Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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- 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
RMS (stallman), potentially uncomfortable discussion
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de I think a big problem with the situation around RMS is that there's such a strong tendency in the community to wave away the serious accusations (which are not new!) as free-standing incidents or innocent mistakes.
In that context, I understand that someone got desperate and tried to come up with everything they could think of, in the hope that at least *something* would resonate with these people.
So I agree that a number of the things on the website are mild and/or strange and/or shitty things to make a problem out of, but in the specific context (and how long this shitshow has been going on for) I'm not sure that there would've been a better option to get through to people, and the whole thing feels like a choice of lesser evils to me 😕
The whole situation sucks, basically, and I'm not sure there was ever a 'clean' solution here.
@xgranade@wandering.shop Oh yeah, I actually knew it was built on XUL previously! I'm just baffled that someone actually used the hypothetical migration path for XUL deprecation of "you can always fork Firefox I guess". I didn't think anyone would actually *do* that
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Perhaps the most insidious crime of capitalism is that it has deprived generations of their ability to dream in public; a horde of pencil-pushing busybodies perpetually waiting in the shadows to tell you that "that would never work"
@arianvp https://ublog.byme.at/objects/9a451291-7de4-45b8-8531-1d58b8755f1f provides some uh, clarification, as to what's going on
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@joepie91 Look like they are hacking what's left of XulRunner out of Firefox.
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/app/build.sh is `interesting`
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/app/build.sh is `interesting`
me: Hmm, Zotero is apparently written in JS, but it doesn't seem to be Electron. I wonder what runtime it uses 🤔
"Zotero is built on Firefox"
I'm sorry, it what
venting, XMPP
Reading the XMPP RFC and being very quickly reminded why I don't like implementing this thing (the fucking streaming XML parsing required)
@red_sky I mean, I'm sure there are still some things with a custom protocol for some circumstances, but in practice everything (Matrix but also proprietary chat things) is addressable over HTTP now without weird reverse engineering nonsense like used to be necessary for stuff like the MDN protocol
I'm sure nobody cloned it in the several weeks it was up
Oh hey, the rotting NFT-ized corpse of Winamp finally figured out how to delete their company-internal shit off Github?
advice, if wanted
@mynameistillian If there's one thing I've learned through many years of activism, it's pointless to "change someone's mind" on something... *unless* you are willing to make a significant commitment towards doing so.
If you only want relatively low-friction interactions (and this is a valid thing to want, if you're marginalized!), then it's best to focus on interacting with people who are on the fence but already predisposed to your views, and who really just need someone to talk it through with.
You *can* change the mind of people with even wildly different views, but it's a long-term commitment that requires specific strategies, a deep understanding of how their worldview works, and a lot of patience - often using unintuitive tactics. It's definitely not for everybody, and probably not the best use of your energy if you are already low on spoons.
And finally, don't underestimate the amount of change that can be caused by convincing people who are on the fence.
The section that describes "IQ stanzas" in the RFC immediately explains it in terms of "request/response" so it's not like those terms weren't already in use
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... why are query stanzas in XMPP called "IQ" again?
(I know what it stands for, that is not the question)
Suggesting Gemini or Gopher to someone looking for a Chrome alternative, or suggesting Markdown and Git to someone looking for a Wordpress alternative, is like suggesting a bicycle to someone looking for a car alternative.
Yes, it's technically possible that it will solve their problem - but more likely than not, it is completely the wrong thing to recommend because it isn't even the same *kind* of thing.
Please, when recommending 'alternatives' to people, don't just assume that because you personally like something, it's a good recommendation - actually make the effort to understand what someone is asking for, which may not even be something you've ever needed!
(And I say this as someone without a car, with a bicycle, and who uses Git and Markdown for their blog, so don't bother with the "you just don't understand how much better it is" please.)
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As I'm doing a lot of accessibility testing these days I feel like I need to re-share this 5 year old blog post. :)
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So I've learned that RedBox has gone bankrupt and is shutting down. Apparently property owners are getting quotes as high as $1000 from companies who will contract to haul the machines away. I know several hackers interested in them, however, and would be willing to take one or two for free. If you are in central Florida and have a RedBox machine you no longer want on your property, you can reach out to me and I'll put you in touch with someone who will take care of it for you and re-home it.
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more games should have full color support for names. per-character.
xonotic has that and it's really nice to be able to put pride flags just in your name. (xonotic's impl is only 4 bits per channel but that's enough generally speaking)
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cw boost: fucking neonazis pretending they aren't
- 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
