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
Not happy about the CPU time yet; it's currently clocking somewhere between 15 and 50 milliseconds of CPU time per request, which really isn't acceptable, so that needs much more optimization I think. Profiler time, I guess?
It's absolutely hilarious that this works
lmfao, I've implemented a feature that ignores tech company sites effectively by looking for any occurrence of the text 'Pricing' as the sole content of a HTML element
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@rail_ (And Free, by some definition, though that was a bit of a weird special case)
@rail_ Also thinking of A&A, XS4ALL, etc.
@rail_ For what it's worth, basically every single thoroughly reputable ISP I know of, in any country, started out of spite with the existing industry, after someone concluding pretty much the same thing... so yeah, that sounds like a good plan (assuming you're prepared to deal with the complexity)
@josgeluk @reinoradeboer@mstdn.social Ik heb bij dat soort vragen altijd de neiging om de enquete in te vullen met "betaal je personeel eens fatsoenlijk"
idle thought maybe hot take
@diedofheartbreak@plush.city Yeah, there's a phenomenon that has been going on for a while, that was commented on elsewhere on fedi, where "fan-made" things are "officially recognized" and this is presented as a good thing
dependencies, hot take, potentially confrontational but honest
Avoiding dependencies as a matter of course suggests that you believe yourself to be the most qualified expert in every possible aspect of your project, not just the core idea, and makes me trust your judgment of ability a lot less because basically nobody is
@NLNOG @marlies This isn't going to be a perfect solution by a long shot either (and they often have their own diversity issues on other axes), but have you considered visiting various hackerspaces and chatting to the people there, to learn more about what would would interest them (or, conversely, keep them away)?
Seems like there *should* be a fair amount of overlap in terms of technical interests, so I suspect that some answers can be found in the cultural differences.
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“You’re so lucky! I wish I could lay around all day.”
No. You don’t. The reason you think laying in bed all day sounds “fun” is because for you it’s a CHOICE.
It’s not fun when you can’t leave your bed. When you’re so sick you can’t watch tv, listen to music or talk to others.
Also don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of non disabled people acting like we’re “lucky” to be housebound/bedbound or that disability is some vacation - when they wailed and screamed about temporary stay at home orders.
When staying home was suddenly NOT a choice - it was the worst thing to ever happen to them and a violation of their freedom.
I can’t get out of bed - but I’m “lucky”. Ok then.
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saw a waiter at the coffee shop. he brought me tea and i saw that he had a palestine pendant. i told him "free palestine, my brother" and he smiled.
i am not alone
My search engine crawler so far seems to be perfectly fine with about 20MB of heap size (ie. "true" memory use), though it doesn't do the actual content indexing yet. Promising results so far though!
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laziness is a myth created to shame poor, working class and disabled people into working their life away.
you have value even if you cant work. you have value even if all you do is survive. fuck this shit and burn it down.
never seen a billionaire called lazy? yeah there’s a reason.
At first glance, I seem to be getting a roughly 4% robots.txt rejection rate on a pile of personal websites, which is honestly lower than I had expected
Great, robots.txt parsing is now working correctly!
@arianvp Yeeeep. I've had much the same experience with Google's JS libraries.
idle thought maybe hot take
The whole thing with "official fan $thing" and the paradox therein, seems like it's really just a version of the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" phenomenon, where someone is trying to appear grassroots and independent, but really their actual hope in doing so is to become the Big Guy, not for legitimate grassroots reasons
@arianvp That's one of the industries it happens for, yeah, the thing with the infosec industry is that they're extremely easy to buy goodwill from, you just hire a couple security folks who are well-liked in the community, have them write a couple really interesting and cool blogposts with knowledge that's hard to find in a concise format elsewhere, and bam, you've bought the market.
See also: Cloudflare, Tailscale, ...
(There's some other industries where this happens, DevOps is another one, but it's why this particular predatory model happens so often in specific industries)
- 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
