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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- 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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In software architecture you have to recognize when you're adding a rocket stage.
In rockets and aeroplanes it's a simple truth that weight adds more weight. To carry more you need bigger engines, a bigger fuel thank, more fuel. More weight becomes even more weight.
For rockets to make it out of the atmosphere they use multiple stages. Each stage carries the rocket to a certain height, once the fuel is used up the stage is ejected so the next stage can push forward a lighter rocket. So adding a stage will get you further, but at the cost of much more machinery, engineers, and complexity. You now have a much heavier rocket to launch.
Switching to kubernetes, kafka, microservices, a single page app, ... is adding a rocket stage. Maybe it's what you need to get where you want to go, but be clear about the extra weight, operational cost, engineering overheard, mental overhead.
@JoSuus Serious answer: probably the AskFedi hashtag? I've been getting better results from that than I've ever gotten off Stack Exchange
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sims, death
the babysitter died in my house and then the grim reaper started doing the dishes and took out the trash before dissapearing again
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in reality, pulling everything into the computer does empower people to some extent, but the reason corporations want to do it has always been so that they can impose their own new constraints in the new context. the goal is not for humanity to solve its problems, but for corporate entities to be in charge of the problems and profiting by them.
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The Suble Art of Shutting The Fuck Up If You Haven't Done Your Research
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are there any games where you're an employee of a theme park
I guess there are some for the food stalls but I don't think Viscera Cleanup Detail: Theme Park That Is Operating Normally exists
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Like, I don't have a problem with people just... not engaging with an issue that does not directly concern them, you can't be worrying about everything at once.
But if you *are* going to engage with it, don't do a half-assed job of it, and actually take it seriously
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Like, I don't have a problem with people just... not engaging with an issue that does not directly concern them, you can't be worrying about everything at once.
But if you *are* going to engage with it, don't do a half-assed job of it, and actually take it seriously
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Very tired of people insisting on Having Opinions about sensitive political issues without doing the work to understand the background needed to assess them
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@joepie91
Ansible: *sinks Synapse for a bit as it's restarting the container*
Element: now that is an Avengers level threat
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Oh and also, Dewey, and anyone else who needs to hear this...
Starting HRT is not an irreversible leap off a cliff. If you wanna experiment with hormones for a bit, and decide you don't like them, that's absolutely 100% chill and no trans person that isn't a sucky truscummy piece of shit is going to be mad at you about that.
re: police violence, propaganda
@marlies This is a time-tested tactic in NL, unfortunately, the same has been happening for many years with squatters, and it's always remarkable how specific news outlets like the Telegraaf are always suspiciously up-to-date on where these violent evictions are happening
These are different things with different levels of urgency for fucks sake
It continues to immensely frustrate me how Element shows a disconnection in the tray icon with the same visual language as an outstanding notification, which itself is the same as an unsent message
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Somewhere in the space between Yahoo! and AOL., CompuServe dot com still exists somehow.
For my first project in #Factorio circuit networks, I ended up building a fully automated order-picking train station (that works with logistic trains), with a resettable counter of picked items, because that is totally a beginner project
@nat That's honestly not a very good example; JS is specifically known for its "never break old code" policy (which is why 30 year old websites still work today), and the canonical dependency management (with npm) is isolated to the project so you could leave the dependencies frozen in time for a given application forever without anything else on the system ever getting in the way.
Sure, you *can* update your dependencies. And sometimes you may *need* to do so because of security issues - that is fundamental to network-connected software, and not a thing the language has control over. But it is an entirely valid, and viable, option to just leave your JS thing entirely untouched for a decade and run it like it was built yesterday.
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General announcement for #NixOS contributors and users: registration is now open for the governance proceedings! You can participate if you have at least one contribution (of any kind) to NixOS or its ecosystem. 
Instructions here if you use Github and that is where your contribution was: https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/143
Or otherwise, instructions here (approval may take a bit longer): https://discourse.nixos.org/t/zulip-for-governance-discussions/44684
While I do not want to declare victory prematurely, the successful operation of the NixOS governance talks so far is an extremely big deal to me, for personal reasons that I don't quite want to go into *yet*
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The thing that surprises me the most about Timberborn is how many ways different mechanics interact. I'm16 hours into it now and I've multiple times discovered things that completely changed how I approach solving problems in the game.
- 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
