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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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’m not sure how to say this but WASM isn’t a cheap way to avoid “needing to” write javascript. You use wasm when you need to optimise a slow core loop (most commonly, bitcoin mining); or when you have an existing codebase you are trying to port.
If starfing with no wasm; and add wasm, you’re adding the complexity of a build targeting an unstable api surface, to create opaque blobs that more likely than not will wind up unmodifiable in 3 years as the build tool chain used to create it bitrots
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I'm not bothered too much by my email since it's already quite well managed but I might turn off notifications for that too at some point.
The only things that remain enabled to send me push notifications are Signal and WhatsApp because that's where partners, close friends, and family members communicate with me.
A lot of the time I don't check in on a thing for a few days that used to demand my attention before and I notice that I haven't missed it at all until that point. There was no actual reason to give it that direct access to my attention all this time.
And I don't know what changed. Until some time ago, when I would read a piece by someone who had done what I'm doing now I would think "yeah, that might work for them but it's impossible for me". But it turns out, it's not impossible at all.
Maybe it's just me that's changed, although I don't quite now in what way.
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I've gradually removed pushed information from my life over the past months:
I used to have my RSS reader running all the time and it would show a little red number for unread items that I wouldfeel compelled to read. Now I moved to a terminal based RSS reader that refreshes its content every hour silentely but that I have to launch intentionally to actually read.
I uninstalled apps for Discord, Matrix, Fediverse and only use these things through a web browser. Again intentionally: unless I open the specific website I will not become aware of anything going on.
I have cancelled my music streaming subscription and when I want to find new music I go to the local library and browse an actual shelf full of CDs. And I have had more interesting new music in my life in these past few weeks than in all of 2024 with the recommendations from streaming.
I'm not saying this is the right approach for everyone but it did make my life better in a both tangible and emotional way.
I receive these kinds of e-mails because a shitty 'adtech' company erroneously added me to their "business leads" list at some point, despite that not being a business address at all.
But most of the recipients on that list are going to be actual businesses, and I bet that at least some of them will have been caught out by this, and will be paying the "invoice" without further thought.
This is how you scam a company.
The e-mail purports to be from a supplier, more specifically a contractor; it has all the right business speak that a contractor might actually use when trying to gently remind you of an unpaid invoice.
The "end of fiscal year" adds further pressure; it sets a deadline for the payment of the invoice, and crucially makes that deadline something that is imposed by a third party; that way, the scammer discourages attempts to argue about the payment term and makes faster payments happen.
Perhaps you *do* reply, though, to inquire about the line items, despite your "colleague"s approval - the e-mail will go to an e-mail that's *wrong*, but not obviously so!
A lot of companies legitimately use Sendcloud for their internal e-mail affairs, and so it going through a Sendcloud address is a credible thing. This domain, sendcloud-management.com, is probably not actually owned by Sendcloud, but it will *appear* to be to a hurried accounting employee trying to keep a supplier happy!
This is an excellently-written attempt. First of all, the headers. The subject line is crucial here - "Overdue since January" puts on the pressure, trying to make the reader panic, believing that they've somehow overlooked an invoice for months. This makes it likely for them to overlook small things that aren't quite right.
The sender, for example; it's worth noting that the person named here, Kris Marszalek, *does not exist*. It's a randomly generated name! This takes advantage of the fact that in most companies, most departments have *no idea* who actually works there, and will just assume "oh, that must be the new hire".
The e-mail address for both the From and Reply-To headers may be wrong, but the name (which in some e-mail clients is the only thing that shows!) explicitly includes "via cryto.net" (my domain), making it look like it came from someone inside of the "company".
This is important for the scam; having it be forwarded by someone internal, or at least appearing that way, serves as an implicit 'approval'; it will lead the reader to assume that "oh, someone else already checked this and concluded it's legit".
Ever wondered how those corporate invoice scams work, where companies are tricked into paying bullshit invoices for services they've never purchased? Well, I just received one of those, so let's look at it!
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I just rediscovered something poetic I wrote in a private forum dedicated to nude photography of ordinary people (not models!). I'm reposting it here, because it's worth remembering:
"A normal body is beautiful in its banality. It is the result of genetics and the physical labors and ordeals that this body has endured. The fact that an ordinary person is willing to let the world see their banal or 'imperfect' naked body celebrated in art is a gift to us all."
Watching the Federated feed and looking up unfamiliar terms is like a 50/50 split of "oh huh, interesting topic" versus "oh god I am instantly exhausted just from reading what this is about"
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ACAB
segregation in sports is unjustified by all metrics. it's unjustified by physical parameters — all people have different ones, and there are men, women (both trans and not) and others who can be both strong and heavy or more agile and light. it's unjustified by psychological parameters — there's no gender-specific differences in brain function. the only reason why sports are gender segregated is because men feel humiliated when they see other genders win
political party, bigotry (2)
And like, we're talking "literally was one of the main presenters of a fascist TV broadcaster and runs a crowdfunding platform that all the fascists use" here. Their bigotry is not exactly a secret.
political party, bigotry
So it looks like the Dutch Pirate Party still harbours right-wing bigots (Ahmed Aarad, in this case), or at least still tolerates their involvement.
This sort of shit is why I can't take the Pirate Party seriously here.
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Ukpol, nazis, protests, riots, racism, request for legitimate news
If anyone can point me to someone unbiased and on the ground reporting on this, I’d appreciate it.
As in not the BBC or any other mainstream media.
An independent journalist who has a history of reporting on the alt right in the UK.
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New family friendly horror story: All of our pets become lawyers and sue us for all the things we posted them "saying" on social media
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Kitsune Tails is OUT NOW!! Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.
get it now on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or itch https://eniko.itch.io/kitsunetails
we're a small underfunded team with a majority queer developers, and while we're punching way above our weight class we need the support of our community if this game is going to be a success. please boost this post, and if you can afford it buy it on steam and leave a positive review on the first day (the text doesn't matter, only the thumbs up, so "i like gay fops" is totally valid as a review)
i also want to prove fedi is powerful enough to make an indie game succeed, so even if you're not personally that into the game, please boost this post? 🙏
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something that i like about the fediverse culturally is that it's... instances going offline is not something we love but it's something we are used to, it's something that is Known by everyone, and i think that's important.
one of my strongest philosophical stances is that we should look at the ends of things with unafraid eyes
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You will never advocate politely enough about social justice to please someone whose lifestyle depends on social injustice.
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Wanted to look up where the word "critter" comes from so I just absent-mindedly typed in etymology.com into my address bar and apparently that website is just an emoji of an orange and nothing else.
Time for the periodic "how are ESM-only modules on npm doing" update:
Looked at some arbitrarily selected popular sindresorhus modules (delay, p-event), and >90% of installs continues to be of (now at least 4 years old) CommonJS versions.
Yeah, I don't think this qualifies as a success for ESM.
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Two years ago, I experienced Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSNHL), and am now almost completely deaf in one ear. This year, one of my colleagues had the same thing. Now I see there's a study out showing a strong correlation between COVID and SSNHL.
I guess that explains a lot. But, shit.
BTW If you find you suddenly lose hearing in one ear, get yourself to a specialist *immediately*. You have a 24-36 hour window to save your hearing before it becomes permanent.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00338-9/fulltext
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
