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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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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
CW meta, personal pondering
Feedback on this is welcome, btw, as long as you don't try to trivialize the concern
CW meta, personal pondering
Considering a new personal policy where I explicitly CW-tag any 'bad world stuff' as "non-actionable" unless there's an actionable thing included with it, though I'm concerned about that demotivating people from trying to find actionable solutions themselves
frustration, programming, package management
There's this really frustrating dynamic where "lots of single-purpose libraries" is very clearly the optimal model once you do a full technical analysis, but it doesn't *feel* that way.
Because what people remember of this model is "having to wade through hundreds of packages to find what I need and getting list".
Which wouldn't be a problem in a correct implementation of this model (where you provide a pre-bundled/pre-configured collection for the common case and clear documentation on what you need) - but in a correct implementation, most people would never interact with the underlying hundred libraries, and so they will never perceive it as an example of the "many small libraries" model to begin with!
Do it wrong and it'll be a bad example of the model, do it right and it won't be seen as an example of the model at all. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
(See: npm, OpenStack, ...)
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yo
now that #FediPact is (justifyingly) returning to the conversation
consider giving some money to @vantablack who helped coordinate all of this
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TIL: The vCard standard (RFC 6350) supports a free-form field for gender identity: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6350#section-6.2.7
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generative AI is exciting to business because it's a way to blend up the commons and get something that generates profit while deferring responsibility
it can be exciting to you for other reasons but i really need you all to be clear-headed about why it's being hyped up and funded so much
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thinking about Copilot again, for reasons
and like. i've heard a lot of arguments back and forth about whether or not it's actually a breach of GPL to include GPL'd code in the training set of an inference model; I think it is, Microsoft thinks it isn't, i'm not going to sue them about it
but it seems very hard for me to see how people don't see the creation of Copilot as a tremendous breach of developer goodwill and the social contract of open source
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Motion picture distribution and productuon companies have always been a hotbed for scams, financial shenanigans, and outright fraud.
The boom in independent cinema of the 60s and 70s was a tax dodge.
The death of modern film is down to financial shenanigans. It has nothing to do with consumers or demand or art, and it certainly has nothing to do with Markets. It's about consolidation of capital and financial shenanigans.
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Anne C.A. Baanen
boost with CW: (US)politics shitpost
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Greta kicking ass on a Twitter screenshot
Greta tried the "the system is broken we should fix it" route and ended up where we all do, "the system is exactly as it was planned and we need something better"
H/T
@OccuWorld https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/112124997616036570
@hazelnot This seems like the worst possible way to address that
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devicetree? is that where they grow?
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I’m going to Essen (last Belgian station) on this “Intercity” but there is an hourly train to Roosendaal that crosses the border. But it’s a Regional that stops in every tiny place, and is operated with a knackered 1970s EMU
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Me: I'm not autistic
Also me, after meeting a neighbor I haven't talked to in months on a tram: You know, these trams are Pesa Swings produced in the Pesa factory in Bydgoszcz. The funny thing is that Pesa also produces trains for regional lines in Italy and they just so happen to refer to these trains as Swings, so Pesa Swing can refer to either a tram or a train depending where you are! Speaking of regional trains...
@hazelnot Why on earth are theme packages allowed to execute arbitrary code to begin with?
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Track 1! Track change! Train to Luik now from track 3.
* walks to track 3 via tunnel*
Track 3! New track change. Train to Luik now from track 1.
🫠
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A train with four locomotives and one double decker carriage just arrived here in Landen. Internship at 
must be wild.
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A man in a warning vest “Infrabel onderzoeker” and a man in a warning vest “Leader NMBS - SNCB” together on this platform are a sign for troubles, not 😬😵💫
- 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
