Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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Most popular volunteer job in #spoonieTown ?
Hug envoy.
If someone you love is having a rough day and you can't get out to give them a hug yourself, there's a corps of volunteers ready to pass on your wishes to comfort.
They will also deliver snacks.
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@vlrny #spoonieTown has volunteers to return the used cargo bikes to the stores
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#spoonieTown has cargo bikes at the hardware store you can borrow to get your #diy stuff home.
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But somehow reassuring?
Like, one day I'll probably watch a docu about these days.
(The intention for this design is to allow stacking bins, of course, but stacking the box of bits directly on top of it makes it more obviously visible how it works!)
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It's very strange to watch a documentary about a natural disaster I was in.
The wires ended up not working very well - however, they did inspire a slightly different solution. Instead of wires, I now fill up the slots with a solid layer - but only a *single* layer, instead of the full height, which is just enough to provide extra rigidity.
I've also slightly increased the thickness of the whole thing again, because it was bending at the hooks too much, risking breakage under weight. I've also modified the end hooks a bit; they are now actually hook-shaped, and thinner in some non-critical places.
The end result is a plastic cost of 1.65 meters; only slightly higher than the empty-slot version, which was about 1.55 meters. The original design was 3 meters!
The design seems about perfect now; the hooks only engage with the rim of the bin once it's under weight and the hooks are pulled towards it, whereas without weight there's enough margin that you can take off the whole net without getting stuck on that rim.
And it's working quite well with some stuff stacked on top of it! And a lot more stable than my previous corner design :)
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I have a bunch of projects in the air at once. I work on one of them until I'm too mad at the problem to continue, then I take a break and work on something I'm not mad at
Honestly, there should just be a tax on disposable packaging. Watch how quickly reusable packaging and refill setups become "cost-competitive".
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Dear non-US universities who are planning to hold conferences in the US:
please do not
it is not safe
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@eniko one of the things that makes me sad about the "don't make your own engine" popular advice is how much it cuts down on the possibility space, as it is often like saying "don't make games that don't fit within the limitations of off the shelf engines"
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Panic! At The Kernel
If we're 3D-printing with filament anyway, why not add a few wires for strength? They cost barely any plastic!
More work will certainly be needed to reduce the plastic consumption, but it's a decent start!
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I hereby release this into the world. Do with it as you will.
Working on my second attempt at a low-plastic stacking solution for the cheap "non-stackable" NOJIG bins from IKEA. This time it's a net that hooks over the edges of the bin. Hoping it's a bit more stable than my previous corner support solution.
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anyway look forward to the next exciting chapter of Harp Turns Into Her Parents where i just straight-up steal my dad's compsci lecture about how an important aspect of programming and user experience to consider is that machines should not be rude
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i realize that i'm preaching to a rather choir-shaped audience here on mastodon - i feel like you don't end up on the fediverse without being at least unintimidated by some of the nitty gritty on display, and it's fundamentally an open-source ecosystem where Go Program It Yourself If You Want is the set modus operandi. there's a higher than average amount of computer science degrees kicking around here, basically.
but surely i can't be the only one who has noticed this lack of support for the middling sort of knowledge in consumer technology. or maybe i am who knows lol. but it really does feel like the push for 'user friendliness' means that things are getting squeezed to the two extremes of support. the daily user gets increasingly dumbed-down, overly-friendly, "haha nooo you can't see the error report we're shyyy" cloying in uselessness treatment... and your other option is just one sneeze short of hoping the person trying to troubleshoot speaks fluent assembly.
and either which way the official response to problems is often a company sitting on hands. they have to make the official update triple-mummified in bubble wrap, and then the red tape means it gets pushed on down the line with "eh it'll get out there someday!". if you need a fix sooner? well... it's just assumed you'll go program it yourself, so the company again doesn't need to do anything about it.
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yeah i am a bit grumpy, how could you tell,
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
