Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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I would just like to confirm to everyone that I absolutely DID NOT mishear #CrowdStrike as #CloudStrike this morning.
Definitely not.
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You know something bad is happening when all of the most steadfastly serious infosec people on here start shitposting
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To be fair to Crowdstrike, they've probably stopped a lot of cyber attacks happening today
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it's very funny that like, every critical service in the world has multiple single points of failure that could explode at any moment
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My current employer is imposing sexist clothing rules as a reaction to me wearing gender non-conforming clothes so now I am looking for potential new employers in the Netherlands or remote.
I am interested in and have broad experience with reproducible software and infrastructure, free/libre open source software, functional programming, security and privacy. I am familiar with many different technologies and can pick up new things quickly. I care about social justice and the environment, so I am not interested in working with fintech or genAI.
the Crowdstrike outage, politics
The news in NL: "the ATMs are still working, so it is still possible to withdraw money and pay in cash."
Yes, we've been trying to tell you this. But you insisted that digital payments were the future and anyone using cash is suspicious, remember?
"no politics in tech" commentary, slightly doom-y
Something that I don't think a lot of "no politics in my tech" people realize, is that their favourite tech pastimes (like DIY computer building and lots of other kinds of tinkering) are always just one stab of capitalism away from ceasing to exist, and there is nothing they can do about it as a single individual, as long as they don't recognize the underlying power dynamics
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Someone has finally been done in modern times for *checks notes* "Handling a Salmon under Suspicious Circumstances"
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Is this a good time to mention British nuclear submarines run Windows?
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Not to mention that Fridays are the day off for a ton of Middle Eastern and North African countries, so you're also ruining the weekend for them.
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Dear Crowdstrike, and all Americans:
Please stop deploying on Thursdays. They are our Fridays.
Love,
UTC+everyone.
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Tip for software companies. Your stock price can't crash when you release a bad update if your update manyages to take out the stock exchanges
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annoyed at FOSS, money, enshittification
FOSS doesn't seem to be "allowed" to be good. once it becomes good, it gets bought and locked behind a paywall.
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Move slow and fix things.
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And I guess that’s my wider point: these small things can feel like luxuries because they don’t save much time or effort - but cognitive load is a limited resource too, and lowering the threshold of effort a little can be the difference between doing something and not doing it at all
devlog, programming language design (#3)
A brief sneak peek of what I'm working on :) This is very early days, of course! And it doesn't do very much yet. The syntax also still needs some work.
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Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
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this week's expenditures on shareware preservation:
$4 for this canadian craptacular assortment of public domain and shareware games for Windows 3.1 and 95! admittedly, i was only interested in it because it featured a cockroach carrying a bindle on the front cover:
https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/112758835666872769
as it turns out, blessed were the many who got to witness this incredible Visual Basic 3 interface in its day. 🙏
although that has to be the most ominous sounding splash screen for a CD i've ever seen, like you're going to meet certain doom if you click through.
i've archived the CD image, and scans of the jewel case over at IA:
https://archive.org/details/bestofwin95_2
enjoy!
#retrocomputing #softwarePreservation #gamePreservation #shareware #dosgaming #win31
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
