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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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netherlands, embedded systems student (attempting to), he/him, 28 years old, programming, devops, rust, embedded development, retro computing, procrastinating

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

Location netherlands
Birthday 1997-01-18
Pronouns he/him (EN), hij/hem (NL)
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
1mo
realised i never posted an on my new instance

Hi, i'm Sijmen, a.k.a. vijfhoek, am a 28yo dutchie, and I have been a Fosstodon user for some time. Because Fosstodon wasn't really for me I started off on Misskey, then Sharkey. After a while the itch started again, and I was getting annoyed with Sharkey's bloatedness and bad Mastodon API implementation, so I looked into a new server. GoToSocial was cool but too simple, people recommended me to skip Akkoma/Pleroma/etc and to try IceShrimp.NET too, and here we are.

I like programming, specifically creating new projects and never finishing them (latest one is an mastodon API client: git.sijman.nl/vijfhoek/fedilite), and the odd embedded stuff (I've been building a keyboard I really need to finish someday it's so close).

Other than programming I like coffee, D&D, and self-hosting things. I have got a job in devops (mostly Kubernetes stuff nowadays) and am an (honestly non-practicing) embedded systems master student.

If you read this, send me cat pictures and cool things to self-host.

so yeah that's it i guess doei
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it's going! it's spinning!
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heckim washing machine i know them bed covers are heavy but just do your spin cycle i want to go to bed
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nsfl @novenary

millenials: avocado toast
zoomers: tide pods
alpha: literal decaying organs

i'm noticing a certain trend
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whenever I try to use an llm for even the simplest repetitive programming tasks I don't feel like doing, I just walk out with a "fine I'll do it myself"

this can't just be me, can it
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@anotherwalther @gsuberland

swhop-ss-ss-ss
tic tic tic tic tic
BZZ--ZZ BZZ-ZZ
ss ss ss ss click
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
2d
www.riotgames.com/en/news/vanguard-security-update-motherboard

so we've reached the point people are making PC modchips lmao

when are we gonna start voltage glitching the cpu
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@cthos
Like a lot of the use cases I see for generative AI, it boils down to "just send me your prompt" rather than having the token spewer spit out tokens.
Yes yes yes yes
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
2d
i just spent the start of my workday troubleshooting why my external display wasn't working. it was the cable
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1w
@hek and this is why I don't have lidl plus
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@Maker_of_Things @0xabad1dea Or, because of the signs
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can boats swim
yes 1 votes100%no 0 votes0%what 0 votes0%
1 users voted - Ended
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1w
I wanna shooow you my woooorld
Where the beat goes up 🙆‍♂️ and down 👬
Let me ooopen the doo
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youtube.com/watch?v=BiP0FpY88E4 such a banger
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@chillicampari @eloy I mean that's what 13th and 14th gen Intels do right?
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@jeder i will never financially recover from this
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1w
Biggest challenge: turning conversations with not-very-positive people that I care too much about to cut out of my life positive
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Early new year's resolution: surround myself with more positivity and be more positive myself

The world's pretty shitty rn and complaining about it feels good in the moment, but doesn't solve much and worst case makes other people feel shit too
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1w
@angelwood oh this is cool! i should continue my own client (though i don't use mpd much anymore - navidrome+feishin fits my use case a lot better)

(rust, javascript-light, modern looking, git.sijman.nl/_/empede)
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1w
@babe Just wanted to say that your posts are among the favourites to show up on my feed. The funny rat paintings, the bunnies and cats, and the occasional total unhingedness rarely fail to make my day better

Keep being much, we like it that way
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@75ohm @jwildeboer The money for all the unsolicited LLM bs has to come from somewhere right??

No, removing AI slop is not an option
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@novenary and likely a lot of other non-profits and associations too