Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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
@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space That's... very weird. Specifying engine constraints *at all* is generally frowned upon in Node.js-land, given the high cross-version compatibility and the likelihood of getting your constraints wrong.
Requiring the latest point release is completely absurd. Even if you're going to be specifying an engine constraint, it should generally be at most a specific set of major versions...
@SupportOccupyNL Ik zie sowieso weinig radicaal/activistisch ingestelde mensen uit NL op fedi, helaas. Het gros van de Nederlanders lijkt op een paar instances te zitten die nogal, uh, "passief progressief" qua sfeer zijn, om het netjes te zeggen.
Dunno. Fedi lijkt helaas niet zo doorgedrongen te zijn bij links / radicaal / daadwerkelijk progressief / enz. Nederland. Ik zie vooral nog steeds veel Facebook en Twitter en nu Threads genoemd worden.
En tja. Kan niet zeggen dat het me echt verbaast. Het is al jarenlang godsonmogelijk om mensen van de commerciele platformen af te krijgen, is met messengers ook altijd al gedoe geweest. In NL lijkt het ook een stuk erger dan elders. Veel werk te doen nog.
@silvermoon82@strangeobject.space Are you thinking of stuff like MSRV or something else?
@bram Are they aware of the chargeback fee? I've heard stories over the years of payment processors and banks actually *encouraging* people to do chargebacks, and those people being completely unaware of the costs of those on the 'merchant' side
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Really wish that the steady drip-drip-drip of privacy violations over the last decade or two hadn't completely fucked our collective will to do literally anything about it
@baldur (Which is why there's all these visual frameworks with obvious accessibility and UI problems waxing on endlessly about "great UX" that they clearly aren't actually providing)
@baldur Worth noting that when companies talk about "UX", they generally mean something very different from you and I. I've found that many of them define "UX" as basically "conversion rate" and nothing else, certainly nothing to do with accessibility or doing what the user expects...
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“blakewatson.com - Neglecting the scrollbar: a costly trend in UI design”
https://blakewatson.com/journal/neglecting-the-scrollbar-a-costly-trend-in-ui-design/
IMO, what's happened to the scrollbar over the years is evidence that the software industry is deeply unserious about UX and in fact makes all of it money through oligopoly market manipulation.
If UX and software quality mattered at all—had even the slightest effect on business outcomes—a widget as singularly productive as the scrollbar wouldn’t have been degraded to the extent it has
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There was a great short story on Reddit where the billionaires all fucked off in a giant, luxury space ship leaving a ruined Earth behind them. The people cleaned and healed the Earth and redesigned our society with equality and compassion. When the billionaires saw Earth had healed, they returned and told us they would resume their lives. We destroyed their ship in orbit and lived happily ever after. Please, Jeff and Elon, take your sociopathic pals, and head on out!
@freakazoid @KuJoe The problem with Firefox forks is that they tend to track upstream (ie. there's only so much they can do, and they can't meaningfully diverge from Firefox's development path), and it's apparently really difficult to make it a proper diverging fork because of how complex the codebase is.
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@joepie91 I’ve never wanted to pay for a browser more than right now.
Jesus christ, we really need an actual proper community-run browser project.
"Mozilla this week said it has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym [...] Asked whether Mozilla has any concerns that its user base, many ardent ad-blockers among them, will oppose Anonym, a spokesperson for the Firefox house told The Register advertising as a business model is what allows the internet to be free and open to everyone, though there's still room for improvement."
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_betting_privacy/
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Nothing quite like seeing an asshole in a loud sports car making rounds around the city center and then an hour later seeing that exact car being towed by city services 🧡 karma
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Redoing the lab storage, however a particular lab haj came up with the sorting system and sorted itself...
re: the matrix thing
@bananas Yeah what the fuck was *that* move.
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They're once again trying to delete the Wikipedia article on TESCREAL 🤔
A thoroughly peer reviewed paper, numerous articles and all sorts of mentions later...
@mayank @jacksonchen666 I would expect it to detect whether the stylesheet uses the prefers-color-scheme property (which is usually how dark/light mode should be implemented), but I'm not certain
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Fedi Friends: I really want to display the text of my most recent mastodon post on a webpage. Not an embed - just the text. And the most recent, automatically.
Are there any tools or resources, tutorials, etc, you can point me to?
the matrix thing
Remember how I dropped out from trying to contribute to Matrix because of two core developers being abusive towards folks trying to fix their governance and technical problems?
Yeah. That.
Long post
@ireneista @Natanox@chaos.social @freundTech@chaos.social I mean "funding" in a very general sense here - whether that is by literally paying people for their work or otherwise making sure that they don't starve. Most people cannot afford to spend large amounts of time working on this stuff because they need to maintain an income too.
You need *some* kind of answer to this if you want to make complex research projects possible (to the point that you can expect others to work on them, that is), otherwise you'll just end up with a group of well-off white dudes in tech.
- 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
