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
subtoot, "save Nix together" open letter, "you"
"But the letter is so inflammatory! It sets an ultimatum and everything!"
Well, yeah, no shit. And what have you, personally, done to address the issues that it talks about, and all the harms that have resulted from it?
Or is the only thing you have a problem with, that those issues are being publicly highlighted in a tone you don't like?
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We have the millennium prizes in mathematics. There should be a similar prizes in computer science. Here's 5 problems I suggest for the list. Maybe they're too hard, I'm not sure.
* Synchronizing audio and video streams.
* Detecting an external display has been plugged in. Especially if that display is a projector.
* Establishing that everything is correctly set up at the start of a video conference call. Especially verifying audio is working, and unmuted.
* Bluetooth. Especially emulating the straightforward operation we can do with wired devices: unplugging from one and plugging into the other.
* Printers. Making them work.
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So today I got to explain to my very much not online coworkers what UwU is. Thanks, Kubernetes.
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General politics
So here's an observation I had some time ago that I feel is very obvious and cannot be original, but I don't recall anyone else having said it:
The goal of capitalists is not to maximize their profit in absolute numbers. The goal of capitalists is to make as much *more* money than everyone else as possible, because having more money gives them power, which is the true goal. If they make everybody worse off including themselves, that still serves their ends as long as the disparity of wealth and power is increased.
Pointing out how businesses would be more profitable if they treated workers well misses the point. They would have more money, yes, but their workers would have more power, and that can't be allowed to happen.
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I've just read the latest Nix community trash fire^W^Wopen letter (https://save-nix-together.org).
The commentary on Eelco sitting on leadership roles and not doing anything + not allowing contributions fully reflects my experience with joining the #NixOS infra team. When I expressed interest to join the infra team when it was clearly understaffed and malfunctioning, this was blocked for **6 months** by Eelco, even though I was supported by the foundation board member nominally in charge of infra.
food (vegan), trains
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de I'm reminded of that guy who took an airfryer into a Dutch train, plugged it into a power socket, and fried a snack - and this somehow worked
SimpleX
In case you were considering SimpleX, this is an actual quote from its founder, in response to criticism about their misleading marketing:
"Most marketing is to some extent exaggeration, and you are saying that we are not allowed to exaggerate at all."
Certainly not someone I would trust with private communications, with that attitude.
(Source: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/367#discussioncomment-9088499)
I originally started using it for its auto timetabling feature, but it turns out to have a lot of other cool stuff!
Also, if you've been playing OpenTTD and hadn't heard of JGRPP (JGR's Patch Pack) yet, you *really* want to try that - it has a ton of quality-of-life improvements and I don't think I'd want to play without it again (if you're using NixOS, it's packaged as openttd-jgrpp)
Honestly, #OpenTTD is such a good game
Really enjoy it (/s) when two different train drivers disagree about whose train is going to continue on to my destination, and the trip planner and the station signage don't agree with each other either
@sindarina I wonder how far you'd get with some tiny "autonomous" robots (PCBs on wheels basically) that do nothing but randomly wander around things-that-look-like-sidewalks and emit a MAC address
Your reminder that posting fascist shit with a 'dunking' caption is still posting fascist shit
self-meta
Time to mute that memes account that frequently posts un-CWed dunking on fascist shit, I guess
I broadly like my Glove80 keyboard but the tenting system really is atrociously bad
@betalars@chaos.social The DPA over here barely makes any effort at all... likely because they are not getting enough funding (which seems deliberate)
@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space I know that there are at least some adtech companies that do, yeah
treingeweld
@StroomAfwaarts Het gaat niet om redenen, maar om oorzaken. Dingen hebben oorzaken ongeacht of die oorzaken als rechtvaardiging kunnen fungeren; en met alleen maar zeggen "dit willen we niet" los je het probleem niet op.
- 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
