Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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
Doing lots of sowing of plants today. Window sills are getting full!
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Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension that trains a machine vision model on the contents of my screen without my consent, making the whole machine too hot to touch, and I am once again begging someone, anyone, to remove Chrome from Google by any means necessary.
Sowieso moet het eens klaar zijn met die visexpedities ("grote veiligheidscontroles") van politie. Het zal ongetwijfeld goed zijn voor het boetequotum, maar het doet nul komma niks voor de structurele veiligheid en fungeert vooral als manier voor agenten om eens even lekker los te gaan met hun macht.
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that may be your experience, but the stopped clock machine has been right or close enough in my personal testing and the benchmarks
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My new hobby: when I see a white dude (yes, he's always white, and always a dude) whining about people being wrong for blocking people too much, I block him.
Block blockity.
Chard is a magical vegetable, it seems. Its leaves substitute spinach, its stems substitute asparagus and such, you can continuously harvest it and it just regrows, the planting is "whatever, as long as there's vaguely some sun somewhere", and in some cases it'll even continue growing through winter
"Zo'n honderd controleurs van de NS en politiemensen hebben donderdag meegedaan aan een grote veiligheidscontrole. [...] Hij stapt op de trein naar Vlissingen en komt bij controles van alles tegen. "Bedelaars, [...]"
Dit soort shit is dus wat mensen bedoelen met "criminaliseren van armoede". Of je ondersteunt die mensen eens, in plaats van ze als 'veiligheidsprobleem' te behandelen. Klootzakken.
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Kijk eens aan de @gemeenteamsterdam is lekker bezig: https://www.amsterdam.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/digitale-onafhankelijkheid/
Zaten er maar meer onderdelen van de gemeente op hun mastodon server. 🙏
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Any tech that 80% works, but is 15% meh, and 5% catastrophic will fill the air with overwhelmingly positive case studies, the "meh" crowd won't be motivated to say anything because they think they're the exception, and the rest will be too busy digging themselves out of the rubble to say much if anything
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Telling. Quantity of male versus female dialogue in best picture films of recent decades
(by @puddingviz)
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Someone is trying to impersonate me on telegram reaching out to my followers who are interested in commissioning me.
🚨 please be aware this is not me! It’s a scam trying to get people to pay for commissions they’ll never receive.
I am not on telegram
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if you're a student and you're not using LLMs just stick with it you are going to be running absolute mental circles around your peers by the time you graduate
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heat kills magnets
electricity heats up the stuff it flows through
and it was today i finally figured out why electrical motors and speakers “burn out”
It occurs to me that 'meritocracy' is just the divine right, but for capitalists - if the system is currently the dominant one, then that must be "because god ordained it so" / "because it was the best system and therefore rose to the top", and therefore it is above criticism
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surnames
it's kind of amazing to see just how rigid the cultural assumption of "people always have a first and last name" really is…
like, buddy. you are trying to extract blood from a stone. there is no surname, only Tully.
if you insist that I enter a last name I will type a dot.
if you insist that it has to be a letter it will be T, for Tully.
if you insist that it needs to have more than one letter, I will enter my last name as Tully, because it is the last word of my name.
if you insist that the two need to be different then I will curse your fucking website to hell and choose not to spend money with you.
if for some reason I cannot avoid using your product or service, I will enter something absolutely baffling into your dataset like "Rev. Vismund Cygnus XVIII" and I will sneak nonprinting Unicode characters into as many weird places as possible to make you suffer.
I promise, your e-commerce site does not need separate first/last fields; you need a delivery address and a billing name.
that's it.
piss off.
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totally normal thing to happen in 2025:
I have plenty of tractor-feed printer paper, but no copy paper for my laser printer.
Ratchet & Plank
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Surely the Eurotunnel has got to be the train line with the most road surface per train
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The idea that some tech company is being benevolent by "giving you a platform for your community" while pocketing the ad money themselves to supposedly "keep the servers running"...
... really isn't any meaningfully different from the myth that employers are benevolent by "giving you a job" and you should be glad to have it, when in reality it's *your* labour that sustains them.
The 'platform economy', especially where it involves people voluntarily creating media and content on those platforms, is just the same old worker exploitation with a new coat of paint.
If it were truly about 'supporting communities', then the platform wouldn't be run by a for-profit company.
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You may remember the trailcam footage of a porcupine that hated getting its paws wet in the small woodland stream we have on the property. So my wife built a tiny bridge which it promptly started using.
Since then a bunch of furry friends have used the bridge, often going out of their ways to get across.
So enjoy this little skunk crossing the “mighty river.” 😊
- 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
