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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- 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
I am a
taxpayer
And I would like to
receive smaller mountains of physical mail from the tax authority
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You survive emergencies through mutual aid. Survival bunkers are cool but what you really need is a group of people to work with and plans in place
it doesn't matter how long running out of food takes if ya ain't setting things up to get more
CW-boost: intimidatie door politie
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why is the Fediverse Chick DMing me asking for my opinion about Lockheed Martin pride socks
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ACAB
weather is weird today.
the trees were blooming just yesterday and the temperature was 20C.
today it's snowing.
it's bizzare seeing trees with green buds and pink flowers be drenched in snow
For supposedly stabby plants, raspberry plants don't seem to be very stabby - I could handle them with my bare hands just fine?
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The Super Printendo deserves a place on the fediverse. 
Image credit: @jamhamster.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jamhamster.bsky.social/post/3lj3sjr2qa227
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EUpol
I might flesh these thoughts out a bit more in a blog post in the near future, but only if I have time. I think leftist commentary on what the EU does is in sad short supply in the last decade+
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The EU has decided on dealing with necropolitics in multiple ways. Doubling down on the old world order and a (popular! Even on the so called "left") devotion to neocolonialism and white supremacy. The popular narrative you must have seen is that the Moloch of the United States army is retreating from the continent, and so we must "pick up arms" and re-arm to become more ready for the threats of tomorrow. But have you considered what that materially means? What this money is being put to and what effects those things tend to have on societies. The EU is basically claiming that it wants to (at least partially) take over the mantle of world police, pump more money into its own military industrial complex, and grow its power projection globally. But it cannot grow its recruitment easily, most armies in the EU are professional volunteer armies, so unless they want to reinstate the draft I don't see how manpower will increase. So techno gadgets it is I suppose, tools of more destruction, devotion to at best blowing up our own resources. A society funded from the top to incentivize people working on machines of death directly or indirectly. And a huge incentive to go down the road the US has already tread, impoverishment to lead people into the pipeline to work for the military.
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UPDATE: there is a blender plugin that fully automates this process
extensions.blender.org/add-ons/ikea-browser/
so it's even easier!
thanks to @schrottkatze for making it aware of this
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scraping models from ikea is actually easier than this one expected:
1. open the network tab of the web inspector on the ikea site, set it to media (this is in firefox but it assumes chromium-based things have a simiilar tool)
2. open the page for the product and open the 3d view, then save the result of the request for a glb file that happens when opening the 3d view
3. open in blender
it even imports with textures and materials, properly scaled, and everything
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Decades of media about lone saviors stepping up in the moment of deepest need has really not aged well.
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The nice thing about using a simple string-based light flickering system from the 90's is that you can share patterns really easily, across completely different engines. Here's one from Kitsune Tails in UE (thanks to @eniko)
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Predicting a bubble burst is notoriously hard. Shilling’s adage “markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” is popular for a reason. Pretending that the AI Bubble is unusually hard to predict serves no purpose except to protect the egos of those prone to spurious prediction
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HostEurope, a formerly European web and e-mail hosting provider acquired by GoDaddy in 2016, just informed its customers that it will move their IMAP folders and everything e-mail to Microsoft's MS365 offer.
This move does not only incur additional fees for many customers – it also raises privacy concerns.
We recommend you empty all of your IMAP folders now and move your e-mail (domains) to one of the trustworthy e-mail services listed here: https://switching.software/replace/gmail/
Trademarks used by HostEurope Group include 123-reg, Webfusion, Heart Internet, BrandFortress, Host Europe, Domainbox, Domainmonster, Domainfactory, DonHost, Sign-Up.to, velia.net and RedCoruna. Their users might also be affected.
PS: HostEurope has published the following FAQ:
https://www.hosteurope.de/faq/migration/email-migration/allgemeines#en
https://www.hosteurope.de/faq/migration/email-migration/vertragliches#en
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My neurodivergent plea:
If you would like me to do something, please tell me the thing that you would like me to do AND that you would like me to do it. If relevant, specify when you would like the thing done.
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@ryanboswell now I read something a while back about “right wing prepping” (doing it along to save yourself) vs “left wing prepping” (doing it as a community to help out each other). And I guess you could apply that to the self hosting movement as well 🤔
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Fire code is a scam invented to forbid cool architectural features such as secret rooms, hidden passages, and labyrinthine layouts
- 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
