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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i just saw credits for an old dos game where they put their "catering" in the credits, including their local pizza place
we should bring that back. that should be a thing
It continues to boggle my mind how not a single travel booking system seems to accommodate the usecase of "go pick someone up, therefore 1 person in one direction and 2 people on the return trip"
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Yes, I know that no win is permanent and victory is rarely complete. The work is never done. But if we don't stop to celebrate when we do win, then we will turn into burnt-out husks who cannot carry on the fight.
@y3mz Hm, that doesn't seem to show STL export if you're not logged in... here's the current STL (link expires in 14 days): https://transfer.sh/ISitNx/Part%20Studio%201%20-%20Tray%288%29.stl
@y3mz Design is here, so go wild :p (CC0/WTFPL):
It probably won't print correctly yet though, I still need to fix a bunch of the supports, it seems that only a few printers have good enough part cooling to print the current design without drooping bridges, so I'd recommend waiting for the final revision :D
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@elfwizard I maintain that "takes issue with the vagueness of the test questions" is a more accurate test than any test that one could deliberately write
My stackable/modular HDD tray "rack" design is working! I do need to reduce the stiffness of the locking latch though, it really requires a lot of force right now to slide a drive in (see video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMT_UhATV6E
@technomancy @ehashman Well, that's precisely the problem - I've certainly already been talking about this a lot to people, and criticizing the "free software" movement and the largely imaginary ethical values it encompasses.
But those are only *individual* actions, and more should presumably be possible when working together on this with others. But what exact shape that takes, I'm not sure yet :)
Like, I certainly have my ideas on how these sorts of ideals can be promoted in practice (and do apply them every day), but I also don't really want to be the next RMS-esque BDFL figure who has a Grand Master Plan, so I figured it'd be useful to at least 'sign my attendance' in case there are plans by others for something more organized :p
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Git merge is an awesome feature because it lets you take two working branches and turn them into a single non-working branch.
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FOSS bros: If you don't like something on Linux, you can just use a distro that has what you want! Problem solved!!
Me: Is there even a single distro that has usable scroll bars?
FOSS bros: If you don't like something on Linux, you can just write an entire window manager from scratch and—
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MAPPA VIAE LACTEAE: A map of the Milky Way galaxy in the style of a 16th century cartographer.
"The art of cartography has seemingly been forgotten in this modern age of cosmic exploration. ... So here, I have attempted to channel the geographers of the first Age of Exploration, and make a map of our galaxy in their style."
📷: Starkey Comics (https://starkeycomics.com/)
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Here's a thought: self-hosting all technology, a common end goal of many software freedom enthusiasts, has nothing to do with freedom. Rather, it's the logical end of hyper-individualism applied to source code.
@ehashman @technomancy FWIW, I'd be happy to contribute to such movements where I can (and can take on a reasonable amount of heat harassment-wise).
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@ehashman I've thought a lot about what you've said re: self-hosting being just a form of libertarian rugged individualism, and to me that points to the importance of mutual aid as one of the fundamental principles of interaction
"We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand."
as compelling as the declaration of digital autonomy is, it feels like without this critical cornerstone it's somewhat watered down
@ehashman Huh. This is shockingly close to something I wrote a while ago: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.html - refreshing to see that it's not just me yelling about this stuff :)
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adhd developers will literally implement the cool novel way of copying remote emoji before implementing a simple list/search interface
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So let's drop the "open source vs. free software" debate please. What has it accomplished? Whether it's open source or free software, the software licensing movement alone is not enough to achieve any of these movements' stated goals.
FOSS is necessary but not sufficient to ensure digital autonomy. https://techautonomy.org/
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If I cannot recommend your movement to anyone other than able-bodied cishet white dudes in western countries, and on top of that I have to caveat it with "it's prickly, hostile, and everyone does what Dear Leader says", then who the fuck is it for? That demographic is the *least* harmed by proprietary software.
The manifestos of free software got me in the mindset of serving users and protecting fundamental rights. But the practice of free software is just like open source, with more hostility.
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The FSF and free software movement have failed because they prioritized the hero worship of a single individual over the actual furthering of their ideology. They have had nothing new or useful to contribute to the public conversation in over a decade.
So I can't believe people are still parroting "open source is about efficiency, free software is about ethics" or similar. Free software is about the ethics of one man, it's not a movement. They have spent all their energy alienating new blood.
- 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
