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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🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY OpenStreetMap! Today is OSM's 20th Brithday! 🎂 🎂
Here's SteveC's desktop at University College London, the original OSM "server" until 2006. You've come a long way in the last 20 years. 😍
https://birthday20.openstreetmap.org/
#20YearsOfOSM #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenStreetMap #OSM
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I am looking for reliable news on what is happening in Bangladesh which is not written by Indian news outlet or by US News Outlets.
Do you know anyone here who has done a TL;DR thread?
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Ad blockers are not just a nice measure against annoying advertising. They protect against malware (see malvertising), save bandwidth and therefore energy and help us to stay focused, as many distractions are removed.
So they are good for security, the climate and our mental health.
Ad blockers are awesome!
ageInYears++
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Well this is a cool blog on designing content for transport displays
https://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2024/08/01/design-language-basics-for-displays/
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We tend to think of Big Tech as innovators, but in most cases, when that was genuinely true, they were Small Tech. Big Tech rarely innovates from within. It usually buys it.
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Experimenting with long-exposure photography via live webcams; averaged pixel values and brightest pixel values over a three-hour exposure of the Sydney harbour, using video scraped from https://youtu.be/IhWWW2l-pP0
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When you make a dishonest argument debating "AI"—during a bubble where supporting the bubble has a potentially huge financial upside—those of us who are watching have to assume that you ARE dishonest and that dealing with you will just expose us to risk
So I, at least, won't
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Since I'm seeing a lot of "I have covid" posts, reminder that the WHO actually published a protocol for recovery after the illness to reduce the odds of Long Covid.
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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.
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Also, are there any universities or conferences that put lecture & talk recordings on #peertube yet?
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?
- 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
