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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- 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
tech grumbling
If you end up being the person saying shit that's emotionally adjacent to "you're not a real business unless you're tech company scale", even if not using those literal words (and yes, this includes assuming everyone *needs* tech company scale), you are doing something very wrong
CW-boost: DENK, fascistische retoriek en propaganda, queer-haat
food-related, health
(Note: the "eating more vegan" and "starting kidney disease treatment" are not directly related to each other, although it does seem that vegan diets are no problem whatsoever with my kidney disease, at least, aside from the salt restrictions being trickier)
food-related, dental health
It occurs to me that since I've started eating more vegan (mostly it's just cheese left in my diet, and chocolate, in terms of non-vegan stuff), I've had to have way less plaque removed from my teeth at the dentist.
It also roughly coincides with starting kidney disease treatment though, so hard to say which factor (if either) is responsible.
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grousing
we live in a world inundated with Fuck You
Paying your rent? Fuck You, it's been raised. Why? Fuck You
Welfare? Insurance? Fuck You
This letter is pretending to be your bank because Fuck You. This letter IS your bank adding a new fee because Fuck You.
Your boss is texting you on saturday because Fuck You. You won't quit.
You can't buy this in a simple transaction. A subscription makes it easier to trick you. Fuck You
so many big & little things at once but it. does. not. stop.
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how do i tie my shoes
results:
- fifteen minute video with clickbait titles and an obnoxious host
- "looking to tie your shoes? well you've come to the right place. many people are looking to tie their shoes"
[skip five paragraphs]
"adidas fans have long awaited.."
[skip five more paragraphs before deciding there aren't instructions here]
- tieshoes.com, a site that's trying to suggest there's more to it than this article where the only advice is to use this specific brand
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i feel the internet has put me in this grumpier state of mind where like, everything keeps getting a little more annoying day by day and it all adds up. in a way, some of it is worse than before i had internet, because at least i knew how to learn how to bake a cupcake, even if it was more work. now i jump right to the internet and weed through a bunch of false answers. getting a call is more annoying because i have to decide if i think this call is real or i'm being sold something
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New-ish Asus routers [CORRECTION: at least two routers bought in Sweden] seem to enable "Yandex.DNS" by default. This forwards all of your DNS lookups to Yandex, a large Russian search engine. I discovered this on my dad's router when he had troubles accessing his bank from his broadband but not on his phone. (Presumably, the bank geoblocked Russian IPs as a protest to the invasion of Ukraine.)
I get that you need to trust someone with your DNS lookups (your ISP, Google, Cloudfare, etc), but I didn't expect the non-ISP option to be the default...
Check your router!
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trying to imagine an art form that cannot be co-opted by AI and consumptive tech and reinventing Dadaism
CW-boost: israel, gaza, shitty company
software development grump
An irritating phenomenon:
1. Someone hypes up a technology or concept that is inappropriate for solving the vast majority of problems (or even all of them)
2. Someone else tries to 'water down' the concept so that it becomes less unsuitable for most usecases, but still isn't the optimal solution and still suffers significant drawbacks in those cases
3. Now every time you criticize the hyped-up thing for being inappropriate for most cases, people go "that's not true! it works fine for those cases, look" and it turns out they are talking about the watered-down version, but they are not receptive either to "the much older solution actually still works better" and just *assume* that the hyped-up concept must be better and it's up to you to disprove it
And now it just becomes fucking impossible to get rid of the long tail of these hypes poisoning software development discourse everywhere, forever.
See: MVC, microservices, ...
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thoughts on mutual aid and crowdfunding, bipoc version
it kinda hit me this morning that as bipoc ask for help with finances, we should be recognising some broad stroke ideas about how money is distributed in racist systems and societies.
historically, money flows in one direction - especially in places like the very white-washed west. bipoc do not have access to the same resources white folks do ... if they have access to any at all. asking white folks for financial support takes on a whole new meaning if we realise that banding together against the capitalist regimes we suffer under is the way to go. white folks have access to funds, we don't. why not then, as white folk, avail yourselves of those resources and pass it on?
novel idea? no? let's fight the man together.
... brought to you today by random foggy half-formed thoughts on how to build a just system based on exploiting the system in place that disadvantages us all.
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Vandaag is de nieuwe "tijdelijke" wet aangenomen die van de WiV alsnog een sleepwet maakt. De waarborgen die er vanwege het referendum in geklust waren, zijn er nu weer uit. Een slapende Tweede Kamer liet het gewoon gebeuren. https://www.parool.nl/nederland/geheime-diensten-krijgen-felbegeerde-wet-aivd-gaat-vaker-onze-internetkabels-verkennen~b998b94c/
So if anyone has a preconfigured DOSBox setup handy that LBA2 works under, *without* needing to manually mount a disc, I'm all ears :)
- 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
- 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
