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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There is something I will never understand from people working in global companies - not taking other people's time zones into account:
- not prioritizing asking and answering people who's day starts before yours by end of your day so they can work on it or be unblocked at the start of their day
- not prioritizing asking and answering people whose day finishes before yours earlier in your day so they can be unblocked or you can discuss it while they are still there
- not planning meetings during times when all parties are awake and working
I will never understand how this is not just automatic. 🕐🙄
possibly hot take, low-code development tools
As a professional programmer, I think that low-code development tools are actually a good thing - the problem is just that they are usually designed/adopted with the mindset of "saving money and time", rather than the much more healthy mindset of "giving people agency over the tools they rely on", and the result is that they end up being bad at both
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#annaWilGraagWeten Wat is het ergste? Een vreemde die naast je op een bankje ploft en
spacebar heating
The thing with 'spacebar heating' (https://xkcd.com/1172/) is that sure, it wasn't designed to work that way, and it's kind of weird to rely on it to do that, but...
... apparently your users have a need that is not being met by your current software design, and maybe instead of complaining about how horrifying spacebar heating is, your time is better spent trying to understand how to make your software better for them?
@viq @tfiebig Well, that's the tricky part; I'm looking for a not-very-contextual word, that can be applied in a wide range of circumstances to refer to "the people who would end up using this thing for some purpose, but may not care about its workings" :)
Essentially a general-purpose replacement for "users" or "end-users", without the philosophical implications that that has, for the cases where no more specific term is readily available.
@ChlorideCull I'm personally not too concerned with those folks, to be honest. They don't need to be using it, for it to be useful to many folks!
@fogti@chaos.social @tfiebig The main objection I've run across is that it implies (and legitimizes) a class division of sorts; the idea that there's an "us", the programmers, and a "them", the users, and they should stay in their lane and be told how to use computers 'correctly'.
The term doesn't *need* to mean that, but I could agree that that's what it has come to imply in common usage in programmer circles, as a term of disdain of sorts.
And personally I feel that a much healthier philosophy is "design your systems so that people don't *need* to learn how they work to use them, but they *could* easily do so if they wanted to", which does go against that class division.
@tfiebig It's the closest I'm aware of as well, but some folks object to the term "users" in general (and there are some decent reasons for that!) so I'm hoping to find some less obvious options :)
Terminology question: I'm looking for a concise term to describe "the vast majority of computer users, who do not particularly care about or are interested in computers, beyond how they can serve as a tool for their needs."
"Non-technical users" isn't quite right, because it's not necessarily a competence issue, and there's more tech than computers anyway. "Average users" also isn't quite right, since I'm specifically looking to include those who have above-average difficulty in dealing with computers. "Normal users" also doesn't quite work, because it implies abnormality on the other side.
Are there any better terms to use?
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Weet iemand waar de #Paralympics te volgen zijn? In vorige jaren volgde ik het live op het officiële YouTube kanaal van de Paralympics, maar daar krijg ik nu helaas te zien dat het "in mijn land niet beschikbaar is"... HBO Max had veel van de Olympics, dus toen ging ik daar checken... Maar ook daar geen Paralympics.
Does anybody know where to follow the Paralympics? In previous years, I followed it live on the Paralympics' official YouTube channel, but when I go to the live feeds there now, it says it's not available in my country... HBO Max had a lot of the Olympics, so I checked there next... But there too, no Paralympics.
I wish e-mail had an "authenticated receipt" feature, where you'd have to authorize a sender in your e-mail client (with eg. OAuth-style flow) to let them send you e-mail, and they can only do so with the negotiated key, and e-mails received from authenticated senders would be specially marked with the key-associated name of the sender.
I feel like that would address a lot of phishing issues, because all "account updates" and other messages from regular contacts could be visually and unfalsifiably authenticated. While still allowing for sending unauthenticated messages, they just don't get the marker.
Seems a lot more reliable for the average user than "check whether the URL starts with..."
Huh. Apparently there's now a sporting program here specifically for autistic teenage girls (with physical contact accommodations, and presumably other things), funded by the municipality. Just spotted a poster for it at the local (boxing) gym.
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“we demonstrate that language models embody covert racism in the form of dialect prejudice, exhibiting raciolinguistic stereotypes about speakers of African American English (AAE) that are more negative than any human stereotypes about African Americans ever experimentally recorded”
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How to fix homelessness: free housing.
How to beat bus fare evasion: free buses.
Both methods cost less than punishing the poor by criminalizing and jailing them.
If you don't like the idea of being taxed to implement those solutions: I don't care - it would make our society objectively better so your annoyance is a small price to pay.
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It's easier to just not listen to the person with ADHD or believe they're lazy rather than having to confront that the system is unfair and that many people cannot succeed in it no matter how much effort they put in. That scares people, so they put up a wall to protect their existing belief, which means dismissing people's lived experiences
- 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
