Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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so, i was browsing https://isp.netscape.com/ at 3am like a normal girl in her early 20's does, when i noticed something weird... what the fuck is this "download browser" thing? it downloads a file called "AOL_Netscape.exe", what the fuck is that
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This is an experiment. Please boost.
Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.
I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)
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@coffee4danz I'm blind and for me alt text is the Big Special Thing about Mastodon. If someone posts a meme, I'm in on the joke. Someone shares beautifiul moss, or their cat, I'm in on the beauty or fun or whatever. I'm now 62, and this is the first time I entered a community and a culture where people grant me this kind of access and community. So grateful for people who do alt text.
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pros of the internet:
- you can find and become friends with cute gays across the world!
cons of the internet:
- you can befriend cute gays across the world and now you badly want to fly to south america to hug them
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@coffee4danz it reveals the bits that the poster thought was important; I especially enjoy when that's very different to what I thought was important, it's like seeing the image from a different angle. It's delicious, like seeing in another dimension, through someone else's eyes. It enrichens :)
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Mastodon has introduced me to the joy of reading descriptive #alttext. I take in the image then read the text as icing on the cake. It can really add extra personality to images.
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there's a Minecraft oak wood planks block as a table in my hotel room
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Ah yes, the very popular intercity to Groningen 
#DrukHier
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The 'This is fine' meme is way older than anyone had expected.
This 14th century manuscript illustration shows the legendary British king Vortigern in his burning castle.
More on the illustration here:
https://thehistorianshut.com/2020/10/14/illustration-depicting-the-demise-of-vortigern-from-a-14th-century-manuscript/
British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r
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De wereld zoals we die kennen is ten dode opgeschreven. Houden we onszelf voor de gek met optimistische voorspellingen? Of heeft het nut om hoop te houden? Wat kunnen we nu eigenlijk echt weten over de toekomst van onze planeet? https://www.groene.nl/artikel/vlinders-verdwijnen-zonnepanelen-verschijnen?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=mastodon
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We are proud to announce the new mandatory rules for table construction. Please see your local Cat Office of Cat Happiness for information on compliance with these stunning and well-thought-out changes. Congratulations to the design team on solving the problem!
This was NOT posted by #PicaTheCat I, a human agree and support this fully of my own free will. #picalaw #picacrime
@0x57e11a The frustrating thing to me is that this doesn't even really need federation, it just needs a good way for an account to come into existence without having to go through a deliberate process for it (which is a much easier problem to solve than federation!) but we don't have that either 😐
reference to ableism
@inkblitz I suspect that the difference would be mainly because fedi is full of folks who have been unhelpfully told "just fix your brain" for many years when what they really needed was disability accommodations. So I would expect recommendations to lean more towards "accept that things don't work optimally sometimes, and find ways to live your life under those constraints anyway".
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Hey writers, I need help.
I know how to turn calm and excited energy into writing energy, but I don't know how to turn anxious and nervous energy into writing energy.
Unfortunately all I've got lately is anxious and nervous energy.
How do you do it? And please don't say drugs and alcohol. XP
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has anyone read a particularly good book about the growth of a new religious movement, especially growth in the last fifty years or so? using that term intentionally, doesn’t have to be a high control group
@pho4cexa There are a few that are supported by sigrok, if you want to do analysis with something other than the device itself or the crappy vendor apps: https://sigrok.org/wiki/Category:Energy_meter (I have some of the RDTech units and documented the protocol there but it seems more have been added since)
wordpress, wp engine
The most darkly ironic thing about the whole WP Engine situation is that I never liked WP Engine very much, due to their intensely capitalist way of doing business, and they've long been on my mental list of "this looks like a FOSS profiteer that doesn't sufficiently contribute back".
And now, if anything, Mullenweg's bullshit has only increased my sympathy for WP Engine. They are still a capitalist enterprise, of course, but *so is Automattic*, and I'm no longer sure that the lack of contribution was actually caused by WP Engine's choices, as opposed to Mullenweg just getting in their way of doing so.
re: serious answer
@0x57e11a Yeah, I'm out of suggestions here unfortunately 😔 Pretty much every time I try to work with impl return types I have different but similar issues
@ben It never ceases to amaze me how Discord seems to manage to have all of Matrix's weird-ass federation bugs without actually being federated
- 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
