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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Today for #blackhistorymonth , let us honor Jerry Lawson, video game hardware innovator and inventor of the video game cartridge.
Jerry, gamers everywhere salute you 🫡
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It looks like the #50501protests mostly went well and were a positive experience for everyone, despite my misgivings. I’m glad to be wrong about this one!
Hopefully this engages new people in the work going on around them. And these folks start using Signal groups instead of Discord to organize LOL.
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Call for anti-fash zines
Hey y’all. I’m gonna get my local print shop hippies to print a bunch of anti-fascist #zines.
Please send relevant zines my way!
I live in a college town with a strong zine culture and a zine distro box in downtown. I can only do so much as an exhausted crip, but I hope getting info into the hands of students, workers, unhoused folks, etc will make a larger difference.
If you would like to help offset costs (or DM for my PayPal/CashApp/etc):
https://ko-fi.com/mircat
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active spam exploration
i admit i have continued to "play" the spam games that i have no word for as a category except "mobile games that are designed to be highly addictive and have a very strong advertising presence everywhere."
i am doing an "only choose the ad play option" playthrough (by pressing the ad button on my phone periodically while it's on the other side of my desk), and even though i think most of the leaderboards and etc. on these games are fake, i am almost at the top of the fake leaderboards by just being like "i actually love ads please show me ads"
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It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!
#bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu
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Sounds like the gts garbage stats has done the trick and robots.txt support is coming to fedidb
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Just as a small step to stop normalizing current fascists:
Do not ever - even ironically - title anything "Make X Y again". Don't give further power to those memes and (TBH inherently conservative) modes of thinking about the world.
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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
- 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
