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
systemd, unix philosophy (follow-up)
Look, if you're going to reply to this post with some grand yet unsupported claims because you personally don't like systemd, then the response you get will have an equivalent amount of effort put into it, which is to say very little.
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When you become disabled - everyone will start suggesting fixes to you. People can’t comprehend the chronic nature of chronic illness.
Trying to accept that your life is forever changed is made harder by those constantly suggesting a magic cure will get you “back to before”.
When tempted to ask “have you tried yoga?” Please don’t. Take a breath. Realize we’re grieving the loss of our old life & body & trying to learn acceptance. You’re hindering that important process by making it seem like there’s a quick & easy fix.
Sit with us in our grief. Don’t try and fix us.
#chronicillness #acceptance #accommodations #spoonie #disability #ableism #mecfs #longcovid #support #disabilityrights #pots #mcas #health
systemd, unix philosophy
@cy Clearly a lot of people, me included, disagree with that view.
RE: Things that "everybody knows" that are wrong 
(has references to crimes)
@commentator2_0 Much of this is described on Wikipedia, even. I do not have any other links left from when I wrote that post.
systemd, unix philosophy
@Hurgotron If you're preemptively including "desktop users" as a category that matters, and creating an (unsupported) false dichotomy where something is either reliable *or* usable, then I'm honestly not sure there's much of a useful discussion to be had here, because that's basically just gatekeeping rhetoric - and I am not going to engage on that premise.
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Did you know that at one point during chattel slavery, enslaved Africans who tried to run away were diagnosed with "drapetomania"
Because a Black person who wanted to get free was clearly sick in the head
Now think about how often Black activists today are also portrayed as being some kind of unhinged
And that's just one example of the afterlife of slavery............ Orlando Jones firing is just another
@polotek I don't know what happened at Facebook. But almost every case I've personally run into (as a third-party contractor) where a security measure wasn't implemented boiled down to a developer telling me "I don't have time to fix this, it needs to be done by tomorrow".
How much the developer could have achieved by pushing back varied. Particularly in the US the answer was often "not very much" because of at-will employment, sometimes outright and overt threats of termination.
Generally the only cases where a developer was *definitely* at fault themselves, were those were a developer was being arrogant, the "do not dare to question me" type. There weren't a lot of those.
Factory tour of an LED factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwpbDuHWXjs (CW: flashing lights at some points)
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thank you people who write alt texts for their screenshots that explain what the interesting thing in the screenshot is
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Came across "ethically sourced Lena image" recently https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/ and found an excuse to make use of it in a test today 😁
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dental hygiene, advice wanted
I'm looking for a couple things
1. A good place to get unflavored charcoal toothpaste, both with and without fluoride
2. Something to help me brush under and floss around the retainers that are permanently bonded to the back of my front bottom teeth
Can someone point me in the right direction?
This is *particularly* useful for catching cases where a company does something that could *technically* be defended as accomplishing the stated purpose, but it is deliberately inefficient to serve an ulterior motive.
It catches it because even a defensible action would be very far from the optimal solution, but that only becomes visible if you start reasoning from the optimal solution instead of the other way around.
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Handy way to determine if some behaviour from a company is deliberately malicious or not, while minimizing personal bias:
Think of what they would optimally do if they *were* malicious, and of what they would do if they *weren't* malicious and genuinely had the claimed intentions.
Whatever they are actually doing, which of the two answers is it closer to?
@eythian Yeah, it's Lunenburg, the one in Nuland/Rosmalen (I named them elsewhere in the thread but it's easy to overlook probably 🙂) - do keep in mind I don't know their exact service area, they're a local chain and they do at least seem to ship webshop orders for appliances NL-wide, but I don't know what their service setup is like for that.
So they might provide service outside the local area or they might not!
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My anxiety is really strong curse at times, but sometimes I look at people's decisions and wish I could gift them some of my anxiety.
re: just stop oil, court case
@riley Oh, absolutely
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Datalek bij de politie, je weet wel, die organisatie waar straks miljoenen false positives met privé foto's naar toe gaan, want kinderporno. ofzo.
@bumblebeedc@strangeobject.space Yeah! It does handily prove that it's entirely possible to run a financially healthy company with excellent service, and that when companies provide shit service, that's a choice...
just stop oil, court case
"The pair of you came within the thickness of a pane of glass of irreparably damaging or even destroying this priceless treasure"
So what you're saying, Mr. Judge, if I am getting this correctly, is that... there was no damage, as was expected? Yes?
Funny how a bit of framing changes the implied meaning, isn't it?
- 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
