Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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the problem with the "do not go to [site] because it contains illegal content, I am making you aware that [site] exists and hosts illegal content so you can avoid it" method of sharing pirate links is that when I am trying to warn people of sites that legitimately are unsafe and dangerous they sometimes think I'm trying to make a covert recommendation
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ive always been fond of the alternate means of slaying the hydra wherein you make it grow so many heads it biologically cannot support all of them
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#Solarpunk community: please stop using AIs to generate images. Yes, I know there's very few solarpunk visual concepts. Generative AIs are predatory, anti-worker software and on top of that its energy and water consumption is huge (specially since it's a non essential service). Commission an artist, use stock images. Don't make me go fight you.
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> We Had the Tools
https://guinesspig.ghost.io/we-had-the-tools/
October 2, 2023
“...anytime a government or health officials says we have the tools to deal with Covid-19.
No we don’t.
We had the tools. All we have now are the memories of those tools.
We (and by we, I mean collectively, societally we) blew it. We threw the tools away. We traded them in for something we believed was so much better.
Why? Because the very leaders we are supposed to trust to look out for our best interests, like General Manager Tim, told us to. They gave us permission. They told us it was more important to get back to normal than to rely on those tools.”
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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;
)
"Unmanaged dependency": a chunk of code that has been copy-pasted from elsewhere and therefore has all the downsides of dependencies - but that never gets updates, therefore is 'unmanaged', and gets few of the *upsides* of dependencies.
@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
- 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
