Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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me: okay, I can use an arduino for this project
also me: let's write the firmware in rust, like normal people do
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gonna take a plunge and read https://sled.rs/perf.html today, it's starting off amazingly ✨
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More conduit posting, sorry. But I’m rather proud of the idea I just had that totally worked. I didn’t know where one of the conduits in my house actually terminated and I solved it by dropping an earbud playing at max volume in it and looking for the sound. Totally worked!
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Cats exist in-between many different "states".
Famously they are both solid and liquid.
If you put them in a box, they are both alive and dead.
They are starving, but also have just been fed.
They both want belly rubs, and despise belly rubs.
These are just a few examples, but there are countless more, most of which we don't even know.
Usually when you try to measure something that is in-between two different states, it will resolve into one state or the other. But because cats exist in-between so many different states, when measured, instead of all those in-between states resolving to one or the other, it can pull reality into all of those different in-between states!
This can create a kind of "cosmic vibration", that if allowed to reach a harmonic frequency, could tear reality apart!
Cats instinctively know this, which is why they fight tooth and claw any attempts to measure them.
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#AskFedi: Are the "OCS" as defined by Nextcloud, and the "OCS" as defined by FreeDesktop, actually the same thing, or are they different specs?
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every time you install an adblocker a techbros dreams dies
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@joepie91 This is a good point. Like you say web dev has been caught between being coopted by dishonest tech cos and been seen by outsiders as not worth defending. Then we had the mass layoffs and—honestly—it’s not surprising that there isn’t much of a community-driven field left.
@baldur I've been spending way too many of the past years debunking misdirected bashing, debunking hyped-up claims from coopting tech, and more generally trying to get people to stop painting all of JS with the same brush, precisely because I was afraid of an outcome like this, where everybody who cares is either chased out or burned out.
I don't think I've ever seen less solidarity for an activist campaign than this one. Even many nominally radical folks gleefully joined in with the bashing and responded aggressively to that behaviour getting called out, without taking a moment to consider the implications of it.
And so, here we are. I think basically everyone has given up by this point. Because there was no support network, and people ignored our calls for help.
@baldur I hadn't heard of JSR before, but I suspect that a lot of us are just burned out from the constant assault of these sorts of "coopt the ecosystem" projects and the uncritical lens through which most users have adopted them.
There was once a very strong "public commons" spirit in JS-land, but there's not much left of it today. It's been pretty much killed off by a combination of startup bullshit, and misdirected JS bashing from outsiders.
(The reason that those eg. "faster" claims worked to market things to begin with, is that attributing negative traits to "JS" as a whole without ever inspecting or understanding the real reason has become so socially acceptable, that people will jump on anything that claims to fix it. After all, if you never understood why it was broken, you won't be able to recognize whether something is a correct solution either...)
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So, it may feel like I’m harping on a bit about JSR—the tech industry’s latest attempt to ‘fix’ the JavaScript ecosystem—but it kind of bugs me how little discussion there is about it
Like, it’s literally a proposal by a VC-funded startup to coopt existing infrastructure and the only comments I’m seeing online are “ooh, they put a lot of work into making it fast.”
There’s no discussion of what it’s for, whether it tells us anything about npm or how that can be improved.
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climate catastrophe, news from my country, flooding
this is why i am involved in politics of other countries aside from my own. you guys are influencing us in ways you do not even begin to examine because you aren't concerned with our existence
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climate catastrophe, news from my country, flooding
oh and by the way. ecocide done by other corporations is finally catching up to my country too. we are having massive floods this spring. a lot of towns or small cities are being in a state of emergency because the rivers are overflowing. the government doesn't give a shit of course, just like when the wildfires happened. we need a revolution
Library API naming poll! Which makes more sense? 
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Great news coming from Germany: today, the Bundestag adopted the gender self-determination law, which will allow trans people to change their gender on their official papers with a simple declaration at the civil registry. Gone are the medical requirements. 🏳️⚧️
The law isn't perfect (a 3-month delay is to be observed before the change takes effect; minors will have to go through a dispute in court if their parents oppose the change), but it's still a huge step forward.
https://www.dw.com/en/gender-identity-law-passes-in-german-parliament/a-68800054
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shower thought: lap is the only part of the body that doesn't really physically exist and appears and disappears based on whether or not the person is sitting down
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How did you get your gender?
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Money may not be capable of purchasing love, but lack of it sure does cost lots of extra time which could be going towards more useful and/or enjoyable things (such as, e.g., love) -.-
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@NoraReed Besides the ‘list of lists of lists’ which we’ve already discussed, I appreciate the entry for “Sock” — wikipedians go deep as only they can on an utterly mundane topic, and the results are roughly equal parts genuinely fascinating and utterly hilarious wiki culture self-parody
CW-boost: LLMs, exploitation, research
Education opinions
@researchfairy My only criticism there would be that I don't trust "educational institutions" as a category to deliver useful and sufficiently inclusive implementations of this idea :(
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
