Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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Pet peeve about SA ment
Cis guys love to use "rape" as a term for what humans do to objects or organizations or abstract concepts... So many living breathing human beings have sexual trauma, could we use like any other word? It's not such a casual thing for those of us who have experienced it, and using it to refer to something happening to a non-living thing feels ironic in a bad way
If you're at all interested in the technology behind rollercoasters, I strongly recommend https://www.youtube.com/@ThemeParkScienceOfficial/videos - the videos are in Dutch, but most of them have English subtitles available (proper ones, not machine translation).
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Hey fedi!
I'm curious about these patterns they put on train windows these days. How do they look like? Are they all the same? The one I post here is from a Desiro HC at DB Regio Bayern — are there other patterns on other trains? If you know others, I'd love to see pictures of them!
It's pretty easy to find out information about the pattern's function (search for "siemens mobilfunkdurchlässige scheiben", you'll find some pdfs), and that implies some constraints for the precise pattern — how wide the lines can be, how large/small the cells, it should repeat, etc.
but i've not found any public information on why they choose any particular pattern. Is it just aesthetics? Some manufacturing consideration? If you just need a repeating pattern of a certain size in a grid, why choose one which has so many additional symmetries?
Unfortunately I don't travel nearly enough to check all new train classes equipped with these — but I'm sure collectively people one here are on most of them. So if you're bored on your next train ride or just otherwise have the time, and you notice such a pattern, please send me a picture & note on which train class you found it?
(also feel free to boost this!)
I'm curious about these patterns they put on train windows these days. How do they look like? Are they all the same? The one I post here is from a Desiro HC at DB Regio Bayern — are there other patterns on other trains? If you know others, I'd love to see pictures of them!
It's pretty easy to find out information about the pattern's function (search for "siemens mobilfunkdurchlässige scheiben", you'll find some pdfs), and that implies some constraints for the precise pattern — how wide the lines can be, how large/small the cells, it should repeat, etc.
but i've not found any public information on why they choose any particular pattern. Is it just aesthetics? Some manufacturing consideration? If you just need a repeating pattern of a certain size in a grid, why choose one which has so many additional symmetries?
Unfortunately I don't travel nearly enough to check all new train classes equipped with these — but I'm sure collectively people one here are on most of them. So if you're bored on your next train ride or just otherwise have the time, and you notice such a pattern, please send me a picture & note on which train class you found it?
(also feel free to boost this!)
Which of these formats would you prefer for text markup? 
Well that couldn't last long, of course, now I'm debugging some absurd failure mode in a library
I love it when programming things just work!
A rare experience, to be sure
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In 2023 al verlieten we Twitter, omdat we ons niet konden verenigen met het negatieve klimaat daar. We zijn nu al een poosje actief hier, en met veel plezier, maar zijn nog hard op zoek naar mensen om te volgen. Onze focus ligt op onderwijs, leerkrachten en docenten, (grootstedelijke) pedagogiek, kansenongelijkheid, de meritocratie, (stoppen met) toetsen, etc. Wie heeft tips voor ons, wie moeten we zeker gaan volgen? #dtv (foto van ons team voor de attentiewaarde en ter kennismaking)
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"What happens to books that nobody reads?" the king asked.
"We send them to the archive for safekeeping," the librarian said. "There are many more books in the archive now than we have on the shelves."
"That must cost a fortune!"
"Not at all. Centuries ago, we found a dragon who hoards books."
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Do I have to pick a side? can't I just disagree with everyone?
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EVERYONE! Send me all the cool and useful links you've been collecting.
I'm building a searchable directory of high quality, user-respecting web apps. Right now I just need more links from people before I release the initial version.
Some criteria I'm looking for:
- tools that do one thing or type of thing well
- sites made for fun
- the simpler the better
- ideally ad free, but exceptions are possible
If you don't have any links (unlikely), you can help by boosting.
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dansup
if someone who was anything other than a cis white man pulled any of this stuff off they would have long been cancelled and their project dumpstered
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Cool that you're sharing a CIA manual about disrupting orgs, now share Riot Medicine with that same "just in case" energy you weirdos
Also, if this sounds like some cursed early-2000s browser compatibility hackery to you, you would be correct, because that's absolutely where I learned how to figure out tricks like these 🙃
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as someone who has been trying to organize for social change my entire adult life i have to say the thing that absolutely frustrates me the most is how people feel entitled to receive organizing without passing it along to the next person
if i could teach everyone a single thing about organizing, it is that it only works if you ensure a given action doesn't die with you, you have to take just a few extra minutes to ensure others pick it up and keep it going
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Own a domain. Put a blog on it. have your own e-mail address you@yourdomain, even if it is just a forwarding address. Own your digital identity. If you need help with that, call me, message me, meet me or one of thousands of others who already are doing this. It's our internet, if we act accordingly. Don't be afraid!
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An excellent read about Monotropism and flow state for children:
"Embracing Autistic Children’s Monotropic Flow States"
https://ndconnection.co.uk/blog/embracing-autistic-childrens-monotropic-flow-states?rq=edgar
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"Everyone is failing! Someone must _______ immediately!"
Comrade I don't know how to tell you this in a non-asshole way, but "someone" is *you*. That's where we're at. Find people doing the work you want to see and help them.
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Meta, garbage techbro quote
'I care about user counts because a social network is only as useful as its network effect.'
>.>
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Welcome this episode of "Ask Mastodon".
I'm looking for a good web based RSS reader.
1) Web based
2) Not Feedly
3) Not self-hosted
4) Not filled with AI bullshit
Please read criteria carefully before replying.
I *really* didn't want to stuff the menu full of fully-rendered forms for different operations, hence needing a popover that only asks for details when the user actually wants to take a particular action
- 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
