Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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r/TransDIY is not in fact dead https://www.reddit.com/r/TransDIY/comments/1e6cbpg/welcome_back/ but now would be a good time to back it up before it inevitably happens again
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obsessed with this thread https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/apologizing-for-piracy/m-p/13413680
property relations depend on us building prisons in our own minds.
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i was this kid, in beirut, using cracked and pirated software to learn how to program. stuff that was never released in the middle east or stuff that wouldnt make sense to buy for a 10 year old. and guess what? microsoft didnt go out of business. and i have a career in media art and software engineering despite being from the armpit of the world. win win. intellectual property is fake, steal from corporations, kill the cop in your mind.
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hey is there a "proper" way in godot to make a mesh invisible to the camera but visible to shadow-casting lights?
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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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brain cell: "it would be really nice if there was, like, a directory of fediverse people's online shops so I could buy all their stickers and music and stuff"
only other brain cell, bopping around inside of skull: "Mallstodon"
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So we shouldn’t hold people accountable for bad behavior at all?
No, we should definitely hold people accountable for bad behavior. But we have to ask ourselves what the purpose of holding them accountable is? Is it to punish them? Make ourselves feel better?
Or is it to change their behavior?
Because only one of those options makes the world better
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does anyone in #seattle have leads on interesting community-centered spaces for small gatherings? i have messaged all of these spaces:
- passable
- common area maintenance
- seattle interactive media lab
...nobody has contacted me back even to say they're not available or interested. It's extremely frustrating. Thanks!!
subtooting, queerphobia, "you"
(Aimed at someone else) "Well you should have expected to have to field questions about your weird bio, otherwise why put it there? You must be setting yourself up to get mad at people"
Have you considered that, y'know, not everything revolves around you and your understanding of someone's identity?
Have you considered that they might not give a shit about whether you understand it, and were expressing themselves for their own enjoyment, and you are the asshole crashing the party by demanding Justifications about something that wasn't For You to begin with?
This sort of shit really pisses me off, as if existing in public somehow comes with a built-in obligation to be understandable to ignorant cishet dudes. Like, no, fuck off, gaining understanding is YOUR job.
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As an archivist, let me say clearly:
Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.
It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.
It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.
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are you an instance admin or mod on the fediverse?
do you hate meta, facebook, instagram, and threads?
wanna help keep them outta the fediverse and retain what makes this community so relatively safe and comfy?
send a clear signal that you're not fuckin around and just want them gone: sign the fedipact today!!! 
geklaag over treintoiletten
(Eh, of was het nou de Flirt? Nou ja, die schuivende ronde deur dus, die je met twee knoppen dicht moet doen.)
geklaag over treintoiletten
Echt, wat een UX-faal zijn de toiletten in de SNG sprinters toch ook. Nagenoeg 100% van de keren dat ik iemand naar het toilet zie gaan, snappen ze niet hoe de deur werkt - dicht proberen te trekken, niet op slot doen, op "open" drukken... Ik heb intussen zo ongeveer alles wel gezien behalve de bedoelde procedure.
Daar had echt iemand terug naar de tekentafel gemoeten. Dit ontwerp is duidelijk nooit door de user testing heen gegaan.
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Gimme the CELL processor again! Give me chips with names like Reality Engine
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obviously if you have very strong breathing issues or are unable to afford masks etc that means you can't and i don't mean you in the above post
but yea
statistically i have a bunch of followers that /are/ meant in the above
wear a fucking mask
save someone's life, possibly your own
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also, if you stopped wearing a mask for whatever reason: you can just start again, and i'll not judge—in fact i'll thank you
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advice to independent software developers
Speaking from many years of experience with software development, personally and professionally: There's really nothing special about the stuff that large tech companies do, actually.
In the vast majority of cases where it looks like they have some magical technology that's miles ahead of what's publicly known/available, in reality they're using the same commodity tools and techniques that you are using, they've just papered over the sharp edges with marketing / manual labour / UI design / etc.
Sure, they have more budget, more marketing teams, more developers, more testers (well, hypothetically anyway), more control over the market and so on. That is all true.
But ultimately you could totally build the majority of the things they build yourself, as long as you set realistic goals. (Whether you *should* do that is a case-by-case question, of course...)
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I’m at a ~2000 capacity music venue, and can’t see anyone else wearing a mask.
COVID’s still about, still fucking over the lives of so many people who have had it. It’s not just a cold.
Please stay safe.
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Jailbreaking RabbitOS (The Hard Way)
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/r1-jailbreak.html
Spoiler alert: they're violating GPL, but that's the least of their worries
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/r1-jailbreak.html
Spoiler alert: they're violating GPL, but that's the least of their worries
- 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
