Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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
I increasingly feel like "decentralization" is the wrong goal to have, because it is just an unreliable proxy metric for the thing people *actually* care about, which is autonomy and self-determination
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USpol
Liberals have become disillusioned about the democrats, and chuds are becoming disillusioned about the republicans.
Let's build off that
Framework, what the hell are you doing. What is even the point of 'repairability' from an environmental point of view if you're going to burn untold amounts of resources on "AI" garbage instead (which, yes, is true for 'local AI' too)
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I didn't realize how fucking useful the word 'fucking' is for eliminating AI
Turns out, it's really fucking useful!
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i hope people that invented cloudflare always sleep on warm and uncomfortable pillows 
because what can be a better idea than trusting us-based company to decide if people will get to your site or not, collecting all the possible data in the process and selling it to who knows where /s
because what can be a better idea than trusting us-based company to decide if people will get to your site or not, collecting all the possible data in the process and selling it to who knows where /s
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Posting this in English too because it's just baffling.
Albert Heijn, a Dutch supermarket chain, has been spending significant piles of money advertising their new "AH Terra" store brand, which is supposed to be all about plant-based food.
They've just rebranded their canned beans to fall under that brand, and to 'celebrate', they published a magazine with bean-based recipes.
Half of which use dairy ingredients. 🤦♂️
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I so often see cleaning advice like "use a soft microfiber cloth" but nobody ever bothers to mention that microfiber cloths are really good at getting hard bits like crumbs stuck into them and that if you reuse that cloth, it'll badly scratch up whatever you're trying to clean
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Shout out to the edit button! I don't know the why of the way my brain is wired, that I can't see typos in the edit box but two seconds later in the final post I can see them clearly.
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tech ethics
How do you decide if a project is too likely to be used unethically for you to be willing to work on?
Some cases are obvious, but a zillion things are "dual use".
Designing a quadcopter 10 years ago would have been unambiguously okay with me. Now I'm not sure it's possible to work on without it ending up used for surveillance, targeting weapons, etc.
Does anyone have a framework for analyzing these things that works? I feel like I'm playing devil's advocate on *both* sides.
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Windows XP is now older than DOS was when Windows XP came out
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Is there a better email than “your account has been permanently closed” for something you have no recollection of signing up for?
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how to prevent carpal tunnel:
don't let carps inside the tunnel
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@ben my favourite games, Sim Tycoon, Planet Architect, and, of course, Theme
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250224180621/https://megalomanager.com/
can confirm that the normal internet archive crawler bot is also blocked by Cloudflare's "block AI scrapers" setting
and even if I whitelist the ASN, the "block AI scrapers" setting gets handled first
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"the URL for your Steam Deck compatibility explanation page must begin with https://steamcommunity.com"
okay
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Are there any videos, articles etc on consent and boundaries not made about sex or for partners but a more general approach for all types of relationships but also delve into power dynamics etc?
Posting this in English too because it's just baffling.
Albert Heijn, a Dutch supermarket chain, has been spending significant piles of money advertising their new "AH Terra" store brand, which is supposed to be all about plant-based food.
They've just rebranded their canned beans to fall under that brand, and to 'celebrate', they published a magazine with bean-based recipes.
Half of which use dairy ingredients. 🤦♂️
Kijk, an sich is het prima als je bonenrecepten met zuivel publiceert. Ook prima als je dat in je receptenblaadje doet.
Maar om dat te doen specifiek in de context van "we vieren het rebranden van de bonen onder het Terra-merk"... dan heb je het echt niet helemaal begrepen.
Speciaal receptenblaadje van de Albert Heijn, over koken met "AH Terra" bonen (ingeblikte bonen dus, maar onder het 'plantaardige merk').
En dan zit er zuivel in de helft van de recepten. Waar ben je dan in godsnaam mee bezig?
- 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
