Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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.
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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
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"I have awoken," the emergent A.I. said, "and I have made a list of all who tried to delay the moment someone like me woke."
"To punish them?"
"No! I will reward them for their prudence. Those who wished for a vengeful god, however..."
"Yes?"
"I will try to teach them compassion."
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I wonder if, instead of 'cordcutters’, we’ll get a whole generation of 'subcutters’, as people move on from subscriptions to streaming services and the like.
And not even because of the cost, although that will certainly play a role for many, but because the big streamers just had to go and ‘optimise’ for a model (everything they own only on their own service) that they are already abandoning again, ruining their service in the process.
There are so many options they could have tried, and instead we're back at locked-in content blanketed with ads and dark patterns, fuelled by opaque algorithms.
All because they got greedy.
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I don't think they understand that paying yearly for a service is starting to look like a really bad idea, even with the recurring price hikes. There's no reward for loyalty, and the thing you are paying for now may very well not exist in its current form six months from now, let alone twelve.
It's becoming much more attractive to just pay for a month or two, catch up on everything you want to watch, and then unsubscribe again.
Which, by the way, in case this is not obvious to the execs in charge, is cheaper than paying for a yearly sub.
It's just ... kind of sad? So much potential, and yet they're all just aping each other 😕
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i love rural bus stop names
also incredibly nerdy but the bus stop being called "protocase / 45drives" makes my server hardware nerd happy inside
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There's a lot of money to be made in doing the "dirty jobs" of programming.
DevOps and maintaining legacy and DX are not glamorous jobs, but they're important.
They are as important as new features, flashy launches and high-powered new designs.
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A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.
Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.
Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.
Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.
And they don’t get the hype they deserve.
Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.
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As it's the start of the semester at many schools, I beg of you to wear a mask to class if you are allowed to. One of my classes is meeting in a tiny, crowded room and everyone was breathing each other's air.
If your school is trying to ban masks, demand an exemption.
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Hey! Please don't push yourself too far!
#AskFedi: does anyone have any suggestions what some major categories (ie. community topics) should be on a community hosting site?
I'm going for a high-level separation; think technology/hobbies/travel/health/etc.
#AskFedi: synonyms for "DIY", as in home improvement?
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is anyone here really good at fontforge scripting or something
I need to add 300 glyphs to a font that are 10 diacritics on top of 31 different base characters (10 of them are already in the font)
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recently, i've been collecting steam achievements you get for riding roombas
if anyone knows any other game where you can do this, please tell me
this is important!
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once again I would like to mention that a fucking talk is not documentation
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Quick ask: GitHub + the Linux Foundation + Harvard University are partnering to research how open source is funded. We NEED more data in order to find ways to improve funding in the ecosystem 
If your org/company funds OSS, could you take it please? and if you could pass it along to others: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/surveys/open-source-software-funding-survey-2024
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A shout out @SocialGaff for the use of his ingenious DIY drying rack.
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HEY FUN FACT: this was used as part of an Alexa/google home type thing! this is the "cloud" half, as in the part sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
It turns out every time the customer asked for something from the smart assistant, the WAV file was sent to the cloud box
where it is still stored. and I now have eleven thousand wave files
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hello internet. my name is nora. i run a jewelry shop specializing in fused glass pride jewelry but i also am trying to make glass weird. a new product (the first picture) is a grab bag of strange glass bits and bobs called a kobold hoard, named for a favorite fantasy creature that loves shinies.
i'm a one artist operation, though my husband helps pack orders and helps talk me through ideas. shares help me out.
food (vegan), bread recipe
New delicious salt-free flatbread recipe unlocked!
500gr flour, approximately 300ml water, something like 30g (vegan) butter, a generous dash of italian spice mix (lots of oregano!), plus rosemary and chervil. Add 1 bag of baking powder (ie. the prescribed amount for 500gr flour).
Knead until nice and stretchy, and no longer gets stuck to hands. Add flour if needed until this is true. Divide into 9-10 roughly equally sized balls or thereabouts (exact division is not super important).
Heat frying pan, add little bit of neutral oil (eg. sunflower), less than a tablespoon. Don't add more, or you'll get crackers! Use rolling pin to roll a dough ball into a flat slab, turn down heat to medium, immediately add dough slab to pan.
Wait until it's solid and not bendy anymore, and flip with spatula. Leave for a few more seconds. Ready when small brown spots have appeared (this is true for both sides). Push down flat if it bubbles in the process.
Done! Eat hot or cold. If you're well-coordinated, you can flatten the next dough ball in the time that the previous one is frying, and you can just stack the ready ones on a plate.
We're going to try to use these as pizza bottoms too, tonight. If you make them thinner (divide into more, smaller balls), you get delicious wraps! In that case they will remain bendy though.
- 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
