Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
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- 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
subtooting, NixOS
"But it takes time to fix governance issues! We can't do that overnight!"
Okay, so then how did Lix successfully avoid these issues in a fraction of the time? Do you think that perhaps the problem lies with your perspective on the issue, and not with the proposed fix?
subtooting, NixOS
Or alternatively, y'know, actually fixing those governance issues in Nix that people have been telling you about for half a decade
subtooting, NixOS
You know, if you want the #NixOS build system to keep using Nix instead of Lix, maybe you should be spending your time fixing Nix bugs instead of pearl-clutching on the issue tracker about how unfair it is that they've switched to a fork that actually works?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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NixOS drama, populist language
The “marketplace of ideas” once it influences your bottom line:
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I have a gently used Apple Pencil (2nd Gen) that I can't use anymore. I'd like to give it to a marginalized persion who already has a compatible iPad (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MXN43AM/A/apple-pencil-2nd-generation?fnode=57e18cedd3dd1819b100a6153ee538e33c38b4e096e344f3cdd7da811a7d64ed672a3ea9273ffa069c98ded9525f3158439db8088d5b7b69311332f26dee8b5bf930579fc173e4283ce4041966922139df4620298e993804c4e4cfee162640dd) who could use it for school or art. Sorry, US-only because shipping would be $$ otherwise :(
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uspol-adjacent +
my partner has been spending hours upon hours building and running tools to archive complex at-risk geospatial data (think environmental justice, pollution, ecological resources etc) with no current backup, and isn’t a social media person so they’re never gonna brag about it. so I am. I’m bragging for them
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Denk je ook steeds vaker na over alternatieven voor socialmediaplatforms als X (Twitter) en Meta’s Facebook, Instagram en Threads?
Ontdek de mogelijkheden van Mastodon en Bluesky in de informatie- en inspiratiesessie voor communicatieprofessionals in onderwijs en onderzoek op 18 maart.
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Oproep! Graag #rt
We kunnen bij de Singalong-band nog wat instrumenten gebruiken. We spelen een avond liedjes waarbij het publiek mee kan zingen. Wie vindt het leuk om een avond mee te spelen in de band? Gevraagd wordt elektrische gitaar, fluit, viool, alt- of tenorsax. Andere instrumenten zijn bespreekbaar.
De vier repetities en het optreden zijn in maart/april op vrijdagavond in Utrecht-Zuid.
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uspol meta
y'all gotta stop focusing on the gulf of mexico thing
@smveerman @julian_b@chaos.social I imagine that the scheduling alignment would be another nightmare, and this could easily lead to train travel becoming even less competitive to car travel in terms of travel time...
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> None of Ross’s possible defenses holds water. I reject them all.
🌶️
(via @timbray)
https://www.wired.com/story/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit/
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Is there any connection to the fediverse possible from within Iran?
EDIT: thanks for all the boosts! It's all in hand. What a great community!
This is quite cool, it seems like a home-made busker organ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Qra6RgABk
"People can learn how to navigate and use unfamiliar things just fine" is true but you do actually need to do the teaching part, and not just expect people to magically infer things from first principles (and this also applies to technical terminology)
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The absolute fucking state of NHS trans healthcare in Scotland (sandyford in particular)
So GiaMtF on r/transgenderUK did an FOI request to see what the fuck is going on with the waiting list at Sandyford GIC.
To the surprise of fucking nobody, it's bad.
Right now, they are seeing on average less than one person for their first appointment per week.
That's 42 a year off a waiting list that's growing at an average rate of 579 a year for the years given.
I referred myself in late 2020, which means that at this rate, I'll be getting my first appointment in more than 20 years.
I'll be 60!
GICs are not healthcare. They are a system designed to keep trans people in limbo, force them to detransition, or kill them through sheer negligence.
@delroth This puts their tax status at risk, I'm pretty sure.
@proto It's typical for Google to change local display of names to whatever the government in the user's locale declares, that's a longer-standing policy.
What *isn't* typical, however, is to dual-name things in *other* locales, and it's extremely suspicious that they did that.
@delroth What stands out to me is the comment that "the foundation was set up to support the Nix project, not the concept".
If that is so, then why don't the bylaws say that?
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The CppNix team has discovered today that the #NixOS infra has actually been running on Lix for a few months because their software is too shit to reliably function on large-scale critical infrastructure (e.g. the build farm supporting NixOS). Like, it just segfaults or has protocol incompatibility regressions every version.
It's been really interesting watching their indignation at having actual competition doing their job better than they do it themselves.
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wealthy and powerful folks, corporations, etc. constantly ignore laws they know won't be enforced. you're not gaining any moral high ground on them by following pointless or even harmful laws. just don't follow them.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
