Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @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.
- 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
(Previously: the PLA-in-teabags stuff, them seemingly having removed ceylon from the Yellow Label tea, the supposedly 'forest fruit' tea actually being red fruit and the forest fruit apparently not being available anymore, the earl grey being bitter garbage, the orange tea no longer tasting like it used to...)
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also haiku's wm is heckin amazing and i love it, haven't seen anything like it on linux. it's floating but it's possible to stack them together and switch using those tabs on top
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why must partition labels and filesystem labels be seperate
I have to say, Pewdiepie's video on Linux was... a lot better than I had expected.
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i need advertisers to understand that putting an asterisk on a claim looks so insanely suspicious that they would've been better off not making the claim
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Me Thurs:
Ug I am so burned out, I'm going on brain rest for a month!
Me Fri:
*does a bunch of stuff anyway*
Me Sat:
Ug why am I still so tired!?
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to be honest a solid 80% of my problems socializing are due to this. even when around people who say what they mean I just do not believe them
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i think it is high time that the fosstodon owner hand over ownership to someone with some awareness of the world we live in beyond the white male cishet paradigm.
seriously. this is like the third time in a year or so that they've displayed a disdain for anyone not like them. foh dude.
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Here’s the one thing doctors genuinely don’t tell you about transition:
It’s worth it. It’s so fucking worth it. And statistically if you want to do it, it has the lowest regret rate of almost any medical change.
Yes. Even now. Even when it’s scarier than it’s been in decades.
It’s still worth it
In fairness, this is the now-in-the-garage cabinet unit that used to be part of the house, and about which the landlord rep commented (5 years ago!) "I'm surprised it hasn't fallen apart yet, I think you're the only one with one of these that's still intact"
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So this was fantastic last time I asked: Tell me something good that's happened recently, something that made you smile.
It can be as big as earning a degree or as small as meeting an adorable cat. Let's hear a little bit of positive that's going on in our lives!
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Being a software professional at the moment's a bit like being a doctor in a time when every hospital administrator believes the X--Ray specs they advertise in the back of newspapers actually work.
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"In 1743 opende Jacob Hooy een kruidenkraam op de Amsterdamse Nieuwmarkt. Hier begon, met de verkoop van kruiden en specerijen, de rijke historie van het bedrijf. En aan de firma kleeft niet alleen historie, maar ook een brok nostalgie. Nostalgie vooral naar het oude en vertrouwde handelen in kruiden."
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Lovely. Measuring a cabinet and finding that its depth varies by several centimeters depending on where you measure...
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"Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month" is factually true but leaves out the true story. It's not that people _want_ false AI summaries, it's just that a monopolist can do whatever. Google could add a cat picture to every search and then claim how their cat pictures now reach billions of people. It's not about the product that centered but the market dominance that isn't.
https://www.theverge.com/news/655930/google-q1-2025-earnings
"In 1743 opende Jacob Hooy een kruidenkraam op de Amsterdamse Nieuwmarkt. Hier begon, met de verkoop van kruiden en specerijen, de rijke historie van het bedrijf. En aan de firma kleeft niet alleen historie, maar ook een brok nostalgie. Nostalgie vooral naar het oude en vertrouwde handelen in kruiden."
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Just found a lovely new blog for my RSS reader and it wouldn't have happened if someone hadn't boosted a picture of a nonbinary cat furry staring at a CD
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The lovely home of a local radio station, encountered purely by chance in Broken Hill earlier this week.
#RoadTrip #BrokenHill #Radio #Buildings #Hipstamatic
#RoadTrip #BrokenHill #Radio #Buildings #Hipstamatic
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I would encourage every Fediverse software project to implement a “dead-man switch" on registrations: if nobody with moderator permissions has been active in the last week, then disable new account creation.
The Fediverse has a significant number of abandoned instances that are used by bad actors to create accounts and send spam.
We implemented this in Mastodon (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29318) and it has been highly effective.
- 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
