Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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RMS (stallman)
@arisingvoice @tastytea@very.tastytea.de To clarify, my response was mainly to the parts that fall into the "toe nails/cheese" category.
The part that you're referring to is a lot more complex to address, because it's heavily reliant on context and intention (as you mentioned), and some part of the report is editorialization too.
Addressing this with sufficient nuance to not be misunderstood is something that requires more energy and spoons than I currently have available, and is somewhat of a moot point, because it's not really in question that RMS - who the report is ultimately about - is a harmful creep. So it's a topic I'd rather not go into in more detail right now.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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work, weird society rules
neurotypical adults be like:
be serious at work! follow the dress code! no silly, just work!
also neurotypical adults:
let's build up a team by engaging in childlike activities! you are now forced to enjoy this!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Is there any Static Site Generator which will make pages based on SQL queries? I have a database with 70k rows, and I want to make a webpage for each one?
RMS (stallman), potentially uncomfortable discussion
@tastytea@very.tastytea.de I don't think the point of the website is to convince the defenders directly - rather it is to convince other community participants that those who defend Stallman must *knowingly* be doing so and so they are shitty people too.
That's a much easier argument to make when there's a comprehensive, almost overwhelming documentation of all the shitty stuff that RMS has done, because defenders can no longer plead ignorance or gaslight people into saying "nah that's just a rumour".
> we (free software enjoyers) should ask ourselves how to deal with people that still defend RMS instead of trying to convince the unconvincable.
So in short, I think this is exactly the thing that such a website helps with. It allows for cutting short the defenders' arguments as a third party, which makes it much easier to summarily remove them from a community as well.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I've been thinking a lot about what a friend pointed out - that mixed gendered spaces often quickly become male-exclusive because men tend to have much higher tolerance for arsehole behaviour than women, so it only takes one dodgy person to destroy a community as all the women basically leave. Once such a community has heavy male bias it can hardly recover, and its lack of representation means it can hardly succeed in any social, cultural or technical aims. Rings true for the extraordinarily bad gender balance in free/open source software in the context of the Stallman report.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Weird programmer thing I've noticed: as the years go by I find myself more and more likely to create an infinite loop and use break to exit it than to use the conditional part of a while (or do while) loop
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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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- 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
