Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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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- 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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My favorite thing about windows is that if something doesn't work you just can't fix it because it'll say something like "Sorry! Failed to create hotspot! No, we will not give you any additional information!" and like thanks that's so helpful for troubleshooting
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nix understanders of the world! it seems i have encountered a usecase where nix should shine! however, in my attempts to make it work, i have encountered but pain and despair.
please prove me wrong and show me that compiling waybar and all its dependencies with -fsanitize=thread is but a simple nix oneliner.
please prove me wrong and show me that compiling waybar and all its dependencies with -fsanitize=thread is but a simple nix oneliner.
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not to be a far left radical but the concept of jail is one of the most fucked up things that anyone has ever come up with
@bananas (In practice it would be 'loud notification dots' and 'quiet notification dots' and you can configure what it does when, the above is just the default mapping)
@bananas The exact visualization algorithm would have a bit of complexity to it: the current idea boils down to "a ping must always remain visible, even if there have been many non-ping messages after it, but the ordering of dots should still give you an impression of the amount of activity since the ping".
In practice that mostly means it will visualize the last 3 messages, starting the 'fill' from the top (if there's less than 3 then the remainder is light gray placeholder dots), but the pings will 'pile up' once pushed to the top and always remain visible even if there have been many non-pings since.
Some of the ideas that went into the design: the exact notification count doesn't actually *matter*, but you may want to know whether someone just pinged you once or repeatedly; and you might want to get a general idea of whether there's been conversation since the ping, or not. All of those states can be represented with these three dots, without yelling "look at me!" at you all the time.
Experimenting with a design idea for a low-stimuli chat client, specifically the visualization of unread messages and notifications (I cannot sufficiently express my burning hatred for anxiety-inducing bright-red-background notification counts)
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uspol petty and spiteful
i'm sorry i know this is really fucking mean and we'rle all tired of it but i've seen names on here begging, BEGGING for help, the Mastodon4/forHarris tags flooded with disabled people, trans people, homeless people, DESPERATELY BEGGING for some help, whose needs have gone unfulfilled because of the uselessness of liberals. because they thought that the rich woman running for president needed more money
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i'm still mad about it tbh. desperate people begging for help being told to fuck off and having their reach reduced because SURELY, chucking money at a multimillionaire with the backing of OTHER multimillionaires is way more important than helping your neighbour, right? you see, when she wins, it'll do more good!
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liberals will never be my allies. you want to be on my side? you fucking compromise, you step this way. you help people directly, you do the work you consider beneath you, for the PEOPLE you consider beneath you. then, maybe then, we'll talk
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Nederlanders krijgen met de paplepel ingegoten: ‘wij zijn niet racistisch. En als we dat wel zijn, dan zijn we het toch niet, want het was goed bedoeld’.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/11/20/gebruik-nooit-het-r-woord-anders-krijg-je-de-talkshows-achter-je-aan-a4873796?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky&utm_term=20241120
Veel mensen associeren racisme nog steeds met 19de eeuwse rassenleer en de KKK.
Alsof je alleen van racisme mag spreken als iemand een puntmuts draagt of als 't juridisch is vastgesteld.
Alsof degenen die van racisme worden beschuldigd zieliger zijn dan degene die racistisch werden bejegend of die het hebben aangekaart.
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good morning fediverse. 
saw something slide by that mentioned yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Let's Encrypt and y'all, that's nice. really nice.
I remember all too well the hell of commercial certificate authorities being yet another toll gate to getting a service online. Let's Encrypt changed that for the better for us, and the fediverse as it currently exists would have been much smaller without Let's Encrypt empowering operators to get free trusted certs.
we could do with more of that sort of success.
@vfrmedia Yeah, NL used to have a very vibrant squatting culture, unfortunately it didn't fare well over the years so there's not much left of it 😕
long, abstract/philosophical, activism, anarchism, organizing
@freakazoid This laserfocuses on anarchism, though, and that's not the only case where this occurs (it's why I brought up the framework example).
It also creates a chicken-and-egg problem; a collapse without an alternative support structure will just lead to a lot of harm, so how do we build up that support structure without immediately causing a collapse?
@vfrmedia Right. I'm not thinking of *legally recognized* shelters, necessarily, more just in the "a place that provides reasonably stable housing to those in need" sense. That seems like a more viable thing to do, and at least in NL I've historically been disappointed by the stance of squats on this matter.
@freakazoid Hm, I'm not sure. For me it's missing a fairly crucial component to really analogize them; that those who have a lot, support those who don't.
While I think homeless encampments are nominally 'good' in the sense of people organizing, it feels unsustainable to me in the same way that 'passing the same buck around 20 different people in poverty' is unsustainable. It certainly addresses an immediate problem but it's highly precarious at all times, and not stable in the long term.
@alxd A trick I've used in the past is to insert the e-mail address using JS after the fact (leaving a "please enable JS" placeholder in the HTML) because it turns out that the vast majority of spambots never actually runs any JS.
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@joepie91 the catholic worker houses were sort of like this, historically. not sure what they're like/to what extent they still exist these days though.
- 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
