Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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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
web and framework stuff
Sure, it's undesirable to load massive JS bundles for basic functionality on websites, you'll find no disagreement there - I've been complaining about this for years too.
But arguing for all high-level framework-esque functionality to be handled by the browser and web specs...
Have you thought about what happens to the process of incremental technological improvement when the 'universal runtime' (ie. the browser) starts focusing on providing high-level abstractions instead of improving low-level mechanisms, and so the set of viable design strategies is essentially frozen in time?
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software recommendations request 
, encryption related
anyone aware of disk/container encryption software that works on both macOS and linux?
I'm aware of veracrypt but I'm looking for more of something similar to that (and also strongly preferring FOSS)
I'm using it to store a bunch of files for games data and apps data, so an encrypted container/filesystem is fine (and pretty much what I'm looking for)
I do not want: cloud storage (even self-hosted), single file encryption (I'm encrypting multiple files and not for one time use)
already suggested: veracrypt, cryptomator, kryptor, gocryptfs, linsk, picocrypt, cryfs, ZFS, BTRFS, age
use case, and considered solutions: https://micro.jacksonchen666.com/@jacksonchen666/112995983120430228
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I dread the day that YouTube becomes unprofitable and starts dumping their old video content to save money.
It's going to be a huge resource loss, particularly for practical trades, DIY, and crafts. Because there is so much stuff that isn't formally documented -- but somebody made a video tutorial.
Where is that going to go when YouTube dies?
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A wealth of real human knowledge lives on reddit, stack exchange, etc-- Given the sheer volume of AI slop and SEO fake pages with "articles" the better content is hard to find. This is most true if looking for help on a subject you know little about.
How could we motivate a collaborative not-for-profit catalog of the better content silo'd off from the commercial web? How to fund it and keep it current?
Basically a *staffed* online library for the world. And not just of books and publications.
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“The tech review world has been full of murky deals between companies and influencers for years, but it appears Google finally crossed a line with the Pixel 9. The company’s invite-only Team Pixel program — which seeds Pixel products to influencers before public availability — stipulated that participating influencers were not allowed to feature Pixel products alongside competitors, and those who showed a preference for competing phones risked being kicked out of the program.”
Something to keep in mind when you see people gushing about the Pixel 9.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221755/google-team-pixel-reviews-influencers
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Some of you may need to hear this.
If you have a label printer or any other kind of tape-fed thermal transfer printer that you use for silly purposes
BE REAL CAREFUL THROWING CARTRIDGES AWAY
The cartridge contains an ink ribbon with impressions of *everything* you printed with it
You may want to discard of that separately in a much more considerate manner
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colonizers in the "past": spread deadly disease with no regard for other people
me looking at the people without masks: so, youre not trying to break that cycle huh
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There's a bunch of uncertainty around whether the quotation came from Margaret Mead but someone said it, in any case: a healed femur is the earliest sign of true civilization in the fossil record.
For someone to be loved, protected and cared for so completely that they survived a break which left them completely dependent on others for every basic need while it healed? That's the whole point of being an "us."
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NS and ProRail are warning for a very difficult autumn in their annual new school year press meeting. The summer construction works haven't finished yet but the summer holidays are already coming to an end, and more works for the autumn are planned. Together with the delayed delivery of ICNG, maintenance problems with VIRM, the speed restrictions on the high speed line until 2026 and general worse performance in the leaf fall season, it is going to be tough.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2533944-ns-verwacht-komende-half-jaar-meer-overlast-en-te-weinig-zitplaatsen
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Oh god I hate modern computing. When did we accept huge faceless corporations deciding which monitors I can use when using their shitty MUSIC streaming service?
Maybe everything after Napster was a mistake.
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I was wondering why my second monitor would just "randomly" black out. It is connected to a HP Dockingstation through a DP to DVI adapter.
I just figured it out. It is fucking #DRM. When I open spotify and click play, it *waits* for the monitor to black out, then starts playing. After I close the tab again, the monitor starts working instantly.
WTF?
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I wanna make an adventure game where you play as Craig and Corey and you go around doing odd jobs and giving life lessons about love and friendship
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Update. Six months later, 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 summarizes this sting operation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01672-7
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i gotta say though the way kilns are designed to be user serviceable is incredibly cool. even if it takes me a few days to get a replacement thermocouple in the mail it's great that the kiln gives me a relevant error code and then i can swap out the part with a screwdriver.
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anyway i think the right to repair people should talk to people in the fired arts about our kilns. i think we spend so much time with technology that's intentionally disposable that we have forgotten what it's like to use an incredibly powerful machine that you can fix yourself after watching a youtube video
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i didn't realize how much that lack of control was wearing on me until i had something break that i could actually fix. without a subversion of the technology even! it's supposed to be like this!
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I don't hate the rich because I'm jealous and wish I had that kind of money
I legitimately don't
I hate the rich because no one should ever have that kind of power
And they should feel that hatred from everyone
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reports of mutual aid posts make up the vast majority of reports we get by the way
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I want like a period piece television show in real house wives format, does that exist already?
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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."
- 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
