Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
- 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
There, updated my bio. Now it should be less Twitter-flavoured :)
@ainmosni IMO both GTalk and GMail overtook their respective ecosystems in the same way; by providing a significantly better user experience than any of the other options, and then tying that experience into a service.
For GMail, that was a huge amount of storage space and a much better webmail UI. For GTalk, that was a client that was usable *at all*, really; pretty much every other XMPP was 'mediocre' at best, and that's what attracted a lot of folks to GTalk.
Of course, the GMail webmail interface only worked with the GMail service; and the Google Talk client only worked with the Google Talk XMPP server. So it superficially seemed like e-mail and XMPP, but you couldn't *actually* use it with those ecosystems more broadly.
So I'd say that probably the most important defense against this for the fediverse right now, is to ensure that there are highly usable service-agnostic clients that a corporation like Google couldn't improve on *enough* to become the Obvious Choice.
(Of course, current-day Google is pretty terrible at usability and doesn't have a great rep, so they're realistically not the big threat that they used to be, but the same risk still applies from other tech companies.)
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"the observable universe is a spherical region centered on the observer. Every location in the universe has its own observable universe"
in a sense, everyone is the center of their own universe
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PSA to newcomers, crossposting
#PSA: to newcomers!
Some of you might be tempted to #crosspost between 🐦 and 🐘. As a general rule of thumb, crossposting is frowned upon.
🐦 ➡️ 🐘: try not to do this, but if you really want to, avoid RTs & limit to personal tweets. Set post visibility on 🐘 as "unlisted", so the local timeline is less noisy.
🐘 ➡️ 🐦: usually fine, but don't crosspost replies or boosts, respect privacy of others.
Welcome again & hope you are here to stay.
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I have a plugin that autoblocks anyone with an NFT profile picture and going into the replies of an elon musk post made it go off like a shitty ape scam themed nuke
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what if gnome app devs worked closely with the big theme devs and like provided pre-release versions so the theme could be verified before the release ships
what if gnome added devtools that detect potential theming issues (just some automated stuff that checks like spacing and contrast)
or a tool that "stress tests" the app under different possible theming extrema so issues can be manually identified
a huge part of why people switch to linux is the customization. we need more support for this, not "don't theme my app" bullshit websites dedicated to being angry at your own users
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"Sorry I didn't answer, I temporarily forgot you existed"
- me to people I love very much that are really important to me
memetic hazard
@Peetz0r They lied to us!
@void@kolektiva.social @thufie And that's not even the first 'medical classification' incident... CW description of medical ailment
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3. Anarchists believe that the autonomy of the individual and their ability to grasp their own actualization is a positive force. This does not imply a naive form of individualism; the point is that anarchists must believe that people are capable of directing their own lives. Anarchists must believe that not only are people capable of deciding how to live without a paternalistic force overhead, but that they are happier and society better when they are free to do so.
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2. Anarchism opposes authority and government, the state of affairs (a subtype of the first) where people are told what they can and cannot do, how they can and cannot live, and in general controlled and limited and policed. Anarchists view government and authority as fundamentally oppressive, because it necessarily rests on hierarchy and domination, which in turn rests on violence, and also because it prevents the operation of justice as defined in the previous point.
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1. Anarchism opposes all forms of hierarchy and domination. That is, all situations in which there is an imbalance in power, such that one person's needs and desires are subordinated or treated as less than equally important to someone else's. Justice is not the application of a rigid set of laws, but the resolution of conflicts in a way that treats everyone's interests as equal, arrived at through direct reconciliation between those in conflict by reasoning together.
@alexispurslane I'd also add that this includes both explicit *and* implicit forms of power imbalance and 'government' - as it's unfortunately not obvious to a lot of people that capitalism also falls under that umbrella, despite its "freedom of choice" propaganda to the contrary.
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@Peetz0r I don't remember :D
This is an example of Speex, an audio compression codec specifically tuned for the reproduction of human speech.
This is a neat site; it centrally collects end-of-life schedules for all sorts of software and systems. https://endoflife.date/
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This is an example of Speex, an audio compression codec specifically tuned for the reproduction of human speech.
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#accessibility questions!
1 - Are painting softwares (especially CSP and Krita) able to add alt descriptions into a, say, jpg of your art? Similarly to author data?
2 - Would websites (Twitter tumblr Mastodon Artstation etc) understand and automatically process this description metadata as an alt description?
I want to write the alt desc. into my saved artworks so I don't need to rewrite or copy/paste it as I post. Does this make sense?
@AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe Parker is awesome honestly
- 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 🙃
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.
- 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
