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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- 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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highly recommend "A Psalm for the Wild Built" by Becky Chambers as a heartwarming, beautiful comfort read during these cursed times
I'm gonna do a re-read... the first time felt like a mental health b12 shot
it's got a hopeful solarpunk vision of a beautiful, possible society that's overcome a complicated, familiar history. the nonbinary main character is able to just exist without explanation. there's an adorable, curious robot buddy and delightful musings on human (and nonhuman) experiences, our place in the planet, and everything in between.
there's also a sequel, "A Prayer for the Crown Shy", which is very lovely as well
take care and stay safe. the next few weeks might get ugly 💜💜💜
#selfcare #reading #fucktrump #socloseandyetsofuckingfaraway #worsttimeline
Speaking of which: if you're interested in building your own search engine for something, and want to test out this software, let me know! All it should require to know is basic (JS) programming knowledge, and jQuery syntax. The backend handles the rest of the complexity. The software will run on a laptop easily.
(For hopefully obvious reasons, I will not assist with unethical projects like scraping personal information)
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The concept of “blood family” is a scam
This is not the only valid way to construct family. People are not entitled to my love, obligation or labor *just* because they are genetically related to me.
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If you want to be with them, be with them.
If you don’t want to be with them, leave.
If you would like to be with them, but think they are treating you unfairly, demand a better relationship, and leave if you don’t get it.
Nobody is entitled to your association.
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As a society we should make it as easy as possible for people to leave bad families in fair and equitable ways.
That is essential to having an egalitarian society. Freedom of association, and also freedom of disassociation.
I should probably start tagging these project update posts with #seekseek or something.
Anyway, current status: rewrite of the scraping backend is almost done. I'm a lot happier with this version than with the previous one, and this one should be a lot more suitable for the original goal of making it easier for people to build their own search engines.
Some big items remaining: switching to embedded Oxigraph instead of a stand-alone server (requires writing some Neon/Rust bindings), rewiring the code so that it can actually load multiple configuration modules with their own namespaces (as it's meant to do), implementing auto-expiry of dependents, worker threads, custom TTLs, and converting existing scraper modules to the new API.
The API didn't change *much*, but enough to need some changes. That should actually end up simplifying the modules!
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phone recommendation, boost ok
can anyone recommend me a phone that can run a recent mobile OS and is likely to get updates, i can get for vaguely cheap [used is ok], and ideally not huge? purpose is mainly running apps that won't work on grapheneos
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Update 1.1: added a line about profits and changed to a free license.
#Piracy #AdBlock #YouTube #Netflix #Invidious #DRM #Torrent #P2P #FileSharing #Ads #Piped #Streaming #StreamingServices
Details are here, for anyone who wants to see some concrete numbers: https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph/discussions/924
(I think it's still faster than PostgreSQL with the same workload though)
There are limits to Oxigraph's fastness :(
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Non-Binary_People%27s_Day
> The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Men's Day and International Women's Day.
I laughed 
Happy NB people's day!
subtooting hackernews
Every single time there's a thread on HN about the issues with Git, it doesn't matter what, there *will* be people jumping in defending it as "it's not that hard, you must just not have taken the time to learn it".
And the fact that such vast swathes of developers, including highly experienced ones, continue to find it unintuitive and unpleasant to work with, *somehow* doesn't register to them as a signal that maybe the problem is actually with Git itself...
I really don't understand people who behave like this. How many people need to complain about something before you're willing to concede that maybe there's room for improvement? Why are you so invested in insisting that it's perfect?
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@Schouten_B @McCovican @mathew @RenewedRebecca the attitude of an ethical technology company should be that they provide an unsurprising technology that has their interests at heart - including getting consent from them for features that they might not like. it should not be that the users don't know what they want and it's too complicated to explain things to them
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Hey please remember to CW your USPOL comments. Thanks!
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I think one of the confusing things about the so-called "24-hour news cycle" is that things can be extremely important while also having zero effect on what the next right thing is to do.
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Why mutual aid is better than giving to charity (a few of many reasons):
- your money has the most impact on someone's reality if you give it directly to them. none goes into overheads, processing, payroll, marketing, etc
- real people right now have dire problems that cash can instantly solve
- your community (the place where you belong, not a distant separate place) improves and so your life benefits
- people's lives, when you boil down all the world's problems, are the highest priority
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Finally made my first demo with Slipstream!
@Violet 's monitor got damaged on the way to the Black Valley @demoparty_no party, so in a life-giving-you-lemons exercise, I decided to make it into a one-of-a-kind custom demo platform using the remaining pixels. One soundtrack from @vurpo later and we were in business...
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CW: abuse
These mental models can't really be avoided.
I don't have a magic solution other than to just be aware of the toll of that kind of self-criticism and self-regulation.
It can take on a life of its own. It can persist even after you get away from the person or people who it was created to protect you from.
- 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
