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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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netherlands, embedded systems student (attempting to), he/him, 29 years old, programming, devops, rust, embedded development, retro computing, procrastinating

politics and gen ai are depressing, but i can't not talk about them. i do my best to cw them.

currently working on fedilite, a server-side rendered simple mastodon api client
git.sijman.nl/vijfhoek/fedilite

"you're not having an original hit bro, you're having a cache hit"
Location netherlands
Birthday 1997-01-18
Pronouns he/him (EN), hij/hem (NL)
Accept-Language en;q=1, nl;q=1, de;q=0.5
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
love people who don't bother to clear the snow off their headlights
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
@Erpel Yeah - but seeing photos that haven't been post-processed to hell and back by smartphone software (or a good Lightroom session) does feel nostalgic

The photo of the tight ski slope in the woods makes a lovely wallpaper neobread_heart_red
:neohaj_heart@hai.z0ne.social:1
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
@Erpel I love this! Gives a bit of a times-gone-by vibe, but in a very high resolution
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
@kopper and Discord has been boiling the enshittification frog incredibly well for the past years, I do not expect that to change
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
@kopper Matrix federation is cool and works quite well nowadays. Signal end to end encryption is very important for 1-on-1 messaging, and small group chats. IRC is neat for its simplicity. They're all really cool platforms in their own ways.

but discord Just Works
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
@kopper yeah discord has a killer feature: it freaking works well enough for just about anyone
:ablobcatheadbangfasthyper@mk.absturztau.be:1
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
@algernon the fee for using government services is in spoons
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
woo, the snow has arrived in twente
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@jwildeboer
And before you ask: yes, metal spikes on bicycle tires are legal in Germany and in most other countries.
makes sense I guess, since there's not a 1.5 ton machine on top of them
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@KarlHeinzHasliP @0xabad1dea wouldn't say it snows every year (anymore); where I live this is the first time it's properly snowed in years
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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gotta love winter when the brake pedal becomes the bRRrrrRRrrRrrrrRrr pedal (while you're along for the ride)
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
@louis Kubernetes can do anything from five nines to automatically shooting yourself in the foot
:neocat_think_woozy@social.louis-vallat.dev:1
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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thank u mr thunderbird
a dialog box saying "The link you just clicked seems to lead to another site than what the link text indicated. This is sometimes used for tracking whether you clicked the link, but it could also be a scam. The link text indicated that the link would lead to my.dhlecommerce.nl, but it leads to ghcbcag.r.af.d.sendibt2.com." with buttons to go to the tracking link anyway, one to cancel, and one to just go to dhlecommerce.nl
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@mametsuko they're upset the NS app is broken
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
i'll always love the dutch warning sign for slippery conditions.

in most countries, the tracks just wiggle around a bit. in the netherlands, the car just did a full 180 and is about to tip over
a triangular traffic sign with a red rim, categorising it as a warning, with a car facing towards you with tracks crossing over each other
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
8mo
@jeder was is'n das für'n kombi‽
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
9mo
@junk congrats, you win the first teary eyed laugh of 2026
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
9mo
getting tailgated in black ice prone conditions ✅
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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day 2 of no processed sugar january:

aaaaa the cravings aaaa
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
9mo
@novenary haha yes

i've got an industrialppc in my PC, and it shoots up to 3000rpm on boot. at 140mm that moves a lot of air lol
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