Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
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hot take about the programming world
We've known for at least a decade that memory safety vulnerabilities are *by far* the most common and destructive type of security vulnerability in software. That's not a hypothesis, we have data for this, and have had it for a long time - it's been true ever since parameterized queries nearly elimited SQL injections. It's not in question.
The fact that, despite this overwhelming data for over a decade, and despite things like Rust existing, the programming community at large *still* hasn't broadly acknowledged that memory safety is a high-priority threat to software security that warrants a drop-everything response, raises some extremely uncomfortable questions about the competence and trustworthiness of the field as a whole.
It also draws some similarly uncomfortable parallels with the pandemic response by major governments.
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anyone have opinions on projectors for home use? i looked around and they go from 230 euros to 2,300 euros and uh, that's a big spread
EDIT: Fwiw we can position it pretty far from the screen (about 3 meters I'd guess) and we have blinds that we can use to darken the room very effectively
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Question for pagans and/or Christmas-music avoiders: I’ve been told I have to play holiday music next week at the bookshop. I protested fruitlessly but am allowed to play “witchy solstice” music (an idea I threw out there) as long as it’s “festive holiday” music. Any thoughts on a Pandora station that might pass muster? What’s “festive” and lends itself to peaceful bookshop browsing—maybe folk, instrumental (like harp??), Celtic, Scandinavian, ancient Germanic . . . ?
For no particular reason, here's a very large collection of chiptune music: https://chiparchive.com/files/ -- also includes the latest(?) known MusicPack from the now-defunct keygenmusic.net.
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My mother’s union just secured a 40% raise and 7 weeks parental leave for its workers after walking off the job (in an illegal strike no less).
Don’t let people tell you unions aren’t worth fighting for
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Putting the new iOS18 “vehicle motion cues” to the test in the passenger seat on today’s windy roads down the Oregon Coast to reduce motion sickness potential. So simply clever, so unexpectedly effective, and barely distracting once you get used to it.
The only downside is that it’s impossible to remember how to search for that very specific name in settings search, but there’s a control center widget for toggling it that makes that moot.
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prisons, spicy take to some
Imprisonment is a form of torture, no matter how 'humane' it is on paper, and should be treated as such from an ethical perspective.
And when you argue for imprisoning people as a form of 'justice', you are arguing for torture as a form of 'justice', with all of the implications that that has.
It's just a form of torture that's easy to rationalize if you don't want to confront those implications.
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Oh my FUCKING GOD
I finished dumping 99.99% of a very old, damaged, backup CDROM that was previously unreadable. It took 3 days and I was super excited to find out what old data I put on it. The disc had UDF sessions, because that was common at the time for just Adding Files to non-rewritable media.
So I mount that shit in my Windows 98SE box, and lo and behold, this is all that was on it.
I would be absolutely upset if it wasn't so fucking funny
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Heb jij vragen over burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid? Wil je de A12 blokkeren, maar twijfel je nog? Maak je je zorgen om je Verklaring Omtrent het Gedrag (VOG)? Dan is een actietraining iets voor jou! Je bent van harte welkom met al je vragen!
Info & training: https://a12blokkade.nl/
(And this is where I realized how difficult it is to write a useful spoiler-free description of a show!)
Just finished watching two seasons of The Ark and despite the disastrously bad visual effects especially in the pilot episode (don't think I've ever seen a show hit the uncanny valley like that), I've been quite enjoying it!
One of the showrunners is Dean Devlin, and you can tell - if you've watched Leverage, you'll probably recognize the same notes of... hopepunk? scattered through the storylines, and the moral thread weaving them together.
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morrowind and racism
so recently i found out about that morrowind mod that adds a complete recreation of emba-5 (a real small military town that was built in kazakhstan during the ussr times). the mod was made by a person who lived there and i thought it was kind of cute until it turned out the mod maker is a russian religious quack nazbol guy who says that it's a "uniquely russian" town and believes kazakh people cursed it and bastardized it after ussr fell. wack.
I find it really fascinating how an ever-increasing proportion of "folks I have stayed in touch with after meeting them in various completely unrelated communities over the past 15 years" are turning out to be trans in some way (even if I have a pretty good idea about why this happens)
subtoot, schools, LLMs
Like, I get it, LLMs are terrible and all, and you won't find me disagreeing there, but "our sacred homework standards!" is extremely *not* the hill to be dying on there
subtoot, schools
"Why would you use LLMs to do your homework instead of learning things??"
...because students are coerced into doing homework they never asked for and they have been taught for a decade+ that grades are the only thing that matters, and so they have no real choice but to optimize their participation in this bizarre social dance of pretending to learn things to participate in society?
If only people had been warning for decades that common schooling methods are inefficient and encouraging the wrong things. If only.
Looks like my own implementation works, at least: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/a7235920e314f37a992c6ed078970ddc?ts=4
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
