Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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One somewhat encouraging observation for folks with a genuine sense of community on Twitter: pretty much all the Freenode communities survived. A little bit was lost, and there was a big transition cost, but mostly the communities found new homes and continued.
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When Andrew Lee bought (kinda?) Freenode and blew it up last year, I was surprised by how quickly one rich dude could tank a long-standing social network with an established community, and baffled why someone would spend so much money just to burn something down.
That was cute.
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Fedi was built by queer/leftie/trans/otherwise marginalized people and that still represents a big chunk of the people who are here
So when a bunch of straight cis people show up
People who can't even imagine what online harassment looks like
And they're publicly publishing lists of who we are without opt-in consent
Even if it's "for benign reasons"
That level of clumsiness is a fucking threat
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if you've ever written a sentence that's just "imagine using XYZ" and¹ XYZ is some linux distribution or whatever. have you actually imagined using it? nobody creates out of pure folly; so this thing must at least serve a niche. what type of person gets value from the thing you are deriding? who are they & what do they want? what is it like to be them?
explore the lives of your fellows and then delete ur post bestie
¹ i wrote this post about software but extrapolate elsewheres if you'd like
explore the lives of your fellows and then delete ur post bestie
¹ i wrote this post about software but extrapolate elsewheres if you'd like
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I saw someone confuse etymology and entomology, and it bugged me in a way I couldn't put into words.
@maya (You really want to shut off the entire power circuit, not just flip the switch, because often only one of the wires is actually switched)
@maya Depends on country/system, but residential fixtures in NL are generally just two wires and 2-4 screws into the ceiling, it's not too hard but you need to shut off the power circuit first and you'll be working above your head
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I wonder how many people are still using Google Chrome because they haven't tried Firefox at all in the last decade.
If you've tried Firefox years ago but found it didn't suit your needs, and are currently using Google Chrome or one of its many clones, I'd highly recommend revisiting Firefox. It really has come a long way over the years and you may be surprised by what you see.
🦇
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I sincerely hope that the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk and the subsequent massive user migration to alternative media such as Mastodon will initiate the downfall of tech giants having way too much influence in the public debate.
@whreq Toch helaas net geen september meer :)
@ianbetteridge@mastodon.me.uk Oh, they understand, they can just afford to pretend it's someone else's fault
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Misinfo
@thufie yep, you can connect to any other masto user in less than 6 polycule steps
So apparently a very specific problem that I've been working on solving in my database project (transparent reindexing upon Unicode version changes) is basically just unsolved in PostgreSQL, and it just caused a serious outage at Google's hosted SQL stuff..
"Capitalism drives innovation" my ass, why does my hobby project account for a failure mode that your billion-dollar corporation doesn't
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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send me anarchist lit
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What’s the Mastodon iOS client with the best (or literally any) filtering for main timeline?
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Die activismeverzekering van het mauritshuis kan op een gegeven moment natuurlijk best omlaag geschroefd worden, want secondelijm werkt niet lekker onder zout water.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Hey! I'm looking for design feedback on current fediverse clients, both web, mobile and desktop.
What decisions do you like? What do you dislike? What new features would you like to see?
And for Mastodon Web specifically: do you prefer the single-column or multi-column (advanced mode) layout? Why?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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There seems to be some confusion about our NFT rule so let me once again clarify:
NFT content is not allowed on .art
Selling your NFTs is not allowed on .art
Advertising your NFTs is not allowed on .art
Posting pictures connected to your NFTs is not allowed on .art
If you do any of these things your account will be suspended
It's one of the rules you agreed to on joining
No I'm not changing the rules for you
This post is not an invitation for you to try to change my mind
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Because we value accessibility here, a lot of people won't boost toots with images that don't have alt text - so not only are you being accessibility-friendly, you're also ensuring your posts reach a wider audience.
If you're having trouble remembering to include alt-text, follow @PleaseCaption who will DM you an alert when you post images without descriptions.
If you're low on spoons you can use 
, # Alt4Me , or tag @ imagecaptionspls@a.gup.pe
- 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
