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
@crablab@chaos.social https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/manufacturer-deliberately-bricked-trains-repaired-by-competitors-hackers-find
The comment section contains some pretty on-point transcriptions of the absurdity of their defense
Reading up on the latest news around the Newag train DRM shitshow and wow, that is *the* worst cover story I have seen in some time, how do they think this is going to fool anyone
meta?
Anyone else notice how a lot of (especially tech) news stories talking about things reported on social media, now frequently mention Mastodon, sometimes Twitter, and basically never Bluesky or Threads?
Just me?
ADHD, medical system
I'm not convinced that ADHD medication should be gated by doctors at all, but even if you insist that it should be...
The job of a doctor should really only be to determine whether it is *safe* for you to try or take it, not to decide for you whether you 'need' it, like is the case now - the only thing that accomplishes is people not getting the treatment they need
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FWIW, I love Firefox and it is one of like ... 3 definitively good applications I enjoy on a regular basis (along with Emacs and SBCL and, okay 4, Lollypop as a music player).
But whoo boy, you can tell that the leadership of the org has _for a long time_ had no idea how to generate revenue from its Actual Technopolitical/Engineering Value as opposed to "eyeballs".
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great news:
preparations to make StreetComplete available on iOS are now considered complete
"Let's stop talking about preparing stuff for a potential iOS port that may or may not be developed, but ... actually do it! Let's try to achieve a working version of StreetComplete for iOS. It could be a minimum viable product at first, and then we will move from there."
https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/1892#issuecomment-1865140170
so the "real work" starts now: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
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it's weird how well that trick works when you're writing something in your editor and you've been looking at the words for so long that you can't really read them meaningfully but then you render it in a different font in the browser and suddenly it's like a whole new document
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Reset the board to 0 days since last time Warthunder forums had sensitive and secret information leaked on it!!
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this table of C escape characters is making the same noises as I do when I have to wake up early
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@marove@chaos.social A motion system composed of square cogs
@HannahCelsius@sunny.garden "Helaas, als jullie nou binnen 10 uur van mijn verhuisbericht actie ondernomen hadden, dan had ik die opzegboete best willen betalen, maar nu zijn jullie te laat"
@scanlime Wow, they're VC-funded, and they run a business on the side (MineOS) where they sell privacy complain management software using "AI" to companies to presumably deal with the requests from their own service...
Capitalism really manages to ruin everything, even privacy laws, doesn't it?
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privacy tip for NL citizens or permanent residents
You can request this at your municipality; be aware that they will probably talk you out of it, in my case they said "well this only matters to the church and you arent with a church" (false)
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privacy tip for NL citizens or permanent residents
life pro tip if you are a Dutch citizen or permanent resident, you can request 'secrecy' on your personal records at the municipality you are registered at. this means that organisations that don't absolutely must have your personal data will not be able to request it.
according to www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/privacy-en-persoonsgegevens/vraag-en-antwoord/waar-vraag-ik-geheimhouding-van-mijn-persoonsgegevens-aan
Have you requested your municipality to stop giving your personal details? It may then no longer give your information to:
- the Interchurch Member Admnistration foundation (Stichting Interkerkelijke Ledenadministratie; SILA)
- Organisations providing care to patients in a institution
- Organisations performing judicial work
- Organizations to which a municipality would want to give personal data based on a municipal ordinance. For example, a sports club or a charity, such as the Red CrossThis seems, in my opinion, to be a good idea in the current times. Especially given the fact that I'd rather not trust the IT of a church or a small town sports club, for instance.
Weet iemand of er in Nederland eigenlijk een intersectionele/radicale organisatie of belangengroep voor Sinti/Roma bestaat?
De organisaties die ik zelf kan vinden ruiken allemaal op het eerste gezicht nogal institutioneel, en soms botweg racistisch.
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macOS don't leave .DS_Store files everywhere on my NAS challenge: impossible
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deutsche bahn anecdote
thinking about that one time when deutsche bahn managed to be so late there weren't any more connecting trains going that day, so they paid for a taxi that drove me 112 km to my final destination
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you're taught in english class that poems are like
"A flowerbed amongst the trees
i saw it there beside the bees.
i studied it a minute 'fore
i proceeded back outside for more"
and then you graduate high school and discover poems that are like, a detailed description of the lips of a lover that died due to the government
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Nice, the European Union has officially stated that accessible overlays do not work. This isn't news to most of us, but it's always nice to have something official to point at!
- 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
