Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @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.
- 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
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extremely impressed with me tapping my 
OV-chipkaart on the reader and my watch instantly vibrating with the journey summary and price. TfL could never!
uspol, "hacker" "news"
Oh hey, even the HN crowd seems to have finally caught onto the fact that the people controlling the US government are fascists. Or some of them have, anyway
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they should make an internet that's usable on a quad core 1.5 ghz processor with only 4 gigs of ram without grinding the entire system to a halt
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you know when i was a teen a 1.5 ghz 4 core cpu with 4 GiB of ram would have been an absolute monster of a computer. the rpi's gpu would still have been complete dog shit by our standards back then though. i've never seen a computer struggle to run kobo deluxe before
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seriously bums me out to see these specs be absolute garbage tier. hardware keeps getting faster and faster but software is just a race to the bottom now
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If you roll your eyes at people asking you not to use ableist slurs and don't really get what the big deal is about 'whatever ableism is' anyway and think we're all just over-sensitive or some shit and tend to skip past threads talking about why you shouldn't be ableist, yeah this one's for you. Read up, fucker.
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You know how in Minecraft many mobs have an idle component that makes them wander to random nearby positions without purpose
I have that too
I can understand people being snarky or a smartass about things sometimes, but what I don't understand is people who do that about something they got so wrong that even a cursory internet search would disprove them.
Like, if you're going to be snarky about being right, you should probably make sure you actually *are* right, first
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De achtste en laatste voorronde van de #groteKleinLeedVerkiezing! Wat is voor jou het kleinste leed?
Put the 3D model for the paint storage bins online here: https://www.printables.com/model/1260340-gridfinity-12ml-paint-tube-holder
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new strategy for internet searches: start with "before:2000 your query here" and walk the year forward until you find results that are useful
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I saw a post recommending adding "before:2022" to google image searches to remove ai sludge from the results, but I experimentally used "before:2009" instead on some regular searches and found that it is also really good at just purging a lot of seo sludge too. You'll still get the terrible "ai overview" butting in on a regular search, but it doesn't seem to inject ads at least.
EDIT: it'll still add product listings for some queries :/
CW-boost: uspol, funny
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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Normalize fucking exploding headquarters of corporations with a fucking nuke
(in cyberpunk)
(in cyberpunk)
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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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
- 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
