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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github, angry
The absolute fucking gall of #Github to claim in their celebratory blogpost that actually, *they* are responsible for "developers no longer just being people building software for tech companies", and that they are "always putting developers first" in the same line as where they bring up Copilot.
Fuck you, Github. Sincerely, go fuck yourself. We were here before you, and this isn't your fucking achievement to claim. You *co-opted* the FOSS community, you didn't fucking create it.
(This is the post in question, by the way: https://github.blog/2023-01-25-100-million-developers-and-counting/)
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(SF)
I'd like to see more fediverse things that make use of the fact that it's a federated system where anything that follows an API can interact, rather than just trying to recreate an experience from a different, commercial website
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A silly custom fediverse idea: a server with a fictional bus you can board (by replying to certain posts and then following the account - you have to board the bus for the request to be approved). You then can see posts about different bus stops, and can get off at different points and explore (follow new accounts you previously couldn't)
With an open activitypub API I feel like you could do some cool interactive fiction things
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@wolfie@queer.party @cassolotl@eldritch.cafe I mean, this is exactly how I use it, and it works fine with one hand for me.
Are these things not common outside of NL?
@wolfie@queer.party @cassolotl@eldritch.cafe That's why it's hinged, so you can press on it as necessary :p
Those "this is what it takes to run a Mastodon instance" posts are great, because you can immediately tell who has ever actually run a forum, and who has only ever heard of the concept of "community management" through their legal department
@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk @maia What'd I miss? 👀
@cassolotl@eldritch.cafe They serve a legitimate purpose though; holding the roll in place while you tear off a sheet, without 'contaminating' the remainder of the roll.
github, angry
The absolute fucking gall of #Github to claim in their celebratory blogpost that actually, *they* are responsible for "developers no longer just being people building software for tech companies", and that they are "always putting developers first" in the same line as where they bring up Copilot.
Fuck you, Github. Sincerely, go fuck yourself. We were here before you, and this isn't your fucking achievement to claim. You *co-opted* the FOSS community, you didn't fucking create it.
(This is the post in question, by the way: https://github.blog/2023-01-25-100-million-developers-and-counting/)
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In the textiles industry, misaligned patterns is a looming issue.
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I tried to get them to voluntarily stop, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to recommend a #Fediblock against flockingbird.social
They are scraping post content and making it searchable
*Edit:* It will be difficult if not impossible to block them, because they are evidently getting their content from the hashtag timeline API of botsin.space
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@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul
if it's possible, someone *will* do it, eh? Nah, I reject that.
I think your point was to say "it is difficult or impossible to entirely prevent on a technical level", and I totally agree there.
But, man, there are so many basic fuckin' accessibility projects that haven't "just magically happened" because they're possible. Things get built because people care enough to build them. It's hard to look at what you said and not be bitter as fuck, and this is as someone who spends time building accessibility tools, but wanting more.
Being toxic to toxic developers saps the 'caring' out of their project and drains their energy, which usually shuts them down. It isn't a 100% solution, but it's pretty dang effective and requires no changes to code.
@clarfonthey @researchfairy Worth noting that the primary reason for this is patents - essentially all "production-ready" e-paper patents are held by the E-Ink Corporation and they've historically been extremely cagey about letting others use them.
@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul I can assure you that scraping is impossible to reliably prevent. I know this because scraping (albeit ethically) is my specialization and I have yet to see even multi-billion dollar companies figure out a reliable way to stop it. Even Google's completely absurd and over-the-top TCP fingerprinting (which requires a level of infrastructure control that fedi instances do not have) can't stop it fully.
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Free Advertising Update (see thread): between emails, DMs and replies on this thread I've had somewhere between 33 and 38 people ask for advertising, and I've put 33 ads up (some weren't a good fit or had bugs that firefox didn't like).
The recurring theme is that all these sites are WEIRD
I'd forgotten how WEIRD was the realm of the personal hobby website
It is truly wonderful browsing these sites and I will generate a full page of them for you all soon
- 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
