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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it is so humid that my yarn is sticking to the wooden knitting needles and wow i absolutely hate everything about that
tech, activism, looks like a subtoot but isn't meant as one
Please, tech people, learn the lesson that startups and other tech companies will only hire you and fund your 'social good' work for as long as it makes business sense for them, regardless of what they promise, and that you really do actually need to build your own community infrastructure that doesn't rely on corporate funding!
Sure, if someone offers a bag of money that can be put to good use, and accepting it doesn't come with strings, go for it - but you really need to be working on your own thing in parallel instead of expecting your employer to keep bankrolling things forever. Corporations are not your allies in social matters, no matter how friendly a face they put on.
(This was inspired by a toot elsewhere but is not intended as a subtoot of that - I've been seeing this pattern for years now and most people don't seem to be learning from it)
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Commander Riker,
There has been a security breach in our computer system. Your search history is being broadcast to the entire crew.
Worf
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"Removing focus indicators for keyboard users is like hiding the cursor for mouse users." - @matuzo in Web Accessibility Cookbook
Brilliant comparison!
In fact, it made me wonder... can you hide a cursor for mouse users? Yep, you can set it to a custom png file that's completely transparent.
If you want to see for yourself how annoying that is, visit https://nonvisualwebsite.com/ #a11y
@marlies @ivory The problem with at least the Mastodon web interface is that it's really easy to miss and forget.
Which is even more frustrating considering that there are very good language auto-detection libraries that could make it default to a reasonable option, and have been for at least a decade, but none of them seem to be used.
Like, none of this *has* to be a problem, it's actually solvable on a software level...
about FOSS and paying for software
Every once in a while there are calls to "pay/charge for your FOSS software because developers" need to eat, and while that's true, it's not really that simple either.
Poverty can be seen from (at least) two perspectives; income and expense. On the one hand poverty can mean having no or insufficient income, or being a victim of eg. labour theft. But it can also mean being unable to afford the things you need, or them being so expensive that you don't have enough money left for other things.
These are really one and the same thing when it comes down to it, but the point I am trying to make here is that there's more to it than just not getting paid. For example, consider people who use FOSS software *because* they cannot afford to pay for software.
None of this changes that developers need to eat, and that people should be paid for their work, but it *does* mean that you should think carefully about *how* to do it - maybe charging a flat purchasing fee is not the right option. Pay what you want? Income-dependent cost? Donations? Regional pricing? Free licenses under certain conditions?
There are lots of possible ways to approach this in a way that the developers are fairly compensated *and* you are not excluding people from your community or software based on their wealth; but the important thing is that you actually think about the right option here, and don't just leave it at "charge for the software and consider the problem solved".
Likewise, how are you dealing with dependencies? It's easy to charge for end-user software, but charging for libraries is much more difficult - even though those often do a lot of the heavy lifting, and a lot of expertise and work has gone into their development. How will you ensure that *their* developers get to eat too?
You don't need to always get everything right the first time, but be cautious of simplistic narratives that only say "pay people for their work" and leave you to draw the rest of the owl. There's a lot more to it than that.
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Can anyone recommend me an *offline* horizontal timeline-making tool?
I'm looking for something akin to TimelineJS or Tiki Toki (pictured), to visualise some periods of my life, but given the current state of internet scraping, I don't particularly want to upload a bunch of personal info to someone else's server.
I'm not after Gantt charts or vertical-scrolling timelines.
(Open source would be ideal, but I'm willing to buy a product if it's good enough.)
Reading this guide about DHTs (slightly paraphrased)...
"Imagine you uh, want to share books with friends, and uh, you need to keep track of who has what books. And your friend group is a million people large.
This is a contrived example, but uh, oh by the way look at IPFS which is cool"
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“The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s - The New York Times”
This is amazing
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#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.
She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de @liketechnik@chaos.social This makes me think that there probably *should* be a standard way to communicate this sort of stuff in the kernel filesystem API, but I don't think there currently is
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@tshirtman @quietmarc @SallyStrange There was a meta data paper where someone studied all the papers on archeological digs as a whole and worked out that something was wrong because something like 80% of all bodies were “male” which obviously isn’t right. So they went back and reexamined findings and basically because gender from physical remains was somewhat guesswork they based gender also on grave goods which, of course, was a circular argument. Now they are better at it (not perfect) so we now have female roman gladiators found in London, Shield Maidens found in the north of England, and a Galli follower of Cybele (trans woman) also in Northern England.
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de Wouldn't that be a tool specific to the filesystem?
@baldur Every time I read these sorts of articles - and this one is no exception - I am left concluding that the fundamental problem that people aren't recognizing is a lack of agency over one's work.
That's exemplified by the sense of constantly being pulled in all directions that a lot of people report, but it honestly goes much deeper than that, and calls into question the fundamental hierarchical power structures in most organizations.
"With responsibility should come agency and vice versa" really *should* be the primary guiding principle, and yet it so often goes ignored...
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Finally resumed work on my "booleans as a service" platform for enterprise.
In the free edition of the API, a `GET` to `~/Values/True` will return `1`. Rate limits apply.
In the professional tier, you get the features of the free edition, but also, a `GET` to `~/Values/False` will return `0`, plus, rate limits are higher.
In the enterprise edition there are endpoints such as `~/And/1/1` (which returns `1`!), and many more endpoints. All of these, of course, depend on an LLM.
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If you support folks on Patreon, make sure you start your subscription on the website rather than via the Patreon app, since in-app payments are subject to extra payment processing fees (it’s *especially* bad on iOS but Android does it too).
Better yet, don’t use dedicated apps for things that should be websites, and also consider using support platforms that care more about actually supporting folks, like ko-fi. Patreon ultimately only cares about how much money comes into Patreon.
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So there's a car on my street that's been dumped as far as I can tell (or for sure cannot be moved - because the tires are flat for ages - see pic)
I contacted the Ordnungsamt
You can leave a car as long as you like on the street providing it is not of danger to anyone or not blocking anything 🤷♂️
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Your child may not feel any form of attraction to other people now or ever. Your child may never feel romantic or sexual attraction to others as they grow up. Your child may fluctuate in their attraction to others, if they feel attracted at all. Your child may feel attraction to others, but in a very limited or restricted way.
This is okay. This is normal. Not everyone grows up to be what society expects us to be. Do not assume that your child will feel attraction, and make sure they understand that not feeling attracted to others is a valid option, despite the heteronormative pressure of society that says otherwise.
CW-boost: medical, misogyny
@TopazRabbit Hmm, where is the ball sourced from (besides their own kits)?
- 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
