Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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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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For my non-Welsh-speaking friends, this is an example of a good translation. We so often see terrible translations on roadsigns, it's nice seeing something like this. Where the English says 'share with care', the Welsh is an idiom that means 'take it easy', rather than a word for word translation of 'share with care'.
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Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol
I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money
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Watching a series and the characters are having a "first date" and its in a fancy restaurant wearing fancy clothes and meanwhile my preferred dates are like
Have a chat while
- riding public transport together
- walking through a park
and if that was a positive experience go to someones home, get comfortable on sofa or bed, talk about whatever and slowly move closer to one another if it continues to be a positive experience
I don't get cis hetero dates at all tbh
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It's really amusing to see everyone suddenly hating ASUS. I've been telling people to avoid this company for years and nobody listened to me.
I used to work in repair shop about half a decade ago, ASUS laptops were notorious for poor design and mechanical failures right after warranty period ended.
One notable example was a customer who brought ASUS "Pro" laptop for repair with snapped hinges - literally two weeks after warranty. There were no spare parts, so I called ASUS and asked if I could buy some - they wanted to compete with ThinkPads after all.
ASUS representative literally laughed at me over the phone because he assumed I didn't know what I was talking about (ah yes, good ol' misogyny) and told me to send machine in for repair and prepare to pay up to 2000PLN (450EUR) or f**k off.
When I told the customer I couldn't get parts and ASUS representative laughed at me, he got angry, requested the machine back, thanked me, threw it into our e-waste bin and walked out.
This isn't a new practice by any means. It's been like that for at least a decade at this point.
Just recently Jamie (friend of mine) bricked his NUC and router after installing newest firmware updates. I bricked my NUC 12 Pro with UEFI update from ASUS today. What a shitshow.
I used to work in repair shop about half a decade ago, ASUS laptops were notorious for poor design and mechanical failures right after warranty period ended.
One notable example was a customer who brought ASUS "Pro" laptop for repair with snapped hinges - literally two weeks after warranty. There were no spare parts, so I called ASUS and asked if I could buy some - they wanted to compete with ThinkPads after all.
ASUS representative literally laughed at me over the phone because he assumed I didn't know what I was talking about (ah yes, good ol' misogyny) and told me to send machine in for repair and prepare to pay up to 2000PLN (450EUR) or f**k off.
When I told the customer I couldn't get parts and ASUS representative laughed at me, he got angry, requested the machine back, thanked me, threw it into our e-waste bin and walked out.
This isn't a new practice by any means. It's been like that for at least a decade at this point.
Just recently Jamie (friend of mine) bricked his NUC and router after installing newest firmware updates. I bricked my NUC 12 Pro with UEFI update from ASUS today. What a shitshow.
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So, Iceland's publishing industry has a bit of a dark side that people don't like to talk about with foreigners. It's ingrained in us to pretend that everything is fine to outsiders
But we effectively have a duopoly that puts some effort into safeguarding their unfair market position.
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i was genuinely disappointed a little bit that nothing broke @ work on the leap day. i was looking forward to it. especially since we’ve had a lot of timezone bugs. maybe next time
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Unpacking the dishwasher and then making my bed with one hand.. because I'm holding a bag of oats in my other hand.
Why? Because I have adhd and got distracted before making breakfast, so I've been carrying oats around the house for the last 20 minutes without noticing.
There's something really funny about the Efteling having English names for many of their rides, and every anglophone vlogger insisting on butchering the Dutch name instead
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“PyCon has all these workshops on how to get into open source, but it doesn’t have any on how to get out”
(Followed by a mix of laughter and knowing groans)
The game works now but the mod download does not.
I don't think I'm playing a game today
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This is pretty brutal https://how-i-experience-web-today.com
Why on earth is my game crashing on launch... in the garbage collector
I intended to play a game and now I'm compiling KiCad
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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.
- 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
