Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @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
mini software dev rant, pol?
I really have to write Properly(tm) about these intersections between authoritarian ideology and software development culture some day, because this is *far* from the only case where this crops up
mini software dev rant, pol?
I also feel like this ties into authoritarian ideology in interesting ways. The broader belief that the only way you can make people do something "for their own good" is by forcing them into it and giving them no other choices, rather than giving people agency and trusting them to be responsible and competent in handling it.
@rune Not just that, it also tells you that they know *nothing* about how things work *anywhere* outside of the US, and they have bought into the ideology that whatever the US does is automatically the optimal solution (because in national ideology, that is the expected outcome of the "free market", and if it weren't, that would threaten capitalist ideology).
@kescher @himbeer And with "on technical matters" I mean stuff like HN folks rejecting real solutions to real software development problems because it somehow doesn't fit into their imaginary thought-experiment world, and they're envisioning non-existent problems being caused by it, apparently completely unaware that the solution already exists and it doesn't have any of those issues in practice.
It's literally the exact same broken reasoning and attitude applied to both social and technical issues, and even the evidently wrong conclusions in a technical context are apparently not enough to make them realize that they're going about it the wrong way... it's kind of a darkly impressive amount of tunnel vision, really.
@rune I have had more than one USian get aggressively confused at me when I told them we don't have school buses in NL.
"So you're forcing every parent to drive their kids to school before going to work?!"
... no? Have you considered that better solutions might exist?
mini software dev rant
It boggles my mind how it's *still* a widespread belief that libraries/frameworks must be opinionated "because otherwise people would get lost in the options" - as if "technically forcing people into a specific choice" (with all of its significant downsides) is somehow the only possible way to help guide someone towards a sensible solution.
@kescher @himbeer More specifically: HN is almost entirely composed of the kind of rich privileged white tech dudes who can afford to turn any acute and real problem into some hypothetical thought experiment as if the answer doesn't matter and it's just a game. And they do. Constantly. About everything. Even on technical matters.
@aral While I do think this is a real issue (and *yet another* reason why ESM is not a suitable replacement for CJS), it should be noted that hot-reloading modules is never a safe thing to do in JS regardless of the module system - the language does not provide sufficient state isolation guarantees to prevent state leaking between versions of modules, and this can lead to very strange non-reproducible bugs.
@maia @annieversary that is a very ambiguous phrase
@thufie queen-to-butt browser extension
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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If we allow such concentrations of power, we place ourselves at the mercy of the moral fiber of whoever claims it, because ultimately they will not be accountable to anyone else. And eventually, either the people put in power will begin to use it for their own gain, as I said, or those who are more ruthless and more comfortable ordering people around (because anyone whose long term goal truly is freedom can never be comfortable destroying it) will rise to power and take advantage themselves.
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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MLs really think that you can undo the harm caused by hierarchies, power imbalances, and authority by making a way worse and more concentrated version of them and then waiting for them to abolish themselves, just because "when it's our guys in charge they'll always stick to the plan and do what's right." What they don't realize is that power doesn't just corrupt, it *seduces* and *reveals.* Remove the restraints of equal power around you and few can resist using power for their own gain.
launching a fedi instance that blocks all mentions of a certain queen instance-wide
Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025)
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The year is 2122, we have seized the means of production, public transport is free and easily available, the few cars that still drive do so autonomously with zero accidents, Half Life 3 has been released and all our power needs are fulfilled by nuclear fusion.
You update your Linux system:
( 1/23) upgrading xorg-server
@phoenix@chaos.social If you order a big one, they probably just unplug the coffee machine and give it to you
@ben I'm immediately reminded of this (looooong, multi-page) thread https://mastodon.social/@ifixcoinops/105778289798706182
@f0x the colors are calling meeeee
Something to think about: there are lots of plausible solutions to long-standing problems that you will never hear about - because the people with the solutions stopped talking about them publicly, as they were constantly laughed out of the room or harassed over them, just because they were unconventional solutions or broke with tradition.
- 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. 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
