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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(Don't really want to do that yet because if I don't have a solid grasp of what state each server is in, that just seems like asking for trouble in terms of keeping things secure for others)
Then eventually, once I know what runs where and have consolidated all the services that don't really need their own system, maybe I can free up enough space to provide some free (hosting) services to marginalized folks?
Next up is bringing various older VMs together under central management with morph, so that I don't have to manually keep track of so many different systems. And also making sure my backup setup is consistent everywhere.
Finally getting around today to inventorying and cleaning up all the various servers and VMs I have scattered across different providers and countries! Already deleted a bunch of ancient DigitalOcean VMs that served no useful purpose anymore.
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more than three years ago, i made a #tokipona 88x31 button as a for-fun doodle
without me noticing, this button got added to a lot of tokiponists' websites. i see it used pretty frequently
today i looked at that button on my website and thought to myself, "huh, it looks like something's wrong with the resolution of this..?"
... oh dear
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leftist strategy, pondering
I've been pondering for some time about how to deal with the problem of it being fundamentally easier for populist rhetoric to take popular hold (compared to in-depth analysis), while also being fundamentally dangerous because it can be easily coopted.
I'm wondering if maybe what we need as leftists isn't some sort of rhetoric that 'feels' populist on the face of it, but that is basically impossible to engage with or talk about without doing deeper analysis and reflection first (as a co-opting defense). What exactly that rhetoric would be, I'm not sure.
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undoing a red-brown meme about physical fitness as "praxis"
for real though if you have loved or expressed joy today, you have worked harder on effective self-improvement than a fascist has by lifting weights
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[SOLVED] it's 2^n - 1
Any math nerds on here? (who am I kidding)
What's the formula for the maximum number of combinations, where the length of combinations can be anywhere between 1 to n (number of items)?
I have found several calculators for this but they all assume that the length of the combinations remains constant
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Attention all blind or visually impaired Mastodonians: I’m attaching a time sensitive poll in the which I would greatly appreciate your participation. Rest assured that should you do so, none of your identifying information will be disclosed. The purpose of this poll is for data gathering only. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Please feel free to boost for a further reach.
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Laziness does not exist.
Anyone telling you you're lazy, including yourself, is attempting to force you to conform to a Puritan morality system that glorifies work.
Being unable to do something is the result of something being in the way of your ability to do that something.
Don't fall into the trap where you make being unable to identify that something a moral failure. It's not. You're not.
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Are you working on anything accessibility at a company (perhaps in preparation for the European Accessibility Act going into effect)? What is going well? Where are you struggling? I’d love to hear from you!
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@domo @scremlin Oh! After a bit more searching, it seems that the listing you're referring to is https://www.mondkapjes.nl/en/ffp2-mask-black-eu.html (which didn't show for me on the frontpage), I got it mixed up with the one that's approximately 99 cents *per mask* (ie. 19.95 EUR for a pack of 20)
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i did ask the Drupal Association organizers to ask the venue:
- If they have measured carbon dioxide levels for each room at similar-sized events?
- If they have filtration suitable for COVID-19 and flu (bird and other) mitigation, for example more than 5 air exchanges an hour with MERV-13 or higher filters.
And to commit to providing free tests and masks.
(Have not gotten this in the past, but big expensive conference centers tend to do well with air exchanges in rooms, not big halls.)
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"The Hyatt does not measure carbon dioxide levels. And, Yes, their system run at its maximum can do 6 air exchanges per hour with outside air."
Despite not being a multi-billion-dollar hotel chain, i can measure carbon dioxide levels and will. I'll have extra masks also although again the offer to sponsor free masks—which our tiny web development agency could actually afford—has not been accepted.
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You can get a pack of 20 expired FFP2 masks for 99 cents (euros). They're safe, but the elastic band adhesive may fail, so keep a pack in your backpack just in case. I've gone through 125 with @scremlin since November last year and have only had the string adhesive fail on 2 of them. Both failed right out of the pack, so I put them in a separate baggy and will just reglue them on another occasion. Highly recommend if you live in the EU.
#covid #masks #masking #mondkapje #monkapjes #CovidIsNotOver
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@nora it boggles the mind that people still think capitalism is efficient when it's very clear that's a lie. capitalism encourages non-cooperation which is almost the exact opposite of an efficient system.
capitalism encourages convergence to the Nash equalibrium, a concept that is notable for very often being suboptimal or even the worst solution. capitalism looks at the prisoners' dilemma - a game whose whole point is that it's extremely easy to optimise if the two players can cooperate - and asks us to reject cooperation.
capitalism is why you get maximisation of externalities. capitalism is why you get the Peter principle. capitalism detests delayed gratification and essentially fails the Stanford marshmallow test every time.¹
capitalism is NOT efficient. that is, and always has been, a lie.
¹ yeah i know that was a bad experiment that since failed replication. but it's a good metaphor.
- 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
