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.
- 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
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also, libraries aren't a charity, they're a public service
the anti-IA people say the IA allows anybody to borrow while "real" libraries exist for the poor but that's not the purpose of a library & RL libraries don't just exist as charity for the poor
we as a society have lost the concept of what a public service is, we only see things in terms of profit and charity
public libraries exist b/c our societies decided that access to culture, to information, to knowledge, and to a public space that preserves those things is a public good, it's something everybody should have
public libraries are not and should not be a charity that we only minimally fund b/c some people are too poor to partake in capitalism and therefore need a little handout so they can get smarter to partake in capitalism
Hm. Why *do* issue trackers automatically close issues marked as duplicate? Wouldn't it make more sense to keep them open and visually group them together, and auto-close them once the duplicant issue is resolved, so that it gives you an idea of how many people have individually reported the same issue and no context/variations are lost?
antisemitism, runescape
Wow, I was looking back on the "Squeal of Fortune" thing, Jagex's first attempt at microtransactions, and uh, that seems like some pretty damn blatant antisemitic imagery in there
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Dinky Discombobulator D
looking (still) for an instance to host a, artwork-cetered account, (wanted to use it as a catalog for about a jillion things I have done that are lying around) EU hosted preferrably.also want something with custom emoji reacts. boosts welcome, replies even more welcomer
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As much as I talk about image descriptions, which yes, are very, very important, I'd also like to bring some light to describing audio posts. This is just as important as describing your images. There are people who aren't able to access your audio posts for any number of reasons. Yes, audio can sometimes be difficult to describe, just as images can I'm sure, but at least trying is good. There are many, many people on the fediverse who appreciate that immensely.
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Does anyone know of any good Mastodon CSS themes?
@scanlime Turnover so bad that they ran out of developers?
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Empty bus, just for me 
(ok bus driver aside)
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Many designers misunderstand what accessibility is and have a limiting believe that accessible design has to look “ugly.”
Accessibility is not at odds with aesthetic.
Some of the most beautiful designs I’ve witnessed were more accessible.
Engage your mind and look deeper, you’ll see it too.
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Tweedehands 10 bar tankcompressor, gratis op te halen in Rosmalen als je er een (anarchistisch of vergelijkbaar autonoom) goed doel voor hebt. 
Gebruikt, maar niet heel veel. Is vervangen i.v.m. geluidsniveau - let op, je hebt echt gehoorbescherming wanneer deze ingeschakeld is! Compressor zelf in goede staat, slang/luchtpistool ontbreken, filterbehuizing moet gelijmd/vervangen worden (beiden standaard koppeling, volgens mij).
Specificaties in foto/alt-text. Stuur een DM als je interesse hebt!
@archeokluit Dat 'zero waste' is sowieso een leugen want dat is dus gewoon gerecycled plastic, en dat kan daarna niet nogmaals gerecycled worden (en er komen dus ook microplastics vrij in dat proces)
@clarfonthey Honestly every scammy tech hype since cryptocurrency has used this strategy - many different cryptocurrencies (obviously), NFTs, electric cars, LLMs...
Unfortunately it works pretty well, though its effectiveness seems to waning, this will probably be one of the last cycles where it works
@SnotFlickerman @wuphysics87 I think this is getting two things mixed up, honestly. It is true that many systems do not recognize people's agency, and force new things on them that are unwanted. But that is not the same thing as "just works"!
When people ask for something that "just works", usually what they are asking for is a reasonable and accessible baseline experience, reliable feedback that tells them what to do next if something goes wrong, and an overall predictable system that is difficult to break beyond one's own ability to fix it.
None of these require disrespecting people's agency to fulfill, and all of them are points that every Linux distro I've ever seen scores poorly on. Some distros barely meet the bar of "baseline reasonable experience", only to immediately fall apart and require complex interactions to fix as soon as anything breaks.
Does this mean that Linux needs to be restricted to a single set of mandated usage and design like Windows (and, recently, GNOME) have been chasing? No. But there is absolutely a lot of room for improvement in the general reliability and accessibility of Linux systems, without compromising the customisability and agency that a Linux system typically provides.
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In light of the Internet Archive losing its appeal to hachette, I just wanted to point out some websites you should avoid:
* https://annas-archive.li/
* https://downmagaz.net/
* https://ebook-hunter.org/
* https://forcoder.net/
* https://freemagazines.top/
* https://liber3.eth.limo/
If you were to download books from these websites, you might cut into hachette's more than three billion dollars of annual revenue. So make sure to avoid those websites and the following:
* https://libgen.is/
* https://oceanofpdf.com/
* https://pdfroom.com/
* https://pdfstop.com/
* https://pdfdrive.to/
* https://pdfmagazines.club/
* https://sci-hub.se/
* https://singlelogin.re/
* ... or any of the other sites listed at https://rentry.co/megathread-books
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Puh-lease cut it out with the tiny scrollbars, designers, there are people who use desktop, who want to scroll with a mouse/stylus using the scrollbar, or simply depend on proper scrollbars.
This has been frustrating me for years. This one is of a, well, sorry, Mastodon social.
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@eniko @ointersexo@ursal.zone (Adam Ragusea has a video that goes into some of this, if you're interested in the details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxi_zVi0zSA)
@eniko @ointersexo@ursal.zone One thing to keep in mind with cutting boards is that they'll chip and splinter no matter what material you use (by their nature), and it's not at all clear which material is safest here, AFAIK
- 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
