Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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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
@Scmbradley Honestly I'm not convinced that it's so inevitable. There seem to be a few specific conditions that causes this to happen (not all deliberate), and there are also plenty of cases and circumstances where it goes fine but those don't tend to stick in people's minds.
I think the view that "internet discussions will inevitably turn bad" is kind of dangerous, actually, because it's a demotivator for improving our collective social spaces, essentially the equivalent of political nihilism.
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There are two kinds of people.
There are those who don't believe in miracles, and those who repair electronic devices and have witnessed a tiny screw fall off a table and miraculously undergo a complete existence failure between there and the floor.
@Scmbradley I mean, there's "inaccuracies" and then there's "inaccuracies". In this case there were a few highly specific claims that kept popping up with remarkable fidelity but any attempt to obtain evidence consistently ran into a wall.
It felt an awful lot like deliberate disinformation, rather than genuine confusion or miscommunication.
I am still wondering, to this day, what actually happened there, how much of the criticism was genuine, and who exactly the false claims originated from and why.
I have my suspicions, but no data to back it up.
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There's a nonprofit whose website I support that monitors the far right. They want to set up a mirror site in Iceland (or other country with strong data sovereignty laws) in case the Trump administration takes down their website.
Does anyone have Icelandic hosting companies they recommend? The website is in #Drupal
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@clayton Gandi is nominally a French company, but it was acquired by TWS a few years ago, a Dutch company with an awful reputation for absurd price hikes and bad support/service, and now operates as a subsidiary of them.
Thinking back for no particular reason to the US controversy among leftists about The Correspondent (one of the very few journalistic outlets in NL that actually did in-depth reporting on fascism and racism over the past decade), and how the discourse was completely littered with verifiably false claims about what had happened.
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"Een kermis in de Friese hoofdstad Leeuwarden gaat niet door. De reden: een supermarkteigenaar heeft de kermisorganisator afgekocht, zodat het bedrijf geen overlast zal ervaren. Om die reden is er in april geen kermis op het Cambuurplein. Exploitanten lopen duizenden euro's mis."
Wat ben je dan een klootzak, zeg.
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3DBenchy Sets Sail into the Public Domain
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/14/3dbenchy-sets-sail-into-the-public-domain/
It really annoys me how basically every react-native related library contains duplicate implementations; one in Java/Kotlin for Android, and one in Objective C for iOS.
That's seemingly not the fault of react-native but rather of the design decisions behind these operating systems (and their corresponding devices), and I can't help but feel like as a field we've really regressed on interoperability with mobile OSes.
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This is my third game with #PixelArt houses with a roof, but I made them much cleaner than the previous ones (and I made it so you can see the top rim thingy and the back tiles).
Hmm. I don't know how how to handle that rim with complex house shapes with the current simple autotiling system. Guess I'll just put chimneys at the intersections.
#Love2D #GameDev #Aseprite
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You have permission to be happy even now when things are bad. Happiness leads to hope and hope gives us the energy we need to fight back.
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In our marketing-department imagined future of a new technology all harms will somehow disappear (details TBD), but the potential benefits are endless and extraordinary. We could cure cancer! But are any of the AI companies trying to cure cancer, as a primary goal of their work? Well, no…
https://front-end.social/@mia/114000730215089155
Just prior to the start of the LLM boom, I was suckered into accepting a machine learning position at a big pharmaceutical company, with the assertion that we were going to be building out tooling that would assist with the discovery of new, life-saving drugs.
Once I started, it turned out that the things our department worked on were actually used to make marketing communications more effective and to decrease manufacturing costs. Sure, ML could theoretically be used for drug discovery, but that was for the individual research groups to decide and manage, and they had their own engineers and data scientists to hypothetically do it.
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sitting next to a guy on the streetcar who seems to be filming the entire route through the window
part of me wants to ask him for a link because I agree this shit is soothing 😂
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Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.
Keep a list of these sites for reference:
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URGENT 
here's my (updated) list of folks who need to be prioritized. most on this list are trans & disabled. *most are in increased danger due to US fascism.* please help by pasting their links into your search bar & boosting their posts directly or by giving any small amount. 
. thank you!!
⭐ you can get handmade art or a short story collection for donating to them here:
- https://writing.exchange/@riveraerica/113994586546564887
- https://terror.black/@sayyid_qishta/113422065701306276
- https://flipping.rocks/@inherentlee/113947145294908139
- https://weirder.earth/@june/113889814363872521
kiamichi (200/500) OVERDUE: https://mastodon.art/@mahtheyzhawey/113992527150137666
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i love when people from places i don't know about make inside jokes about their own country or specific cities or places in it bc it feels like i am taking a peek into what life must be like there
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@pinkflameinthepan Ah ja, dat snap ik ook wel.
Ik heb dit als bijlesdocent ook wel meegemaakt met sommige leerlingen, en wat ik dan zelf vaak deed was de les besteden aan een gesprek over hoe we het oefenen makkelijker konden maken (coaching eigenlijk), of bijvoorbeeld meer tijd tussen lessen plannen. Maar da's weer een heel andere vaardigheid dan lesgeven, en ook niet iedere docent heeft die.
Ik denk dat het enige advies dat ik hier zou kunnen geven, zou zijn om ook niet te hard voor jezelf te zijn, en bijvoorbeeld bewust wat 'verplichtingen' te laten vallen of verschuiven, om ruimte te maken voor de dingen die je wilt doen.
Vaak zijn er toch best wat dingen die minder belangrijk of tijdsgevoelig blijken dan iemand je vertelt, deadlines die eigenlijk niet bestaan, dat soort dingen.
(En soms is het gewoon een kwestie van "nee" zeggen als er iets van je verwacht wordt, en die persoon met een alternatief laten komen)
- 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
