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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- 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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unsolicited advice for folks running macbook laptops from the early/mid 2010s
also now that my fan isn't on literally ALL the time, and with a new 3rd party battery, I can easily get 4–5hrs of light usage on a single battery charge, which feels close to what I got when it was brand new (despite apple's advertised figure of 10 hours on a single charge)
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unsolicited advice for folks running macbook laptops from the early/mid 2010s
thermal paste apparently breaks down after a few years, so yours might not actually be conducting heat that well anymore. between the fan and the paste, my processor now keeps cool enough that it doesn't throttle frequency at 100% load, which makes a ton of difference for (e.g.) sharing your screen while on a video call. it's a tricky procedure but not impossible and ifixit has a bunch of guides https://www.ifixit.com/Search?doctype=guide&query=macbook+thermal+paste
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unsolicited advice for folks running macbook laptops from the early/mid 2010s
if you have the skills and inclination: consider replacing your thermal paste! my 2013 macbook air has always been a tolerable daily driver, but after i changed the thermal paste it tipped back over into being a joy to use. plus while you're in there, you can ACTUALLY clean the fan (I thought I'd been cleaning the fan, but when i actually removed it from the heat sink I saw that there was a huge chunk of lint in there)
(If all goes as expected, it should also be a neat way for different fedi instances to share the storage cost of static media among each other, instead of everyone needing to keep full copies, because it's a deduplicated storage system)
Anyway the idea here is to have a distributed storage system that can be run on spare mismatched storage space by a group of friends, or a group of sysadmins, or whoever else, and be resistant against compromise and censorship. Both for personal data storage but definitely also for things that are meant for public access.
Which seems to have rapidly gotten a lot more relevant since I started on this project...
The problem was that you can't have something addressed by both its content hash *and* a hash of its decryption key (for a decryption process that's several lookup steps removed from the initial one).
Or well, I *thought* you can't, but it turns out that with a small design change, you can in fact do that
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It turns out no matter how many times you try, you can't clone-tool away a spec of dirt on your screen
The idea is to have a distributed storage system that lets you set up a cooperative storage cluster between multiple semi-trusted parties; with RAID-like striping across participants (so more efficient than duplication) but with all data being encrypted and independently verifiable, so it's resistant to stuff like hacked systems. It's strongly inspired by Tahoe-LAFS (but makes some different design choices for practical reasons).
I got stuck on a seemingly trivial problem; how to make the hashes of different storage objects verifiable while also allowing retrieval of a file when the only thing you have is its decryption key
Finally (slowly) making progress on my cooperative storage cluster project
PSA: If you are in the EU, bought an Alexa/Echo device, and the "keep recordings local" feature was *ever* advertised or mentioned to you in any sales materials anywhere...
The announced change (all recordings being sent to Amazon servers) means that you are likely eligible for a refund/return, because the device no longer provides the functionality that you were sold, and it is not a result of normal wear and tear.
The exact legislation may vary by country, it is usually called something like 'conformity' or 'legal warranty', and contrary to popular belief it is not capped at a fixed number of years for these kinds of cases.
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34 million users, 4.7 star rating. "doesn't follow best practices", i.e. it does what it says it does and Google doesn't like that.
Glad I moved to Firefox years ago. It has issues too, but not as bad as Chrome.
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It brings me untold joy that so many of my friends use chosen names whether they're cis or trans and whether they decide to inform the state or not. I just think it's a beautiful norm to treat your given name as a temporary gift which you can change as you get to know yourself better — and change again as you continue to grow. It's one of my favorite pieces of queer culture.
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"There's no ethical consumption under capitalism" doesn't mean boycotts are meaningless so I can buy whatever I want, it means destroy the whole fucking system
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subtoot about progressive people who only know how to use evil corporate platforms
on one hand, it's important to meet users where they're at and make tools accessible to non-technical people
on the other hand, i think it's unrealistic to think that in this year of our lord 2025 you can simply Stop Learning New Technology Things
if you can Read Theory, you can learn Markdown
it's just, like, how the hell do you expect to cope in your vaunted post-capitalist utopia if you can't even conceptualize an Internet without Facebook or Google?!
Welp, washing machine error code; failed to drain. Pump refused to run, just made a humming noise, so I figured that it must be busted.
Cleaned out the filter anyway, and what do you know, it pumps fine again? Still not quite sure why that helped - there were no obvious blockages in the filter, other than some gunk buildup. I guess the gunk provided too much friction for the pump to run?
Either way, that turned out to be easier to fix than expected, especially as initially the washing machine was full of water (but it turned out that putting the hose in a bucket was enough to drain it, even without a working pump). Just a bit messy water-wise.
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I will say that “helmet with face shield” has been my biggest upgrade for biking in the rain BY FAR
so much better than getting rain all over my glasses 🙏
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furry, trans, incredibly neurodivergent on main
It still surprises me how much the emotions that wearing a pair of fox ears and tail evokes in me resemble gender euphoria.
If I hadn't experienced it myself, I wouldn't believe it, maybe even offended by the comparison - these two aspects seem so unrelated and on such different levels of importance.
But walking around my apartment with my tail tied on and feeling it bounce against my thighs or pushed against me while sitting on the couch or laying in bed *genuinely* brings that same kind of "what a relief, this is my true form" comfort. It doesn't feel like clothes or a costume, my brain fully just processes it as a part of me - it's wild.
And sometimes, if I'm cuddling with a partner and they stroke my hair or back a certain way for a little while, I feel a mental shift into what I call "foxmode" where my mannerisms become a lot more fox-like - nuzzling, pawing, nonverbal except for little purrs or yips. My surefire indicator of this is my fingers: in foxmode, I scrunch them up so they're only one knuckle long to look more like paws. And when foxmode wears off, I straight them back out. And all of this is purely instinctual: at no point am I like "let's be a little silly and fun right now".
Honestly makes me question if I'm not just furry, but therian. Maybe writing all this out is kinda telling tbh
- 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
