Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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Wat zou het mooi zijn als mensen zouden beseffen dat je woorden niet zomaar letterlijk moet vertalen, omdat 't dan vaak niet meer klopt.
Tariffs zijn niet "tarieven", een paragraph is niet een "paragraaf", een bolt is niet noodzakelijk een "bout" en een screw niet altijd een "schroef". En zo voort.
Ik overweeg een lijstje te maken. Welke Engelstalige woorden die vaak foutief letterlijk vertaald worden, moeten daar nog meer bij?
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to any academics who want their work to outlast their current hype cycle, the next publisher downsizing, or government book burning:
make your work available for free.
as a PDF or HTML document (or, fine, JATS)
from a URL that requires no login or javascript to access.
having your work only available behind some heinous publisher paywall or 'enhanced reader' is a straightforward statement that you don't care about your work being part of the shared pursuit of human understanding. it is, in fact, your job to make sure that your work available.
sincerely, someone trying to preserve your work.
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I've also hacked together a rough dirt sieve from skewers and metal wire, to remove branches and roots and such from soil before I reuse it for something else
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Today, I've made a Gridfinity paint tube holder, for the cheap tubes of paint sold at Action (that still didn't have a place of storage here)
CW-boost: uspol, important advice on dealing with, well, everything
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Mocht je aanvoelen dat jouw onderwijs- of onderzoeksinstelling op het randje staat om X te verlaten maar nog geen weg weten te vinden naar #Mastodon, misschien dat de community server social.edu.nl van @SURF ze over de streep helpt om het uit te proberen.
Op LinkedIn zou je ze kunnen wijzen op een post waar we aangeven dat er al 37 instellingen toegang hebben voor al hun studenten, onderzoekers en medewerkers! Wie weet is dat net het steuntje dat ze nodig hebben!
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wladimirmufty_mastodon-makesocialssocialagain-onderwijs-activity-7286362521651871744-xysD
We're probably all familiar with the "tech youtuber turns out to be a fascist shithead" thing (which happens way too often), but it's nice to also highlight the opposite for once: I've found TechAltar to be good people, from their posts I've seen floating by.
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@joepie91 hear hear! I have the same experience at a Jenaplan school. The teachers knew their students and knew what their strengths and their pace were. They assigned work accordingly. And there was great freedom in planning, and the teachers were always available for instruction and questions.
There was also plenty of time left for reading comics or chatting on the classroom sofa, playing music, rehearsing dances, tinkering, board games and taking care of or playing with the classroom pet (ours was a grey rabbit called Charles)
And never ever did we have homework. Maybe some research for a project.
CW-boost: uspol, abuser tactics
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@joepie91 (this, but with about 90% of current tech and software)
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It occurs to me, there's nothing wrong with my brain.
I would thrive in a slow, gentle world focused on candor and justice with lots of quiet, natural environments to chill and let deep thoughts unfold.
I just happen to be terribly wired for a society that's pretty much going off the rails in all directions.
#autismAwarenessMonth #autismAcceptanceMonth #actuallyAutistic
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MP3 is the GIF of audio codecs
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I know this sounds like a joke, but homework is lowkey child torture, especially in households where parents aren’t great at teaching.
And if “homework isn’t that much work, idiot” then they should just do that in school, like all the other learning. Slap another hour onto school, and everyone would be happier.
What I want is #NixOS but run by people who actually care about other people, and not just about computers
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Er zullen nog 3 weekenden zonder treinen van/naar/via Rotterdam Centraal volgen op 8/9 november 2025, 13/14 juni 2026 en 7/8 november 2026.
Prorail gaat het EBS Interlocking treinbeveiligingssysteem vervangen, dat na 25 jaar technisch afgeschreven is. EBS staat voor Elektronische Beveiliging Simis (Sicheres Mikrocomputersysteem Siemens)
There will be another 3 weekends without trains to/from/via Rotterdam Centraal on 8/9 November 2025, 13/14 June 2026 and 7/8 November 2026.
ProRail is replacing the EBS Interlocking train protection system that is technical obsolete after 25 years of service.
More info in Dutch: https://www.prorail.nl/projecten/rotterdam-treinbeveiligingssysteem
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TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:
Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!
Als je wel eens een moestuin hebt gehad, dan ken je heermoes waarschijnlijk wel, en hoe lastig die plant te bestrijden is.
Ik had er hier zelf ook last van, heb me even ingelezen (en geleerd dat het alleen groeit op voedingsarme grond en voeding diep uit de bodem naar boven haalt), en een experimentje gedaan: ik heb het hoog laten groeien, in de herfst allemaal gemaaid met een grasmaaier en vervolgens gewoon de hele winter laten liggen.
Het idee is dat de voedingsstoffen weer terug in de (oppervlakte)bodem kunnen lopen naarmate de plant verteert, en dat het ook beschutting levert voor allerlei bodemdieren die de bodem weer gezond maken. Oftewel, de heermoes herstelt de bodemkwaliteit.
En het heeft gewerkt: er is geen heermoes meer in mijn tuin te vinden. Het is weg. Dat was alles wat er voor nodig was; het gewoon even z'n werk laten doen.
- 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
