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
My brain seems to have invented a desert-themed citybuilder/RTS game with water management mechanics that has appeared in my dreams at least twice so far
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The most joyous thing I've seen today is a man on TikTok extolling the merits of dating nerds such as himself:
"Don't feel like going out? Good. I usually don't. Why would I spend $120 on three drinks and a cover charge in a nightclub when for the exact same amount of money we can get the brand new Mario Kart, a bottle of tequila, Chinese takeout, and spend the entire night in our pajamas?"
Compelling, I would say!
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On a scale of 1 to a fire, how much do you trust this power supply to function if I try to turn it on?
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the syslog() function in glibc has a buffer overflow that lets attackers get root. it's had it SINCE FUCKING 1993. FOR MY ENTIRE TIME ON THIS PLANET.
When will enough be fucking enough and we ban the writing of new programs in C from an industry standards level?
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i wish people understood that being non-binary doesn't imply looking androgynous. sorry, i may be fat, have large shoulders, a beard, body hair and a deep voice. i'm still non-binary. i didn't choose to have these traits, nor do I feel particularly interested in changing them. doesn't change the fact that i am not a man
copyright hot take time
@spinach Seemingly often literally, looking at the patterns of "western companies taking ideas that are widespread in other countries and then patenting them locally and trying to enforce them abroad"...
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anyway copyright law is really just a way for large corporations to bully smaller entities into submission. until it is fundamentally rewritten to prevent that, or disbanded entirely, we are stuck with the reality of large corporations and their bullshit
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copyright hot take time
copyright is just colonialism for ideas
It occurs to me that debatebros demanding a "source" before believing you, is implicitly also an expectation that you've built your *own* belief from a single source, rather than from a deep dive into the topic (which would not be easily referencable), and so they're basically demanding the weakest form of evidence
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@clarfonthey It's also like, in most cases they're not even really *needed*, they're just proposed as a matter of procedure.
I do a varying amount of FOSS development work as a freelancer, and the procedure for every 'company larger than a single person' has been identical:
1. Be asked to sign an NDA, as a prerequisite for contract agreement
2. Reject the NDA, explain that it is incompatible with my work, ask what problem they are seeking to prevent with it
3. "We don't want our proprietary code to be distributed"
4. Explain that this is already not allowed anyway, under copyright law
5. "Oh okay, we'll just go ahead without an NDA then"
Just... nobody ever really cares, in the end, it's never as hard of a requirement as it is presented as initially. They're massively overused indeed.
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hotter tech take
I think that NDAs are extremely, extremely overused across all industries
like, I get that most public environments (especially gamers) are hostile and it's better to have a unified front when announcing stuff
I think that from a basic standpoint it makes sense to hide things from the public, although I don't think that it should be at the risk of anything but your job, tbqh
games companies and tech companies in general are so quick to just say "yeah sign away your rights to reveal this thing to literally anyone, including your closest friends, and we will sue you for thousands to millions of dollars if you break the contract"
like
that's bad, actually
and the idea of no one knowing that you're working with a company who was probably problematic a year ago, until you've spent a year investing in them, is also bad??
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angry political venting
first it was, don't call me a nazi
then it was, actually, it's bad to condemn nazis
now, it's bad to condemn actual fucking genocide
and it's bad to even just, condemn genocide in general! like, what the fuck!
"don't kill entire groups of people in an attempt to permanently exterminate them" should not be a fucking hot take, it should be so obvious it need not be stated
but also
fuck the genocide israel is committing in particular, and support the fucking palestinian people
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venting about tech bashing
Tech bashing / contempt culture is basically the reason that I can't enjoy stuff like "people uploading weird shitposts to npm" anymore, something that would otherwise be a spark of joy in a day of difficult project work - because I *know* that as soon as I bring it up anywhere, there will be Some Dude waiting behind the curtains to take it as an opportunity to start complaining about JS and loudly talking about all the reasons they personally would never use it (most of which are based on them not having bothered to understand how it works)
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It's done: abortion is now a constitutional freedom in France. 👏
yuzu lawsuit, IP lawsuits in general
There are obvious ethical concerns with the technical outcomes of IP lawsuits like those against Yuzu; projects getting killed off, interoperability getting harmed, etc.
But the part that *feels* the most disgusting to me, and that rarely gets mentioned, is how common 'compelled speech' is in these sorts of lawsuits.
That is, people are compelled by the legal system (via settlement or otherwise) to make ethical statements that they do not agree with, *on personal title*, and essentially serve as a propaganda mouthpiece, feigning agreement with the judgment.
Even if you agree with the mechanical outcomes of IP lawsuits (and I don't), this should be considered so obviously unacceptable and a perversion of any reasonable legal system.
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death cars
Reckless speeding is epidemic in the US. This simple technology could save tens of thousands of lives.
is it called "not cars"?
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austria: suggestions? online shops, covid-related
does anyone maybe have suggestions where best to buy #covid gear (specifically masks and antigen tests) in austria? currently i only know about hygi.de (which worked well before) and shop-apotheke.at (which lists tests for cheaper but with horrendous shipping?!)
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@jon what struck me most when I cycled in the Netherlands is that you don't have to plan a route. I roughly looked on a map in which direction I wanted to go and just ... cycled there. No looking at a map and figuring out if this main road has a quieter side street or anything like that
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@guerrillarain i'm preaching to the choir here but I saw the phrase "landlords provide housing like scalpers provide tickets" and it's now my favorite way to describe my loathing of landlords to non-leftists, it's extremely oversimplified but I think really gets the point across
- 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
