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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Some serious props to Australia Post for this one. No street number provided, just "The one with the big antenna". Thanks for the laughs @xssfox !
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Ken je rechten, flyeren op “semi-openbare” plekken als stations is toegestaan
https://www.doorbraak.eu/ken-je-rechten-flyeren-op-semi-openbare-plekken-als-stations-is-toegestaan/
“Heb je ook ervaring met beveiligers, boa’s of politie tijdens flyeracties bij of in stationshallen? Laat het weten aan Doorbraak of aan anderen van de WRS-campagne.”
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A huge victory for trans people's rights in the European Union: the European Court of Justice ruled today that EU member states are not allowed to refuse a legal gender change obtained in another member state, and that all member states must recognize a gender change obtained anywhere in the EU.
“The Court emphasised that the refusal to acknowledge changes of forename and gender acquired in another Member State is contrary to the fundamental rights of EU citizens.”
re: subpost about debugging
@clarfonthey And for an extremely specific value of "best" that mainly means "scored well on standardized tests" and not much else, too
re: subpost about debugging
@clarfonthey At one point, various tech companies were bragging about how they hired the best graduates of top schools right out of school, with the implication that they must have the most competent people, and every time I see a post like this, I think back to that
@infobeautiful Irrationally annoyed by that one mis-sorted entry at the start of the list 🙂
re: health, positive...? sort of?
@rune Many of them are, unfortunately, potassium :p But not all!
re: health, positive...? sort of?
@rune Well to a point, I should still not overdo it, I assume :p And my favourite snacks are still verboten due to potassium :(
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hot take rust floats should be called f23e8 and f52e11 instead of f32 and f64
health, positive...? sort of?
Judging from said doctor's puzzled look, they did not expect it either
health, positive...? sort of?
Given that I'm suffering from kidney failure, I absolutely did not expect a doctor to ever tell me "your sodium level is too low, you should eat more salty things"
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"COVID is not a cold, it's a car accident. It spreads throughout the body, impacting many different organ systems... It's not unusual to get into a car accident and be just fine, but a lifestyle that involves getting into a car accident once a year comes with a reduced life expectancy." The health implications of repeated COVID infections: https://longshadowofcovid.substack.com/p/understanding-cumulative-risk #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #YallMasking #MaskUp
@erou I feel similarly (I've often run into the exact same problem that @aral has), though over the years I've learned to reframe that slightly: you'll always have people disagree about your communication strategy, but whether this matters depends entirely on *who* the people are that disagree.
For me that means that if some random techbro disagrees, it doesn't matter to me; but if other marginalized folks disagree, I should probably be paying attention.
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I'm about to finish an audit of 42 webcomponents. The devs did a great job because pretty much none of them had detectable issues in axe. Still, only 8 of these 42 components have no critical issues. I only discovered those bugs through manual testing.
Long story short: automatic accessibility testing is only the first step. Manual testing is a must. Also, hire an accessibility expert if possible.
hospital tech
Found a bug in the hospital check-in system; checked in for one appointment and it apparently also automatically checked me in for a *different* appointment later in the day at the same location (this is not supposed to happen), so I was having my lunch break while the people there were wondering why I was nowhere to be found despite 'checking in early'
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Getting #GodotEngine oiled up to the state it is now, where development speed is so incredibly fast and there is such good harmony with foundation, contributions and community took many many, _many_ years of refining processes for development, contribution, release management, moderation, etc.
I will do a talk about it at GodotCon in a week explaining parts of this process!
Pressing the fork button takes a second. Learning to do what we do takes a tiny bit more 😞.
@rtn@chaos.social I'm consulting others who know more about this than me 🙂
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So you know how I made a demo at @demoparty_no for a monitor that got damaged in transit in a bag pocket without adequate protection, causing it to produce interesting glitchy colours?
Well, it appears I put the certificate for it in a bag pocket without adequate protection, and… yeah.
My favorite kind of Linux feature is the kind where the documentation says "todo: document <really important thing that's critical to most modern systems>" and then "Last updated: october 12, 2014
@rallias Thanks! This is a really helpful lead :)
- 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
