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
@bipolaron @maegul @clarfonthey @researchfairy AFAIK there were e-readers before the Kindle (eg. from Sony) but e-paper display technology has definitely come a long way in terms of contrast. Kindle also definitely just uses panels from E-Ink Corporation.
@fmmniell@rage.love (and I would say that if you are planning on self-hosting the e-mail without a provider, you should expect a lot of misery with e-mails not arriving due to spamfilters and such)
@fmmniell@rage.love There's an inbetween option: hosted e-mail providers which let you use your own domain! Migadu, Fastmail, Soverin are some that come to mind.
@scrumm@beige.party Somehow everybody has your information except for the people who should
@soatok@furry.engineer @theresnotime Counterpoint: making HN/Reddit/etc. mad can be a very effective way to convey a message that techbros would otherwise never listen to :p
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Here's what I think of when I see (white) liberals/leftists pushing the notion that addressing economics & class issues will drive out prejudice and fascism:
2 of my 3 siblings left our family's working class origins behind when they got solid middle class jobs that employed them until retirement. They lead comfortable lives for much of their adulthood.
And yet, they never stopped being racist assholes. They never let go of their sexism. They never stopped seeing queer people as defective.
@KuJoe So you're never *directly* correcting anyone, but you're definitely steering the conversation in a direction that makes the misunderstanding apparent, in a way that people can gracefully recover from
@KuJoe One approach I've often found to work, is to individually ask each of them "so your point is that _______?", where on the blank goes a very specific phrasing that a) makes the misunderstanding easy to implicitly pick out for the other person, and b) is similar for the "clarification" question to both parties, so that it becomes obvious to both that they're actually very similar points.
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@wolfie @cassolotl@eldritch.cafe Aha. Here they are very widespread in homes as well.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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/)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@wolfie @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 @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/)
- 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
