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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Wow another reason to use @tenacity instead of Audacity
Audacity is promoting """AI""" """features"""
https://www.audacityteam.org/blog/openvino-ai-effects/
Edit: Sorry, I thought that stuff was built-in cause of an article I read, they're just linking to some plugins, but it's still really iffy IMO
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@drahardja @bumblebeedc I was early in my it career in the 90s. But in my experience working in financial and telecommunications it at the time, even by 1994-1995, industry hardware and software companies, academia, and even governmental oversight was already happening to find and address Y2K issues in US and nascent Internet infrastructure by then.
By Christmas and New Year's 1999 transitioning to 2000 it was still somewhat stressful. Nobody knew for certain that nearly everything had been addressed. I personally volunteered to take the overnight shift as technical lead/project manager so the rest of my team could enjoy the holiday (and incidentally setting the example for other managers at the private bank where I worked at the time). We had a couple hiccups based solely on some preventable human error from other managers getting nervous and blinking against the psychological stress. But nothing actually broke because of uncaught technical failures.
Everyone, in total, across almost all technical, automated industries had done well, addressing and changing technical and procedural issues in time to make the actual chronological transition a piece of cake. But it had been the fruition of a lot of care and effort. Everyone at the time understood that.
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@PaulWermer @drahardja True. That reminds me of this comic by #WorkChronicles. https://workchronicles.com/comics/page/38/
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@drahardja there is a distressing tendency to reward those who respond to a disaster, while ignoring those who do the difficult work of preventing a disaster. The latter is so much harder to see, and also so much more challenging...
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refers to parental abuse (violence) and downplaying thereof
every now and then I will hear something along the lines of "These days kids can't even be hit without everyone making a fuss, I was hit as a child and it didn't do me any harm"
and each time, I think, actually, it did do you harm. it made you think it's fine to hit children.
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Question for Mastodon Admins: are you using the `REDIS_NAMESPACE` configuration variable?
If yes, can you reply and explain why you are using it?
We will need to drop support for it, as Sidekiq no longer supports it, and I want to be certain we understand every usage to prepare a migration guide.
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"office revolution" 
"the new office chair" 
goddamn neolibs and their fucking appropriation of language
@sneexy@lea.pet "I hope my name won't be on tv lol" 💀
long, re: Why capitalism is a fundamentally violent ideology
@soop@wetdry.world Yeah, I could see that - I think that it's *possible*, but it's going to require a pretty big culture change that will take quite some time to build up. An overnight revolution isn't going to fix this.
IMO this needs to start with mutual aid (and not just one-off donations, but also more structural things), to build up alternative social support structures to keep people healthy and alive without depending on capitalist systems.
That can then serve as a starting point for a cultural change; breaking down the widespread belief that capitalism is the only way to provide for people by showing that it can be done differently (while actually doing so and supporting people in the process!), and gradually growing the movement that way.
Certainly a very slow process that involves a lot of work - but IMO a *possible* one, with many possible implementations, and that's the important part.
(I don't have strong opinions about the exact method to accomplish this; we just need to start somewhere, find something people need, and start doing that. Different people are going to have different answers to that, and that's fine. As long as it keeps moving towards the right goal.)
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Long covid is lichamelijk en zit 'niet tussen de oren', toont onderzoek aan - https://nos.nl/l/2503701
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Why capitalism is a fundamentally violent ideology
The ideology of capitalism is to create a social hierarchy through wealth disparity; you get to the top by having more wealth than others.
Capitalists will always try to privatize basic needs and infrastructure, because those are the most reliable way to extract wealth; you always have to buy them, whether you want to or not.
And if you satisfy those needs without buying them, police will show up to evict you for not paying rent, arrest you for "stealing" food, and so on. If you resist them, violence will be used against you, to force your hand.
This means that there is a direct line from capitalist ideology to state violence; it cannot work without that. Capitalism *must* be violent to exist.
And sure, there are a couple ways to reduce these issues through eg. regulation - but crucially, every single one of those ways *goes against* capitalist ideology.
So "making capitalism work" through regulation is a very strange concept; you're "making it work" by removing it from the equation, by actively working against it.
By that point, isn't it just time to acknowledge that capitalism is violent and undesirable?
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I did *not* need to be called out this directly this morning by today's Questionable Content strip 😅😭
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I collect these. I call them "design in the wild" where end users fix design mistakes on their own. It's a bit shocking how often this happens. Think of how bad it has to be to reach this point. #ux #DesignInTheWild
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If you haven't made any other new year's resolutions - or even if you have - why not randomly select one of your backups and check that you can restore it?
@grmpyprogrammer That's gonna get very interesting in at least the Netherlands, and probably quite a few other countries, where companies are broadly responsible for all their commercial communications regardless of whether they claim they're not
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UK, trans, new NHS GIC pilot in Sussex!
The Sussex Gender Service is now starting up! They're selecting from people who joined a GIC waiting list before a certain date, currently 2023 03 31, and registered with a Sussex GP before then.
It sounds much like the other pilots, happily.
https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/our-services/specialist-services/sussex-gender-service
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That’s a definition of an traffic island I didn’t knew about before #Flooding
re: money, dentist
(This is the dentist in question, in case anyone is curious: https://www.tandartsmazairac.nl/)
- 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
