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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- 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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May your home be filled with tiny screwdrivers and utility knives engraved with the name of the local hardware shop with that one really cool queer person who won't shut up (complimentary) about how many measuring tapes they own, or about how cool the local makerspace is.
Or, you know, something else that fills you with joy.
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Forget all that passing in special arguments on the command line or config files or any of that. I just want a big knob that controls debug level. If I want more debugging output I turn the knob. Too much, I turn it down.
And like, we're not talking about a little trinket here. We're talking about commercially-sized boxes of food!
Okay, I've seen online shops before that give you free extra products if you go over a certain order total... but I have to say that it's a first to see one that automatically adds them to your cart and *you cannot remove them*
#AskFedi: Cryptography question: when implementing an encrypted storage system that also deduplicates (ie. the same plaintext data should result in the same ciphertext), is there any reason why the nonce shouldn't also be deterministically derived from the input data?
(I understand the security tradeoffs introduced by having deduplication, I am only asking about whether specifically a deterministic *nonce* introduces any additional issues beyond that)
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Hey kids, if you're removing fash stickers or other propaganda, good on you for cleaning up your neighborhood.
Just remember to always use a tool, and wear sturdy work gloves if necessary, because the tools putting that shit up sometimes hide dangerous surprises like razorblades or needles as a way to hurt anyone removing their shit by hand.
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Related observation: which camp a post gets sorted into seems to have much more to do with who made it, than with the actual contents of the post.
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Perhaps the clearest indicator that the #NixOS governance issues are not going to be resolved through discussions on the forum: the fact that for the past several years, you can reliably sort nearly every post into one of two 'camps' by looking at who hit the like button, and the exact lists for each camp have barely changed.
Likes aren't a reliable indicator for much, but it sure shows that minds are not being changed, and that it's a much more fundamental conflict that probably isn't going to be resolved until one camp just *leaves* the project.
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so, the fatigue limit for a material is the highest amount of stress that can be applied to that material for an infinite number of cycles without breaking.
aluminium has no such limit. every time you apply even a TINY bit of stress to it, you are contributing towards it eventually completely failing.
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so you know how the cybertruck has a cast aluminium subframe that the towing hitch is attached to?
did you know that aluminium has no fatigue limit?
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2023 train collision in Gdynia, the absolute state of train driver work conditions in Poland
the final report on the train collision that occurred on the Gdynia Główna station on October 5th, 2023
the cause of the crash has been determined to be one of the train drivers failing to act on a shunting signal with the "Stop" aspect, due to fatigue in the **12th hour of a night shift**, and time pressure caused by an unplanned need to refuel the diesel train
"the authorities are in agreement on the causes of the crash. that's why we're prosecuting the train driver responsible"
yet again the industry is in denial about systemic factors, because proper fixes would require systemic changes they cannot afford. but they can afford to be in denial about this. they have a scapegoat, you see
@rynek_kolejowy_bot
RE: https://pol.social/@rynek_kolejowy_bot/114144496782281502
the cause of the crash has been determined to be one of the train drivers failing to act on a shunting signal with the "Stop" aspect, due to fatigue in the **12th hour of a night shift**, and time pressure caused by an unplanned need to refuel the diesel train
"the authorities are in agreement on the causes of the crash. that's why we're prosecuting the train driver responsible"
yet again the industry is in denial about systemic factors, because proper fixes would require systemic changes they cannot afford. but they can afford to be in denial about this. they have a scapegoat, you see
@rynek_kolejowy_bot
RE: https://pol.social/@rynek_kolejowy_bot/114144496782281502
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Liberals make me angrier than conservatives do.
With conservatives, you get what you pay for.
Liberals, on the other hand, will wish literal death on you if their candidate didn't win!
Their support is extremely transactional!
They look at what's happening and say "This is what y'all get!" instead of fighting against unjust systems!
It makes me fucking sick to my stomach!
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Dansup (Pixelfed, Loops, and FediDB dev) 's treatment of Hazel, a dev that he excitedly announced was joining the Loops team only to later retract that and publicly berate her, catalogued here - https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/appendix/#behaviour - is gross.
Dansup's treatment of Tobi, one of the GoToSocial devs, and the GTS project in general, recently has also been gross - https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/113956125906236265
🧵
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PSA: There seems to be a host of stable #kindle #jailbreak s out there. If you, like me, have an older Kindle lying around, don't let it connect to Amazon for the latest firmware updates. Instead, head over to https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/kindle-models.html and follow the instructions.
Only took a few minutes in my case :3
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a heterotechnical relationship is one where your SO doesn't use the same OS
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The still lingering effects & patterns of the #COVID pandemic - 5 years on.
(via NYTimes)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html
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My mom accidentally referred to cryptocurrency as “kleptocurrency” this morning and I think I’m going to call it that from now on! 🤑
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dansup is fucking brilliant. the guy writes issue templates (like, to make writing issues easier) and then deactivates issues (note the lack of the "issues" button next to the "pull requests" button. he intentionally toggled that off). thanks @nlnet for paying this totally honest developer
- 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
