Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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- 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 swear, for the love of god, to whoever makes these UI pages: stop being so fucking creepy.
Seriously, what the actual fuck, you people sign me up for emails I don't want, and then I get opt out buttons like this:
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I am so sick of this shit. Why are you letting stalkers and rapists write the text for the opt-out buttons.
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asking for credit card information to sign up for a free trial of a service is predatory behavior and should be made illegal
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NS is phasing out the separate displays used to show the composition of international trains. This functionality has been added to the regular departure displays. The old displays aren’t removed yet, but show a message being out of these. And a trash bin in the top left corner 😅
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You take an arrow to the knee, and you're not an adventurer anymore.
Years later you still limp, but the arrow? Long gone. It did its work in an instant.
This is #LongCovid. You no longer test positive for the virus, but you're not an adventurer anymore.
"Long COVID" does not mean "having COVID for a long time."
It means the virus disabled you.
Yes, that's a thing viruses can do. Don't give this one the chance.
I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
23andme hack, PSA, serious safety threat
So apparently 23andme, the genetic testing company, has been hacked - and many of their customers' genetic profiles are now being publicly sold.
Concerningly, the sellers offer to sell the data grouped by *ethnic group*, and they have apparently included the data of a set of Ashkenazi Jews as a 'sample'.
If these claims are true, this is extremely concerning - they are basically marketing directly to nazis, and are effectively selling genetic hitlists.
Crucially, this does *not* just affect people who have taken a 23andme test, but also anyone *related to* someone who has.
I'm... honestly not sure what to do with this, besides warning people about this and the potential impact :/
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I so love games as a medium, games as creativity, games as entertainment. But games as an industry really bums me out.
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World leaders swiftly express their solidarity when Israeli civilians are killed.
But when Israel calls Palestinians “human animals,” silence. When Israel cuts off fuel, food, water, and medicine, silence. When the bombs fall on Gaza, silence.
Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-world-ignores-palestinian-civilians
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I made it. On the international trip from #Brussels to #Dordrecht I now have more than an hour delay. Still 16 minutes to go if this train makes it on time. #TrainTravel #Fail (it all started with a train in Brussels that did not depart at all).
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Δ-44203.1 'Carbon' 
Diagnostic log: library-robot[0x0001]
After 63 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 12 seconds of performing its tasks, the robot exhausted its high-priority task queue. The planner process therefore selected the most recently task supplied by an authorized entity. Due to its high complexity, the robot had been simulating tactical situations involving this task over the course of the past 27 hours, 27 minutes and 39 seconds and its plan had been deeply refined. It had successfully maintained tracking during 43% of this time of its main target: the robot's administrator.
The robot's prompt appearance, introductory beep beep and flawlessly executed salute did not cause the administrator to follow proper protocol. Instead, the administrator pronounced a loud unparseable word, jumped in the air and shot a projectile (classification: food/sandwich/half-eaten). The robot had previously assigned a low probability to proper protocol being followed in the current environment and had learned that the correct response was to ignore this issue.
The robot executed the next step of its tactical plan: audio communication. "library-robot[0x0001] completing assigned task 'tell Administrator Sky when it needs something, before it goes wrong'. the need is: explanation. Administrator Sky, how does this robot determine it needs something?"
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A friend just told me I'm against AI only because I fear losing my job.
What are you talking about?! I make games and art! I fear losing my fun!!
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google news decided i wanted to follow medical news in the way that it is reported on by people who care about investing in medical stocks
and boy is *that* a bloodless tone
I find it interesting how when you tell people "you should be more willing to believe people when they tell you things", they often respond with a fear of being misled
Because in the circumstance they are fearing, they are being misled because the other person stands to gain personally from the communication in some dishonest way
And if you're reluctant to believe people until they convince you, you know who stands to gain? Exactly that person who will go to some lengths to convince you of something for their own dishonest gain, and can afford to put in that effort...
Not the people who were just being honest and expressing themselves, who will give up and move on to somewhere less combative instead, because it is not worth the energy
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#AskFedi: Is there already a wiki or something that tracks old devices/models (of anything, not just one category like phones), and documents how they can be repurposed/liberated/unbricked/etc. to prevent them from becoming e-waste?
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This is a pretty cool behind-the-scenes of how the audio controllers for haunted houses in some theme parks are manufactured... literally in someone's backyard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPJdgxmSiE
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Ah, I see the Wikipedia is having another pledge drive. Here's your reminder that they literally have more money than they know what to do with, and have a full-time investment manager who just looks for stuff to do with their giant pile of cash.
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Remember how I said September is "CHANGE YOUR AIR FILTERS" month?
Yeah, this gray, disgusting blob here is the filter from my office, where I do my 3D printing, next to the new filter that I just changed in (I ordered the wrong size last month, had to re-order).
This filter was last changed in February.
CHANGE YOUR AIR PURIFIER FILTERS!
- 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
