Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @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
Honestly by this point I will just immediately go full throttle "what the fuck are you thinking" when someone starts doing a COVID denial at me, because it seems like the only way to actually get through to anyone, and I'm tired.
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Dear Santa
I have been a very nice shark this year. I always planned my reis in de app! Even kort voor vertrek, i did de reisplanner check. I always checked in and out, even when going from NS to Arriva. I was silent in the silence zone and cuddles passengers who needed it.
I hope you consider my niceness and give me a VIRM for Christmas.
Signed
OV Blåhaj
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Time for the - I guess yearly by this point... - toot again:
No, I will not be at #38c3. I *could* have squeezed it into my schedule despite an upcoming transplantation, but they have *once again* failed to implement any COVID safety measures.
A few days of Congress is not worth the risk of brain damage or (in my case) severe illness or death.
If you want to see me at your event, push for appropriate safety precautions like sufficient ventilation/filtering and (particularly where that is not possible) mask distribution and ideally masking requirements.
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cycled past Imperial College London this evening, and they've rebranded to look like a defense contractor. it looks terrible
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sending lots of hugs and love to everyone feeling that normative holiday squeeze 🫂
remember that the holidays are hard for a lot of folks. there's nothing wrong or weird with not feeling like you fit into things you dont want to be doing. if everyone else is enjoying doing stuff you dont like or are actively opposed to, that isn't a reflection on you. hold true to your values. let them define you. ❤️
if anything, its wrong to make people fit into situations they dont want to be in!
well anyway. i hope you ar least get to eat something yummy.
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@jackv Legendre thought he had discovered one. Turned out he actually discovered one.
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to clarify — most of Kazakhstan celebrates new year instead. its aesthetically the same as christmas. we too put up a spruce tree with shiny balls and have a red boomer come home and shower us with gifts. we just don't do that on the birthday of The Dude Who Came Back
I've written a tutorial of sorts, showing how to write a streaming XML sitemap scraper using Promistreams! https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/example-project-scraping-xml-sitemaps
@mawr Nothing is ever same. It doesn't change anything about the harm that language bashing does, and it absolutely does harm with JS too.
@mawr @serapath Kindly refrain from language bashing in my mentions. It helps nobody.
See also: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture
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@joepie91 "if you disagree then you can just fork it" is a response that you'd only get from a developer to shut down genuine complaints often made by users who are themselves not developers and never will be developers.
It's a callous cop-out at best and a refusal to acknowledge and address poor design or critically missing features at worst.
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I've worked with a bunch of game engines over the years. so far Godot + GDScript is genuinely a lot of fun to work with, it brings back that "small but powerful framework" vibe. Has many quirks and odd decisions (most I probably haven't even encountered yet), but yes, it's fun to work.
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Wealthy Americans every Christmas: *watching endless adaptions of a moral fable by a Victorian social critic about how the rich stop the poor from affording necessary healthcare, so that their children die, and how this also damns the rich*
@mawr @serapath Hm, I'm not sure that's entirely true, I guess it kind of depends on how you define 'fork'. For highly modular code, where a package does exactly one thing, it can make sense to fork it to fix a bug (if upstream is no longer actively maintained) or do some sort of project-specific optimization, for example.
But that's more a 'fork' in the sense of 'making a derived project', not so much in the sense of 'supplanting the original for community adoption'.
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OH "Wait, the bus is now more luxurious than my car? I don't have individual seat heating in my car!"
It occurs to me that this is rarely said out loud, but it probably should be:
The ability to fork open-source software is important, *but* the idea of "if you disagree then you can just fork it" is basically a lie. It has never worked that way and it will never work that way.
In reality you're dealing with project governance and so there are a lot of social factors (community support, motivation to 'compete' with the established name, etc.) that are critical to not having a fork wither on the vine.
And it's very difficult to pull that off, and usually requires a long history of growing resentment about the leadership of the forked project. This means a fork is rarely the best solution.
vaguely spicy take
@hazelnot My experience is that, at least in tech jobs, the more uncompromising you are, the better you tend to get treated by bosses. Similarly, charging more causes customers to be more respectful of your time...
@raito No conditions whatsoever, including and up to supporting `null` values, as there is no serialization step involved anywhere (unless you add a serialization stream, of course).
You represent the processing steps as a linear(-ish) Promistream pipeline in your code, but behind the scenes that essentially gets converted into a long chain of Promise handlers, so anything that can go in a Promise (which is everything) can go into a Promistream too :)
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@hazelnot They could, but it would be unreasonable
- 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
