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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- 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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More on the topic of EU-wide rail ticket booking
Deutsche Bahn has an amazing opportunity in ticket sales, but is too blinded by Flixtrain to seize it
New #CrossBorderRail Analysis on my site 👇
https://jonworth.eu/deutsche-bahn-has-an-amazing-opportunity-in-ticket-sales-but-is-too-blinded-by-flixtrain-to-seize-it/
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The W3C's recently published Privacy Principles note has a section on "privacy labor"
This is a very interesting framing of the issue of tech companies putting too much of the burden of protecting privacy on the person using the service
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@wonka I think what I'm trying to say is:
You're not stopping nation state attackers.
You're also not stopping attackers with the skill level of marcan, etc.
You're also not stopping people/organizations rich enough to buy 0-day exploits.
I don't see open-source silicon/hardware/boot processes as a particularly important thing we need for secure computing.
We desperately need memory-safe kernels, libc's and userland applications!
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Hey friends?
Stop hoarding joy.
Watch the show, eat the food, read the book, play the game, laugh at the joke, take the trip, wear the outfit...
In the face of unspeakable horrors, have courage and embrace your joy.
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mum, can we have usb microscope?
mum: we have usb microscope at home.
usb microscope at home:
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I wonder what people use in #godotengine games to identify objects in *save files*. Not just the ID of instances, but what type they are. Some ID manually setup in resource? A name? Path of the scene? Name of a script? UUIDs? I believe most people don't really do anything involved, or even have a game with such needs.
But I make a plugin that needs to handle this, at scale. So I'm often running into this problem, and so far all options I considered have annoying downsides.
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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’
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@afewbugs I like using old (or new from the poundshop) silicone baking trays or mats to make new seals for that sort of thing. They won't degrade like the rubber ones. Compass cutters are a very useful tool.
I just installed two CCTV cameras using seals cut from a baking tray that was too disgusting to cook with but perfect for making a seal or four.
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This is why #ZeroWaste as an aesthetic, all those reels of someone in a perfect kitchen waving a Kilner jar allegedly containing a year's worth of waste, is nonsense. For a start the seals on Kilner jars eventually perish & if you don't want to be picking bits of orange rubber out of your muesli you need to replace them. This replacement came in a packet of 12 in 2 plastic bags (which I threw away before thinking to take the photo and don't really fancy fishing back out of the bin).
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Ideological purity over user interests? ✅️
No understanding of why that ideology matters? ✅️
Enforcement of said ideology through pseudolegal rules that reward toxic dudebro behavior? ✅️
Yep, it's a GNU project.
#AskFedi: for those whose first computer experiences were with Windows 95/98 (or NT) and who look back on it fondly:
What would be needed to rekindle that early experience of wonder around computers and/or the internet? What stands out in your memory as the cause for that sense of wonder back then? (The answer to these two questions can be different!) 
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If you write email subjects like you write fedi subjects, it's way easier to write emails actually
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pandemic rhetoric
you really do have to wonder if the whole general idea of "strengthening your immune system" came out of the same toxic rhetoric that encourages toxic masculinity and nationalism, where you have to be stronger in its own right for no particular reason, and not just because of bad science
like, it seems pretty indisputable that, while it's pretty difficult to avoid all germs and you actually should not do that, exposure to the kinds of germs that make you sick is pretty much always worse than not
we have vaccines to get immunity now and getting sick "naturally" just opens you up to being miserable or worse, permanent damage, so, seems pretty bad
there are a lot of toxic men who feel like they can "tough out" an infection and that's simply not true. you can't fight a cold like you fight a bear, and like fighting a bear, you can easily just die
idk. feels like we need to particularly hone in on this rhetoric as being toxic, fascist nonsense instead of it being anything like fact
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I just want my friends to understand that if you message me a link to a YouTube video there is less than a 5% chance I will watch it. I’m sorry.
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After hearing about Eric Schmidt's guest lecture in an AI class, I looked up the transcript, and yes he really did say that if a Silicon Valley entrepreneur were to "illegally steal everybody's music" they would just "hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up." Then I was curious and looked up the syllabus for the course and based on the topic schedule, the most explicit ethics topic seemed to be "opportunities and risks" for which the guest speaker was... Eric Schmidt. 😕
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“What we sacrifice for automation”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90336550/how-much-are-we-sacrificing-for-automation
> If we don’t do it the way the machine is designed to process it, we yield our agency, over and over again to do it in a way that it can collect the data to get us the item we want, the service we need, or the reply we hope for. Humans yield. Machines do not yield back.
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"Should we privatize this thing?"
And
"Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?"
Are exactly the same question
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This guy at the Boxhagener Platz flea market is doing top quality #carryshitolympics 🙂
- 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
