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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TIL that the 'Daleks In Colour' mix of the Delia Derbyshire Doctor Who theme has the Pertwee title sequence in the spectrogram.
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today I set all the git repositories on my personal forgejo server to private because llm crawlers were thrashing my server
when you ask chatgpt a silly question to see the silly answer, or prompt midjourney or whatever for a funny image, or use copilot or claude to vibe code, you are complicit in this
It kind of baffles me how I've tried to get Storybundle to send me e-mails about new bundles several times now, and I am still not getting any.
"Not getting the spam I asked for" sure is a new one for me
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is there a nice tool to expose an arbitrary bitmap over VNC?
wonder how long it will take until exposure on VNC resolver
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𝕛𝕦𝕝𝕖𝕤 
The year is 2098.
Nobody knows anymore what an arch or a linux is, but for historical reasons it still is the only wiki documenting operating systems accurately
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I’m just saying that if you think you can’t do shit because it’s “too weird,” nothing you can do will ever be as weird as the fact that we all exist at the same time together.
Do your weird little thing, friend.
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how do i explain to 18th century alchemist that turning lead into gold is not possible but turning plastic gloves into grape soda is
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Boven klinkt geloei.
En geluid van deurklink.
En gefrustreerd geklaag.
Diederik blijft proberen de slaapkamerdeur open te krijgen.
Want ooit, in tijden van Horizontale Klink, kon hij dat. Als een bruin hopje hing hij aan de klink, en duwde de deur open met zijn voeten.
Die tijden zijn voorbij.
Tijden van Verticale Klink braken aan.
Erop springen kan, maar Grootsch Wegglijden is het gevolg.
Hij heeft het heel moeilijk.
Dus er klinkt boven geloei.
En geluid van klink.
En gefrustreerd geklaag.
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De hele week dacht ik 'Oh ja, waxinelichtjes, moet ik in mijn mandje gooien!'
Vandaag komen de boodschappen.
Zonder de lichtjes.
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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
What is it with almost all temperature-controlled kettles being so expensive? A temperature sensor and PCB don't cost anywhere near that much, and that's the only meaningful difference with a non-temperature-controlled kettle...
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The old Canon fd 35mm/3.5 also seems to add a bit of yellow tint to images which has some very nice characters
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The web version of Outlook that my university runs now auto-corrects '1st' and '2nd' by making not the last but the first two symbols into superscript. Brilliant programming, guys. 😂
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this is the correct attitude for open source projects. free software is political.
https://forum.yunohost.org/t/am-i-hacked-or-is-this-something-new/36203/14
eten (vegan)
Nou, de plantaardige grillworst van de Albert Heijn is dus niet voor herhaling vatbaar.
De plantaardige eiersalade, daarentegen, is fantastisch!
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Matrix, criticism of criticism, negative
I'm fine with the criticism of #Matrix on Fediverse, I do that sometimes myself in private rooms or sometimes blog posts, but holy shit, I wish that criticism didn't have as much toxicity and misinformation in it as it currently have.
On one hand there are Matrix fans who unconditionally scream how great Matrix is and can solve all world problems, and on the other there are nostalgia gremlins praising IRC over high heavens as an alternative to commercial platforms like Discord for literally everyone because Matrix is "literally unusable" or something.
Both groups are delusional IMO.
CW-boost: uspol, stock market
CW-boost: uspol, catholicism
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Did you know the InterCity 225 is retrofitted with eink reservation displays?
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If you pay for a single from Apple Music, you get an m4a that doesn't contain album art.
But when I play it in the Apple Music player it has album art.
No. It doesn't. They do a lookup of the album art in the Music player. The actual file doesn't have the album art.
You'll need to steal their album art from somwhere else, and then run:
ffmpeg -i input.m4a -i image.jpg -c copy -disposition:v attached_pic output4.m4a
Purchasing music is such pain these days 
I've been trying to purchase music from all my favorite bands for days now, and it's so spread out across so many platforms, if you can even download it at all, and then even if you do, you're not guaranteed all the bells and whistles of what makes a song recognizable in your mp3 player or app. You still need to do stuff yourself.
I want to tell people to do the right thing and purchase music, but jfc, this is an unfederated segmented shitscape...
- 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
