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.
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- 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
bad idea, about sharing "too much information"
@sk I've been considering doing pretty much the same thing, using a format along the lines of https://github.com/soatok/faq-off (though in a somewhat less argue-y manner).
@pastelpunkbandit Likewise: comments should always describe "why", not "what"
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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one time i heard someone in a talk say that before u write a comment explaining what ur code does u should consider rewriting the code n i rlly liked that thats useful advice
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Christianity and homosexuality
The bible doesn't actually say anything against homosexuality (unless you go by the later versions like the English Standard Version). I generally just go by the King James version. That Corinthians verse is about lying, as in fibbing, where you kill yourself and your bro when you lie to them like you lie to your wife. The bible is just misogynistic and anti-sex (unless to procreate). Anyone effeminate can't enter heaven either, which would include women.
selfies, eye contact - me at Vienna Pride. 
@kescher Looking cute <3
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anyways, if you gotta talk to the computer in a particular way to get a good conversation, then that seems like it's on you.
you ever hear the story of the MIT team back in the day that wanted to train a computer to recognize when it saw you jump with a camera, and it worked for them, but it didn't work for the general public? It turned out that the computer had trained them to jump in a certain way instead of them teaching the computer.
selfies, eye contact - me at Vienna Pride.
@kescher the grass has been touched!!
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COVID + other infectious diseases
Related: politicians have from the start been promoting an idea that "we can't wear masks forever" /para from the start, and I'd like to contradict that. Yeah, actually, we *can* wear masks (in public places in regions where COVID is spreading) forever, and really, we should. Things are never going to "go back to normal", either. That's a related liberal fantasy. Even if not having to worry about disease epidemics was truly "normal" (considering all of human history, it really wasn't), we can't go back to it.
This is our new normal, and we have to live with that new normal. Not by throwing caution at the wind and letting a deadly airborne virus to spread indiscriminately, but by doing the opposite and fighting against it. That means always having masks at the ready, for the rest of our lives and for as long as humans continue to exist, and using them if COVID has spread into your area in addition to quarantining if you know you've been exposed. Yes, we can do this forever, and we have to.
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I have been told this is a very hot take
I don't consider allies to be part of the LGBTQ+ community. They're not any gayer or transer or queerer for associating with people who don't have the same privilege they do. And it seems that anytime they don't get to participate in the "club," they get really upset, like they're owed something for their support.
It's not that the support of cishet people isn't valued or important, but so often it feels performative with the end goal of being part of a community they don't belong to.
Anyway, I've been told this is a really controversial take by a few so-called allies, and it seems to fit into a pattern that I've noticed over several years. One with a lot of "we" language when they're happy with what the queers are doing and a lot of "you" language when they want to distance themselves, which the ones I've met do as often as it's convenient for them.
Since this apparently needs to be repeated: you don't write reliable code by "being really careful" or "avoiding mistakes".
You do it by accepting that you *will* inevitably make mistakes, and designing your code so that the likelihood and/or impact of those mistakes is minimized.
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Always thought the Dyson Sphere thing was weirdly capitalist, like "a type 6 advanced civilization will need to harness the power of an entire star" no an advanced civilization will sit in the grass enjoying birds and bugs and a stable climate for thousands of years
??? why was the cat sleeping in the shower
hot take
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev food at a warm buffet
@joenepraat @schratze I got no tag either!
@amapanda Neat! It's definitely not perfect (red line is what it *should* have routed through for the optimal cycling route), but definitely much better than most generic routers :)
maia quote of the day, food, drugs
@maia you said 'drugs' twice
@amapanda Wait until you learn about the difference in bike routing quality! As it turns out, a whole lot of bike paths/crossings/etc. just straight-up do not exist in Google Maps, because their AI magic can't see them due to tree cover, and no Streetview car would drive over bike paths, of course... this leads to sometimes absurdly better routes with OSM-based routers than with GMaps.
- 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
