Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
This frustration brought to you by the Jellyfin Chromecast player receiving a casting error from the Cast SDK and then just logging "casting errror" while completely ignoring the error parameter
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Man die zich drie slagen in de rondte post om duidelijk te maken dat hij echt geen seksist is en daar ook niet van beschuldigd mag worden zegt dat ik het ‘in mijn hoofdje haal’. Hoofdje.
What is *with* developers writing code that just swallows error messages and doesn't bother passing them on down the chain?
Makes debugging failures completely impossible, argh
hot(?) take, politics
Reaching the right goal in the wrong way is often preferable over reaching the wrong goal in the right way, actually.
Why? Because getting the goal wrong does long-lasting harm, but when *getting there* the wrong way, the harm is only temporary.
And yes, that means that sometimes the end really *does* justify the means, and exactly where that boundary is is an incredibly important conversation to have, not something to categorically dismiss as a slippery slope.
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People of the fedi, I think I'm on the lookout for a new instance, where I can say 'Fuck the Israeli Apartheid State' as much as I want.
Tell me why I, an extremely sensitive autistic, queer, anarchist, vegan, non-binary musician, would find a welcoming home at yours.
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I knew those authors using AI to churn out books reminded me of something...
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If I were “the most powerful person” in an industry where workers (e.g. editors) are already underpaid and concerned about their jobs and the product (i.e. writers) are very concerned about the impacts of a technology for different reasons, I probably would not tell the New York Times how excited I am about AI. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/books/penguin-random-house-nihar-malaviya.html
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@jacksonchen666 Oh and "best practices" that are actually just tech-company-specific conventions, of course
@jacksonchen666 Many different things, usually varieties on "this is how you do things Like The Big Tech Companies", involving a lot of copypasting and mimicking what others are doing without understanding the problem it was originally meant to solve (which they don't actually have themselves, usually)
I guess people recognize my name because of my VPN gist now...
@jacksonchen666 (Needless to say, those promises were extremely far from reality)
@jacksonchen666 I did private tutoring for Node.js for a while, and like 50% of my work involved un-teaching nonsense that people picked up from absurdly overpriced "courses" or "bootcamps" that promised to make you a programming expert in weeks
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We're well on the way to #GoToSocial 0.14.0 release candidate 1!
Based on the sheer amount of fixes and improvements included, 0.14.0 will probably be the biggest release we've done so far 
It will also (probably, unless something goes wrong) be the first GoToSocial release to include support for the Move activity, which will let you migrate an existing account to or from a GoToSocial instance, while keeping your followers and following relationships intact :) We waited a long time to write this functionality because we wanted to make sure GoToSocial was in a decent state before people start migrating accounts to it.
So, very exciting! If all goes well, expect more news on the first release candidate in a couple weeks (we're still fixing some bugs, as always).
health, kidney disease, positive
The result is in: my potential kidney donor is officially compatible \o/
There are still some remaining general health/physical tests before final approval, but this is pretty much the biggest hurdle of the process resolved :)
@polyfloyd (Though it's used more generally to describe something that someone else has said, including to you, without revealing who it was)
OH: "What do you call the color of the walls here? Landlord white?"
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Lupi Coffee stelt op grond van art. 12 lid 3 van haar barista-handboek dat een werker diens arbeidscontract aan niemand mag tonen. Dat houdt dus in dat barista’s hun contract niet mogen laten zien aan arbeidsdeskundigen, de vakbond of andere belangenbehartigers. https://www.doorbraak.eu/geheimhouding-concurrentiebeding-en-polonaise-lupi-coffee-voert-druk-op-haar-baristas-verder-op/
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Every time someone calls a Discord group a "Server" I die a little inside
- 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
