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.
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- 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
This is quite cool, it seems like a home-made busker organ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Qra6RgABk
"People can learn how to navigate and use unfamiliar things just fine" is true but you do actually need to do the teaching part, and not just expect people to magically infer things from first principles (and this also applies to technical terminology)
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The absolute fucking state of NHS trans healthcare in Scotland (sandyford in particular)
So GiaMtF on r/transgenderUK did an FOI request to see what the fuck is going on with the waiting list at Sandyford GIC.
To the surprise of fucking nobody, it's bad.
Right now, they are seeing on average less than one person for their first appointment per week.
That's 42 a year off a waiting list that's growing at an average rate of 579 a year for the years given.
I referred myself in late 2020, which means that at this rate, I'll be getting my first appointment in more than 20 years.
I'll be 60!
GICs are not healthcare. They are a system designed to keep trans people in limbo, force them to detransition, or kill them through sheer negligence.
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The CppNix team has discovered today that the #NixOS infra has actually been running on Lix for a few months because their software is too shit to reliably function on large-scale critical infrastructure (e.g. the build farm supporting NixOS). Like, it just segfaults or has protocol incompatibility regressions every version.
It's been really interesting watching their indignation at having actual competition doing their job better than they do it themselves.
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wealthy and powerful folks, corporations, etc. constantly ignore laws they know won't be enforced. you're not gaining any moral high ground on them by following pointless or even harmful laws. just don't follow them.
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you absolutely do not need to "follow the law" just cause it's the law.
is it enforceable? if no, you can ignore that law unless there's an ethical reason to follow it anyway.
is you "following the law" getting someone else who's more vulnerable into trouble? then you have an ethical obligation not to follow the law where possible.
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authoritarian governments rely on people obeying rules they do not have the resources to enforce, especially if disobedience is widespread.
disobey where you can, throw sand in the gears where you can't. slow them down. add friction to everything they try to do.
Gamers(tm) are really just always going to complain no matter what you do as a developer, huh?
Long Early Access period with constant updates to make sure the game is the best it can be? "Oh this game will never release, developers are bad"
Constrained development timeframe and declaring the game 'done' after that time, even if theoretically more could have been done? "Oh this game has been abandoned, developers are bad"
Medium development timeframe followed by a release and occasional updates? "Oh the developers don't care about fixing issues or adding content, developers are bad"
Like, what the fuck do you expect game developers to do then???
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Since some of us may be thinking of maps at the moment I strongly urge you to check out QGIS. It is an incredibly powerful mapping tool that is free to use. Don’t like the maps someone else has made? Maybe it’s time to make your own
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Anyway, if there is anyone working on alternative mapping systems to avoid relying on the us government for data or something like that definitely let me know, I have worked to move from ESRI products to QGIS and other open source tools in multiple jobs. Happy to give some time or assistance to anyone mapping for a good cause
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➡️Ladies and gentlemen: IK HEB HEM! ⬅️ #Arrivé ! - foto 2.
(Nu nog een ebike. 😅)
Iedereen (nogmaals) bedankt voor boosten en meedenken!!! ❤️
Edit 2. Sorry voor de overlast hoor, maar de wens is heel groot: ik probeer het nog één keer! ⬇️
Ik ben op zoek naar dit #boek van #FloraWaycott. Overal uitverkocht. Iemand die het in zijn boekenkast heeft staan en er niets mee doet en er van af wil?
Of iemand die het toch ergens te koop weet (in Europa)? #dtv
Edit: Ik zoek de Nederlandse versie.
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Valve won't let me transfer ownership of Ben Lubar (Steamworks partner group) from Ben Lubar (account created because you can't make a partner group while being in a partner group) to Ben Lubar (normal account) unless I print out a letter explaining why I need to do this on company letterhead and get the CEO to sign it, then scan it in
which is hard because I don't have letterhead or a CEO
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If you struggle to figure out what the quadrennial Dutch hacker camp is called this time: I got you.
Presenting Three Letter Acronym 20XX, which always redirects to the latest event website:
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cw boost: leaked US cop manuals, police violence
I uh. How do I report to a developer of a Steam-hosted playtest a bug about their bug submission system not working?
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adulting advice
🌠 Never underestimate the power of a job half done. Really, doing *some* dishes makes doing the rest of the dishes later that much easier. You don't need to completely finish the thing, just do the next step and come back to it when you can.
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How many characters must one type on a keyboard to make a heart?
Less than three.
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"you're hot"
Cis People: thanks! Guess I just won the lucky draw
Trans People: thanks! The most powerful people in the world tried to stop me and i did it anyway
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@nyquildotorg @joepie91 You can read this post from one of the authors, I've linked it below, but TL;DR; it's a debug MMIO register region seemingly belonging to the GPU, and the "secret hash" is 0xC5ACCE55 - it's part of official ARM documentation.
https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/
I find it a stretch to call it a "hardware backdoor", a big fuckup, sure, but it doesn't seem deliberate.
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re: uspol, google maps
@joepie91 I definitely agree. Considering the names of international bodies of water are regulated by the International Hydrographic Organization, there is no reason other countries should even care about what the US calls it.
If anything, only the US version of Google Maps should show both names, to signal that there are two regulating bodies that disagree.
- 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
