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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Dot-tk was a rough lesson, but that was a long time ago now.
(They offered free .tk domains in the aughts, got super popular with spammers and malware, and ISTR there were colonization factors as well?).
Is this going to be a generational thing, where every couple decades we get a large-scale public learning experience? .tk, now .af and .io, so in 2040 I dunno, the "union services" .us websites will all be seized for communism or something.
CW-boost: lebanon, aid from rojava
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Come to think of it.. it has been a while since I heard anyone use the expression "latest and greatest" and that's a pretty big mood
re: ableism
@cy You need to think long and hard about why your default assumption is that someone criticizing the accessibility of open-source must be (paraphrasing) some 'corporate plant' or otherwise malicious actor. Instead of looking inward about what *you* can do to improve the situation.
@cy It's not "consolation" to talk down on people like that and essentially blame them for "allowing them" to do something that they don't even have control over. It's gloating. "Well, but *I* don't have that problem over here in open-source land..."
If you think closed-source code should be illegal, great, I completely agree! So go fight for that yourself instead of placing that expectation on someone else.
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... it's just one guy periodically merging from Godot master and rebadging the documentation, isn't it?
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Oops. Pro-tip: cover your cup of tea before folding sheets nearby (especially if your sheets have been sitting gathering dust in a laundry basket for 6 months), lest you end up with fluffy tea.
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Like, I assign great value to the ideas behind open-source, but it's shit like this that makes me wonder whether I actually want to have
anything to do with the broader "open-source community" because it sometimes feels like nobody wants to ask themselves any questions beyond the LICENSE.md
subtoot of many, frustrated
Jesus christ people. Someone explicitly tells you why they can't use open-source stuff for its poor accessibility, and you all choose to respond by going "it's not that bad"? What is wrong with you??? How do you STILL miss the fucking point of the post
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every site/app that lets you send formatted text must have a preview option so you know what your text looks without having to publish it
@nazokiyoubinbou @weirdwriter You are giving off the impression that you are trivializing the issue, because you chose to post your "general rant" in response to someone speaking about a personal experience, as if to imply that the personal experience is of less importance than your rant. If it's meant as a "general rant", then why didn't you post it as your own post on your own timeline instead?
Telling someone "it isn't that bad" also isn't helpful. They *live* this experience and so it is vanishingly unlikely that you will have anything useful to add to it, or that your understanding of the situation is better than theirs. Sometimes it is better to just not comment.
If you want to be helpful, then you could offer something along the lines of "do you want me to push for better accessibility for you in projects, or help find something that works better for you?", to take some of the work off their shoulders. What you're doing now is just being defensive and basically invalidating someone's experience while you have zero skin in the game yourself.
In short, what you're doing here is what people are talking about when they complain about "reply guys". Don't do that.
"Everyone always taking the path of least resistance is why [...]"
While this is true in principle, you should be mindful of who you're asking to take the first steps against that (because that's the phase we're in right now), and whether you aren't asking the most marginalized folks to do the most work there.
@cy @weirdwriter Don't make this kind of reply. This doesn't help them in any way and all it does is place *your* expectations on someone else who didn't ask for that.
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Somewhat recently, I've started using chopsticks.
And I think it's a wonderful example of just how good we are at tool use.
I had basically no experience with them, they seemed alien to me for a while, then I watched one short video and suddenly was...passable at it.
Like any other tool, you (eventually, generally) don't think about moving your fingers, only about what you want the tool to do, even if it might seem strange and complex to the uneducated.
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Yet another app sacrificed on the alter of Kafkaesque app store bureaucracy. Granted unlike iA Writer they are going to only pull the Google Drive feature not the whole app. Another lesson why I never want to rely on Google for the back end #programming #google blog.panic.com/end-of-the-road…
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When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine.
While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.
@silvermoon82 I suspect that this is getting out of hand so quickly because people used to do that and they've given up, to be completely honest.
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If you’re also put off by the new content warning styling, please vote on this issue:
polycule/household management, ADHD
After many iterations of trying to make chores happen pretty reliably and not get forgotten, in a household of 4 executively-dysfunctional ADHD creatures (me included)...
We seem to have found a way that works! At least for the regular/maintenance chores. Simply a table of chores, with 7 sets of 2 columns; one set for each day of the week, divided into "claimed" and "completed".
Whoever 'claims' a chore is responsible for its completion to the end (by doing it or delegating it under mutual agreement), and whoever actually does it (can be multiple creatures!) signs their letter in the relevant box(es).
By the end of the day, we can see exactly who did what chores, which ones were delegated, which ones were forgotten, and so on. And if something wasn't done quite right, we know who to talk to about it and clarify things.
Combined with some other (individual) adjustments, we seem to be climbing ever closer towards a daily 100% completion rate :)
Some of these chores don't strictly *need* to be done every day (could be every two days for example), but for the sake of habit building they're marked as daily chores anyway, if they're found unnecessary then a dash is put in the completion box for that chore/day to denote that.
The list is magneted to the fridge, with a pen immediately nearby at all times, and gets replaced with a clean printout at the start of every week.
- 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
