Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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Is it feasible to identify the fault in a dead motherboard myself with a fairly basic multimeter and some patience?
My mobo died last week and I had to replace it. I couldn't see anything obviously blown, but for my own curiosity I'd quite like to know what failed, especially if it's something I could reduce the risk of in the future (like reducing ingress of pet hair into the chassis... 😅)
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RechtsRock
Der Hack der Kundendatei des schwedischen #RechtsRock-Versands #Midgard hat in #Niedersachsen erste Konsequenzen, wie Andrea Röpke und Andreas Speit heute in der @tazgetroete berichten 👇
#rechtsrocktnicht
#SchonZiemlichDreist
@antifaticker https://taz.de/Rechter-Internetversand-Midgrd-gehackt/!5974343/
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If someone who does massage is called a masseuse, why don't we call someone who does sabotage a saboteuse?
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covid
If your workplace is doing the "we comply with CDC recommendations" 
thing, the CDC director just flatly instructed everyone to:
get covid, flu and RSV (for the over 60s) vaccinations (all three + pneumonia are increasing)
avoid people who are sick
wash hands
improve ventilation
wear a mask
stay home if you're sick and go and get tested so you know what you have and can seek treatment
I would like credit for not just screaming my favorites from the list or using profanity, thank you. 
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I'd be lying if I said I saw this coming three years ago. Everything you posted publicly on facebook and instagram is fair game, and has been used, to train an generative AI.
If you ever needed a reason to quit corporate social media.
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Looking into the inside of a USB-A plug to see if it's got the USB 3.0 contacts, like I'm inspecting a horse's teeth.
hot take, "open core"
"Single sign-on is an Enterprise feature" only holds up when you believe that large-scale collaboration is beholden to corporations, and FOSS is only for unserious single-person projects - it is *not*, in fact, a reasonable stance to take on a supposedly open-source project
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The next day, there was another human in the house, shouting and pointing to scratch marks on the walls and threatening to throw the cat and her human out.
The cat snuck up behind the intruder and perked her ears at her human.
The human caught her eyes. 'Yes, Satan. Today.'
The cat smiled, too widely and with too many teeth, and looked down at the intruder from her full height.
She pounced.
(Thanks to @LexPendragon for the prompt!)
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The cat pounced with claws extended upon her unsuspecting human's bare feet.
'Ouch!' the human cried. 'Not today, Satan!'
The cat's enlarged pupils shrank, and her excited wiggle stilled. She slunk away.
The next day, she frolicked among the ripped-up pieces of the curtain she'd dragged from the rails when her human scooped her up. 'Not today, Satan,' the human said wearily.
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It's getting on that time again - remember that a lot of people have issues around holidays, particularly compulsory holidays and family-associated holidays, and Christmas is one of those holidays.
Content warnings *would* be helpful.
Thank you.
- 🦇 🎒
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hi everyone i'm creating an open source fast and simple digital painting software
right now i have:
- brush engine similar to popular manga software
- antialiased bucket fill with gap closing
- opengl canvas view
- first bits of intuitive ui/ux
i'm preparing a demo for linux folks, next i will do layer system also similar to popular manga software
repository: https://github.com/mrgaturus/npainter
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hot take on hrt.
you could fill an entire “they have played us for absolute fools” meme template with things endocrinologists say, recommend, demand and prescribe to trans people.
🤔 I wonder if the "have an antivirus installed" step of PCI compliance could be technically satisfied by installing a program that detects the EICAR test string and nothing else
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ACAB
ian danskin just dropped new video, and it is painfully relevant. to everybody who cries about how sensitive and unfair people are when they ask for content warnings, please watch this
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@joepie91 yeahhhhh, I'm worried too. We might also see a resurgance of malware, as people stop updating instead of throwing away tho...
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@joepie91 it's honestly outrageous that I can play modern games on my hardware but not run windows 11. Why isn't any government suing the shit out of Microsoft?
The myth of patents as a protector of innovation is dying, and I love to see it
(You do not get to respond to this with "use Linux" unless you intend to spend your next year working on perfect Windows application compatibility on Linux)
Deeply concerned about the imminent mountain of e-waste when Windows 10 support ends in 2025/2028.
- 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
