Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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
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Hello venture capitalists
I have invented quantum computer
What does it do? Yes it does!! Trust me!!!
Now I just need $ Billion
With it I will buy:
* Regulatory capture
* No one else can invent a quantum
* Then sell the company to other investors and cash out before [redacted]
Thank you for coming to my talk
drugshandel, politie, uithuiszetting
Als ik dan dit soort berichten lees... https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4416765/automobilist-die-2-moeders-en-2-kinderen-doodreed-wordt-uit-zn-huis-gezet
Dan vallen er genoeg vraagtekens te zetten bij de gang van zaken, maar dan vraag ik me toch vooral af: als iemand daadwerkelijk zo'n spil in de drugshandel is als je probeert te impliceren, waarom woont die dan in een sociale huurwoning...?
Dit doet toch vragen rijzen of die persoon wel daadwerkelijk enig vermogen had, en van wie dat gevonden geld nu eigenlijk was. En vooral wat nu eigenlijk de consequenties zijn van dit soort uitzetbeleid, want het lijkt me dat je daarmee vooral mensen die al weinig hebben nog verder de shit in duwt, drugshandel of niet. De mensen die er echt rijk van worden, die kopen gewoon zelf wat vastgoed.
Dus wat is nu eigenlijk het *echte* verhaal achter dit verhaal?
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🦨Recommendations please🦨
Please boost this out of my echo chamber.
I'm looking for a camera:
- prefer instant print, all in one, printer as part of the unit*
[edit: a non-instant, develop at home option is also a possibility. Not being instant is not a deal breaker, but it does need to be a way I can produce a photo print myself]
- preferably 100% analogue, but just not connecting to the Internet/Bluetooth is okay
- neither the machine nor the consumables can be vastly expensive [prefer to keep the budget around $200-500, willing to save more if there's something significantly better available]
- can be from any era as long as consumables remain available
- It must take a clear picture with good dynamic range, good fine textures
- it doesn't have to capture colour at all, but monochrome film cannot be at a premium either, that's my bulk standard
- all the basic manual controls must be user facing, if any aspect of the process has an 'auto' mode it must be easy to disable
-edit: I'm very open to getting my hands dirty and have lots of laboratory experience. If there's a different analogue system that you love that can be done at a home lab relatively cheaply, please to hit me with that too.
*(eg Polaroid, but not necessarily using Polaroid chemistry or branding)
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The advantage of using a screen reader, at least in regards to deadnames, is that I can pretty much eliminate it entirely. Just change the pronunciations to make the screen reader think that the deadname is said like the new name, and you've solved a problem. Like yes you deadnamed me, but actually you didn't LOL.
Adding that of course this would only be effective with uncommon names, or at least names with uncommon spellings. But in my case this is possible as mine is not common.
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Was machen Niederländer wenn zwei Spuren zu einer werden?
Einen RRReisverschluss!
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@Jo @skippingmoonrocks @arjan Was op Threads, geloof ik? (Wat ook gelijk een hoop zegt over of federatie met Threads gewenst is...)
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"The wrong Amazon is burning"
Sticker spotted in Anchorage, Alaska
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me every time I want to boost something, and it doesn't have alt text. ffs
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How did we get to a point where it's okay to have a feature that has this disclaimer
half-finished thoughts
@zkat I feel like a lot of the real-world problems with "flat" organizations don't come from the attempt at having a flat structure, but rather from the assumption that it can reliably be made flat *by decree*, and that there is a lot more mileage in non-hierarchical structures if you treat hierarchies as a constant danger to monitor for and design against, rather than as something that you disavow and then assume is gone.
On the other hand, I don't see that much mileage in even well-defined hierarchical constructions, because they are fundamentally prone to the problem that hierarchical complexity always hampers good-faith actors more than it hampers bad-faith actors (who generally operate outside the rules), and so any attempt at building extra safeguards is likely to increase that (dis)advantage as an unintentional side-effect.
So I don't know that the solution lies in more rigidly-defined structures and procedures. What the solution *does* lie in is a more complex question, and something I can't formulate useful thoughts about right now
@skippingmoonrocks Not exactly a self-test, and not authoritative/exhaustive (notably: it cannot prove a negative!) but empirically I found asking people "do you identify with this experience?" to have a lot of accurate hits on this article: https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html
Relatedly, this store has exactly one branch that is plausibly reachable by public transport
@ginny Further receipts on that person from an account on another instance: https://mastodon.radio/@KQ4NGH/111772619952957300 (they were explicitly warned for harassing other people there before)
Today I was at a store where the staff actually knew what they were selling. They still exist!
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I feel like free software advocates don't talk about the painful switching cost of moving from proprietary software.
I feel like it's important to be honest about how much work it is to switch to free software.
I also feel it's important to give people hope. That yes, some parts will be hard, but there is also joy in discovery and finding new community.
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I think I need to write a meta blog post on "How to support people trying free software."
The first comments I usually get when explaining my negative user experience is:
- "I think they fixed that, have you tried it again recently?"
- "really? I've never seen that before"
- "here's why they made that design decision" followed by long technical details
UGGH! This does not acknowledge my negative experiences, my feelings, or my usage constraints. It immediately jumps into troubleshooting, problem solving, or software architecture.
Please for the love of your fellow human beings, validate people's negative experiences with free software!
Even a simple, "I'm sorry that you experienced that, it sounds really frustrating," would help.
reddit, software development
@wmd@chaos.social These are the same old arguments that have been used since time immemorial, none of them have ever held up to scrutiny, they do not relate to my point, and they are not really things I'm interested in arguing them further.
software development compatibility gripes
@wmd@chaos.social That is precisely my point. The cross-platform FOSS options cannot compete with Adobe and the like. So it ends up being either webapps or no apps on Linux, from the perspective of most people.
- 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
