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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US politics
A post from my old account from 2017
Still somehow relevant
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Vegan tip: sinds een aantal weken geleden zijn vegan producten een standaard onderdeel geworden van de wekelijkse themaproducten bij de Lidl, dus er liggen nu constant nieuwe dingen :)
Vegan tip: sinds een aantal weken geleden zijn vegan producten een standaard onderdeel geworden van de wekelijkse themaproducten bij de Lidl, dus er liggen nu constant nieuwe dingen :)
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Tech reporters stop casually mentioning that companies are Chinese-owned
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The new OpenAI “safety and security” committee is staffed by the CEO, 3 directors and 4 “heads of”, as well as its chief scientist. Even though the CEO is not the chair of the committee everyone reports to the CEO. This is true for everyone in a company eventually, but a lot more for the people in this committee, and a lot more directly.
So eh. Yeah. You can’t even call this smoke-and-mirrors or cloak-and-dagger drama. No 3D chess here either. They’re not even trying. That’s how little they care. And of course all the media outlets proudly stating how good this all is.
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Via the wonderful Just Seeds website! #Unions #CreativeCommons #Graphics
https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/
(Of note: of these parks, Disneyland Paris is the only park with a paid fastpass system)
These statistics all come from https://queue-times.com/, which aggregrates queue statistics from many parks; I'd recommend looking there if you want the full data.
For no particular reason: here are the average maximum-queue times for the three biggest theme parks in Europe (10 busiest rides only), in 2023.
Some interesting insights about capacity planning to be gleaned from this; visitor numbers from 2019 are 9.8 million for Disneyland Paris, 5.8 million for Europa Park, and 5.4 million for the Efteling, so not *that* far removed.
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Some day soon a child will ask “what is the smallest ant in the world?” and discover that, unless they want to become an expert they simply can’t know.
This is the death of polymaths— a hurdle for interdisciplinary learning— and a return to a kind of human gatekeeping for real information: you best ask someone qualified if you are not expert enough to tell on your own. (this was already true for contentious topics, but now it will be everything)
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Once you could count on some things posted online probably being true because, well, why would anyone bother to put out misinformation about a topic so obscure or uncontroversial? now the simple fact that someone might want to know a bit of information makes it worth faking if it can get their eyeballs on an ad— or improve the search ranking for some company. The harmless act of *being curious* about the world causes misinformation to spring to life. We have made wanting to learn destructive.
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Today I went to the store to pick up yeast, and I came home with:
- radishes
- daikon
- carrots
- bathroom spray cleaner
- vinegar
- basil seed and honey soda
- milk
- fennel
- a bookmark
- a tiny little Vaseline
..what I did not come home with:
- yeast.
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There's something very sad about reading "there was no money in giving water we extracted from the air to drought-ridden people so we're selling it to hotels instead"
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@flexion There is something surreal in this big-ass architectural diagram to power a tamagotchi
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nothing funnier to me than seeing a huge-ass raven in a movie or video game and then it opens its beak and it lets loose the puny little squeak of an American crow
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Any #gamedev got reccommendations for image viewing software? I want something where I can browse a library of pngs with transparency easy to discern and nearest neighbor rendering allowing zooming in real close even on lower resolutions. Preferrably FOSS.
🤔 Are there any decent train station design/management games? Think Airport CEO, but trains. 
(Note: I *don't* mean train *route* management games, so Transport Tycoon-likes do not qualify)
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ProRail: We need to do a technical investigation on the railway line between Den Haag and Rotterdam Centraal!
Everybody: when?
ProRail: Monday between 7:30 and 8:15!
*chaos ensues*
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Has anyone written a regex to wasm compiler yet because that’s exactly the sort of thing I would want to write.
- 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
