Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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 🙃
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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Ok wait, there is an active Vectrex Homebrew scene?! Why did I not know about this? Really thinking about getting one now 👀
Someone into that going to #why2025 by chance?
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If everything works out I will have BTTT (BGP to the tent) at #why2025 thanks to the on-site IXP 😄
If you have a ASN too and are at the WHY, maybe this is of interest to you: https://wiki.why2025.org/IXP
(Disclaimer: This is organized by others, I'm only a user, but wanted to spread the word)
Working on the last few todo items that I need to deal with before #WHY2025, and then maybe I can *finally* actually take a break for a few days before the chaos starts
... hey PayPal, what is the point of sending me 2FA codes by SMS for transactions, if I can login to my account without a 2FA code and set a new primary phone number *also* without a 2FA code?
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GOG is giving away a bunch of free "banned" games and taking a stance against the payment processors who caved.
https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html
Go grab your free games and show some support.
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🕯On 2 August 1944, around 4,300 Roma and Sinti were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, ending of the so-called ‘Gypsy family camp’.
This was part of the Roma Holocaust, which took over 500,000 lives.
Today we honour the memory of victims & stand against prejudice of Romani people.
👨🏼🏫With the Council of Europe, we're working to bring Roma Holocaust history in school curricula across Europe, so young people can grow up embracing inclusion.
📷 ©Adobe Stock @Hikmet
programming, negative
The JS ecosystem has died and I don't think very many people have realized this yet
Also about that Acer laptop, I ended up having to install fire-resistant EVA foam pads on *both* sides of the drive to have it not flap around inside of the bay, and because the design is absurd and the 'drive caddy' (bit of flexible plastic with some screw holes on the side...) is missing, I also had to tape some reused packaging plastic over the underside of the drive because otherwise it would risk touching the metal shielding that is directly next to it.
I don't think I've ever had to do so much trashgoblining to install a drive into a laptop before, what the hell.
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not sure if everyone got this surprise (to me) update to firefox but:
had to go under Settings to General to Tabs to click off ""Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups"
had to go to Privacy and Security to uncheck everything under "Firefox Data Collection and Use"
currently unable to add back noai.duckduckgo to my preferred search engine (it won't let me type nor copy/paste)
ive changed my settings to check for updates instead of automatically install them (not sure if i had that originally but im gonna go ahead and believe i did)
i wish firefox would stop trying to be like the Big Five or whatever and just.....ask if people want to opt into shit
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"I vibe coded enterprise grade software in four days"
I'm gonnae go out on a limb and say naw, ye didnae
The primary reason such software normally takes longer than this isn't because the programmers can't type fast enough ffs
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god this is one of the shadiest legit buttons I've seen
(One of the devices with a new HDD is the mini PC thing that I'll be taking to #WHY2025 to run a copyparty server on!)
Some maintenance work later, three HDDs have been installed in a variety of devices, and a laptop battery has been replaced.
Also Acer, what's wrong with you? Why would you design a laptop with a harddrive "bay" that just has the drive dangle freely from the SATA connector on the edge of the motherboard with no mechanical support whatsoever?!
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@vlrny I like the idea and it reminds me of this other way of saying it
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Take it from someone who's already been through this.
https://www.osnews.com/story/142956/vibe-coding-yourself-into-irrelevance/
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food (vegan)
I bought pickle-flavoured candy and, uh, it tastes like burger pickles
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In older biological publications, you can find references to "Malaysia" before the country was established in 1967. This is because "Malaysia" originally was a biogeographical term to describe Borneo, Sumatra, Java and the Malay Peninsula all the way to Tennasserim.
I have found references to "West Malaysia" which actually meant Sumatra instead of the modern Peninsular Malaysia definition.
You have to be very careful when reading these older localities.
- 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 🙃
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
