Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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Tip if you have autistic friends*:
You know that thing where you're talking about wanting an orange, and they suddenly start rambling about status symbols in ancient Rome?
Info dumping is a display of trust and affection. Many autistic people have been repeatedly punished for being their true selves, often to the point of serious trauma. If they're letting you see into their very minds and sharing what they care most about, it's an act of vulnerability and trust.
Info dumping can also be because their brains are just full of stuff they've been obsessing over, and getting it out is their way of giving up what they love to make space for your conversation.
So, if you REALLY want to make their day, return the favor. Focus on their conversation instead of yours. The magic words are: "Really? Tell me more."
Just make sure you mean it. Authenticity matters. Then, sit back and enjoy a random TED lecture.
#ActuallyAutistic #neurdivergent #autism
* Disclaimer: If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person. Won't apply to all, but probably to most.
My Wayland implementation is in JS; it doesn't use libwayland, so I've had to figure out a lot of things from scratch because there's quite a lot about the protocol that just isn't documented. But once you can send and mmap file descriptors (two things Node.js does not do natively), it's very much viable!
The protocol is honestly not that complicated to implement. The problem really is just the documentation.
food (vegan)
Bread experiment progress: dough is completed and will proof overnight at room temperature. Significantly less yeast than normal, likewise much less salt (about a quarter of supermarket bread). Very curious if this works; if it does, I will have tasty and very low-salt bread!
Implementing-Wayland-from-scratch implementation progress: I now have an (incorrectly sized) rectangle rendering on my screen!
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pretending to be vampires to scare a village into hating communism (real thing)
US politics, subtooting a political campaign (2)
Like, the claim is that this campaign does more than just election campaigning, and if so, that would be good.
But the framing everywhere as "we can gain political power by getting poor people to vote, and we can organize them" (as opposed to "we will support them in organizing themselves") is not exactly confidence-inspiring. Smells of saviour politics.
US politics, subtooting a political campaign
If you want to get poor people to vote, have you considered showing solidarity with them by materially supporting them and acknowledging the source of their misery, rather than pretending that poverty is a bipartisan issue and all you need to do is convince people to go vote?
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Oof. Nothing quite says "Richest country on Earth" like this:
US politics
Am I imagining things or does the Harris campaign actually recognize that there's a voter demographic under 50?
(And like all capitalist equivalents of other things, it has all the problems of the original thing, plus extra problems)
Insurance is just the capitalist equivalent of taxes
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Scottish trans and maybetrans folks, get on a GIC waiting list NOW!
if you even have the slightest inkling that maybe you're trans, you have less than a week to self refer to a GIC.
Don't worry, you'll have a solid fucking decade to think it through anyway.
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Apple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*
#AskFedi: Does anyone have a good article on how window positioning, sizing, bounds etc. are supposed to be handled in #Wayland? Something that goes into the different cases like the compositor telling you to resize your buffers, not just the standard initialization.
(Yes, I have read the XML already, so unless I overlooked something, what I'm looking for is probably not in there)
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you can make connectors that look reversible from the outside (A, arguably mini), or you can make a fancy reversible connector that a nontrivial number of engineers will half-ass and get wrong (C), or you can use the one that has an obvious orientation so nobody has this problem at all
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Oh, remember those USB-rechargeable 9V batteries I bought a while ago?
Yeah, definitely DO NOT use them in a smoke alarm. They go from 9V to 0V as soon as the internal cell’s under-voltage cutoff is hit. A real 9V battery slowly loses voltage as it discharges, the smoke alarm monitors this and makes annoying beeping noises when the battery voltage goes under a threshold.
⚠️ Going from 9V straight to 0V gives you a dead smoke alarm with no warning ⚠️
UPDATE: I pulled this battery apart to find out how it works, and it’s exactly like I said here. Thread continues below with photos of the inside of the battery
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I want to get out and meet more people. What's the closest thing to fedi IRL?
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As a collaborative artist, I wanted to push back on the idea that creative teams need a strong leader.
Collaborative process is a skill that people study and practice. Most teams aren't trained in that skillset, but they could be.
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Hey app developers, especially plural folks:
Check out @ampersand - It's an open source app being made for tracking and journaling for plural systems.
The lead developer is currently struggling a bit and would appreciate some help getting it in a usable state. It sounds really useful to me but I don't have much ability to contribute to its development myself.
Go check it out if it sounds interesting to you at all! Thanks 💜
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Scotland against racism, call to action
Stand Up to Racism #Scotland has called a national day of action on Saturday (10 August 2024)
Demonstrations in #Edinburgh, at Parliament, at 11:00; in #Glasgow, at George Square, at 11:00; in #Dundee, at City Square, at 12:30
Unite against the far-right!
- 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
