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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- 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
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Had to take the bus into town today, and wore a kilt. Some Delores decided to take issue; which sadly I'm used to. "Why are you wearing a skirt?!" and so on. As I said, used to it (and big scary white dude, so I have some privilege to wield), so I'm calmly addressing it with her
But then she said "well how am I supposed to explain that to my kid?!", and friends, I didn't have to say a thing, because the most awesome Black lady jumped in. She turned to her kid (I'd guess roughly 13 years old) and said "hey, why is he allowed to wear a skirt?"
Kid: "he's grown enough to wear whatever the fuck he wants"
Mom: "see?! Ain't hard ma'am"
Delores huffed but that was pretty much the end 🤣
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cheaply print processors onto materials like plastic and paper
#^PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon
#^PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon
Known for its core design IP that ends up in everything from IoT to smartphones to servers, Arm is now presenting that it has enabled one of its key microcontrollers in a new form factor: rather than using silicon as a base, the company has enabled a processor core in plastic. The technology has been in the works for almost a decade, but Arm has...
@Byte@kolektiva.social gtkdialog, and a lot of XML!
@thufie This, but seriously
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you're not even allowed to develop a sense of self before the age of 20. it's a happy accident if you do. before that, you're expected to be a bundle of nerves jumping to the cruel whims of random adults.
and these people want to increase that to age 25. actually disgusting.
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tech companies be like "here are tools to monitor your child's private conversations, social media posts, bank accounts, diaries, browsing history, class attendance, GPS location, and deepest inner thoughts" with parents going "why child not trust me???? ?????"
@lyncia All my shitposts are 100% organic and truthful
@kim The package format (or well, one of them) is called .pet :D
@kim Also IMO this project deserves a lot more attention than it's getting
@Johann150 Ah yeah, that does sound like a tricky one :( Maybe joining a fork would be an idea?
This is cursed, but frankly also a genuinely impressive technical achievement
I just realized that I haven't graced the fediverse yet with knowledge of the amazingly cursed software that is pMusic: a music player from the Puppy Linux project that is built entirely in Bash(!), yet has a GUI with fully-featured playlist management and advanced features like discography management and automatic YouTube searching and streaming!
@Johann150 (The underlying assumption here is that other devs might be frustrated with the state of things, but do not have enough energy/experience to organize a fork themselves, and so are letting it slide)
@Johann150 Of course, if the rest of the dev team is pretty much okay with the current situation, it becomes much harder.
@Johann150 I think it'd mostly depend on how the rest of the dev team and also the wider contributor community feel about things - if there's some degree of shared disgruntlement over slow review, then "here's a fork that will merge your changes faster, and I'd like the existing dev team to get involved in its governance" can be a very attractive option. And you can 'seed' that by picking out some of the good lingering PRs yourself and merging them already.
@thufie Or alternatively, for maximum "jank that somehow mostly works", there's always Puppy Linux
@thufie If a puzzle box for every system change is an acceptable substitute, I have a NixOS to offer
@Johann150 Particularly that last point has frequently led to successful forks of projects in the past (see eg. Gitea)
- 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
