Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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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We treat creativity like a fast-food assembly line, demanding fully formed meals from seeds that haven't even sprouted. Art, like tomatoes, need time to grow. It starts local, nurtured by its environment, gaining depth & uniqueness. In the past, a new dance or art form would emerge in obscurity, building slowly until it became a cultural movement.
Now, TikTok ensures it's viral by the end of the day & forgotten by the end of the week.
@anthropy I think this is broadly true, but not universally. It's a good baseline when interacting with friends or even strangers that you are speaking to directly, but.
Sometimes someone needs to hear something point blank in a way that cannot be ignored or waved away. This applies especially when speaking to a broad, vague public but sometimes even when speaking to individuals.
Generally, "approach people with kindness" is a strategy that works if the point you are trying to make is relatively uncontroversial or you have a strong standing (eg. you are a man), but there's a whole set of points that people simply will not consider seriously unless presented harshly, and this doubly applies when you are (multiply) marginalized.
(I'm bringing this up mainly because it's very easy to overextend "approach people with kindness" into tone-policing, if that nuance is not considered.)
@marlies @smveerman Zou het stiekem gewoon hetzelfde systeem zijn achter de schermen, maar dan met twee verschillende bedrijfsnamen?
@smveerman @marlies Dat had ik volgens mij ook gedaan maar dat leek geen enkele invloed te hebben op waar de bestelling naartoe ging. Ik had een heel verwarde huisarts aan de lijn, waarom ik een recept van het ziekenhuis bij hen probeerde te bestellen...
@marlies @smveerman Eigenlijk de enige waar ik tevreden over ben is 'Mijn JBZ' van het ziekenhuis, die komt soms nog steeds een beetje amateuristisch over qua ontwerp maar alles *werkt* gewoon, en er is goed nagedacht over de indeling, het kan dus wel gewoon
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it's not so much that i think programmers are very special geniuses but that they have their hands on some of the most impactful levers of a digitized world and they just don't fucking know it
@smveerman @marlies Mijn huisarts en apotheek gebruiken allebei Mijn Gezondheid (dus die van MedGemak) en als je dan bij 'recepten bestellen' kijkt dan krijg je 1 lijstje met medicatie en geen enkele indicatie van *bij wie* het dan besteld wordt, ook zo handig.
Dan zou je denken "dat zal toch altijd de apotheek zijn", maar nee dus...
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Okay, listen. The NYT is going to continue to suck. It's going to continue to normalize fascism. It's going to continue to push absolute bullshit, and it's going to continue to publish opinion pieces by monsters who are operating in bad faith.
Acting shocked that they do this is boring. It also helps normalize the idea of the NYT as a place for unbiased, reasonable takes. The NYT is very much not that.
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wow! TIL name attribute on <details> -- it links multiple <details> elements together so that when you open one, it closes all the others with the same name
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/details#name
i bet you could make a nice tabbed layout with this
recommendation, if wanted
@vacuumbeef I'd been needing the same thing for quite some time and recently solved it by setting up Bookstack on a VPS, and I'm quite happy with it. May be worth a shot if you're comfortable self-hosting something, I've found it to be basically maintenance-free.
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Not for nothing, but...
Couching one's language in Slightly-but-not exclusively archaic language appears to confuse those automatons doing the work of moderation on the properties of the Zuck. At the same time, many readers are able to parse meaning even if the occasional word remains unfamiliar.
... I posted links to various mastodon servers and basically just avoided keywords. Post still up, still getting engagement.
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attention canines of the fediverse
*throws a tennis ball across the federated timeline*
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As someone currently homeless due to climate disaster and hasn't gotten much help, I want to remind y'all to pay special attention to the single and especially the single disabled who are being displaced now.
Everyone wants to help "families". Please remember the people that don't have those.
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I'm looking to join or start a group for #blind #nonbinary people. Does anyone know if something like that exists? Boosts appreciated.
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Normalise:
telling your friends how lovely they are
being kind to and empathetic with others
volume levels
@hazelnot Yep, though it's pretty shocking to see just *how* badly adopted Vista was compared to XP and 7
@hazelnot (If you want to understand what I mean with the Vista thing, look at the StatCounter Global Stats for Windows versions distribution with max history back to 2009)
@hazelnot I expect that we're going to see a lot of this in the next few years, to be honest, it's Vista all over again except this time there's a credible alternative
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It's been a rough few days. Better now. Here, I took a picture from the train (again).
- 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
