Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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
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straight men on reddit were asked for the weirdest thing they had been told was gay
multiple people said "eating soup"
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i'm interested in knowing how folks who use computers a lot and also deal with chronic pain/fatigue/illness set up their home workspaces in ways that are designed to support their needs. i've heard of things like monitors being suspended/tilted to use while lying down or reclining. are there good resources/forums for this kind of thing? i'm also interested if anyone wants to share a picture or description of your setup. (boosts ok)
NixOS, forks, etc. etc. etc.
I suspect that this doesn't really need to be said around here, but given that the same people are apparently still waffling on loudly in the usual places about how the folks forking Nix are "bullying project leadership":
Read their claims carefully and check if they mention anything, literally *anything at all*, about the community dynamics prior to the Nix fork, and how those relate to the fork happening, ie. the history of the past 10 years or so. That should tell you roughly how much of the story they are actually leaving out.
Don't think there's really much more to say on the topic that isn't a colossal waste of time, to be honest.
mildly spicy take, FOSS and forking
"Forking" as we know it today really just doesn't achieve its stated goal, and is trapped in the ideology of pseudo-meritocracy; the concept really needs a lot more development to be useful, and it's not a serious option for resolving governance problems today, even as a last resort (but still the only one we have).
The current model of how "forking" is supposed to work, completely ignores natural network effects, startup cost, power imbalances, sponsorship agreements, and a whole lot of other things that are necessary to account for to successfully diverge a project.
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(1/6) Ich muss mich jetzt mal über die Nix(OS)-Community aufregen, also um genau zu sein das Gatekeeping in dieser Community. Seit über 3 Jahren bin ich jetzt schon dabei und versuche auch schon so lange Contributions zu den nixpkgs zu machen, was aber nun mal faktisch nicht wirklich möglich ist, wenn man keine Committer persönlich kennt.
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10 lines long post
Mastodon: *shows 10 lines*
11 lines long post
Mastodon: *shows 2.5 lines*
@piegames Speaking of nixpkgs forks, do you have a summary of the current state of things with the different forks?
(I've not paid much attention to it lately, been very busy with transplantation prep)
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Where are you, other transmasc people?! I can't seem to find very many AFAB trans people on the fediverse yet 
We have to be somewhere. I have to find others like me... There have to be other trans masc people who like art or Baldur's gate 3 or animal crossing or trains or tamagotchis or vegan stuff or anarchy/leftist stuff or maybe even all of those things. I can't be the only one. There's no way. I'm just so new though, I have no idea where we are. 
I will now use a bunch of tags in attempt to find you all. Please, boost and/or follow me, and I will follow you, and we will be a big trans family. Bonus points if you're nonbinary :3
No minors as sometimes my art is NSFW (always behind a content warning though).
I originally said I wanted people who also liked things like kubernetes, python, and linux, but I decided to keep that stuff on my main account. Please feel free to DM me for that account if you wanna be moots on tech stuff too. :)
**updated to include a couple of other important notes x2
#transmasc #ftm #trans #transmasculine #transguy #transdude #AFAB #nonbinary #bg3 #tamagotchi #vegan
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The issue with unmaintainable code is that every time someone has to touch it for maintenance it become a little bit more unmaintainable.
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@serapath What part of "I am not interested in arguing this" was not clear?
@marlies It has definitely made me reconsider the trustworthiness of a number of Youtubers.
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I really detest seeing all these Ground News sponsorships on YouTube where they imply the average of right-wing and left-wing media gets you the truth. I’m not even going to explain how wrong that is.
So one thing I'm noticing with my search engine crawler is that the vast majority of robots.txt rejects come from... platforms run by Twitter and Facebook.
Not personal sites. Not Mastodon instances. Nope, it's primarily Twitter and Facebook who blanket-refuse access to a new search engine crawler.
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Last year at least half of Iceland's workforce worked 32 hours per week with no reduction in pay. Iceland's economy expanded by 5%, a growth rate second only to that of Malta among rich European economies.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html
Found a neat generative thing (and it's not LLM shit!): https://23.itch.io/palladio
@serapath And to make this explicit: "it'll probably be fine because of how open-source is supposed to work" just isn't good enough. That's why I asked explicitly for *anti-capitalist* tech. Which Dat isn't.
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De overgang van zomertijd naar wintertijd is een mooi moment om aardlekschakelaars te testen.
Aardlekschakelaars kunnen levens redden.
Wanneer heb jij je aardlekschakelaars voor het laatst getest?
@serapath (By the way, IPFS failed the same sniff test in the same way years before they started doing sketchy blockchain and commercial shit)
@serapath Like I said, I'm not interested in arguing this. I already know what all the arguments are, because I've had this exact discussion with these exact arguments before with Dat proponents and it did not pass my sniff test.
I would rather build on something where I do not have to guess or hope or assume about what will happen with the governance in the long run. It's just not worth it to put my energy into this.
- 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
