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
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i have once again fallen to my vices: trying to explain some small technical thing and having it spiral way out of control until i'm conflating release engineering with Doing A Gender and decide to announce another transition via my work's developer comms
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if you have a savings and a steady income
you should be giving to mutual aid asks regularly
help people for fucks sake
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if you have money for new tech regularly
you have money to give to mutual aid asks
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if you have money to donate to the democratic campaign
you have money to be giving to mutual aid asks
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The side of the black panthers most of us white kids were never taught
re: privacy bad, request for information
@polychromata (What'd I miss?)
@jmason I'd be inclined to call it negligence rather than ineptitude. I find it difficult to believe that nobody at this sort of company knows about staggered rollouts, so most likely it was rejected by some management layer for being "too expensive/complex".
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This is CrowdStrike admitting they haven't used staggered rollouts or canaries -- techniques to limit outage blast radius, both of which are now well over a decade old. Total ineptitude!
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interrail cancellation compensation, help
my train from the spanish-portugese border from badajoz (as well as the intercity from entroncamento to lisbon) got cancelled because of the strike actions. i've applied for delay compensation and put in the delay that would've had me reach my destination using the next train (around 16h later), but i took a long-distance bus the same day (which i didn't disclose). now #interrail staff is asking me to confirm:
After a review of the situation, we need you to please confirm if you reached your final destination (Lisbon Santa Apolonia)? If you did, how long after your initially planned arrival (at 22:30) did you reach that?
If not, then please elaborate on how the final destination was reached.
As far as we understand, you reached your final destination on the next day. Is that correct as well?
now i don't want to lie to them, but i'm scared that if i disclose that i didn't take the train after all, i won't be eligible for compensation (around 20€ per delay) - the bus cost me 72€.
does anyone here know enough about #train/#railway passenger rights to help me here?
@marleenstikker While nominally good news, I do wonder whether this is actually going to result in open-sourcing government systems, or whether it will be concluded that "copyright" is a "third-party right" and therefore nothing from an external vendor (ie. almost all software used) can be open-sourced.
CW-boost, twitter, reference to holocaust
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@benaryorg Unfortunately that's unlikely to bother them much, because a big part of why it takes so long to load is that they're trying to outsource resource use to the client instead of the server, as a cost-cutting measure
Corollary: the only API I have ever actually paid for was a flat-fee API with a one-time payment for access. And then they shut that down, after months of outages...
So much for that, then.
Scraping prevention is such a backwards thing to me. Like, I *would* use your API and save us both a lot of headaches, if you didn't put it behind a bunch of bullshit hoops that make it fundamentally incompatible with open-source projects! Why is the API (which costs you less resources to run) more restrictive and guarded than the very-expensive-to-process-requests-for user frontend?
(Obviously not talking about scraping personal data or posts here, that's an ethical problem regardless of access mechanism. This is about actually public data - rail data, commercial data, technical specifications, and so on.)
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You know what? I care more about something being written than being the one writing it. So I'll put out this worldbuilding concept I've never managed to turn into a story, see if someone can do anything with it.
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Yesterday I found out that Garth Nix, one of my favourite authors, 'doesn't worldbuild the way other writers do'.
He doesn't sit down and plan out detailed worlds. He just comes up with details as he writes and needs them and then that grows in complexity over time, sometimes with occassional ideas or notes floating around.
He worldbuilds like me! I feel so validated! I have always felt like SUCH A FRAUD but The Old Kingdom might be my favourite fantasy world and he built it how I do!
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Here’s what parenting can look like.
When I told my dad I was trans, my dad’s response was, “Oh! I can send you jewelry now!” (He was retired and made jewelry as a hobby).
Two days latter, I had a letter in the mail addressed to Joelle, the first time “Joelle” ever got mail, with a necklace in it. Later he made me this one. He told me, “I hope I got the colors right, I looked it up online.”
You don’t have to mourn a child transitioning. You can be the first to do so many affirming things.
"432hz", wild hypothesis, no evidence presented
The 432hz music 'conspiracy theory' and subculture really just boils down to that being a more pleasant/engaging thing to listen to for certain neurospicy brains, and an entire subculture/religion being constructed around that to 'socially justify' it, because neurodivergent accommodations are not otherwise respected in society
- 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
