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.
- 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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here’s my first swing at using darktable for editing, what do you think?
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Am fops? 
I'm remembering back to a hilarious jank 'fix' we had to do for some Microsoft Surface tablets that ended up in a stuck state. The devices would be totally unresponsive to any button combinations, and charging wouldn't help.
So my coworkers at the repair shop came up with an idea, and put it into practice. They found a looping disc tray eject script (all the machines we built had disc drives just in case), and they would prop up and mount the surface in front of the disc tray such that the tray would push on the tablet's sleep/wake/power button over and over. The next day we would try plugging in a charger and turning it on. If it didn't turn on, it would go through the cycle for another day.
Most of the time when these Surface devices were undamaged and otherwise looked fine, this stupid little fix would actually bring devices in this state back to life after a day or two. My theory is that the SMC gets a brain freeze, and it needs the battery to be TOTALLY drained before it gets kicked out of that stuck state.
We would generally see this on Surface models between 3rd and 7th gen.
So my coworkers at the repair shop came up with an idea, and put it into practice. They found a looping disc tray eject script (all the machines we built had disc drives just in case), and they would prop up and mount the surface in front of the disc tray such that the tray would push on the tablet's sleep/wake/power button over and over. The next day we would try plugging in a charger and turning it on. If it didn't turn on, it would go through the cycle for another day.
Most of the time when these Surface devices were undamaged and otherwise looked fine, this stupid little fix would actually bring devices in this state back to life after a day or two. My theory is that the SMC gets a brain freeze, and it needs the battery to be TOTALLY drained before it gets kicked out of that stuck state.
We would generally see this on Surface models between 3rd and 7th gen.
Also feel free to respond if you *used to* use something like Patreon, but don't anymore!
If you use something like Patreon to fund your projects (whether art, technical, or otherwise), or any other form of "regular donations by individual people for the stuff you do", I want to hear from you:
What is it like for you? Do you prefer it over a salaried job? Why or why not? What are the stress factors, and are they better or worse than the other options you have available for income?
(Please answer also if you don't get enough donations to replace other forms of income, including if you have a salaried job *in addition to* your donations! I just want to get a feel for how folks experience the differences)
From the StackOverflow blog:
"While many of you have been vocal about being tired about hearing about AI, it’s clear that the folks with the money aren’t getting tired of investing in it. On the podcast, I talk to people every week who are finding a niche for genAI"
Well, I guess StackOverflow is done pretending that they care about anyone but the rich people?
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Matrix moderation, Element
Here are some things that Element could have done years ago to mitigate the abuse issues, but didn't:
- Move invites to a queue that is not visible or attention-grabbing by default
- Homeserver-level support for subscribing to shared ACLs
- Protocol-level support for synchronizing ACLs across rooms in a space
- Track associations between media files and the messages they are referenced from, so that they can be automatically removed alongside their messages
- Automatically hide images from newly-joined users behind a spoiler tag
All of these are viable from a technical perspective, most of them were suggested years ago already, and this list is not exhaustive either.
Think about this next time you see Element talking about how much work they've been doing on safety and how there's just not many things left that they can do.
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awful matrix spam, mentions of CSAM, rant
"No way to prevent this", says only chat platform where this fucking spam keeps happening without anyone being able to do anything worthwhile about it. "Just use room-level moderation bots lol". I can only clear my homeserver's media so much.
This shit that I am unable to do anything about is why I am shutting down my Matrix homeserver soon.
To everyone responsible for the shitshow that is making Matrix be unable to be properly moderated, and for proper shitlists to be created for homeserver admins to use: Fuck you. This is your fault, and it's a personal failure on your behalf.
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@elilla 
, yeah. I feel this one.
one minute I'm gleefully infodumping to an interested listener… the next, my brain emits the "holy shit, how long have we been at this? abort!" signal and I leave both of us unfulfilled.
it truly sucks, and only gradual positive reinforcement will ever break that pattern.
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Back when I still had a happy innocent life and didn't know what git was, I used to think that a pull request was a request to pull a bit of code from a piece of software
pull as in remove
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Once again thinking about how so many developers are failing to learn valuable lessons about performance/efficiency and dependency systems from the JS ecosystem, because they're too invested in shittalking JS to actually try and understand how anything works *and why*
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youtube playlist link re: alt-right tactics
"The Alt-Right Playbook," by Innuendo Studios.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ
The topics discussed here are not unique to the alt-right in the so-called United States of America, but that sociopolitical environment is used as the basis for the majority of comparisons to modern politics.
Edit: Unfortunately, Innuendo Studios is now on hiatus due to capitalism. https://youtu.be/vlf8c8SV39o
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Hey. Furries.
Watch this.
The integrity of our fandom depends on being able to identify this bullshit for what it is and *stop it.*
(If your first response to this is something along the lines of "there's nothing to learn" or "yes the valuable lesson is that JS is bad", then I am talking about you here, and I ask that you sit and think for a moment about *why* that was your response)
Once again thinking about how so many developers are failing to learn valuable lessons about performance/efficiency and dependency systems from the JS ecosystem, because they're too invested in shittalking JS to actually try and understand how anything works *and why*
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re: nonsense with more misinfo
@networkexception thumbs.db was created bij Microsoft after a ruling of the European Commission to increase competition
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nonsense
The .DS_Store and /nix/store duopoly
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Currently in a mood where "Through the Fire and Flames" doesn't have a high enough BPM to scratch my brain just right
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going through more old magazine scans - found this that I'd found a very beat-up brochure scan from the launch of the original TGV of so I spent a few hours cleaning it up in Photoshop so I could make it into a poster for myself. never did, of course, because that would require me living in one place for more than eight months, but someday maybe.
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ACAB
incels
i find it funny how gymbros with bulky roided muscles get pissed off that a lot of women like androgynous looking Kpop idols and then complain about the 'downfall of masculinity' as copium because they didn't get attention from women
- 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
