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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In a classic for our local community Facebook group folks were getting all concerned about youths in hoodies stealing bags of clothes that folks had put out for charity collection. Turns out they were the charity collectors though.
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Huh TIL that Source's physics engine was implemented all the way back in 1999, they licensed Havok before it was even bought by Havok, it was called Ipion Virtual Physics at the time
Also apparently Source 2 ditched Havok for Valve's custom engine though, and I wonder how much of that is Valve building on top of Havok like Bethesda's Creation Engine building on top of Gamebryo, and how much is actually completely original
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All of us who blocked Threads when they announced fediverse integration saw this.
We told you so.
https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/
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@spacehobo It is! I get people's old laptops given to me sometimes so I refurbish them and donate them onwards to a few local charities I'm in contact with.
I have 0 need for them, but a person being supported through homelessness can do a course and their admin on it if it can browse the web and do word processing still. There's simply too much tech out there now, and distributed all wrong
Update: I am now at the 'deleting code until it no longer annoys me' stage
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In which I get mad about sloppy use of AI in a way that can actively endanger people!!!
https://thisisimportant.net/threads/ai-duty-of-care/
(thx to the American Alpine Club for their amazing work publicizing climbing and mountaineering accidents and identifying patterns in the causes)
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Hello privacy-forward friends. You might want to uncheck this checkbox that comes pre-checked in the latest iteration of Firefox (if you are still using it. I realize you may not be, yes I still am). The vibe I get is that it's like "cookie trackers lite" and still not cool.
What Firefox says: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
Hat tip and read more from @mcc https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112775362045378963
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Mozilla shuts down its location services because of a patent troll : :ablobdundundun:
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Every time you reduce diversity and increase centralization you introduce choke points, bottlenecks and single points of failures that *will* come back to haunt you.
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A #degooglification lesson, AKA "centralization is bad" even when the Good Guys™ do it because it makes you less resilient:
One of the key piece of many (but not all) degooglified Android systems is a tool called "microG". It basically "pretends" to apps that you have Google Services installed, emulating the many system APIs basically all apps depend on.
One of these APIs are Location. In fact, you used to be able to install "add-ons", download a CSV of cell-towers and run mobile cell tower-based approximate geolocation fully locally. Well…
https://github.com/Helium314/Local-NLP-Backend?tab=readme-ov-file
> Note that microG has stopped supporting UnifiedNlp backends with 0.2.28.
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.2.28.231657
> The new location stack does not support UnifiedNlp modules anymore. This was a step necessary to take to get locations properly working on latest Android versions. […] For now, the new locations stack is relying exclusively on Mozilla Location Service for network based location.
You know what comes next? 
(This is *still* the crawling backend for seekseek.org - I've been really unhappy with the performance of the existing version, and I've been reworking the whole thing to a better storage model, but switching to RDF requires a whole lot of redesigning assumptions...)
I am re-refactoring this codebase which is a rewrite of a refactored project.
I may be having some trouble with the architecture on this one...
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You know what phones need? Trackballs. My first smart phone, an HTC Hero (though rebranded by T-Mobile), had one and it was great! It was very useful for highlighting text and precisely pinpointing things where a finger press doesn’t quite cut it.
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here's the deal @mozilla , the only people who care or even know about mozilla at all think this is bad to do. just say you fucked up, own it, and say everyone who uses firefox owes us $50 and we'll pretend it never happened. you took everyone who thought this was a good idea, fired them, and all the money will just be spent on making firefox work good forever and that's that. my fee is zero dollars and you can write that off your executive salaries i think because i am a lawyer too
the "Project 2025" thing, addressing reader
I'm sure that there are many on here that I don't need to tell this. But in case you haven't been following what's going on with the "Project 2025" thing:
It's a plan for a coup, to install a repressive dictatorship and police state in the US. Not metaphorically, not implicitly, but *literally*. Completely deconstructing all checks and balances and centralizing all government power into one person, Trump.
This is an actual, real threat - and a lot of the conservative crap lately ties directly into this plan.
So if you don't normally get very involved with politics, and have to choose only one political thing to care about, let it be this one. This is the fascist coup in the making.
And most importantly, you need to figure out at what point you're willing to use force and potentially violence to prevent this from happening. Figure it out fast.
I can't make that decision for you, but you need to have *some* answer to that question ready ahead of time. Don't leave it as "I'll figure it out when it comes to that", because then you'll be too late to prepare.
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I am so grateful to @vantablack for being vocal and starting #fedipact. Opposing Facebook's control over social media always has been and always will be an act of asserting queer existence.
#FUSE question: are you supposed to ensure that the contents of any already-open file descriptors remain readable/writable even when the underlying file has nominally been removed from the filesystem? Or how is this supposed to work?
- 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
