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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- 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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Hey just a smol reminder... Don't boost non-cw'ed screenshots of bad, hateful takes. It's not funny to me and I think I can speak for a lot of people who just don't want to see that on their feed.
I just unfollowed a couple of people because I'm seeing the same homophobic shit boosted multiple times and it's upsetting.
Thank you for understanding!
@domino@toot.site I uh
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ogl; queer/trans
I have zero stake in the #OGL meta going around, but I'm reading through WotC's 1.2 draft right now and it still feels like a pretty raw deal.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playtest
In one point among many others: As a queer polyamorous trans person I can't afford to trust any corporation with the unilateral, unchallengeable right to terminate my license if I "engage in conduct that is... obscene," with their sole right to define that. There are CEOs today who define my existence as obscene.
@savanni So something like this already *sort of* exists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server) but it's also kinda crusty, more like the mid-2000s definition of "slick".
It would be nice to have something slicker, and that doesn't fall over on half the audio files :)
@Dee Intersperse between the most and least recent posts, one from each stack every time
re: food
@schratze Thanks! Will give it a try some time soon :) Can *probably* figure out the German, I don't speak a word of it but can usually read it pretty well
re: food
@schratze Wait, how does that work? Where do I find a recipe?
@AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe which is also squatted
@Dee Wait are you the driver
@Dee Stop the train!
re: food
@Kye@tech.lgbt I mean, it's essentially just a chain fastfood place similar to McDonald's and Burger King, just focused on spare ribs (Spare Rib Express).
By that rationale McDonald's and Burger King should have good vegetarian burgers, but both just slather it in sauce and it's terrible :p
food
Found the first *good* vegetarian fastfood burger around here, and it's from a spare ribs place for some fucking reason, and also better than the meat version
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#nix/#nixos ramblings:
If often read the now classic "Nix is not a general purpose language" statement online. I respectfully disagree with that.
Sure, Nix was not originally designed as a general-purpose language. That being said, people decided otherwise.
Build systems are inherently complex. Re-writing the whole world to bend to your weird non-FHS-compliant model is even more complex.
The expressiveness of the language led people to write all kinds of Nix libraries to work on Nixpkgs. Generators, parser combinators, unit test frameworks, a *whole* lazy module system, and the list goes on.
These tools are a key point in the success of Nixpkgs. They helped the project scale to what it is today. Complexity exists, complexity is here, in Nixpkgs. We have to manage it.
This is where it gets ugly. Nix is a de-facto general-purpose language. That being said, it hasn't been designed to be one. This is where most of the pain comes from:
- there's very little tooling around the language (no LSP, primitive profiler, primitive debugger, primitive unit test system, etc.).
- the evaluator is fairly slow. (no JIT, single-threaded evaluation)
Despite having been designed as a domain-specific language, Nix de facto became a general-purpose language. For better and for worse.
Complexity is here and is unlikely to go away. If we want the project to succeed in the long term, we have to deal with it and work on bending Nix to become a better general purpose language... ... or migrate to a new general purpose language (Guix did that, successfully as far as I can experience).
If often read the now classic "Nix is not a general purpose language" statement online. I respectfully disagree with that.
Sure, Nix was not originally designed as a general-purpose language. That being said, people decided otherwise.
Build systems are inherently complex. Re-writing the whole world to bend to your weird non-FHS-compliant model is even more complex.
The expressiveness of the language led people to write all kinds of Nix libraries to work on Nixpkgs. Generators, parser combinators, unit test frameworks, a *whole* lazy module system, and the list goes on.
These tools are a key point in the success of Nixpkgs. They helped the project scale to what it is today. Complexity exists, complexity is here, in Nixpkgs. We have to manage it.
This is where it gets ugly. Nix is a de-facto general-purpose language. That being said, it hasn't been designed to be one. This is where most of the pain comes from:
- there's very little tooling around the language (no LSP, primitive profiler, primitive debugger, primitive unit test system, etc.).
- the evaluator is fairly slow. (no JIT, single-threaded evaluation)
Despite having been designed as a domain-specific language, Nix de facto became a general-purpose language. For better and for worse.
Complexity is here and is unlikely to go away. If we want the project to succeed in the long term, we have to deal with it and work on bending Nix to become a better general purpose language... ... or migrate to a new general purpose language (Guix did that, successfully as far as I can experience).
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And here is the full text (long)
Reddit user this_my_sportsreddit writes:
Here’s the most messed up part. I used to work at Amazon corporate, let me tell you how the entire program Amazon Smile got created.
So basically, when a customer wants to buy a product, they usually go straight to Amazon.com and enter what they’re looking for. But there’s also a large segment of customers who begin their search on google, and ends up at Amazon. Well guess what. When that type of search to purchase experience happens, Amazon has to pay google. Internally, Amazon thought that if they could force users to go straight to Amazon, offer a small but obviously less amount of money to charity from each customer than would have been paid to google, it would help kill customers going to google, save Amazon more money than paying google, and be good overall for the brand value of Amazon.
That’s why for the program to work, the user has to start shopping at smile.amazon.com. Until recently, the option to use amazon smile wasn't even available in the app, and even then the user still had to 'renew' being a part of Smile multiple times a year. There is no way for a customer to go through the traditional shopping experience, and then during checkout decide they want to give a portion of their purchase to charity, because giving to charity isn't the point of the overall program. Amazon Smile was developed by the Traffic Optimization team, whose entire purpose is increasing efficiency and lowering costs of getting customers to Amazon. A team of Amazon employees whose sole purpose is doing good in the world doesn't exist, despite employees repeatedly asking for such a team to be built in pretty much every single all-hands meeting.
Literally everything the company does is about profits, and extended customer lifetime value. Everything. Even the charity programs are just designed to save Amazon money.
User Echoenbatbat replies:
I also used to work at Amazon, and was a founding member of the AmazonSmile program, part of the Charity Support team working with the nonprofits to help them actually receive the funds. This was 2013. Left in 2016 after fully fleshing out the program, developed the metrics reporting system for tracking charity issues, and even a blurb document to respond to the most common questions nonprofits had.
You are completely correct. The intent of the program was to be cost neutral - the amount Amazon donated to charities was about equal to the costs it saved by not having to pay Google for advertising clicks. Tax writeoff was a negligible side benefit, goodwill was just marketing fodder.
Left because there was no opportunity for promotion or upward mobility. Got my Masters degree and used what I learned about nonprofits and charities to join a nonprofit as a grant writer and eventually help manage a network of nonprofits who help people find employment.
You're absolutely correct.
This is kind of cursed. Apparently these 'new' powerbanks actually contain the old (recalled) EE powerbanks with a different shell around them for branding.
Context:
- https://discourse.voss.earth/t/pb-260-brauchbare-3-euro-powerbank-bei-mediamarkt/1675 (this is where the picture is from)
- https://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/News/article/breaking-ee-set-to-recall-all-power-bars-due-to-fire-hazard
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i did a whole fucking night of sleep and am still #5 on hackernews, there are almost 500 comments, just how many bad takes about my pronouns can you have
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Beste @Radboud_uni , er moet me iets van het hart. De slogan van onze universiteit is "Je Bent Nodig." Zelf vind ik dat heel inspirerend: als wetenschappers en studenten zitten we niet in een ivoren toren, maar hebben we iets bij te dragen aan de wereld om ons heen!
Toch valt het me soms tegen hoe dit binnen onze organisatie zelf in de praktijk wordt gebracht. Schoonmakers die (via externe bedrijven) werken aan de RU verdienen te weinig om van rond te komen, maar ondanks de inspanningen van de ondernemingsraad ziet de universiteit het niet als haar verantwoordelijkheid om hier wat aan te veranderen. De RU doet nog altijd zaken met banken die investeren in de fossiele industrie - iets dat regelrecht ingaat tegen de eigen duurzame ambities. Het argument is dat duurzame banken nu eenmaal niet voldoen aan de ratingseisen van OCW. En daar blijft het dan bij.
Zou je, juist van een universiteit, niet wat meer vindingrijkheid, durf en engagement mogen verwachten? Een beetje "out of the box" denken, kritische/lastige vragen stellen, "speaking truth to power" - dat soort dingen? Want door je zo te verschuilen achter formele regeltjes en een vooronderstelde marktlogica maak je dat "Je Bent Nodig" niet écht waar.... die slogan zal toch zeker niet alleen voor de bühne zijn?
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
- 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
