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.
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- 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
Current status: deduplicating 12.6 million database rows
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GoToSocial is getting a ton of attention lately. So I just wanna reiterate that if you're using GtS, you're using alpha software that has many features not yet implemented, and is chocka with bugs. We're quite proud of how the alpha development phase is going so far, but we make no guarantees whatsoever about stability, data loss, performance, etc etc. You use alpha software at your own risk.
There are many things you can do in Mastodon (and mastodon clients) which will 404 on GtS because they're simply not implemented yet. We are aware of what these are, and they're documented both in the roadmap document and in the faq in the docs. We're currently revising the roadmap document for the next year, so we'll have an updated version to share soon (tm).
Opening issues about features that we've yet to implement will not get them finished any faster: if anything, it will be slower because we then have to deal with answering issues. It is especially unwelcome to comment 'where is x feature' on an unrelated PR / issue. The cake is in the oven and it's not ready to eat yet, so stop asking if you can stick your fingers in it.
The team managing PRs and development and admin and planning and triage and releases and offering help in the help channels is 4 people, only one of whom (tobi) currently works full time on the project. While we're very open to PRs, feedback, and collaboration, we are also essentially just weirdos who like to be left alone to tinker with code, cuddle cats and dogs, and listen to music. This is home grown, open source software which started as a hobby project. Not a big company with support staff. Please be mindful of this when you're asking for support!
If you want to recommend GoToSocial to people, thank you, your enthusiasm is very appreciated! But please accompany your recommendation with the provisos I mentioned here, so that people's expectations are set appropriately. We don't want anyone to come to the software expecting miracles and ending up disappointed.
Phew, thank you for reading ❤️!
Getting close to query completion, and it's still running in under 200ms \o/
This is like the 4th full day I am spending on this query by the way
Also I am currently rewriting the monster task query for my datasheet scraper from scratch in an attempt to work around previous ill-conceived query plans, I am probably going to regret this
Go home #PostgreSQL, you're drunk
Add a LIMIT 10: query now runs 9 times slower
Remove a bunch of WHERE clauses (that do not actually affect result count anywhere): query now runs 6 times slower
???
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Here, have a rainbow kitty to see you through these trying times
(Nikon Z6, Macro f2.8 90mm, processed in Darktable)
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
the duality of wanting to write software but also being so tired of people, especially the people that use software
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@joepie91 this has to be a fediverse-targetted marketing ploy
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@punkthesystem Taxation IS theft but the reasons behind it being so, from an anarchist perspective, are different than they would be from a right-wing libertarian perspective. The right-wing libertarian would say that the government is stealing the money that rightfully belongs to you due to your hard work. The anarchist would say, no, nothing by right belongs to you individually, save that everything belongs to everyone, so everything belongs to you. So the anarchist critique of taxation is far deeper - it's essentially a branch of the phrase property is theft, which is more all-encompassing and more accurate. I therefore don't find it to be a very useful phrase since people will probably assume you mean the right-wing libertarian thing, at least in the US
cw meta
Eagerly awaiting the day where tech folks can have a discussion about CWs without invoking ableist commentary
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"We live in #capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. #Resistance and #change often begin in #art, and very often in our art, the art of words."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
@scanlime Ah, the latter is a dev/testing environment apparently
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twitter complexity vs. fedi complexity, speculation
I wonder if Mastodon gives off the aura of being more complicated than Twitter because we - as in, the folks running things - actually tell you stuff up front
like, let's be real, is "you need to include the full @ with the server name to follow somebody" any more complicated than "you need to be vague about why you're talking about art today because any tweets with the word 'commissions' in them are yeeted into the shadow realm"?
- 🎒 💭
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politics, violence, transphobia
I think what's really been increasingly fucking me up for the past week is not that the shooting occurred. It's the mainstream response.
When Pulse happened in 2016, the conversation was the bog standard argument on gun control.
Now, the right wing are openly cheering "do it again, do it again!" and trying to incite copycat attacks while the centrists (there is no left in this conversation) pointedly say nothing.
Things are getting much worse, very fast.
@scanlime ... huh? What?
Apparently the next stable NixOS release will be called "Raccoon"
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Legalize 
Abolish copyright on academic work
- 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
