Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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Wizards of the Coast did as they promised, and released a System Reference Document (that is, the basic rules and game mechanics) for the 2024 edition of Dungeons & Dragons under an extremely open Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) licence.
D&D isn't necessarily the game for *you*, but it *is* historically significant and still extremely popular, and I think it's cool that any part of it is available under such a licence.
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With both #Eurovision and the Papal conclave happening in May, it’s gonna be a big month for Europeans who love overly complex, confusing and dramatic ways to select a winner that are run by international bureaucracies, include smoke for dramatic effect and feature excessively extra outfits
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@anildash Several years ago we created a man-in-the-middle system - basically a two port Ethernet bridge - that implemented what we called a "constipation engine".
It would recognize an incoming TCP connection and based on supplied criteria would distinguish between connections to be allowed and those to be constipated.
The TCP constipation manipulated the TCP window size parameters so that from the attacker's point of view a TCP connection would be open and in a connected state but the data flow would be a trickle. Thus a web page fetch, nominally very fast could span many minutes, even hours,
Most attackers, driven by software not people, would not notice this slow down of data delivery to a few bytes every few seconds.
Although this would not stop web scraping it would slow the attacker to a crawl, likely preventing it from ever finishing its scraping or moving on to other victims.
The cost for the website was basically some TCP state control blocks in memory and very little CPU or network I/O burden.
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So far on #EarthDay walk, I’ve seen Lilac, Periwinkle & Lavender flowers! It is really cool to meet the namesakes of our human colors. 💜
I was amazed when I met Fuscia a few years ago!!
Do you have any favorite color-namesakes? Please tell or show me about the pretty things
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6 years later and I still wonder what happened to this door I encountered in an abandoned building to make it look like that
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The camera is monitoring a smoldering log pile but it caught a groundhog taking a moment to appreciate the sunset
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Wij eisen een einde aan misleidende frames. NOS, Wees Eerlijk! Bij persvrijheid hoort verantwoordelijkheid. Zaterdag 31 mei 12.00 uur: bezetting mediapark voor het NOS-kantoor.
Nieuwssites en kranten e.d. hebben nogal de neiging om de oorzaak van incidenten en rampen helemaal weg te laten uit de berichtgeving, waardoor je geen verbanden kunt leggen.
En als je ze daar dan op aanspreekt, dan is het excuus "ja maar de oorzaak weten we niet met zekerheid op het moment van publicatie".
Waarom publiceer je er dan uberhaupt over?! Wat is de toegevoegde waarde van je nieuwsartikel voor de maatschappij dan nog, als je zelf ook nog geen idee hebt wat er aan de hand is of welke lessen je daaruit kunt trekken?
uspol, autism
RFK Jr does not genuinely believe that they will find "the cause of autism" by September, nor is there any intention to do so. They understand perfectly well that that's not possible.
It's just a pretext so that when they make up some eugenics bullshit in September, it'll sound more credible because now people will believe that it came from "science".
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WordPress meta and safety
Boosting with cw. Includes themes of harassment.
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lmfaooo turns out the "software terminated" phone number from the ps1 modchip detection still works and while they do take a bit to find the info they actually still tell you to remove the modchip when calling them
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“Separate the art from the artist” is an idea from literary criticism: it’s about giving you permission to talk about what the art _does_ without having to argue about whether the artist _intended_ that effect.
It’s not a moral framework! It doesn’t say anything about how to feel about buying a product, art or otherwise, that supports creators with odious opinions.
It’s not incongruent to be totally subscribed to the Death of the Author and also not want to buy any Harry Potter stuff.
hot take, social media
I think social-media-as-a-service has done far more damage to society than even public commentators recognize; because it has deprived an entire generation of learning both how to build community yourself, and why that is an important and necessary thing to know.
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"Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.
Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date GNU/Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.
Installing an OS may sound difficult, but you don't have to go it alone! With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!"
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Something that keeps bothering me is how there's seemingly no good answers in UI design.
There's high variation in whether people find light or dark themes easier to read. Familiar UI is easier to adopt, but restricts the ability to experiment with new UI mechanisms that could exceed familiarity's benefit in how much easier something becomes to use.
And so the logical conclusion of those sorts of things would be that "UIs should be swappable" but then you just end up at a different version of the problem: having a generic high-level API restricts the experimentation you can do with a UI, yet allowing direct access to internals interferes with long-term maintenance and reliability.
It's immensely frustrating. There's just two evils to pick from at every turn.
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wireless earbuds evolved dark colors in order to avoid predators locating them if they’re ever accidentally dropped on the floor
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i think instead of machine algorithms controlled by corpos we should go back to using tags or creating things like playlists but for people you want to follow
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Op zondag 27 april geven we weer demonstraties van de radiotelescoop Dwingeloo. Op het programma staat altijd live-signaal van onze 'huispulsar' B0329+54, meestal een ver sterrenstelsel, een supernovarestant of gewoon de zon. De ruimte is beperkt, dus reserveren is nodig, via https://www.camras.nl
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
