Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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. 30, NB, ND, poly, generally queer. Flirting okay, though I might not actually recognize it :P
I have 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. You probably know the ideology I'm talking about here, but I'm deliberately not naming it :)
Those strong views extend to technology and software, and I think that almost everything about how the technology industry currently works, is wrong. Both on a technical and a social/political level. If you feel the same, we should probably talk!
If I don't respond to your messages, I'm probably just out of spoons, and it's nothing personal. Feel free to boost anything that I post myself! I'm more cautious with boosting other people's posts to avoid dogpiling, but that's probably a bad Twitter habit.
I'm involved in a lot of public activism-y things, and you might know me from something I've done in the past. While it's nice to see people appreciate that, please don't treat me like a famous person! Fame kinda sucks, even if it's sometimes necessary for activist purposes. I'd much rather get to know people on a personal level.
Joined Aug 2019
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I've actually been here for a while already, though mostly inactive! The Birdsite Situation prompted me to pop in here again. And I'm terrible at writing introductions, so I usually just say "I do stuff on the internet".
But uh, I do all sorts of activist-y stuff, work on radical FOSS (see http://cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.html), write (educational) stuff, am more or less a lonely polyamorous gender blob of indeterminate sexuality who likes both cuddles and kinky things, and I always have 10 times as many projects as I have time for, as is customary with ADHD brain :) Sometimes I even finish some of them!
While I'm an introvert and need plenty of time to myself, I *am* happy to meet like-minded people and spend time with them, and as long as you're not a bigot or apologist, you should feel free to interact with me and/or follow me!
Also, I live in Rosmalen (near Den Bosch) in the Netherlands, and honestly would like to get to know more local folks, and I also have some vague intention to start a queer hackerspace around here if I can find enough interested people. Eventually!
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friends in USA, print this out, and post it in your workplace and around your neighbourhood!
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infinite scrolling on webpages with important links in the footer
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sometimes someone tells me they dont have an adblocker and that baffles me because the internet is an absolute hellscape without one
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actual feditips
On fedi, when we talk about "crossposting", we usually mean people using tools which automatically repost their tweets on fedi, or fediverse florps on twitter. It's a controversial practice on fedi. Many instances have rules about how you should configure a crossposter if you're posting twitter→fedi, so be sure to read these if you crosspost. Beyond any rules:
- Consider using a low visibility setting for crossposted posts - unlisted or followers-only may be more appropriate than global
- Consider setting a CW for crossposts
- Remember that you can set alt-text on Twitter too, it should be reflected on fedi
- Check your notifications on fedi regularly (otherwise you're baiting people into trying to talk to you, who see your posts and have the fairly reasonable assumption that you're a person as present as they are)
- Try to be clear when you're talking about twitter or fedi (e.g. "here" or "this website" is a different place depending on where someone reads it)
- Turn off retweets (a feed full of RT @user@twitter.com is annoying to read)
#feditips #fedifacts
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BLM 
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uspol psa
not sure who doesn't know this at this point, but "heritage" is a neo-confederate dogwhistle for bringing back segregation/slavery
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I cant believe some people go to work and dont feel like they are being forcibly removed from their life for 8+ hours
(I promise that it's about much more than just "what do X and Y mean"!)
If you're interested in FOSS, UX, community dynamics, terminology/language, communication, accessibility, and how all of these things intersect... this thread is a very fascinating read: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43501
It's like a little microcosm of FreeCAD as a project, the issues it runs into, the (problematic) community dynamics, conflicting interests/priorities, and FOSS accessibility issues
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I want thick scrollbars that are permanently visible, thank you.
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Warning: There’s an app for blurring out sensitive information in images called Obfuscate being featured on #GNOME Software right now.
Please be careful.
The default blur setting can easily be reversed.
The default should be to replace the areas with a solid colour or a pattern not derived from the underlying information.
This really should not be a featured app in its current state.
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In response to rocket boy’s question about whether we prefer politicians or billionaires, at least politicians usually make less of a mess.
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javascript good, actually
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FOSS bros: If you don't like something on Linux, you can just use a distro that has what you want! Problem solved!!
Me: Is there even a single distro that has usable scroll bars?
FOSS bros: If you don't like something on Linux, you can just write an entire window manager from scratch and—
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I didn't know you could tape these "no postage necessary" flyers [envelopes] to boxes. This is a game changer.
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@luci computers are so bad for multilingual content because anglophones don't account for it
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Auch hier ein kleiner Denkzettel um die Verwirrung um das 9-Euro-Ticket zu lösen 😅
- 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. 30, NB, ND, poly, generally queer. Flirting okay, though I might not actually recognize it :P
I have 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. You probably know the ideology I'm talking about here, but I'm deliberately not naming it :)
Those strong views extend to technology and software, and I think that almost everything about how the technology industry currently works, is wrong. Both on a technical and a social/political level. If you feel the same, we should probably talk!
If I don't respond to your messages, I'm probably just out of spoons, and it's nothing personal. Feel free to boost anything that I post myself! I'm more cautious with boosting other people's posts to avoid dogpiling, but that's probably a bad Twitter habit.
I'm involved in a lot of public activism-y things, and you might know me from something I've done in the past. While it's nice to see people appreciate that, please don't treat me like a famous person! Fame kinda sucks, even if it's sometimes necessary for activist purposes. I'd much rather get to know people on a personal level.
Joined Aug 2019
