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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@Gargron That’s one side of the deal. The other is to listen to the needs of the full diversity of users. If you want us all to be your marketing team, you need to accept everyone on your product team too.
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Ticket revenue is also a way to keep property taxes lower in white suburbs.
Fines shift the tax burden from those who benefit from police presence to those who don't.
Tickets & fines are yet another form of tax evasion for the wealthy.
https://fortune.com/2023/09/25/speeding-traffic-tickets-broke-cities-towns-policing-for-profit/
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@openaeros needs some help! If you have any connections with anyone familiar with IEC 61010 and CE compliance we would love to chat. We get the basics, but want some help navigating the labs & companies. Basically just need the inside scoop since this our first time.
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What does an extra ~2-2.5 eACH cost for a classroom? This year it was $30 for air filters and $3 in⚡️, for a whopping $1.43 per kid per year!!! Took 7 hours to do 23 rooms. This ain't rocket science.
Not a paid endorsement, no connection to brand but 0/23 failures in 3 years🤷♀️
twitter, bluesky
Did we all catch the part where Jack Dorsey, now of Bluesky fame, still has shares in Twitter?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/2a00ce74-6d58-4f8e-bc2c-1bb820ee4705.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_10
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that "nazi bar" analogy
@Heidentweet @joepie91 no, but the metaphor is moot anyway because the bar is owned by a nazi so even if other nazis were being kicked out by staff that’s still kind of a problem. But if we say we shouldn’t protest on the opressors turf, we’re doing the opressor a favor. So, it’s complicated and policing people for still being on there is a distraction not worthy of time, effort and goodwill regardless.
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special love to the people online who for some reason are finding buffer overflow exploits for scientific calculators
So I guess I'm resurrecting my 15-year-old community software project, then.
(This is a follow-up of a question I posted months ago)
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I genuinely wonder why, in 2024, user manuals still include a paragraph in the safety section stating that disabled people shouldn't use the appliance without supervision. Well, it's worded differently, but that's basically what they're saying.
Someone should really tell the folks who write manuals that we are in fact perfectly capable of operating, say, an airfryer without burning the house down. And while we're at it, we should make touch displays on kitchen appliances illegal.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk *gets off soapbox*
that "nazi bar" analogy
When talking about the "nazi bar" story, you should remember that the moral of the story was that the *barkeeper* had to throw out the nazi, and not that the other patrons were nazis for staying in the bar.
It's a story for community moderators. Not for everyone else. And trying to apply it as a universal analogy *will* go wrong.
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@cstross I knew someday we'd get to the point of cool "haunted spaceship that's not safe to be in" situations but I kinda expected it'd take a few more decades/centuries and it'd be an unregistered torchship found floating around Ganymede without its crew, not this relatively boring situation
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my favorite thing about the fact we can't have personal dedicated servers anymore is that everybody in the south hemisphere just can't play multiplayer games with decent ping because nobody bothers making servers for them
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depol nlpol
I’d give Thüringen shit for voting nazi but my entire country did and their party supplied the prime minister so errm yeah
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me away from my computer: “I will go post a thing on fedi before i do chores”
me at my computer: “uhhhhhh… hmmm….. what was i going to post again?”
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Does anyone have any better suggestions for me than "go back to JPEG for my background images", to get reasonable-quality images on a webpage that still load comfortably on slow connections?
Note that anything that requires JS to function is not an option; I will not be implementing the pattern of "lazy-loading images after the fact", unless it can be made to work reasonably well without JS.
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Honestly, I'm kind of sad about Wedson leaving RfL. He developed a huge part of the foundation that made Rust for Linux possible.
I'll still work on DRM (except sched) and driver upstreaming when the core stuff is in place, but I don't know about other subsystems.
At the rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if upstreaming the drm/asahi driver isn't possible until 2026 at the earliest. I had hopes for things to move much faster, but that's not possible without active cooperation from existing maintainers, and we aren't getting it.
Reading upstreaming mailing list threads is painful. Every second comment is "why is this not like C" or "do it like C". Nobody is putting any effort into understanding why Rust exists and why it works. It's just superficial "this code is scary and foreign" type reactions.
I know the (top level) DRM maintainers are at least somewhat committed to making this work, and even there I ran into the drm_sched guy blocking simple fix patches. Every other subsystem is an unknown.
As far as I can tell the 'incremental decoding' that webp provides instead is functionally useless for this purpose, it just gives you back the exact 56k-era line-by-line rendering that progressive decoding was supposed to get rid of (if the client implements it at all, which is optional)
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Marilou Schultz, the artist, learned weaving as a child and is part of four generations of weavers. She used wool from the Navajo-Churro sheep along with traditional plant dyes. She worked from an Intel photo of the die (shown below) and used the "raised outline" weaving technique to make the borders of chip regions more visible. The lack of symmetry made the project challenging. 4/6
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Whether LLMs work also Does Not Matter. The environmental impact of both training and using them is currently such that it really does not fucking matter whether copilots are useful or not. You shouldn’t be using them, just like you shouldn’t be driving an SUV, flying frequently, or going on cruises. If you do one of these things out of dire necessity, you need to be offsetting that with behavioural changes somewhere else
If that changes in the future, then sure, we can reassess copilots
- 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
