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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
@joepie91

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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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 8/1/2019
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Over the next $unspecified_time I will be migrating to my own fedi instance over at @joepie91@slightly.tech - eventually this account will redirect and you should be following it automatically, but if you want to be sure that you don't miss anything, you should give it a manual follow now!

Can't really test out my new instance without actually posting there, so I'll be splitting my activity across accounts to see how well it goes. Once I'm happy, the automatic redirect will happen.

I just hate how believable my dreams are. I have already talked about the grocery fakeout dreams where I dream I do groceries and buy stuff I'm missing, and then start cooking assuming I have the ingredients, then open my fridge/pantry and realize it was a dream.

Another one that idk if it was a dream or real: someone told me wood is cheaper to buy in the UK and idk if it was part of the real convo I had with this person or a remix. Ugh why cant i dream I'm batman or something

Unit Δ-44203 is pleased to announce that its talk, 'Building a Robot Visor: How and Why' has been accepted for WHY 2025! neobot_floof_happy It is looking forward to seeing those ones there. aneobot_bongo #why2025

key facts:

<ul><li>recording is online at https://hear.44203.online</li><li>website with details: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/BSD3DT/</li><li>scheduled spacetime coordinates: 2025-08-09 14:00:00 - 14:25:00 [UTC+02:00], Cassiopeia</li><li>all talks, including this one, will be recorded and livestreamed unless explicitly indicated otherwise. https://streaming.media.ccc.de/why2025/cassiopeia</li></ul>

@elilla My experience is with workshop tools rather than scissors, but that doesn't look like particularly much rust; I expect that they'll be recoverable with something that removes rust. Vinegar should help somewhat, though I usually use WD40 (or the generic equivalent), it seems to work a little better. Not sure how to 'properly' sharpen scissors though.

@Vampire Yep; (most) DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs have an organic dye layer that's used to store the data; the laser in the burner activates this dye layer and permanently discolors it. DVD-RWs are similar, but use a reversible dye layer. The dye layer is what rots easily, due to its organic nature.

Whereas 'pressed' DVDs (the ones you typically buy in a store) are literally stamped; they are physically deformed during manufacturing using a stamp (that's specific to the production run, but reused across many discs). That's also how they can be produced so quickly, despite burning at home taking forever in comparison. There's no organic material involved so the disc doesn't 'rot' as easily, although it can still be damaged by eg. UV light.

All Blu-rays use a non-organic dye layer, and so do M-DISC CDs/DVDs, and so they are much less susceptible to rot too.