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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@virtulis Looks like B2C only did parcel aggregration so they're still not really delivering anything themselves, just passing it on to local last-mile transporters (and presumably providing centralized tracking and billing services)
Rust ecosystem document your expected error handling patterns challenge 2024 (still failing)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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PostNL have stopped leaving a note when they miss a delivery. I have a package coming that I don't have a tracking number for. So if I'm not home when they try to deliver it. It'll goto an unknown parcel shop. And I'll never know to go collect it...
This feels fundamentally broken.
@fogti@chaos.social Like, part of the problem is that CommonJS was already so widespread that it will never go away fully due to old code hanging around, and so now to have a tool that works in the real world, you must implement both CJS and ESM and this is likely to remain true in perpetuity
@fogti@chaos.social The near-total incompatibility in practice combined with the lack of actual convincing benefits besides "looks shiny" and the widespread misinformation about what the benefits supposedly are.
It's created basically two split ecosystems that take hours upon hours to try and integrate back together for maintainers, and all tooling now needs *two* implementations forever
This is really one of those "I wish I had been wrong" moments
Quickly checking up on the state of public opinion about ESM in JS and it kind of feels like by this point pretty much everyone who has actually worked on JS tooling (which ESM was claimed to make easier) has come around to the view that ESM was a mistake and not worth the ecosystem misery it caused
Not remotely the first time I'm bringing this up, but: a lot of services don't actually need federation (with all the tradeoffs and caveats that come with that), they just need a mechanism for zero-effort account/profile creation and management that doesn't rely on a third-party service.
That's the sort of thing that could plausibly be solved with a browser extension or feature. It would be nice to see more interest of developers in doing so.
If you can eliminate the whole "pick username, enter personal details, generate password, keep track in password manager, confirm e-mail address in site-specific way, have to keep updating avatars/names across sites forever" dance, then "needing an account per site" suddenly isn't a problem at all anymore...
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You really gotta wonder what all went into just this banner.
1. Someone had to say "we need change the login page to add a banner that says we're going to change the login page"
2. This proposal was met with no significant dissent.
3. A project manager presumably drafted up a task and assigned it to someone.
4. There probably were multiple versions discussed.
5. The change with the banner probably had to be deployed first to a staging site for testing.
and so on
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Every time I've had to log into something through google for like the last month or so there's been this weird banner threatening that google is preparing to make their login page worse. It's so funny. I wonder if they've got a KPI for how much dread they fill their users with.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Who has got an accessible guide for 'best you can do' level privacy practices for people who have to interact with google services? Specifically pitched at non-computer experts. Obviously best privacy practice would be to not interact with their services at all, but in this case 'just use a different thing' is not helpful - like i said looking for 'best you can do if you have to use google stuff' like search, docs, gmail, etc.
bluesky
"Defederation, a way of addressing moderation issues in Mastodon by disconnecting servers, is not as relevant on Bluesky because there are other layers to the system. Server operators can set rules for what content they will host, but tools like blocklists and moderation services are what help communities self-organize around moderation preferences. We’ve already integrated block and mute lists, and the tooling for independent moderation services is coming soon."
That sure is a lot of words to say "we have no way to deal with clusters of targeted abuse" and make it sound like it's a *good* thing
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tobacco industry, harm reduction
Sigh, I guess I should've expected corporations to try and coopt "harm reduction"...
To be clear about this, "harm reduction" is what you do when you cannot solve the situation fully because of circumstances or (more frequently) an oppressive system that you do not control, and so the best you can do is mitigate the impact.
It is NOT an acceptable thing to do or argue when you *are* the ones in power and responsible for the problem existing in the first place, like tobacco companies are trying to do! The only valid approach in that situation is to stop harming people entirely.
@alda (Not directly related, but what are your thoughts on a *minimum* time off policy to mitigate these issues, if you want to share them?)
@jonny This stuff is amazing, I knew about Wright's attempts to run a scam but this is absolute clownshow-level forgery
@jonny (Not that he was really any more successful at that, of course)
@jonny Background: Wright's scam (which has been ongoing for like a decade by this point?) is meant to convince eg. courts, not cryptocurrency people, to lay a claim to things through the legal system
@smveerman Ohhh okay, that makes sense then
- 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
