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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A year after this post, the headline Firefox Now Also Draws Blood Every Time You Log On appears, with the subtitle Only half compared to Chromium
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Designing tube slides in Aqua Mundo is now much easier thanks to these construction lines that tell you where in the world you are building 🙂
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames #tycoon
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Implemented a "wide slide" in Aqua Mundo.
You can choose between individual lanes or one big wide slide, and enable race mode. Still a lot of work to do but I'm happy with the progress so far 😀
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #tycoon
@bierdame@strangeobject.space Datzelfde heb ik bij zo'n beetje iedere app van een andere dagattractie... ik blijf me verbazen over hoe slecht die kunnen zijn
CW-boost: meta-discussion of colonialism and transphobia
@psilocervine Do you happen to have a thread or something like that with more details/specifics?
@clemens Oh hey, I've been using that, nice to see you here :)
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Calling for the help of the fediverse!
Help spread the word of our browser extension Consent-O-Matic that helps automate answering those ever-present cookie consent pop-ups.
It's developed by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and free to use for Chrome/Edge, Firefox and Safari including for iOS.
Also, it's open source, so if you have a bit of technical skill, you can help us improve the rule set for greater coverage.
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you know, i'll take the incessant reply guys of fedi over the style of aggro gotchas on twitter/bluesky any day
at least most reply guys are (ineptly) trying to contribute additional information to the discussion rather than just scoring a point in social media debate club by getting one over on you
@alive In practice a lot of 'duplicates' are not *exact* duplicates but rather different issues caused by the same underlying cause, and in that context this model unfortunately doesn't really work either.
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Tell me something nerdy that you don't think many people know, but you'd like for more people to know!
I'll go first: the Stargate theme song has lyrics despite those lyrics never being in any opening for the show.
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@amy Doors that say they must be able to close in the event of a fire are part of a building's smoke abatement system. Those doors are going to be pulled shut by air pressure as the HVAC system goes into fire purge mode. Air will be rapidly ventilated out through the roof to pull as much smoke/fumes up and out to give people more time to evacuate. If those doors are blocked open, it won't work as well.
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@amy
There is a genious survey technique to ask respondents about sensitive questions (crime, sex,. ..).
The respondents get a sensitive yes-no-question and a mundane one, that is naturally about 50/50 (is your mothers birthday on an uneven day of the month?). Before answering, the respondents throw a coin in secret, which decides, which question they actually answer. Now noone knows, which question they answered and the scientists can calculate the actual percentage with a large enough dataset
@Vampire I'm thinking something vaguely analogous to the inline reference/definition/code preview in Brackets and VS Code.
@Vampire I feel like that's better solved with something like an inline visual expansion of 'related' (ie. duplicate) issues - especially because "duplicate" is often a fuzzy definition, with them not being *exact* duplicates, just different issues with a shared cause
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Rhethoric patterns, pol adjacent
I keep seeing the same pattern in the context of German politics but it probably happens elsewhere too: bigoted claims with an easy to disprove factual component, but an underlying moral/ethical/political assumption that remains unspoken, but is the worse core, the actual payload if you will. Debating the fact will only validate the bigoted core. Please keep this in mind for the next time you see some bigoted claim and don't go for that bait, call out the bigoted core!
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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?
- 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
