Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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.
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- 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
@JoshGrams @shauna (Not infrequently, the people issuing the warnings are bullied away by a small subset of the community, no moderation on this behaviour happens, and so they are also effectively shut out and no longer heard)
@JoshGrams @shauna I don't know about this in the context of US government regulations, but I certainly see exactly that phenomenon happening in a lot of non-government organizations and communities that do not heed outside warnings.
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⭐ Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology by @matt https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/
"Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works."
This is an excellent overview of how Apple Pay and others hide card numbers. Plus a lot more I didn't know I wanted to know about.
📌 https://rknight.me/links/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/
@algernon It's kind of like a scraper tarpit, so maybe something along those lines?
@vantablack Ah, I know this mood very well...
@koen Het antwoord op de tweede vraag is erg makkelijk, eigenlijk: o.a. omdat het hoger-onderwijssysteem door neoliberaal beleid (oftewel: bezuinigingen) steeds afhankelijker zijn geworden van financiering en ondersteuning vanuit het bedrijfsleven om het betaalbaar te houden, en daaruit volgt dat de opleidingen zich *dus* focussen op wat het bedrijfsleven graag ziet.
Nu is dat geen geheel nieuw probleem, natuurlijk - het idee dat onderwijs bestaat om "mensen voor te bereiden op een baan" (oftewel, om de opleiding voor bedrijven te subsidieren) zingt al langer rond. Maar de vele bezuinigingen vanuit de overheid hebben het probleem wel een stuk erger gemaakt.
code, screenreader-unfriendly, question 
(Note that this is not a typo; the block syntax is indeed made up of parentheses.)
code, screenreader-unfriendly, question
With no further context on why it looks like it does, *could* you work with code that has syntax like this? (Even if it may not be your favourite syntax.)
if (equals a b) (
log "matches";
doThing a b;
) else (
log "does not match";
doOtherThing b;
)
@astrid The duality of Nix
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me: "nix is really neat, you can build your whole server just from CI, and the configs are reproducible, and you can copy aspects between various machines, and-"
friend: "hey i just switched to nix"
me: "oh god why did you do this to yourself "
friend: "hey i just switched to nix"
me: "oh god why did you do this to yourself "
CW-boost: pers, politiek
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I have suspiciously good internet on this train ride
Am I on one of these trains where PKP with ISPs installed signal repeaters 
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Stern + Lisserl 
(≙)
@rail_ “Our train is equipped with modern WiFi connectivity”. The WiFi:
After thinking a bit, I've come to the conclusion that I don't like tycoon-style video games because of the "making money" part (I don't care about that at all), I just want to do supply chains and logistics with some sort of feedback metric on how well I'm doing
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If you want to know more about the impact of antitrust on IBM behaviour, I’d recommend reading this paper by Tim Wu. In his conclusions, he looks at what antitrust regulators should learn from the case, and I found this paragraph quite relevant to what’s currently happening. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3292&context=faculty_scholarship
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facebook threads, fedi (actionable)
https://todon.eu/@queue/112130436372737490
To very little surprise, Facebook's Threads platform (the one that was supposedly so enthusiastic about the Fediverse) is now hiding all mentions of Pixelfed - the Fediverse software that's competing with their Instagram platform. Hopefully this makes it clear that they were never going to federate in good faith.
Things you can do:
1. Sign the Fedipact (if you run your own instance) or ask your admin to do so (if you don't) to commit to defederating from Threads: https://fedipact.online/
2. Support the creator of the Fedipact, vantablack, who is in financial and housing trouble: https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/112080004580673240
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maliciously bad companies
honestly BetterHelp & co. seemed incredibly sus even before the journalism came out exposing just how bad they are
like, venture capital wanting to come in and "improve" mental health care is so obviously bad and so obviously scripted that it's suspect that you wouldn't see the red flags in advance unless you're either clueless about how companies work, or clueless about how mental health care should work
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mmmm I love a bicycle after a service. everything works perfectly.
the gears change immediately, quietly and without any skipping or problems... 🥰🥰🥰
🚲🚲🚲
#bicycle
@annaaurora I know that NS did this in an experimental pilot for a bit; using a platform-wide lightbar that showed color indicators for how busy each carriage on the impending train would be, so that you could station yourself in the right place ahead of time.
More interestingly, it didn't use any sort of invasive tracking; apparently the system that counted each carriage's busy-ness was entirely based on IR sensors at the doors counting passages, and it worked fine!
Unfortunately the pilot was not expanded; the lightbar was removed (for power cost reasons, I suspect), and the busy-ness indicator on the website and in the app is train-wide now :(
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🏴☠️
it would be nice if DB could display where free seats are on a train on the monitors
- 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
