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
uspol meta, angry
I cannot adequately express in words how angry I am at all the people who have spent the past several years insisting that "it won't be that bad" and doing absolutely fuck-all in terms of resistance (and yes, this includes the people who considered "donating to Harris and doing nothing else" as "sufficient resistance").
You have an openly fascist regime now and the concentration camps are already being established. Congratulations, fuckheads. You had the opportunity to stop this and you did fucking nothing because it threatened your sense of comfort to acknowledge the reality of the situation.
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uspol: immigration, conc camps
The president caught his own top level staff by surprise calling for mass detainment of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay. That's a concentration camp, folks. We already have them at the southern border (have for years) and they're inhumane as fuck. Those typically hold people attempting to cross the border (including those seeking asylum). This escalation means rounding up people already living in the country and packing them in an external high security location. It can't get any plainer.
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request for information. extremely mild uspol, data archival and scraping
Is there a hashtag, group, chatroom, forum, etc. For data scraping/archival re: US data purge? Specifically talking about raw data like data.gov rather than website crawling which seems to be handled by archiveteam and end of term archive. Like #USDataPurge or something
Edit: #SafeguardingResearch looks like another https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113921816307826784
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Does anyone have any explainers on #MaliciousCompliance, obstruction, and weaponised incompetence as acts of #resistance? I'm looking for (non-paywalled) articles on how and when to employ such methods against injustice. I want to share them with my readers.
politics and activism meta, "working with imperfect people"
There's this common advice for activism in particular, but also politics in general, that goes something like: "people are imperfect, so you should learn to work with people even if you don't completely align with them".
And in a vacuum, that is true.
But what gets missed here is the *context* in which this advice often gets used. That context is very often "some marginalized person frequently calls out bigoted behaviour from their supposed allies, and now nobody wants to work with them".
In that context, the advice *technically* still works. The marginalized person *could* decide to let it slide, and work on the common interest instead.
But consider the implications of that, and what is actually being asked of whom. A marginalized person, who already gets the short stick most of the time, is expected to let bigotry slide... while zero expectations are placed on the *other* allies, particularly the privileged ones, who *could* take off some of the load by calling out their peers every once in a while at basically no risk to themselves. But nobody is expecting them to.
And just like that, all the emotional work and responsibility are pawned off on the people who can least afford it.
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If your website is so slow that I have time to take a screenshot of the loading spinner after noticing, from a fast machine and network, there are whole layers of management that have explaining to do.
Next step is to have a separate 'shading' layer and 'surface' layer for each component, so that instead of a fixed white-based gradient of gray, it uses a partially-opaque-gradient black overlay to apply the depth illusion to *any* color choice (or even texture!)
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#protip If you're looking for a squat, get on seeclickfix and look for overgrown weeds reports. Get some kind of uniform even if just a safety vest, clean it up, put stuff in trash bags or lawn bags and put that at the curb, then take a walk around back with a crowbar.
https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/fthfYtKcha4PpMuyvr6M153z/issues/17908073
Today, I'm practicing with mesh gradients in Inkscape. Which are cool but damn, Inkscape doesn't exactly make them easy...
(Original silhouette by Andreas 06 on Wikimedia Commons; the cutting up into parts and 'texturing' is my work)
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NFC#844
★ New blog post: Otherkin-friendly CAPTCHAs, revisited.
Some folks have asked me how I make CAPTCHAs respect my non-human identity. The short answer is I copied code from @mavica_again. The longer-ish answer is this.
https://beeps.website/blog/2023-04-27-otherkin-friendly-captchas-revisited/
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who is the archivist for all the magnum opuses that get written online and are intelligible to nobody but their creator, that is an enormous body of literature
Uh oh, apparently Atari bought the IP for Transport Tycoon in November of last year. I sure hope that isn't going to result in problems for the #OpenTTD folks...
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Fun fact: it is literally, objectively impossible to legally watch Ultra HD Blu-Rays on a desktop computer, because Cyberlink PowerDVD is the only legal way to watch Blu-Rays of any sort on PC at all and it dropped support for UHD BRs.
Once again, DRM exclusively and disproportionately affects legal users without being a blip in the way of pirates (MakeMKV works just fine)
To my surprise, I actually kind of like GDScript? It's very rare for *any* kind of DSL to pass my first evaluation successfully...
food, vegan
So it turns out that soy-sauce-fried leftover noodles with a sauce of pan-fried banana slices and some fruit jam and lemonade syrup mixed in is actually really nice, and pretty easy to make
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If a company goes out of business in the Netherlands, does the NDA its employees had to sign still apply?
Edit: The overwhelmingly common answer is contact a lawyer, which is good advice. Thanks everyone! :)
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Say it with me:
"IQ IS JUNK SCIENCE INVENTED BY WHITE SUPREMACIST EUGENICISTS TO JUSTIFY THEIR IDEOLOGY"
It is not an "inconvenient truth". It is not an otherwise robust instrument that is misused by some people with an agenda. It is not something that's pretty accurate but that is complicated by societal factors.
It's bullshit. Bupkis. Bunk.
As Johnathan Frakes says in that one show, "We made this one up. It's a total fabrication. It's pure fiction. It's a made up tale. This one was invented by a writer. It's an urban legend... that never happened."
Don't forget. Remind yourself if you have to.
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Chinese Hanyu, known across East Asia, began life as a symbol pictographic system that showed what it described: over time, the symbols became more abstract and it became a full-blown writing system used by billions. #MythologyMonday
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re: rant
Oh yeah, some more interesting findings from poking around webOS:
- It's a surprisingly normal Linux overall! It runs systemd! There's even a Pulseaudio instance, though I'm not entirely sure if it's actually doing anything
- The base system seems to be a lot more flexible than just a TV platform (which makes sense, given webOS' history, but it's impressive how much of it survived)
- Most of the apps are built with QML or a custom JS framework named "Enyo" running on what seems to be a custom Electron-style runtime
- The app suspend/resume functionality is implemented with CRIU (on kernel 4.4.lol, no less!)
- There's a custom message bus called Luna that's used instead of D-Bus for most of the actual apps, but there's also a D-Bus for systemd and such
- There is A LOT of log collection machinery that presumably phones home whenever the TV breaks, and collects tons of diagnostic data. What happens to said data afterwards, I don't know. Probably goes into a ticket somewhere and gets ignored forever?
- It's a surprisingly normal Linux overall! It runs systemd! There's even a Pulseaudio instance, though I'm not entirely sure if it's actually doing anything
- The base system seems to be a lot more flexible than just a TV platform (which makes sense, given webOS' history, but it's impressive how much of it survived)
- Most of the apps are built with QML or a custom JS framework named "Enyo" running on what seems to be a custom Electron-style runtime
- The app suspend/resume functionality is implemented with CRIU (on kernel 4.4.lol, no less!)
- There's a custom message bus called Luna that's used instead of D-Bus for most of the actual apps, but there's also a D-Bus for systemd and such
- There is A LOT of log collection machinery that presumably phones home whenever the TV breaks, and collects tons of diagnostic data. What happens to said data afterwards, I don't know. Probably goes into a ticket somewhere and gets ignored forever?
- 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
