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
@breizh I mean, that's essentially just unionizing, and while a worthwhile endeavour, it still is a very different thing from "telling people they are doing it wrong".
Like, the problem in that case isn't that people have never gotten feedback on their work. It's that there's generally no culture of solidarity and organizing in tech.
re: TECHNICALLY i'm making a recommendation but it's only semi-serious (was: re: subtooting the entire fediverse, all my followers, and you specifically)
@ifixcoinops @rey I think you meant 'purple earth'
*hides*
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usb-c is amazing until you plug your phone in to a usb-c power bank and your phone starts charging the power bank
unsolicited advice
@gsuberland@chaos.social FWIW, I've used Nix (on a non-NixOS system) for this in the past; just installing some ancient version of MySQL from an ancient version of nixpkgs and loading it with that and dumping it to SQL - not sure if this would work cross-OS though
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one of the lessons of being an adult that suck a lot but are necessary to learn is to say "I can't do this to, simply because I don't have the additional capacity at the moment for that" ...
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people need to realize that dissolving the lines between gender also means dissolving the lines between sexuality. you cannot say gender is fake and then say sexuality is strict and rigid.
there are multigender/genderfluid people who are lesbians and gay men at the same time. there are mspec lesbians/gays/straights who have a complex relationship with gender and their sexuality. there are gay men who are women and lesbians who are men because male isn't the opposite of female.
"conflicting" labels are a part of many people's queer experience, because the human experience isn't simple enough to be put into neat perfect categories. if you truly support trans and genderqueer people, you need to accept the fact that gender and sexuality is complex and there will be people whose identities you don't understand.
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jewelry
malicious glee at seeing the desperation in the advertorial “The History of Natural Diamond Tennis Bracelets”
because even women who are curious about the most traditional flashy diamond looks are thinking lab or moissanite more and more
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political complaining
Being an anarchist (and actually having studied power dynamics and decisionmaking in that process) means constantly seeing people make the same governance errors over and over again, consistently having things fail in the same ways across a wide spectrum of topics, and then being told that *you're* the naive one when you try to point out this pattern
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Was just thinking again of Ibby, who decided to burn his passports and travel from Norway to Morocco on foot, without any money: https://www.shareable.net/walking-from-norway-to-africa-without-money-or-a-passport/
I met him in 2013 at an Occupy camp in NL. Very inspiring person, who pretty much lived the world in the way that so many folks imagine. Could listen to him talk for hours.
I don't know where he is now or what he's doing, but he seems to have published a book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43562112-the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-not-hitchhiking - I do hope to get back in touch with him some day.
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software development meta
A reminder that the most useful feedback often doesn't come from the people who love your project or the people who hate it, but from those who have serious concerns but continue using and recommending it anyway
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Your periodic reminder that the root cause of slow/inefficient software is not laziness, or Javascript, or Electron, or "interpreted languages", or people not understanding how to do software development, or not understanding memory management, or libraries, or abstractions.
None of those are the root cause. The root cause is capitalism, and the incentives it creates to build software that works barely well enough to make money under impossible deadlines, often leaving developers no choice in the matter and affecting the broader software development culture.
You want to fix bad software, you need to start by addressing those capitalist incentives. Telling people that they are doing a bad job will get you nowhere, and you will likely get things wrong in the process.
Sushi met speculaas en kaneel als vulling blijkt dus echt superlekker te zijn - experiment geslaagd!
*voegt toe aan lijstje met vegan sushi-opties*
re: Why don't you just use XMPP?
@cero I would say that hosting a server was the only part of the experience that I didn't find painful... once I found Prosody, that is, which seemed to be the only thing that Just Worked, and with an actually helpful and welcoming community.
That didn't help with any of the other problems, of course... :/
meta, adoption of fedi, bluesky
@serapath @aral I think it's important to recognize that projects like the fediverse operate on an entirely different timeline from corporate platforms.
The only way something like Bluesky can become successful (by their metrics) is by making a splash, and having everyone learn about it at once, and move over before anyone asks too many questions and figures out that it's kind of crap.
But the fediverse, and other communal projects, don't need to do that. Our metric of success is (or at least should be) one of sustainable growth; and for that, it is entirely fine for people to learn about it and move over slowly. We're not on a deadline, as long as things keep going in the right direction. We're not subject to hype cycles if we create a nice space.
This is very important because you *can't* compete with corporations using their own playbook. You have to take advantage of their weaknesses and your strengths, and "not needing a mass move to retain users" is an example of such a strength for genuine community projects.
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Seeing all the people in Germany talking about protesting against their local AfD fash trash is giving me life today 😍✊🏻
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Have you tried taking it off the wall and turning it upside down?
(Whoever designed the Virgin Media access point clearly lived on a planet without gravity. It’s left an unsightly bit of unpainted wall showing for the moment but otherwise should be far more robust now.)
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Have you ever experienced that waking up to fake falling while trying to fall asleep thing that some peoples brains do sometimes?
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ACAB
oh, so when *I* throw shit at a problem until something sticks and half-assedly improves it, that's called "unproductive" and "lack of expertise", but when a COMPUTER does it it's suddenly "machine learning" and a "promising technology"?!?!
- 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
