Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
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Happy agender day! Please dump all your unwanted gender into this bin:
🗑️
I, the gender trash panda, will happily collect and root through them.
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Interesting thing i've learned over the years from dealing with server hosting:
Game population rarely grows linearly, the odds for a server to be half full are dramatically smaller than for it to be empty or full.
(I also want to emphasize that this has been a problem for *at least* a decade, and in some ways has become *less* of a problem over that time.)
Since people are getting restless about Hetzner again: yes, those kinds of TOS are problematic. However, and this is crucial, they are also *common* - even if not every hosting provider tells you upfront.
Does this justify such terms? No. But it means that you need to think carefully about what your actual anticipated problems are, and whether moving to a different provider is actually a good solution.
When it comes down to it, virtually every cheap hosting provider is going to be extremely strict on acceptable usage of their services; usually they will enforce a strict and conservative interpretation of the local legislation, because simply put, fighting legal cases costs money.
Hetzner sticks out right now due to recent incidents, but consider how big they actually are; at that scale, two incidents do not make a pattern, and unless you *know* that another provider is more friendly to your cause (and this will likely have a pricetag attached), other options are not necessarily better.
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@schratze would you like your bad user experience in “we intentionally made it bad” or in “we don’t know how to not make it bad”
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Chris Fallin wrote a Futamura projector for #wasm:
Partially evaluate an interpreter to get a compiler.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/weval/
Edit: Hi @cfallin.
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we have trained on
the messages
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the Slack
and which
you were probably
keeping
confidential
forgive me
they were delicious
to our new
AI model
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user: hello company, i would like to access your main product, you know, the one people come to you for, the main thing
company: HAVE YOU HEARD OF A I
re: food-related, medical diet, positive
(For a bit of background context: my diet is *extremely* difficult to cook for, because basically every salt replacement runs afoul of some other dietary restriction...)
food-related, medical diet, positive
So I booked a short stay at the Efteling for next week and I asked them whether they could find a way to accommodate my kidney disease diet (low salt, low potassium) at the hotel breakfast/dinner.
I had kind of expected them to get back to me with one specific improvised option, but no, they sent me a whole list of potential options and their nutritional values, along with suggestions of what would combine well, and a question whether there's anything missing from the list that I would like to eat.
Wow.
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Saw someone on Korean fedi call the CW a 뚜껑 ("lid") and now I can't think of it as anything else 
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"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.
"They won't even admit the knife is there."
Happy birthday to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, called Malcom X. In his honour, at least admit the knife is there.
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it's weird that people let pride be an event that the city puts on
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Ik ben niet jong. Allang niet meer.
Nochthans heb ik in mijn lange leven maar één kabinet meegemaakt dat een beetje links was. Een beetje; want verder dan licht overhellend centristisch was het kabinet Den Uyl niet.
Verder dus tegen de 60 jaar centrum-rechts, uitgesproken rechts, knetterrechts tot extreem-rechts.
En alles is natuurlijk de schuld van links.
Just finished watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4 and 1) I'm not really sure how this managed to capture my interest for 4 straight hours, and 2) wow, what an absolute trainwreck of a "game".
After watching the whole thing I'm mostly left with a sense of anger about how clearly a lot of people put a lot of effort into making something cool, and it just got ruined by completely unnecessary corporate greed.
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so tired of #signal app. How can I criticize it when I’ve never used it I would like to use it. I would like to use it very much. However I don’t own a smart phone. Which means I can’t register a desktop app which intern means I can’t use signal as even trying to create a virtual I machine running, android to download the mobile app to register my desktop app. Which failed. I don’t care how much you improve it until you’re actually inclusive. Signal is not a good app. You might also want to think about who are the people they don’t have access to their own smart phone. Think about other ways for users to register without a smart phone please. (running macos desktop)
#crypto @signalapp #singalapp #telegram #security #digitalsecurity
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
