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
health, ~
COVID vaccine acquired; now to feel slightly bleh for a couple days...
medical reference
So many hospital questionnaires to fill in 😒
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Academia has a travel problem.
Attending faraway conferences is ecologically unsustainable, and creates a huge barrier to entry for people who are disabled, have care duties, or lack resources, among others.
One piece of the solution is to create local satellites of major conferences. This idea has been successfully implemented in Paris for #NeurIPS for a few years, and I'm happy to have joined the advising committee of NeurIPS@Paris (Dec 4&5 this year)
Check it out: https://neuripsinparis.github.io/neurips2024paris/
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one of my least favorite tropes is when a character starts nerding out about something and someone else shuts them down immediately
Godot seems to be doing some quite interesting governance work.
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Godot overtaking Unity in one of the most recent, largest game jams out there is a wonderful example of the triumph of free software against a corporate platform. Something something Year of the Godot Desktop yada yada.
accident that didn't happen
Speaking of accidents, almost got hit by a driver today on a crossing. They just raced through it, even though they don't have priority there, and I would've been hit if I hadn't been paying extra attention and slowing my speed.
Waarom zeggen we eigenlijk "drukke ochtendspits door onstuimig weer" zonder de toename in ongevallen te noemen waar het eigenlijk door komt? Alsof slecht weer magisch file veroorzaakt?
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Zondag, 13 oktober: opening van kunstexpositie met dekoloniale performance tegen standbeeld van Coen
https://www.doorbraak.eu/13-oktober-hoorn-opening-van-kunstexpositie-met-dekoloniale-performance-tegen-standbeeld-van-coen/
Kunstcentrum De Boterhal
16:00 uur: opening expositie
16:30 uur: processie naar standbeeld Coen
Kerkplein 39
#Hoorn
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Journalistiek en de vloek van de talkshow
https://www.doorbraak.eu/journalistiek-en-de-vloek-van-de-talkshow/
"...een inherent falen van het talkshow-format: aan tafel wordt geen waarheid vastgesteld. Het gaat heel erg over meningen van de tafelgasten, maar expertise is daaraan ondergeschikt. Dus wordt expertise tot een mening gereduceerd."
Het valt me op dat een hoop mensen die zichzelf "ongepolariseerd" of "centrist" of "ergens ertussenin" vinden zitten, gelijk afketsen op artikelen van "linkse" sites en ze weigeren te lezen, ongeacht hoeveel bronnen er aangeleverd worden, schijnbaar puur en alleen omdat ze problemen en oorzaken benoemen zonder eromheen te draaien. Ik noem bijvoorbeeld een Doorbraak.
Dat roept bij mij toch wat vragen op.
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Today I learned that Apple Air Pods Pro in noise cancelling mode perfectly cancels the clicking of a geiger counter. You would not know it was making a sound. I hope that this is not relevant to /your/ day.
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This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables!
Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time.
That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade!
If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed.
This can hugely increase the lifetime of your electrical cables, to upwards of 20 years of heavy use, without kinks or twists.
(GIF credit hosatech.com)
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i think a lot about the phrase "don't hate the player, hate the game" because it sounds like it was made up by a lawyer
like, i can hate the game while also still hating any player who treats the rules as a puzzle for finding loopholes to cheat-but-not on a technicality
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malicious software company
I played a few bughouse games with my partner yesterday on chess dot com for the first time in months yesterday.
Today I got this email:
YOUR STREAK IS PAUSED. Don't lose your 1 day streak! Play Chess [link]
This is what I mean when people ask me what my problem is with commercial/proprietary software/platforms. The company is actively trying to create an addiction to their product.
I say this all the time: [commercial platform] is not bad because it shows you adverts, or fosters addictions, or collects your data.
It does those things because it is bad.
But there’s a solution! The non-profit donation-supported lichess.org is an excellent service for playing chess.
And if y’all know any other platforms with good bughouse support, please, help me out.
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Today's "the open source Linux ecosystem sure is great" discovery: both e2fsprogs and util-linux contain a libuuid. Both seem to expose a similar API, except that the latter documents and only supports #include <uuid.h> whereas the former documents and additionally supports <uuid/uuid.h>.
Thanks, I hate it.
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I remember the first time someone told me about delivery companies that intentionally break parking laws because it's cheaper to just pay fines if they got caught
I think that was the first time I ran into "economist brain" thinking and I was pissed and ready to burn that company down
And I feel like we've all had this slow-drip of normalizing thinking like that
I wish we could be as angry now about all the other ways that people have intentionally hurt us all by thinking that way since then
Idly pondering how and why the canonical metric for website user count changed from "daily unique visitors" to "monthly active users"
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WOW! CNN has a new easy-to-read dashboard for tracking the CDC's covid #wastewater data.
CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/29/health/covid-wastewater-testing-map-dg
It's telling that the CDC's own website is so clunky that it takes a 3rd party to streamline it & make it presentable. 🙄
CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html
Still not as accessible as weather reports, but now there's little excuse for those 95% of people who SAY they'd "take steps to protect themselves" based on wastewater data. 😷
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mastodon be less liberal challenge
- 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
