Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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
hot take, FOSS development
If you have copious amounts of time (and interest) to work on FOSS for free, probably the most impactful thing you can do with that time is to build accessible unopinionated development tools - tools that save people who want to make their own things *a lot* of time and work without imposing a particular design or objective on them.
This will do a lot more to actually make it *possible* for marginalized folks to get involved with software development (and, to a degree FOSS) than an 'outreach campaign' for your high-spoons project (which was likely designed to meet the needs of privileged folks) ever will.
Opinionated tools are not very useful - if you're privileged, you will be building tools that solve problems of privileged people. High-effort-to-use tools are not very useful here either - the point here is to actually make development *more* accessible.
Which means: unopinionated, accessible, easy to use *and maintain*, well-documented, and well-supported. Yes, those are the thankless parts of the work, and they don't get nearly as much hype as shiny features do.
Trying a new code comprehension technique called "deleting code until I understand it"
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Waymos have a DNS button and I am terrified about what might happen if you press it
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you’re supposed to register your private jets with a company in Malta with a name like “Executive Services International” and then just fly wherever you want. at least that’s the impression i got picking things up with an ads-b receiver.
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Is there a portable CO2 monitor that works but is less expensive than the Aranet 4?
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I'm so sick of "big men" enamored of the trappings of power & anyone impressed with them. I'm sick of the mystique of "all he had to do was wave a finger & you were dead" & that is supposed to be impressive rather than terrifying & childish. I'm sick of their entourages, and the way they stick out their lips, pout, posture, bluster. The way they use other people as decorations.
They way they lie to your face as a power play.
It's all... so embarrassing for the human animal of which I am one.
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Ik wil het woord tokkie nooit meer horen | nieuws elders
https://www.doorbraak.eu/ik-wil-het-woord-tokkie-nooit-meer-horen/
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I'm going to say this again. I am totally uninterested in workarounds and hacks to try bypass Google's horrible AI Overviews. They solve NOTHING. In fact, they help make the situation WORSE. 99.999% of #Google users won't know about them and/or won't use them. They reduce pressure on Google to actually fix these systems. And of course, Google can choose to block them at any time.
My recommendation is to stop thinking in terms of "techies 'tricking' Google" and start thinking in terms of the policy efforts required to make things better for ALL users. Get off the techie high horse and start thinking about people beyond our tech communities, and the impacts that Big Tech is having on them in increasingly negative ways.
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them> I’m so mad that people like you care more about social politics than being good for nix; this is how nix will languish and die
also them> hey your fork has been been super productive; how do you do it? (*aggressively merges cherry-picks from lix*)
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this is probably a long shot, but does anybody anywhere within london/the m25 have a pile of minipci modems that are for sale/to be disposed of?
i need some /tiny/ line matching transformers from them....
@smveerman The only thing I could think of would be a weird service for Toverland's benefit, but given the atrocious last-mile coverage to that place... probably not that :/
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Ever wanted to quit doing something because you saw someone else doing the same thing better?
Don't, it's the evil capitalist in your brain saying this
bunq, rumour
@marlies No disagreement there, from everything I've seen so far 🙃
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@marlies There are very recent reports of people getting inundated right after opening an account, so it's possible that they're just working off an append-only database of known customers, maybe?
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It’s a pretty important point: if as a rail firm you provide enough accurate digital information you’ll reduce how often passengers ask staff what’s going on
And given pretty much every railway has a *staff shortage* it’s worth getting this right!
(And sure other railways have poor data quality, but at least they *try*. I’m not sure Eurostar is even trying here)
bunq, rumour
Word on the grapevine is that Bunq's app uploads contacts to their server for a "find friends using Bunq too" feature, and that the corresponding checking API is being used by phishers to laser-target Bunq users for phishing campaigns
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Saw some text online that made me want to turn it into signage. What good are graphic design skills if you can't have a little fun with them.😜
I enjoy theme parks, but one thing I've never understood is why Brits keep putting up with the frankly absurd queue times that terrorize at least the Merlin parks
- 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
