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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Just found this website from April 2000 about installing Linux on Amigas and other similar machines, this is fascinating
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hey linux people
what are some good music players for the desktop? on Windows we’d use MusicBee but everything on Linux seems to either be kind of underbaked (Rhythmbox) or the ugliest app you’ve ever seen (Clementine/Strawberry)
We’re looking for something that has an iTunes-esque layout, and we find album grid view very important
@operand Yep, entirely understandable. Thanks for your answer!
@kae_bytheocean That was probably the massive community management thread by @ifixcoinops?
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PSA for folks in Colorado, south Denver (Sheridan/Englewood) area, if you went to a July 20 puppy adoption event
One of the pups tested positive for rabies and they are still trying to find everyone who went. So if that’s you or you know someone who might be looking at puppies, more details and a number to call here. https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/09/colorado-puppy-adoption-rabies/
@rune FWIW, I've definitely seen some upper-class people do this in NL. But only really upper-class people, who can't seem to tolerate a single brown-ish bit of grass.
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#AskFedi: what keeps you from building your own community space on the web, that works exactly the way you want? :boost_requested:
This doesn't have to be about a fediverse space, and it doesn't matter what kind of reason it is - technical, financial, social, ethical, otherwise, I want to hear them all 🙂
(Boosts much appreciated, I'm hoping for this to get outside of my bubble!)
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@cephie Thanks, that all makes sense.
One thing that I feel may be worth pointing out, is that *most* bog-standard VPS providers (the kind where you pay X per month and get a plan with Y resources) will throttle or suspend your VPS rather than charging overages, so the failure mode for unexpected traffic is "site is down or slow" rather than "unexpected costs". Suddenly charging tons of money is mostly just something the cloudycloud providers like AWS do.
This sort of stuff is often not clearly documented, hence wanting to point it out - but that's not a solution to the rest of your points of course!
@StroomAfwaarts When you say "could build something far better", do you mean from a technical perspective, or from a community management perspective, or something else?
@shauna That's my understanding, yep. Or alternatively use a tool that can do both in one pass - ESLint would be one example of that, although I'm not sure how far its auto-formatting capabilities reach so it *may* not be the best example.
(Assuming that enforcing consistent formatting is desirable for the project in the first place, of course - as that's often a topic of discussion)
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(maybe i do have the right bubble to try this)
Hi 👋 Do you or a somebody you know own an NMBS/SNCB ARI Disc? Diskette, CD, whatever? From whenever, I do not care.
It would be amazing if I could borrow one, I am trying to preserve copies of these however they seem to be lost in piles of trash. If you know somebody who has one happy to put a copy of it for the world to enjoy planning trains 90s style!
(If I have enough i might reverse engineer it to ship up to date schedules for it)
Background: I always ask these sorts of questions for the same reason - to keep my understanding of barriers that people run into "up-to-date"; and to make sure that I'm not overlooking things, especially those I might not experience myself.
The answers to these sorts of questions are an important part of how I decide what to focus my own efforts on, and I prefer doing it publicly so that hopefully it can inform other folks' priorities too.
#AskFedi: what keeps you from building your own community space on the web, that works exactly the way you want? :boost_requested:
This doesn't have to be about a fediverse space, and it doesn't matter what kind of reason it is - technical, financial, social, ethical, otherwise, I want to hear them all 🙂
(Boosts much appreciated, I'm hoping for this to get outside of my bubble!)
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From Houston oil to Pittsburgh steel to Portland timber, Norwood Viviano's kiln-cast glass sculptures map iconic city skylines through each location’s recognizable industries.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/08/norwood-viviano-glass-cities/
In the past 10 minutes I've run across two book-sized things I want to read
My problem with fedi is that so much genuinely interesting stuff shows up all the time that there's not enough time in a day to go through all of it 🙃
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re: 4/shitty tumblr queers, "DNI"
@forestine @elexia if “queer” is a slur then yes please, I want to be called slurs.
on a more serious note, as someone who often helps people figure out or improve their hrt access/dosage/effects, I wish I had similarly good sources of information about transmasc hrt as I do for transfem.
I get where the “t is icky” attitude comes from, for many transfems this is what they see as a substance that “destroyed their bodies” in ways that are either irreversible or require a huge effort and expense to change - but that is, uh, not a great way to process the pain and sense of loss this causes. it keeps people stuck instead of moving on, centers the trans identity around dysphoria instead of euphoria and alienates half of us as the “other side”. yes, half of us.
one of the most amazing experiences I had that helped me find healthy ways of dealing with all kinds of dysphoria was a long, personal conversation with a transmasc enby friend about our pre-transition and transition experiences, including effects of puberty and hrt - on the body, emotions, sexuality, everything.
we spoke of the exact same things, just swapped around on the timeline and associates with entirely opposite feelings. realizing this was, first of all, funny. seeing the same things I hated, described by someone for whom they brought joy and hope, changed the way I think of them - and he felt the same about his sources of dysphoria.
trans people need interactions like that, we need a community where we can have them.
@godotengine I'm not surprised to hear that it happens especially on Mastodon, unfortunately. If I had to guess, a lot of them probably originate from Fosstodon? As there are frequent complaints across fedi of this kind of behaviour from there... (but I've definitely also seen it from other instances.)
Good to hear that there's a layer of insulation, though - just please make sure that you don't burn out either :)
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What's up with Wikipedia articles (especially around politics and nations) being full of "according to the Heritage Foundation..." comments? Since when is a documented source of deliberate misinformation accepted as a credible source?
re: mastodon meta question
@gsuberland@chaos.social The latter; I've only hit 'block', definitely not 'mute'.
- 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
