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
@typhlosion Should standardize "stackable" to mean "on top of another" and "nestable" to mean "storeable inside of another"
@wheeze_NL Yep, will give that a shot. Thanks!
@wheeze_NL Yep I get the same
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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in romulan culture, it is customary for websites to include a false frontend that doesn’t actually work
@wheeze_NL Any idea what might cause it?
@julia@eepy.moe In a previous life, I ran a then-highly-current niche news site that briefly popped into the Alexa "top 100 most popular domains on the web" list (when that still existed...), alongside the big names you've definitely heard of. For a while it was the canonical news source for that topic for pretty much every journalist, and many linked back.
It was a pile of hastily put-together garbage PHP on a $5/month VPS running lighttpd, with 512MB, *maybe* 1GB of RAM? It had some incredibly rudimentary and generic caching. It got a bit slow but never broke. Although the web in general had way less users back then, it absolutely was under high load.
I continue to be baffled by how some people seem to think that you just *need* a whole fucking Kubernetes cluster of dedicated hardware to serve a couple of a hits a second. I promise that you only need a tiny fragment of that hardware if you do literally any optimization at all and don't expect sub-ms response times.
@bellitre @aral Sort of, but not exactly. It's about how "nice" people (that specific term) are usually the ones looking away and doing nothing.
They're the people that are sometimes considered "good", by people with an oversimplified view of "good" and "bad" (which is mostly just about "are they nice to me" and not about "are they doing good to others").
(I did not notice the age of the post, sorry.)
I agree that 'good' and 'bad' are not a property of people themselves, and that it's about the choices they make.
The bit I had a problem with in your comment, was mainly the "people lucky to be more adapted" part, because it makes it sound like there's no responsibility to change, you just have to be lucky to 'fit in' or not. But you *do* have a responsibility towards others to do the best you can, whether or not that's the "normal" thing in a society.
Otherwise, I think we agree.
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school, intergenerational bullshit, counter
“Well, i never! What /are/ they teaching the youths in school these days?”
Um, the same things they've always taught in school—the only things they've /ever/ taught in school? Obedience, deference to authority, yielding to social hierarchy, and accepting overwork without complaint?
@rail_ The standard policy seems to be to 'retire' a TLD 5 years after country disappearance; wonder if it'll be adjusted here
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@joepie91 i hope that at least the "cool" overpriced TLD that the UK leeched off of will die
or that at very least it will be more widely known why it was a problem
@rail_ Not quite happy about the outcome of the underlying political process, though. Seems the Chagossians are *still* not recognized in that process...
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o, .io cTLD will go fuck itself
good 
@indigotyrian@akko.elysium.gay Thanks, that's very helpful! This broadly seems to match my impressions from afar (and confirms some of the concerns I had early on), but I was missing a lot of details.
One thing I'm curious to hear more about is that parasocial relationship issue, especially the "telling everyone to follow them" - could you think of circumstances where this could have worked out well (no/different business model, smaller community, something else), or do you feel that it was just fundamentally doomed to result in an unhealthy dynamic no matter what else they changed?
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how to focus a dog's digging inclination into snow removal
health, body
It's moments like these that are just so baffling I can only really respond with amusement; I do way too little exercise, and I'm suffering from kidney failure and am a few weeks away from a transplantation; and due to some mysterious property of my body that nobody's been able to figure out yet, I just... accidentally bent a fork. What. 😂
food mention
Okay I know that I have a lot of physical strength, but "accidentally bending a fork while trying to eat a pancake" wasn't *quite* on my bingo card either...
@mynameistillian But they hired a professional design team! /s
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not to be a leftist on main but the entire concept of immigration is one firmly rooted in the unbelievably fascistic idea that the state has a right to determine its racial composition
some plans for accessibility testing
For a social media project I'm working on (no, not another Twitter clone, don't worry), I have some improved accessibility testing plans, on top of the 'obvious' (Firefox accessibility issue tester, WAVE evaluation):
1. Enable Firefox devtools' color-blind mode during normal usage of the site myself; switching between different simulation modes every few days or so. Then see if anything annoys me.
2. Do the same thing but with JS disabled. See if everything keeps working as expected (some things may not work because they actually cannot be made to work without JS, like real-time chat things).
3. Probably eventually doing the same thing but with a screenreader. This is a bigger endeavour due to my own auditory processing issues and the somewhat flaky state of screenreaders on Linux, so I may not *actually* be able to do this one myself.
If you have other ideas or feedback, feel free to suggest them! Support for mobile (or more accurately, small-screen) devices is out of scope to begin with, but that will change over time and I *am* doing my best not to paint myself into a corner on that.
- 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
