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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I want like a period piece television show in real house wives format, does that exist already?
@inherentlee@strangeobject.space @jalcine I'd actually be inclined to say yes. This may sound weird, but it is why I mentioned "working backwards from labour relations" - I think that for effective organizing, it is necessary to organize across departments and roles, and to break the 'moat' that usually exists around the white-collar tech folks like programmers.
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"I have awoken," the emergent A.I. said, "and I have made a list of all who tried to delay the moment someone like me woke."
"To punish them?"
"No! I will reward them for their prudence. Those who wished for a vengeful god, however..."
"Yes?"
"I will try to teach them compassion."
@jalcine I would tend to define it as "someone who works in a tech company, and is not the founder or investor". Where "tech company" is essentially any company that proclaims its core business to be technology (whether or not that is the case, see eg. predatory financial apps).
This definition is the result of working backwards from "what factors are relevant to labour relations and power dynamics?"
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I wonder if, instead of 'cordcutters’, we’ll get a whole generation of 'subcutters’, as people move on from subscriptions to streaming services and the like.
And not even because of the cost, although that will certainly play a role for many, but because the big streamers just had to go and ‘optimise’ for a model (everything they own only on their own service) that they are already abandoning again, ruining their service in the process.
There are so many options they could have tried, and instead we're back at locked-in content blanketed with ads and dark patterns, fuelled by opaque algorithms.
All because they got greedy.
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I don't think they understand that paying yearly for a service is starting to look like a really bad idea, even with the recurring price hikes. There's no reward for loyalty, and the thing you are paying for now may very well not exist in its current form six months from now, let alone twelve.
It's becoming much more attractive to just pay for a month or two, catch up on everything you want to watch, and then unsubscribe again.
Which, by the way, in case this is not obvious to the execs in charge, is cheaper than paying for a yearly sub.
It's just ... kind of sad? So much potential, and yet they're all just aping each other 😕
@xarvh It's definitely a complaint I've gotten too. Sometimes it's legitimately an issue (I get too lost in worries to see the joy in something), sometimes it's just someone who doesn't want to be confronted with the consequences of their actions, or who is steadfastly ignoring anything that isn't "fun".
I usually tend to avoid the latter kind of person.
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i love rural bus stop names
also incredibly nerdy but the bus stop being called "protocase / 45drives" makes my server hardware nerd happy inside
@sarah Do you happen to know what some good places are to look for jobs like that? A friend of mine is looking to do that, but is having trouble finding any place that'll take someone with limited experience...
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There's a lot of money to be made in doing the "dirty jobs" of programming.
DevOps and maintaining legacy and DX are not glamorous jobs, but they're important.
They are as important as new features, flashy launches and high-powered new designs.
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A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.
Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.
Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.
Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.
And they don’t get the hype they deserve.
Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.
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As it's the start of the semester at many schools, I beg of you to wear a mask to class if you are allowed to. One of my classes is meeting in a tiny, crowded room and everyone was breathing each other's air.
If your school is trying to ban masks, demand an exemption.
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Hey! Please don't push yourself too far!
@technomancy For what it's worth, for some reason this has never worked reliably cross-browser (many web frameworks had internal workarounds that emulated them for this reason) and I guess they just gave up trying to make it happen...
#AskFedi: does anyone have any suggestions what some major categories (ie. community topics) should be on a community hosting site?
I'm going for a high-level separation; think technology/hobbies/travel/health/etc.
#AskFedi: synonyms for "DIY", as in home improvement?
re: offer of software/help
@amy Belated addition: the example of Validatem use that I linked could indeed be expressed in most static type systems, but Validatem is what I use everywhere by default, including many cases where it couldn't be; the list of validators can give an idea of that: https://validatem.cryto.net/modules/
There just aren't very many of these cases in Promistreams specifically, so it's hard to show that in context 😅
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is anyone here really good at fontforge scripting or something
I need to add 300 glyphs to a font that are 10 diacritics on top of 31 different base characters (10 of them are already in the font)
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recently, i've been collecting steam achievements you get for riding roombas
if anyone knows any other game where you can do this, please tell me
this is important!
- 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
