Sven Slootweg @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.
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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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TBD (.camp) has started, already excellent vibes, nice talks and workshops. Very chill.
https://tbd.camp and the program on https://2025.tbd.camp/
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Couldn't remember the word 'rearing' so just looked up 'what's it called when your horse does a wheelie' and got spotted so I suspect that one's going to get brought up a lot in my future
Just discovered that the interactive map for #WHY2025 already contains all the food trucks... in clickable form, with the exact menus with pricing and dietary information already available! Looks like some of the dietary labeling still needs some work, but this is a great start.
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why the fuck does jaws cost more than a goddamn computer. why do i have to call someone on a landline during business hours like it’s 1997 to qualify for a license that doesn’t completely fuck me. why is the only thing between me and a usable system a goddamn dealer. it’s a screen reader, not meth.
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Kunnen we nu, meteen, direct ophouden met de termen “een illegaal”, “illegalen” etcetera? HET ZIJN MENSEN
https://mastodon.nl/@volkskrant/114794520779593392
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This is excellent advice which everyone should take.
It is also the one piece of advice I have the most trouble with.
So many half-finished projects. I can name at least 20 off the top of my head.
Something new always comes along and brain insists on working on it instead. AuDHD is powerful.
It feels kind of ironic that there are tools for automatically generating "changelogs" from Git commits, using the keepachangelog format - when the very first text on the keepachangelog website is "Don’t let your friends dump git logs into changelogs."
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Look guys, and it is the guys I'm aiming that "guys" at, specifically the cis straight ones.
When you arrive on Mastodon for the first time don't start by sliding into my DMs "hoping to be friends.". Please don't, we don't do that here.
Fill in your profile and start posting some things about you.
Because otherwise I am going to find it creepy and block you. My reasons are my own, but these two posts may give an inkling as to why.
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this is such a petty thing but I almost relish calling companies that pay for linkspam on Mastodon.
"Hi there! So I run a server for queer BDSM enthusiasts, and I wanted to ask about your recent posting on our site..."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Well, we had this account join, claiming to be into gay BDSM, and it's posting links to your content--oh, of course you wouldn't do that directly, but your SEO subcontractors..."
"Ah, er, yes, we'll get to the bottom of this"
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What virtual KVM for Mac OS do you use and do you like it? I currently use Synergy and I find it super glitchy so I’m trying to scope out alternatives.
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Went up the local community cafe today to work on commissions over a coffee.
While I was there I heard them lamenting that the sweet jar labels, which are written in white paint on the glass jars, are rubbing off and looking a bit scraggy, and wondering what to do instead.
Me: Hey! I'm a calligrapher!
Them: OMFG
Anyway they have calligraphed labels for their sweet jars now, will grab a photo as soon as they've laminated them and put them up :)
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I hate it so much that covid conspiracies have made ivermectin inaccessible to what it excels at 
friends tell me that even going to multiple doctors they can't get a prescription here, even with active infestations.
not that it would be my first choice for this case—oral ivermectin is a proven and very effective method to get rid of fleas and lice, but I'm not sure if the lethality rates for bed bugs is worth it.¹ Thought bed bugs are such a Thing that it may be potentially helpful _in combination with_ hygienising everything. my worry is that the surviving ones contribute to ivermectin resistance. it's only partially effective against ticks.² the standard 2-dose protocol does kill scabies, but there are many other ways to treat scabies, and permethrin only needs one dose.³
in any case I don't know how bad my case is, or even if I have any infestation at all, I wouldn't jump to prescription medication as my first line. I'm in the "wash everything at 90° and observe" stage. but I hate knowing that it's not even on the table now, due to a combination of both assholes trying to treat a virus with an anti-parasitic, the usual arrogance of doctors against Third World knowledge, and misinformed people making jokes about "horse medicine".
1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23871326/
2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1016/j.wem.2012.08.003
3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24791346/
So tired of having to check every time I see something "queer-friendly" or "disability-friendly" or whatever, whether it's to the exclusion of otherwise oppressed folks or not
A truly disturbing amount of dystopian tech shit seems to be explainable entirely as "the creator never learned how to process his emotions in a healthy way, and made it the rest of the world's problem"
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“The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad”
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
> If I were a carpenter, and my colleagues got really into this new thing where you just chuck 2×4s at a spinning whirling mass of blades until a chair comes out the other side… you know, I just might want to switch careers.
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Toen bekend werd dat we een heel eng kabinet gingen krijgen heb ik (voornamelijk om mezelf uit de verlamming te helpen) dertig dagen lang naar dingen gezocht die mensen al doen om onze wereld mooier te maken. Dat werden dertig draadjes op Mastodon, maar dat is natuurlijk niet zo praktisch. Daarom heb ik nu een pagina gemaakt waar je elke keer een random tip te zien krijgt.
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ACAB
started planning my chores in advance by diarying and queueing them and my adhd suddenly feels much more manageable. i think i finally found something that makes it easier. i suspect the issue was time blindness + decision paralysis + constantly being haunted by all the things i gotta do and unable to actually sit down and sift through them. this helped. i obviously miss the deadlines for chores a little or get distracted here and there, but at least i get them done.
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I can't get over how swathes of academic research into misinformation, as well as a lot of public sources on 'media bias' (including the heavily-advertised ground.news that sponsors all those Youtubers), are all just based on the opinions of A Guy Called Dave.
No, that's not a metaphor or a joke. The guy is literally called Dave.
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Time for another episode of "how is the ESM migration in Javascript going?"
There are still 7 times as many recent downloads for the five-year-old version 6.6.2 version of p-queue (the last one to support CommonJS) as for the most recent (ESM-only) 8.1.0 release from five months ago.
Looking at all versions inbetween, the 6.6.2 version still has about 4.5 times as many recent downloads as *every ESM-only version in the past five years combined*.
- 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
