Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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- 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
- LBA2 *will not* run if it's launched from "C:\", so you need to make sure that it's within a subfolder from the perspective of DOSBox. In EmulationStation, that means running something that is one folder up from the game (it doesn't have to run *successfully*) and then navigating to the correct executable from the menu, or presumably you can also use a .bat file to do this.
Err, "not the Linux one" should be "not the DOS one", of course. Whoops.
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No Google, proxying via your servers is *not* improving user privacy (and is making anti-abuse more difficult for the rest of us..!)
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»The #advertisements, which displayed stats from a survey about child sexual abuse and online #privacy, were paid for by the #European #Commission. […]
The micro-targeting ad campaign categorized recipients based on religious beliefs and political orientation criteria […]
launched a day after the #EU #Council met without securing sufficient support for the proposed legislation […] targeted count[r]ies were those that did not support the draft«
https://www.wired.com/story/csar-chat-scan-proposal-european-commission-ads/
I have been trying to get Little Big Adventure 2 running on my emulator handheld, and uh. Does it count that I can get it to display the "please insert the CD" screen?
What I've learned so far:
- There's DRM in the original release, that checks for the disk label+contents.
- The widely available no-CD cracks only seem to patch the Windows executable, not the Linux one.
- The current 'original' version on GOG is not, in fact, the original version; it is a patched executable that only works on Windows.
- The *previous* release on GOG (no longer available for purchase) *does* use the DOS version; I was able to grab it from a torrent.
- Against my expectations, the old GOG release *doesn't* patch out the CD check - I'm currently trying to figure out how this ever worked, given that I see no evidence of a disk image getting mounted in the GOG release, and it *must* have worked at some point if they were able to sell it.
- All of this while I *do*, in fact, have a legitimate disk of the original release, but... good luck inserting a CD-ROM into a modern handheld, and I don't particularly feel like fucking around with mount scripts either...
RSD, mh
The problem with RSD is that your paranoia about getting ghosted will be justified *just* often enough for it to keep singing around in your head
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Ich habe wohl einen möglichen Angriffsvektor gegen die neuen #Polizeipanzer Survivor R von Rheinmetall gefunden und versucht diesen zu melden. Da Hersteller und Politik kein Problem an der Sicherheitslücke sehen, mache ich meine Entdeckung nun publik.
So hat mir ein Beamter der Polizei Berlin am Tag der offenen Tür erklärt, dass die Motorhaube des Fahrzeugs sich nur von außen öffnen lässt und sich dies von innen auch nicht verhindern lässt.
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please do not tap on the glass. it's tempered glass. tapping infuriates it
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Open Gender Initiative
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Anytime someone sets a feature as a non-default, I assume 95% of users never touch it. When they put it under the “Privacy” settings menu, I raise my expectation to 99%.
But Privacy -> Settings -> Advanced, wow. That’s like putting it in a disused lavatory in the basement of the town hall, with a sign that says “Beware of Tiger.”
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the most 2023-internet thing is that when you google "public domain icons" you mainly get sites which offer commercial or limited-use icons, but you get their icons that show the idea of "public domain".
lots of copyright symbols with a big NO symbol over it, available to license for limited personal use for 5.99$ a month
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Politik in Deutschland, oder: Warum ich einfach nur noch müde bin
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cursed
Coffee is a type of soup
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During the chit chat beginning of a virtual meeting someone, when asked how he was, said "I've had a bit of a violent flu" and the person leading the meeting said "A lot of people seem to be saying that lately! There must be something going around."
Yeah I wonder what that could be!
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There are so many good reasons for using CWs, here are some of them:
- Giving people a choice whether to engage with content that might trigger traumata or unpleasant memories (e.g. sexual assault, war, sickness and injury, ...)
- Giving people a choice whether they want to be confronted with specific content at a specific point in time (e.g. food when you're hungry, your favourite TV series or video game when you're at work, ...)
- As meta-info, clarifying that your post is ironic, a quote, a reference...
- Keeping very long posts hidden on your followers timelines until they decide to read them
- Giving people a choice whether to engage with content that might be of little interest to them (fandom, niche interests, convoluted academical talk, technobabble, ...)
- Making the timeline more accessible for folks using screen readers, e.g. when using a lot of emoji
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Wanneer je vanuit de overheid statements ziet als "achter Israel staan" of "onze bondgenoot steunen", realiseer je dan dat dat om dit land gaat:
https://forward.com/fast-forward/565699/dozens-of-arrested-for-posts-defending-gaza/
Dit is niet eens een beetje vergelijkbaar met Oekraine. Israel is een openlijk fascistische en kolonialistische staat, en is dat al heel lang - en onder andere de Nederlandse staat heeft daar actief aan bijgedragen en steun aan verleend.
Uiteraard is het onwenselijk dat er burgers om het leven komen. Maar realiseer je wel dat de verantwoordelijkheid daarvoor primair bij de koloniserende staat ligt, en dat er aan de Palestijnse kant door de jaren heen *heel veel* meer slachtoffers gevallen zijn waar je nauwelijks iets over hoort.
De oorlog is helemaal niet net begonnen; die is al decennia bezig, met de Israelische staat als primaire aggressor.
Dus als iemand verklaart achter Israel te staan en die persoon zich nooit over het lot van Palestijnen uitgesproken heeft, dan zou ik toch ernstige vraagtekens zetten bij dies prioriteiten en onderliggende politiek.
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i am already angered and horrified by the ongoing genocide that apartheid isreal has been committing. but these "Queering the Map" entries have absolutely destroyed me. this is who white queer and trans people are leaving behind when they dehumanize palestinians and fall for israeli pinkwashing. if anything, please see palestinians as humans with a full spectrum of emotion and life. the genocide and occupation must end.
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One of my favorite things about the new IOS 17 haptics is that, even with my phone muted, I can tell who's texting me by the pitch my phone's vibrating at on my desk. I have it set so my important people cause my phone to vibrate at different pitches. Thanks apple
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It is often hard for me to switch tasks. Especially when I get into a hyperfocus state. 🧘
I've always struggled to explain to others why it is so difficult. 🤔
“Tendril theory" by Erin Human explains it really well.
image: @theeisforerin
#AskADHD #AskingAutistics #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic
- 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
