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.
- 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 started writing a series of posts but decided fuck it, we longform now, and put my thoughts on Twitch's new and immediate 100 hour storage limit into a blog
https://blog.retroheart.net/gearworks/push-it-to-the-100-hour-limit
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Or how much money is saved by not burning your volunteers
Matrix subtoot
Imagine how many protocol issues for how many years could be fixed with $610k in a healthier governance structure
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He's on the spectrum (spending a lot of time programming his 1982 ZX spectrum) (because he's autistic)
@schratze Ah, for me it's "every time I go through a doorway"
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How do people keep forgetting their keys, wallets and phones at home
How do they keep losing them all the time
Do they not give themselves the complete patdown every time they leave home and every ten minutes
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btw the way i found this out was seeing their avatar in my follows and going "huh that looks familiar did i used to have a mutual with that avatar on twitter?"
and the penny didn't drop that it was art from my own dang game until i clicked into their profile and saw the banner XD
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got followed by someone on bluesky with akko as their avatar and a screenshot from kitsune tails with akko talking to kiri as their banner and that's definitely a nice first. for someone to like one of my games enough to just make it their account branding
hot take, FOSS
@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol Also, here's a concrete example of what 'making room for collective governance' might look like: whoever 'owns' a particular issue ('assignee', in Github lingo) also automatically has full moderation rights over the conversation in that issue, and multiple separate conversations can be had within its context.
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(🔜 gpn)
hot take, FOSS
@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol And Github and its model do not fit into that picture; they are entirely designed around corporate workflows, corporate needs, hierarchical power structures, and so on.
The system does not make any room for community or collective governance whatsoever.
hot take, FOSS
@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol Actual sustainable grassroots community building, actively engaged contributors and internal social relations, collective consideration of the values behind a project and who benefits from it. In other words, sustainable social and governance structures.
Structures that actually make space for people and their needs, and that give them a reason to stick around beyond "there is Work to be done".
Not drive-by PRs that generate more work than they remove and that function as maintainer time sinks, "tech is politically neutral" whitewashing, licensing obsessions, corporate source dumps and labour exploitation, and so on.
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Is there a specific name for the "This is not a place of honor" text? I know that it's from "Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant" where it's buried in one of the appendices but surely it has its own name, right?
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hot take, FOSS
@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol I don't struggle to see such an alternative reality at all, and more importantly, what does that "explosion of FOSS projects and contributors" actually *mean*, materially?
Sure, lots of people are nominally doing open-source. Have the FOSS options improved in quality or governance? Has work for maintainers become easier, or have they just been burning out even harder? (It's the latter.)
It's easy to focus on the numbers and say "open-source is more popular than ever", and in a literal sense you would be right. But is the *way* in which it became popular actually benefiting society? Or did we miss out on a healthy and sustainable ecosystem by focusing on number go up?
And who is benefiting the most from FOSS as it exists today? Is it average people, communities, and end users? Or is it tech corporations and fascists?
hot take, FOSS
@thibaultmol (Also, *do* we have alternatives? Because as far as I can tell, all of the alternatives people usually suggest are functionally just clones of Github and its model)
hot take, FOSS
@thibaultmol Good things such as?
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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I used to have a part time job working in a gift shop. The back room where the merchandise was kept was a mess, everything in disarray and you could find things only if you knew where they were. It made sense to my boss but to literally no one else. Then one time he went away on vacation for a week and left me in charge. You guessed it: I reorganized the back room. Now everyone could find where everything was, not just my boss!
Not sure why I thought of that just now.
hot take, FOSS
The creation of Github has been terrible for FOSS.
Not because the situation before Github was so good (it wasn't), but because Github didn't actually solve any of those problems but it made it *look* like it did, and at the same time socially 'locked in' a toxic contribution and interaction model.
software development
It occurs to me that a lot of framework developers are perfectly happy to build frameworks that are opinionated about how developers "should" be doing things, while completely failing to be opinionated about how the result should 'feel' to (or behave for) the end user
- 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
