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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
re: sourcehut downtime
@jacksonchen666 This feels ironic
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Thinking about how ‘Minimum Viable Product’ and ‘Most Valuable Professional’ share the same acronym.
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Still thinking about this bus I rode from Heathrow Airport last night
For the unaware, I want to point out that it takes about 1.5 hours to fly from Heathrow to Glasgow
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gender presentation? fuck i totally forgot was that due today? fuck
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// TODO: draw the rest of the fucking owl
@sieri@weirder.earth @hazelnot I was expecting to find a VLC joke here, and I wasn't disappointed
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liberalism: hoping the imagined good parts of the system protect us from the observable bad parts of the system
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Het besef van Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, tot zijn schrik, hoe eenvoudig het was in de jaren 30 en nu dus nog steeds is om in slaap te worden gesust door de traagheid aller dingen en naar een #dictatuur te worden geleid. Hoe gemakkelijk het is om je schouders op te halen bij kleine veranderingen die je niet persoonlijk raken, totdat het moment komt wanneer ze je wel raken en wanneer het te laat is om je er nog zorgen over te maken. #NeoFascisme
@Ninji That entire setup looks like it's seen better days
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OH: “bisexuality: both barking and meowing”
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Hi fedi! @darius and I are digging into our governance research, and we have a great starter list of server admins to potentially talk to about governance and administration models and challenges, but *very unofficially*, I’d love to hear suggestions, too.
We’re looking at active servers ranging from ~100-2,500 users with some flex on either end of the range, and we’re building our list with an eye on structural, geographic, demographic (along multiple axes), and linguistic diversity.
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Please stop making software that’s vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. It’s 2024. Learn about parameterized queries. Please.
Please.
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please infodump here
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At Torment Nexus, instead of "setting the employee on fire", we prefer to think of it of it as "facilitating the next step of someone's combustion journey"
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Ugh, someone set this TfL bus information display to German — clearly it should say “502 to Gateway Spa”
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Hydration checkpoint!! When's the last time you had a sip of water?
re: constructive sabotage idea for anti-capitalists
@pinoaffe (Note that they usually won't *tell* you that someone else told them to; they will just insist that they need the feature and be incredibly vague as to why, or come up with an explanation/usecase that doesn't make sense)
re: constructive sabotage idea for anti-capitalists
@pinoaffe Ah, right - that's going to be dependent on the type of software, usually, but a good first pass is "hyperoptimize it for non-commercial use where no money changes hands"; like, deliberately build things without room for a billing mechanism or customer management, for example (eg. no ability to suspend an account for non-payment).
Another good one (though it requires more care to not introduce eg. unintended accessibility issues) is to design around a rigid way of using the system, especially around reporting.
Corporate users often need the software to work in very specific ways because "the manager said they want a report in such-and-such format" regardless of whether that actually makes sense, and every such reported issue that you can answer with "we have no intention of supporting this, _____ should be good enough" is a win.
It does take some experience, but after a while you'll learn to spot the complaints and feature requests that are obviously for corporate use, vs. those of individuals or collectives. "Needs a feature or change because someone else told them to, rather than because it solves a clear problem" is the major red flag.
- 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
