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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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
Dus, wanneer ben je overtuigd dat alleen stemmen niet voldoende is om extreemrechts af te wenden, en dat je toch echt naar buitenparlementaire opties moet gaan kijken?
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There are a handful of childrens' toys that for some reason get idealized in American media: slingshots, slinkies, the etch-a-sketch, silly putty, etc. I got the chance to play with most of these at some point as a kid and they were collectively the most disappointing and unimpressive toys of my childhood.
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idk how nobody seems to notice it but my uni's new huge faculty building for compsci students is striped in the trans flag colors???
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already seeing a bunch of people with nerdy hacker shirts on this train
none wearing a mask of course
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dear people going on crowded trains and visiting big events with lots of strangers
wear a fucking mask ffs
(SPARQL is genuinely a lot nicer than SQL to work with, but you sure wouldn't know it from the absolute rat's nest of almost-but-not-quite-the-same specifications!)
Quick! What's the difference between SPARQL 1.1 Protocol and SPARQL 1.1 Query Protocol? How does SPARQL 1.1 Update relate to it, and what role does an entailment regime play in it? What is SPARQL-Star and how is it different from RDF-Star or Turtle-Star?
(And no, "leaving the communication and education to a bunch of data startups that do incredibly creepy things for even creepier customers and publish some scraps on a blog in the process" is not an acceptable implementation of that)
And like, lots of the concepts behind it are great, and would genuinely be helpful to an open web! But you do actually need to *communicate* these things in a way that people can understand it
I don't know how anyone ever expected the 'linked web' to take off on the open web, with how dense and academically impenetrable all the resources around it are
@thibaultmol @jon (If a laptop is impractical, StreetComplete on mobile is also a pretty decent option, which will let you fill in a couple attributes of the bike racks, as long as a node for them already exists on the map)
@jon Oh, correction: the other type I see used as-designed are the two-level stackable bike parking racks, which have a very long slot to fit your bike wheel into, and a wheelbender at the end. But those are generally only economical at train stations and such, so I consider them a special case.
@jon Around here (Rosmalen, Netherlands), we have a lot of different bicycle racks - these ones, but also low wheelbenders, wheelbender pillars with a loop for locking a cable lock to, etc....
The staple racks are the only ones I see people consistently using as designed.
More curiously, when they are all in use, people tend to just extrapolate the parking area off to the side in a perfect line, where there are no racks. Whereas with wheelbenders it often seems to get a bit messier.
(The parking extension thing is a generally interesting phenomenon, I've also observed it elsewhere before, in a place where there were no bike racks to begin with, just a large oddly-shaped open space!)
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Bike parking: build these. Just these. That’s *it*. These stands can accommodate any type of bike. And you can lock the frame to them.
Don’t build ones where only the wheel goes in. Don’t build anything where the mechanism can go wrong.
I know this is boring. But IT WORKS!
Edit: to those going “they can be cut and taped and bikes stolen” - I know. Do I care? No, not really. Tell me a type of rack that can’t be cut with an angle grinder!
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Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?
I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.
[edit: @blakecoverett has put https://regex.ca to appropriately goofy, human-centric use. huzzah for the Fediverse!]
If you've ever been involved in activism, you've probably heard someone tell you that "these things always take time, it's a slow process", as if it's the most normal thing in the world.
But... is that actually normal? *Should* that actually be considered normal?
Building a new highway is a relatively fast, procedural process. Getting a train line built is a very slow process of convincing people with no guarantee of success.
Increasing police funding is a relatively fast, procedural process. *Decreasing* police funding and reallocating it to social services instead, is a very slow process of convincing people with no guarantee of success.
Why do we consider any of this normal and acceptable? Why do people consider us to live in a functioning democracy, when this kind of asymmetry for 'doing the right thing' exists?
How does any of this constitute a healthy society, even on paper, even according to liberal political norms?
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And there’s a Slido poll. Did you get to A CONFERENCE ABOUT RAIL BALTICA by car or public transport. Bike not an option. And a big majority for car 😭
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free and open source now feels like a buzzword such as "organic" or "100% natural" but for tech companies that profit from stolen labor
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The upside is that that whiteboard was definitely never gonna fall off under any circumstances, this tape is honestly pretty cool
- 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
