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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- 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
The answers I've gotten to this so far are very different from what I expected, but very interesting!
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#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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“Many Procreate users can breathe a sigh of relief now that the popular iPad illustration app has taken a definitive stance against generative AI. ‘We’re not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products’, Procreate CEO James Cuda said in a video posted to X. ‘I don’t like what’s happening to the industry, and I don’t like what it’s doing to artists’.“
Ohhh, nice!
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Fedi, what are your comfort TV shows?
grumbling about cars
Just get out of your goddamn car and walk up to their front door, instead of repeatedly honking loudly and bothering the whole neighbourhood with it.
Fucking carbrain.
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Je zou ook, ik noem maar wat, mensen waarvan je weet dat ze recht hebben op toeslagen de toeslagen kunnen geven.
CW-boost: transphobia, pink news, capitalist BS
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If I had a buck for every dumbass who replied "Publically valued companies only have a duty to their shareholders" I'd... probably be part of the problem.
But my brother, do you understand that you're telling me "the purpose of this company that sells me stuff is not to meet me half way so that both sides are happy with the transaction, but to bilk me silly" and you're happy with that? Do you believe you're ushering me into a grand discovery? What neutrino thru yon brain sludge passes?
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How did you get your gender?
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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).
- 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
