Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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I wish folks would stop equating size of userbase with "success" of platform, it's never been an interesting metric to look at unless you're talking about megaplatforms that need millions and millions of people so they can just about break even by selling data and eyeballs.
Back in the forum days nobody worth taking seriously was anxious about getting millions of people onto a forum, were they? And those forums weren't "failures" because of that, cuz they still connected people with similar interests together.
Stuff like user safety, fun, sustainability, and sense of community seem more interesting to talk about, to me, when evaluating whether a space is worthwhile to engage with. Raw numbers are boring.
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I learned a new allistic phrase this week. "Do you drink tea very often?" apparently means "should the tea be easily accessible instead of at the back of a hard-to-reach cabinet?" I can kinda see the connection there, but I don't understand why allistics can't just ask the question they're actually asking.
politics (not fedi) meta
I am getting very annoyed by the treadmill of selective ignorance in politics. It's probably no secret that I generally consider myself anarchist, and I frequently try to have conversations with people about how that could work.
The problem is, as long as electoral 'democracy' seems to be working okay, people will push back on it because "it's not necessary, things work pretty well". As soon as it starts going bad, people start panicking, and they *still* don't want to consider anarchism, because "we don't have time to figure out all those details, we need solutions fast".
Well yeah, that's why I tried to bring this up years ago! But you didn't think it was necessary!
Like, don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting everybody (or even many people) to agree with me on these things. That's fine! I'm not expecting people to care.
But what gets to me is the *reason* why people do not want to have these conversations, and how the end result is that it is never the 'right time' to talk about different political systems, with other people. It's always either too early or too late.
@eniko Ah yeah, fair :)
@eniko (And both should be recognized, for different reasons)
@eniko Do keep in mind that that advice only really works for a relatively small subset of people on here; eg. Black folks constantly run into racism, including on a lot of the 'respectable' and small queer instances, and fedi as a whole is really not doing well enough at combating that.
I likewise have a pretty good experience on fedi, but I'm also white and my axes of marginalization are well-understood ones here. Both "you can have a good experience on fedi" and "you can have a horrible experience on fedi" are true depending on who you are...
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@FrontaalNaakt maar zullen we alsjeblieft stoppen met dit soort mannen progressief te noemen? En als ze zichzelf zo noemen ze te corrigeren? Want gotsamme, dit gezeik moeten we al decennia aanhoren van dit soort 'redelijke' 🤮 mannen
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The Moon Dressed Like Saturn
Image Credit & Copyright: Francisco Sojuel
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so i have asthma and my whole life i've had these random sneezing fits and when they start they last all day and ruin my entire day and it's only this past year or so that i learned i can just pop an antihistamine and that stops it in its tracks :|
anyway, sharing this little nugget of wisdom in case it can help someone else similarly afflicted
tech waste
@wakingrufus @clarfonthey Most other package managers also let you set alternative install sources. In JS, for example, you could run Verdaccio as a caching registry proxy on your own infrastructure, and point npm at that instead of the public registry.
But that doesn't help if almost nobody actually does that.
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@wakingrufus @clarfonthey I don't think this is really much to do with the 'ecosystems', to be honest; most package managers have caching functionality, for example, but that's not going to save you if the CI environment deliberately wipes the entire system on every run.
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I've just read the best theory about the reason behind all the tumblr migration fuzz: after a few years of Wordpress market share growing at a ridiculous pace, its growth had stagnated in the last couple of years. WordPress market share is the reason why Automattic gets millions every time they do an investment round.
So the theory is the MM wants to hide WP stagnation by force-migrating a few hundred of millions tumblr blogs.
I still think it's entirely impossible for the migration to happen, but at least this theory would explain the rationale. And "he is trying to con the investors" sounds more plausible than "he just does it for the likes"
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As this worked for the Internet Archive, let’s try another one:
I am looking first an engineering contact at Youtube to troubleshoot the issue with them no longer returning metadata when Mastodon tries to fetch the preview for a video. It comes from their side and something changed a few weeks ago, and I would like to see how this can be fixed.
Fediverse, do your magic ✨
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and CI providers are especially complicit in this too. for example, unless they've changed this recently (I doubt it), CircleCI "caches" data by effectively zipping it up and dumping it into some external store, which is almost certainly just S3 buckets
instead of, you know, saving the data on the machines that are actually running things (which takes 0 seconds), they compress it and externally upload it to some completely different place, which can take a long-ass time. it's very often slower to cache things than to just redo them, since the time to compress everything up and fling it across the earth is greater than the time to just recompute everything again
like, there are so many ways to solve this problem. but they're extremely disinterested in solving this problem, since it doesn't make them any money. fuck Circle in particular, but I doubt the likes of GH actions, Travis, and other providers are much better
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@clarfonthey I only have data from npm but yeah, the vast, vast majority of npm downloads is from CI installations and I have repeatedly heard people talk about how caching on CI is 'difficult'.
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I hate seeing package download graphs like this because it tells me that people aren't fucking caching their CI runs:
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: (mastodon)
has like, anyone tested migration from instance1.example to instance1.example but to a different username?
yes, same instance. not different. and also like, merging accounts. like both accounts have followers.
(note: migration also includes more than just mastodon being involved, so info about how other fedi software treats it is definitely wanted)
- 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
