Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
nlpol, dependency on US tech
In case you missed it: a day or two ago, the House of Representatives in the Netherlands voted in favour of *every single* 'digital sovereignty' proposal for reducing and even removing government dependence on US tech companies and cloud services.
This is a major change from the Dutch government's past view of the US as a trustworthy ally; now, they are being talked about like an adversary, "they could use our tech dependency to apply political pressure".
Several of the proposals were approved *unanimously*, not just across all parties, but across every. single. sitting member of the House.
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ACAB
why are music radio bumpers so oversaturated with sound effects for no reason
they be like *vinyl scratch* *riser sound used for trailers* *cymbals* *automatic gunfire* WELCOME TO 42.0 FM, WHERE WE PLAY REAL ROCK MUSIC *loud elephant* *nuclear explosion* *vine boom* *sounds of tortured souls dragged to dante's inferno*
imagine dragons starts playing
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@joepie91 I'm pretty convinced this goes way down the rank into middle management where the pay scales are already so blown out of proportion no one will ever tell you what they make
There are a lot of good arguments for why CEOs and other executives shouldn't be paid more than workers, but I think the one I like best is this one:
If you don't earn more by being an executive than by being a worker anyway, the position becomes unattractive to the kind of ghoul who thinks in categories of 'lesser' and 'better' people.
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remember when blockchain hype was everywhere and people kept saying things like "oh I know it's so silly and overhyped but there will still be niche applications like tracking and securing supply chains"
and then it never fucking happened because the tech was crap and slow and expensive and error prone and difficult to manage and basically just worse than the existing solutions in every possible way
keep that in mind when people say "well it will have SOME good uses" about the tech fad du jour
mention of ableist slur, linux graphics
I regularly see people trying to defend GIMP and particularly its name by going "GIMP has been making graphics on Linux so much better over the years, why would you make such a problem of such a small thing as the name and lose sight of the important things?"
And the thing that gets me is that, like, GIMP actually isn't even *good*. Krita has achieved vastly more progress in vastly less time than GIMP ever has, and is miles ahead of GIMP in terms of "letting people actually do graphics on Linux". This argument is so transparently bullshit!
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Hey everyone! For some reason I decided to build a CPU from scratch starting about five years ago. My BOM is NPN BJT transistors, 100/1k/10k ohm resistors, 47uF ceramic capacitors, and LEDs used as visual indicators/in-circuit debugging aids. The technology is basically RTL and compatible with TTL voltage levels. The components are designed and laid out by me using KiCad. The boards are manufactured by OSHPark. The ISA is my own design. I'm partially through board design and layout.
Documentation, schematics, stdlib/BIOS source code, simulator, assembler/disassembler, and other utilities are all available here: https://github.com/dragonMinded/minidragon
For those who have followed me awhile, especially when I was on my previous instance, this is not news. It might even be why you followed me. But, I wanted something to pin to my profile. Also, I wanted somewhere to post that I am going to be using the #MiniDragon hashtag in CPU-related posts from now on if that's all you're interested in seeing.
health, immune system
If the progress so far is any indication, I'm going to conclude that my immune system is definitely weakened, but it was aggressive enough to begin with that I'm still left with a serviceable amount of disease resistance.
It's taking longer than it usually would to recover from this, but it seems about similar to the more insistent flus and how other people experience them. Though I don't yet know what the long-term consequences will be.
(This is all pretty much as expected; that I have an aggressive immune system was something I already knew, given my history of "being sick for a few hours and that's it" whenever I caught a flu or whatever)
health
Feels like I'm coughing out my lungs, but it seems like my fever has fucked off, at least.
Also a pounding headache, but that's probably "just" the tension in my shoulder/neck muscles leaving my body, as that usually results in headaches.
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the somewhat serious point
Anyway, violence is bad, in the workplace or not. I just bristle at the one-sidedness of only insisting that violence is bad when it doesn't come in the form of capitalism.
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the somewhat serious point
Sexual harassment is violence, in the workplace or not. Laying someone off is violence, given that capitalism ties survival to having a job. Micromanaging until someone has PTSD about issue trackers is violence.
All those forms of violence serve the privileged against the marginalized, though. I would love for workplaces to not institutionalize violence, but there's at least the vague and problematic fantasy of getting to participate equally in said violence.
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not serious hot take that hides a somewhat serious point behind its absurdism
I kind of wish workplace violence was at least a little bit OK. Like, you know, decking someone once and a while.
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I was recently asked to provide a quick opinion on a paper for a journal. One of the criteria the journal weighed heavily was whether or not the paper was "of broad interest to mathematicians in diverse fields".
Mathematics is so specialized at this point, that in my opinion, essentially zero papers meet this criterion. In recent years, I might list Yitang Zhang's work, or the discovery of aperiodic monotiles. Perhaps I am overly specialized myself, but I look at the titles of recent papers in non-field-specific mathematics journals, and I find no papers that look relevant to my work. Which is fine! Publishing papers that are big advances in their respective fields is great. But I would almost certainly be lying if I claimed that (in my opinion) any given modern paper in mathematics is of broad interest.
Is this a me problem?
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@researchfairy some days I wish I could just dedicate myself to a plain high contrast gtk 1.0 env based on macOS 9 usability and accessibility rules. We peaked in 2000 on interfaces
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Come join the fediverse! We got
- tech bro
- fossbro
- transfems, lots of transfems
- one of them is trying to port fedi software to a game console you haven't heard about in 20 years
- the chilliest transmascs and nonbinaries around
- the shitposter
- new creatures not yet recognized by the science committee
- incomprehensible horrors of federation
- insanely large emojis
food mention, hilariously weird (2)
This was the same frozen food discounter whose previous business model was "here's a bunch of dates, times and addresses at industrial parks where our truck will be, show up with cash and you will get one (1) box of miscellanous frozen food", to give you an idea of the kind of outfit that this was
food mention, hilariously weird
Reminded of that time I ordered a bunch of food from a frozen food discounter, they turned up for the delivery, went "the one thing was out of stock, would you like this other thing instead that I have a few boxes of in the van?"
And then when I said that I wasn't sure if I would like the flavour, they opened a box of it *then and there* so that I could sample it and decide, and took it back into their van and just refunded the money instead when I indicated that I didn't like it
- 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
