Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
@ireneista Curious to hear more about that :)
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Pros of self-hosting:
You're in charge of your server and data
Cons of self-hosting:
You're in charge of your server and data
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Trans people! I want to hear your coming-out stories (both to yourself and to others) that didn't fit the usual stereotypes and expectations. I want to hear about wrong assumptions that hurt you and made you repress even more.
Figuring out one's gender identity outside of the "wanted to be a girl in early childhood" and the "cross-dressing realization at Halloween" stories can be pretty lonely. So let's light some lights for our baby queers together
@ireneista (I feel like this is something architects probably don't have to deal with as much?)
@ireneista I would slightly append to that recommendation by saying that the focus for that should be on failure analysis by people who nominally share the same objectives as the activist groups they are analyzing.
There's an awful lot of "critical analysis" on activism from uninvolved folks that mostly just boils down to "we don't like the objective therefore we will declare that it is a failure, and say that it failed because of having the wrong goals"...
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it's been a while since we've said this and we suspect it has not yet reached everyone it needs to, so we'll say it again just on general principles
activists should study how movements fail, for the same reason that architects study how buildings fall down
@freakazoid Oh, sure. But the most effective disinformation is that which has a kernel of truth.
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Finding life in unexpected places. It looks like someone was instructed to refresh the yellow paint on this concrete lamp base, and they just sprayed over the mosses and lichens, which have managed to continue growing anyway.
#mosstodon
Fascinatedly watching some of the crowd management for Danse Macabre's opening day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1XEU-bX6s
@freakazoid (The site I mean, not the person tooting the link)
@freakazoid Although Kape is sketchy as hell, do mind that the source of that article doesn't seem to have a very good track record of trustworthiness
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shoutout to all the autistic ppl who got maliciously misunderstood as a kid and thought they could fix it by learning to speak with well-researched precision but ended up getting hated even more as a result because now people think you’re just using big words to try to show off
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If an employer ever asks you to resign, tell them "no".
There is no benefit to resigning unless you have another job lined up already.
Make them fire you. Get your unemployment benefits. Make sure you are legally protected in case of malfeasance. Resigning undermines all of that.
This message brought to you by AWS telling workers to return to office 5-days-a-week by commuting or relocating, or they should resign.
Again, the answer is "no, you'll have to fire me."
EDIT: To clarify, in most areas "fired" and "let go" are not legally meaningful terms and can be used interchangeably. The important term is "for cause" or not. So don't commit misconduct to get fired. Poor job performance is typically not a "for cause" reason, nor is failure to accept changes like RTO
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@sinbad the main thing you would have missed is an increasingly heavy-handed series of lessons on the topic of how much it's appropriate to trust software companies
@sinbad I care about doing good work, and have told customers so as a freelancer (sometimes in the context of "I will do it right or I will not do it at all"), and that usually results in really strong expressions of appreciation.
In the back of my mind, I cannot help but think "if you are so thankful for me giving a shit, then what the hell has everyone else been shipping for you?"
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Honestly if you left the tech industry a decade ago and sat out all the “big trends” (blockchain, NFTs, metaverse, AI) you could come back in a few years time and have missed precisely nothing of substance
@eniko @bean Hm. To me it feels more like exception handling, at least when using the question mark operator.
But with the benefit that there are compact, inline ways of (selectively) intercepting those errors, and that they have a value representation (which is particularly useful when you need to represent an operation that *partly* failed, like a batch operation). That's something I miss in eg. JS.
(Also I think a lot of the hate for exceptions is bandwagoning and only a very small part of it is based in the genuine criticisms, tbh.)
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Na een volle week met twee begrafenissen blijkt dat mijn ouders nu covid-19 hebben. Ik ben echt ontzettend blij dat zij iedere booster en/of vaccin halen die er te geven is.
Mijn vader is in de 80 en hartpatiënt, mijn moeder is iets jonger en heeft zes jaar geleden een nier gedoneerd.
Het gaat goed met ze, wel veel hoesten, maar de huisarts (heel attent) houdt ze goed in de gaten.
Net kippensoep en wat dropsnoepjes gebracht, dus ik maak me zo iets minder zorgen om hen.
Mijn buurtjes (stukken jonger dan mijn ouders) testten vandaag ook positief, maar die hebben de afgelopen twee jaar geen booster meer gehaald, want het zal zo'n vaart niet lopen. Die liggen nu met flinke koorts uitgeput op bed.
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nickelodeon should host a presidential debate and every time a candidate lies they get slimed
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
