastic recycling, some well-known, others less so:
- The recycling process produces microplastics that end up in the environment
- That's because most plastic recycling processes require large amounts of water to clean the plastics; the only exception I know of is "dry-pressing", but that's useless for packaging, which is one of the biggest contributors to plastic waste
- Each recycling 'pass' reduces the polymer chain length, thereby making the plastic weaker, meaning it can only be recycled a finite amount of times
- 'Virgin' plastic (ie. produced from raw oil) is cheaper than recycled plastic to produce
- In some countries, the definition of "recycling" includes "burning it for power"
- A major bottleneck in the recycling process is the plastic type sorting stage; these machines are expensive and have limited capacity
- While soluble and metallic contaminants can often be automatically removed, others (such as fabrics) cannot, and require humans to pick it out
- Most sorting processes are optical, and just straight-up cannot sort black plastics because they cannot 'see' what type it is; all light is absorbed
- Sorting by plastic type is a hard requirement; not doing so means you will end up with uselessly weak plastics after recycling
- Only packaging plastics can be recycled in most recycling streams; non-packaging plastics typically have additives that interfere with the recycling process, or aren't even food-safe
- Plastic 'film' is notoriously difficult to recycle into anything useful; we're not just talking saran wrap here, but also for example plastic bags and the shrinkwrap around drinks bottles or cans! Basically anything you can fold without breaking it.
- Composite plastics (ie. things made from more than one plastic type) are essentially just unrecyclable; this often includes things like 'plastic tubs with aluminium lids glued to them'
- Did I mention that virgin plastic is cheaper? Plastic that's collected for "recycling", if not burned locally, is often just shipped to poorer countries to get rid of it, typically with large amounts of contaminants
So yeah, about that 'recycling'...
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It will also have no buttons at all. Neither physical nor on the screen. The next generation of phone OSes will use AI to automatically show you exactly what you want*, so you can just look at your phone without having to touch it
*ads. It will only show you ads
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(standing on the platform at Bank) “The next train is for Bank, via Bank”
TfL moment
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Periodic reminder to descale your SiliconGraphics IRIS Indigo.
Don't wait for the L1 cache to clog up! #espressigo
EDIT: The Espressigo was a real product sold by SGI in Germany for 1790 Deutsche Mark! I didn't rip out the guts of an Indigo!!
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"This page looks better in the app!"
idk, random tech company, sounds like that's more of a you problem
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imagine how much cooler games could be
if they were open source as a matter of course
corporate nonsense
> Through a unique global network SGS delivers independent results tailored to the precise needs of the industry or sector.
lmao, very independent
... why do 400 EUR toothbrushes exist again?
- 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
