Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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 Aug 2019
@June@kitty.town Bonus: if you pass a yt-dlp compatible URL to mpv (the media player), it'll use yt-dlp (or youtube-dl? I forgot) behind the scenes and play the underlying video for you in a stand-alone media player
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
more NixOS-specific
Relatedly, it's frustratingly difficult to explain to people that the reason NixOS "doesn't have a feature" is because it fundamentally doesn't *need* that feature, because the "feature" is actually a workaround for a problem that NixOS doesn't have to begin with...
@maia you can have your @everyone doorbell if I can have my sender-based notification rules
vaguely philosophical tech stuff, long-ish
So there's an interesting problem that Nix has, which is the "curse of knowledge"... once you learn how it works, suddenly everything else in the space starts looking super fragile. I joke about this a lot, but it's a very real thing.
And that has implications for how Nix(OS) folks interact with other communities - they'll often point out, for example, that some problem isn't actually fundamental or inherent because Nix *did* solve it already a decade ago.
And outwardly this looks a lot like "a fanboy pushing their favourite tool on everybody", but it isn't, really - quite often, it's *genuinely* a case of that person seeing issues that most other people have learned to ignore or accept, and not being able to un-see that.
And they are getting *legitimately* frustrated by other people continuing to build more towers of complexity on top of (to them) obviously fragile systems - not because their favourite tool isn't being used, but because of all the wasted effort and time that other people put into needlessly broken systems, that could've been put to so much better use.
I'm not entirely sure where I was going with this toot, but this is something I rarely see being talked about. It's not exclusive to NixOS, either; there's a very similar thing going on with capability-based security, and undoubtedly a number of other topics that I don't know about.
It feels like there should be some sort of broader conversation about this?
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@AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe I mean, the social aspect of software development *is* actually important, but... Github isn't actually doing any of that either??? It's just some superficial 'social media' show-off-y nonsense (cough commit graph cough) without any genuine focus on helping people do constructive collaboration
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Van 
If "Share The Road" feels more difficult/dangerous than it used to, it's because it is.
@thufie Where can I read more about this?
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ah hm yes 0B of free space on /, I see how that would negatively impact things
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apparently there was another incident of someone leaking classified documents on the war thunder forums to settle an argument
this is the third time in a year
FOSS Rec? (Help Wanted)
@eleanorkonik @Lindsaythelibrarian@scholar.social So I looked into this a bit further actually, and unfortunately it doesn't look good :( https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/faq
@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk High-res original is at https://www.flickr.com/photos/111356868@N03/11345983304/ if you want it :p
@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk Allow me to share a pylon, in that case
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The implicit meaning of this argument is that one should not face responsibility for their actions unless everyone faces responsibility for their actions—which is, again, a childish way of attempting to dodge guilt while clumsily and unconsciously admitting it.
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- 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
