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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I published a card game on the Internet, called Future Invaders.
It's entirely free to play, you just have to print your copy at home.
A solid year of work went into it, I hope you'll give it a try and enjoy it !
Check out its website, it's fully featured and should answer all your questions.
#futureinvaders #card #game #games #cardgame #boardgame #scifi #space
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Anyone have suggestions on how to suppress hunger pangs that doesn't involve food or copious amounts of water?
Open to suggestions, because if I drink any more water I'm gonna be sick.
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Kinda crazy I'm about to go to the local movie theater to see a full length award winning movie made (almost?) 100% in Blender.
15 years ago people would have laughed at the idea that this would ever happen.
@anthropy @rail_ All of that ultimately leads back to Element, unfortunately.
I know a lot of the folks working on alternative implementations, and almost without exception they start out with great intentions and then somewhere along the way realize that the spec is incomplete / Synapse is unreliable / the documentation about E2EE wrong / there is a client interop issue / etc.
Even the non-Element clients are constantly held back by the mess on a governance level, making it way more difficult than necessary to implement a good client, and nearly impossible to implement a reliable homeserver. The result is that people end up burning their time and energy on accounting for all these issues so that it works at all, instead of on building nice software for Matrix.
There's just no fast solution for this that I can see. The possible paths to a solution that I know of are either a) serious changes in governance (ongoing but slow), or b) just spending years on mapping out all these issues and working around them to build a stable base. Once either of those points are achieved, building good software is possible.
@rail_ The frustrating part is that almost the entire problem lies with Element's stuff specifically, but it's so prevalent and woven into everything that it pretty much defines the image and experience for all of Matrix.
(And also I've warned the Element folks about exactly this outcome *so many* times and they have not acted on it)
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Five juvenile ravens moved into town during a recent cold spell. They’re a little bit too boisterous to capture easily in groups but will pose for you occasionally. I have an unreasonable liking for the one with the autofocus mishap. And bonus starlings
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(girlfriend arc)
hey fedi, do you have the link to that funny warning sign generator?
@thibaultmol Yeah, that's been my experience too. I feel like some folks are afraid that people won't try something if they know about its issues, and so they avoid mentioning those issues, but in my experience that really just isn't true.
And I'd rather that someone go in with low expectations; then it can only turn out better than expected!
At least a fair amount of people followed the practice of "do not tell people to use NixOS without mentioning its problems or without a concrete offer of help", so it's less bad than it could have been. But some folks... didn't do that.
I remember the discussion I had with some NixOS community members, warning them that deliberately creating hype and memes around #NixOS would risk ruining its reputation due to people getting annoyingly evangelist about it, and being told that I was worrying too much and there's nothing wrong with a bit of marketing.
Mentioning this for no particular reason.
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Can’t believe we’re already in the time of year where @TechConnectify starts painting lightbulbs in festive colors
@rune I mostly just go to Zeeman for my clothes nowadays, specifically because they're less bad with this 😐 They tend to have the same things without change for years and years, and their reason is different (lower cost) but it suits me just fine...
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I am so incredibly tired of finding the perfect clothing item and then having to look for something else next time I go to the store because they stopped making it
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fedi pls recommend me some peppermint tea bags available in the US that don't come with each individual sodding bag wrapped in plastic, boosts OK
EDIT: Celestial Seasonings it is then, thanks everyone and sincerely screw you Aldi for giving me another job to do, mumble grumble bloody Bennings mutter plastic crap changed the packaging etc etc
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#PSA #Authors #Writers #ScamAlert
Bad press alert: #Dreamspinner is once again soliciting submissions, despite the fact that they have not paid royalties owed to some of their authors for over six years!
Here's @victoriastrauss of Writer Beware on them, back in 2019:
- 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
