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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- 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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We received feedback from a grant application that included "While your impact metrics & thoughtful approach to addressing systemic issues in AI are impressive, some reviewers noted the inherent risks of navigating this space without alignment with larger corporate players,"
AKA you can't do tech without BigTech's pervasive influence, as your mission statement states, in spite of your track record and in spite of their track record of harm.
Make. It. Make. Sense.
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I want smaller tech companies that focus on a thing they care about, pay a bunch of people and everyone goes home on time.
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because I have zero self-restraint, I went to tour those townhouse-style apartments over by the croissant cafe
true story: as I was touring, the leasing agent asked what building I currently live in
so I told her
"I have no idea why you're here, then, because that building has much better amenities and the units are so much nicer!”
😭
slapped the sense right back into me, thank you ma'am
angry, caps, data breach
@bumblebeedc@strangeobject.space I imagine virtually all of NL has gotten this letter, except maybe those who never go to a dentist
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The pirate genre is unique in resisting realism. I cannot think of a grittily realist pirate movie nor would I want to see one.
As soon as you start out plotting a pirate story, you're inevitably getting ghosts, or voodoo-magic, or implausibly sexy pirates, or anachronism, or a puppet musical, or whatever. But not realism. Never realism
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Looking for JS barcode scanning library recommendation
Any recommendations for JS barcode scanning libraries?
I need to recommend a good library for the pharmacy supplier's website because I want them to have a good mobile UX.
They have a text field that on desktop is just filled in using either typing or a physical barcode scanner. But on mobile you'd have to provide the barcode scanning functionality yourself.
It should be able to handle datamatrix, EAN and CNK (which is a special MSI code)
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Jesus fucking christ. I just got a letter from Infomedics, basically the company that does every healthcare provider's invoicing in the Netherlands (so you can't choose not to deal with them).
It was a data breach notification. For a breach that happened *FOUR FUCKING MONTHS AGO*. With zero details on how it could happen besides "ransomware at external supplier". Containing *MEDICAL DATA*.
What the actual fuck. Why is this company still allowed to operate? Why am I only hearing about this now? Why are they being cagey about consequences? Why have they not been fined out of existence yet?
nuanced answer, re: racism poll
@so_treu (As meta-commentary, I think that nuance is really only worth mentioning because it can help defuse "but it's just criticism" arguments from white people, by explicitly setting all of the conditions that would need to be true for that so that they cannot set their own.)
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If a Black trans woman on the internet is smeared as a terrible person by white people, to the point that they turn her name into a slur,
And Black people who never followed, interacted with or even met this woman have the slur extended to them, just because they talk about racism in public,
Is that an act of antiblackness/racism/a racial microaggression?
nuanced answer, re: racism poll
@so_treu Nuanced answer for the first part: very likely "yes", only "no" if the person in question is genuinely egregiously and knowingly harmful to others, *and* the criticism is precise, legitimate, and entirely devoid of any sort of racist or racism-adjacent rhetoric and behaviour, explicit or otherwise, as determined by Black folks.
In practice those conditions are so vanishingly unlikely to be true that I do not ever expect to see them in my lifetime, and so the simple answer is "yes".
The second part is much simpler: yeah, that is very clearly racism.
Hey, did you know: many libraries have online catalogs for looking for resources about a specific subject (eg. look at https://search.worldcat.org/) and they are not vulnerable to SEO grifting and LLM spam like the web is
@mischk @mynameistillian If it's anything like with the IRC network, they are calculating cost in terms of salary for the people maintaining it
@daedalus @mynameistillian Sure, but that doesn't help if the library then has to close down 🙃
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ACAB
mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit
Tech shit, software development
@freakazoid This is one of those things which *would* be very convenient, but the fact that there's no community governance of where it is applied, is what makes it problematic...
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queers forming polycules for mutual support instead of benefiting from generational wealth is us favoring composition over inheritance
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only in portland: the organizers of the annual “portland world naked bike ride” decided to take a year off
so another group decided to run a “world naked bike ride” in portland, instead
now the “portland world naked bike ride” folks are mad at the “world naked bike ride” folks and they’re duking it out in local blogs
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Dear 
, why does this bus exist? An hourly bus doing a very large round through every corner of Wasmes, a village of 11.632 inhabitants without a train station. Why is there not a direct bus to Mons? 
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- 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
