Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
@filmroellchen (Was this in response to a particular article?)
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I also feel the world that let Twitter be part of the culture and be (at best) neutral/good is just dead at this point.
I don't think you can look at what happened since ~2012 to marginalized people Online and argue that having everyone exposed in the same place is the "best option". It really shouldn't be the *only* option, at the very least.
obscure community, music
There's a user on Youtube called GoldPile who has reuploaded psybient mixes by someone called Spacemind, and a small but persistent community seems to have formed around these mixes, with people wondering for many (9+) years now where Spacemind has gone and whether they'll ever return, and GoldPile having continued the style of mixes, but they now also haven't uploaded for a couple of years.
Every few months to years, Youtube recommendations send me back to one of these mixes, and they are still so good, and there are still people in the comments wondering where they went.
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second-hand recommendation/observation
@jsjoshua I don't have personal experience with it (yet!) but GoToSocial is the one I basically never see people complaining about even though definitely quite a lot of people are running it, and I've heard good things of it. It's the one I intend on using in the near future.
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social?, trauma?, "you"
do you also feel like having to apologize and explain yourself for ever saying no or did you grow up normally?
@forestine The only description I have for design choices like that is "utterly disrespectful of people's time and energy", to be honest, it speaks of a callous sense of self-importance, simply assuming that everyone must always want to read their articles with the greatest haste... it's probably one of my least favourite tech developments of the past decade or so
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@joepie91 the environment canada weather app has them now under a 'messages' tab. the 'messages' are articles about the weather 🤦
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if a business pays a utility bill with cash then it will credit its cash account (decreasing it) and debit its utilities expense account (increasing it)
if a business has sales revenue then it will debit its cash account (increasing it) and credit its sales revenue account (increasing it)
so credit and debit have opposite meanings depending on the type of account
😵💫 😵💫 😵💫
(this is like double entry bookkeeping 101 for babies and all the accountants in the room are like yeah, just get over it)
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Good morning, today we're headed out to join the picket lines of #AFSCME3299 :
https://afscme3299.org/blog/strike-nov2024/
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you'll have to forgive me for getting incandescently furious at the whole "oh well maybe we'll get cheap GPUs again!" take on the inevitable AI bubble crash, because the reality of the situation is that tens if not hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs as a result of this delusional cult chasing unobtainable infinite service monopolies, and I can't imagine a more callous take than "yay I can buy a graphics card on ebay again" in the face of people losing their livelihoods & homes.
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Reminder: under no circumstances should you reveal to the Sphinx that the answer to its riddle is well known. Spend a moment pretending to contemplate it. In the unlikely event that the riddle has changed, do not panic and do not run. Praise the new riddle and ask for more time to meditate upon it. Text the new riddle to the emergency number and await a solution.
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Reporting a bug
... to megacorp: no reply, maybe a chatbot if you're lucky
... to minecraft modder: fixed 15 minutes later
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Latest news from my bumfucknowhere rural town in Poland
> we have absolutely no public transport whatsoever
> so everyone has to drive a car everywhere, for everything
> that means having to drive to get to work, always
> that means places with lots of workers like the hospital, need a lot of parking spaces
> they obviously don't have enough
> so workers of those places park everywhere around, flooding parking spaces of the neighborhood disproportionately
> local residents complain because they don't have anywhere to park their cars that they also need to use to get to everywhere
who needs public transport anyways, that's socialism when a bus
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with how things are going in regards to public transport in rural Poland, i can bet whatever you want that EVEN if money for a public transport is obtained and/or secured, it's going to be the most nonsensical and pointless schedule of buses imaginable, making it completely useless to everyone.
Add being unreasonably priced on top of that, and you just cooked a public transport network that serves nobody
So ofc local politicians will claim people are ungrateful and can't appreciate the thing they wanted so much. Project will be scrapped and every time it's brought up again to the council it will be dead on arrival because "look, we tried - people like cars" :3
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DAO is all like "but we're decentralized, you can't do that" and the US District Court for the Northern District of California is like “I heard you say you're a general partnership?"
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.422388/gov.uscourts.cand.422388.115.0.pdf
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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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whoever invented work has clearly never heard of bed
- 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
