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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- 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
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Oh hey looks like pixelfed had a major post leak issue and the maintainer absolutely fucked up managing the security patch situation.
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I’ve taken to collecting antiquities. I’m starting my museum with this piece. I don’t have the money to acquire real artifacts so I’m inventing my own.
Actually, I put this clear box over our cordless phone out of frustration because the high pitched hum it emits drives me crazy. I intended it to be temporary, but I came to like the faux antiquity aspect of it.
I may start putting clear boxes over random objects just because.
One of my smaller fascinations is how nobody seems to know that PayPal is legally a bank under the regulatory authority of Luxembourg (and everyone thinks they're a PSP or so), even though they've been a bank for at least a decade
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rambling
It's sort of counterintuitive, but hating yourself a lot can lead to accidentally very selfish and callous behavior. Like, okay, you're not a person who is actively trying to do things for yourself and not care about other people, but to be a consequentialist for a moment the intent doesn't entirely matter.
What I mean is, like, okay if you don't think you have any value or impact on the world it's really easy to not have it occur to you that self-destructive things you do to yourself do in fact hurt other people. People can be harmed by seeing you suffer because that's how caring about people works.
That's sort of an obvious example but it also ends up being the more subtle things: you don't think reaching out to people can make a difference because who the fuck are you, you don't think disappearing is going to affect anyone because who would notice you gone.
I think what it comes down to is that it's really easy to unintentionally harm others if you don't see yourself as an active member of the web of connections that links everyone in the social graph together
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Anybody know of any full-size keyboards that have the numpad on the left and the nav cluster and arrow keys on the right?
All the left-handed keyboards I see move them both to the left.
I'm a righty, and I think it'd be cool to have my mouse closer to me, with the alphanumeric block in the center of the keyboard instead of on one end or the other.
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Questrial, designed by Joe Prince and Laura Meseguer
During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages the official ones. Many African languages still lack typographic support, making it hard to write them correctly due to missing letters and diacritics in most fonts.
In post-colonial times and to address the lack of open source fonts for African languages, @googlefonts gave me the task of expanding Questrial for that purpose
#AskFedi: what does your community need in terms of software, online services, or other 'digital tools' that isn't there yet? :boost_requested:
Ran across an interview with some dude who started a bank to "give back to the planet". The guy previously sold disposable cat litter bins.
"Giving back to the planet" my greenwashing ass.
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Pixelfed before v0.12.5 has a vulnerability where it could leak your private posts, regardless of whether you are a Pixelfed user or not.
Admins should update ASAP.
When following someone from a different server on the Fediverse, the remote server decides whether you are allowed to do that. This enables features like locked accounts. Due to an implementation mistake, Pixelfed ignores this and allows anyone to follow even private accounts on other servers. If a legitimate user from a Pixelfed instance follows you on your locked account, anyone on that Pixelfed instance can read your private posts.
I wrote a blog post about how I found the vulnerability, how disclosure coordination went and general ramblings about Fediverse safety:
https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html
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re: fashion, hand sewing, microplastics, plant-based textiles
According to the microplastics review of textiles on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2022.109901 :
> Bio-based cellulosic fibers such as cotton, viscose rayon, Lyocell and non-cellulosic fibers like poly lactic acid (PLA) are biodegradable; thus, they degrade in the environment much faster than synthetic fibers such as polyesterm
There are many other factors that impact how many microplastics you shed (e.g. top-loading washing maschines are ~7x harsher than front-loading). See the article for details.
Viscose (rayon/sabra silk/cactus silk) has the disadvantage of carbon disulfide pollution; lyocell is basically a less impactful way of making viscose. Cotton is an ok natural fibre and it's cheap and comfy, but it's terrible as functional wear due to absorbing way too much water, and the agriculture tends to be intensive, plus some of that distinct cheapness disappears if you try to guarantee it wasn't processed by Uyghur slaves.
Any of these are, in my estimation, much preferable to anything to do with polyester or plastics in general. So my order of preference would be:
local natural fibers (linen, hemp, nettles) > cotton > lyocell > viscose >> polyester/PET/nylon/etc.
cotton is particularly dangerous if wet when the weather is cold, or wet when it's hot and moist. (it can actually be helpful in dry heat). lyocell is probably the best alternative to synthetic sportswear if you don't want to or cannot use linen, for example for sports bras or gym leggings.
oh and 100% plant latex is biodegradable, though the extraction industry can be sketchy. but could be an excellent alternative if you're not allergic and need a tough waterproof layer, traditionally in stuff like motorcycle jackets or rain boots; but it's not breathable at all and I wouldn't like, hike in a latex jacket.
there's no good substitute for outdoor wear that is not made of animals or plastic. rationally speaking the best alternative is to buy used pieces of wool and leather in the aftermarket, so you don't add demand to their terrible industries; but handling the products of animal abuse makes me depressed, and plus if this becomes a thing that lots of people do, the aftermarket becomes part of the demand, too. the most ecological alternative is to move somewhere you don't need to worry about hypothermia that much.
realistically speaking I'll just continue to wear the synthetic outer layers I already have in winter. at least outer layers have to be washed rarely, so the microplastic shedding gets minimised. it's that or getting into oilcloths…
linen has a reputation as a summer fiber but the same properties that make it so great for summer also work fantastic as natural base layers in winter. I've also worn it aesthetically as a second layer over thermal underclothes. I haven't found attempts to make it warm or wind-resistant by doing thick and tight weaves like ventile. the way it's usually sold, it will be fully breathable and quick-drying, but neither wind- nor waterproof. (but notice that the hardcore hikers and backpackers will recommend you to pick quick-drying clothes over trying to achieve full waterproofness. a windproof layer remains important.)
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@mcc see: https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html
> As a part of the horsetrading, we had to make some changes to SSL 3.0 (so it wouldn't look the IETF was just rubberstamping Netscape's protocol), and we had to rename the protocol (for the same reason). And thus was born TLS 1.0 (which was really SSL 3.1). And of course, now, in retrospect, the whole thing looks silly.
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really, Amazon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch_(software)
two totally different software projects by the same company under the same name
I think the tax authority legitimately sends me more physical mail than *every other sender combined*
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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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?
- 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
