Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
food packaging
@jornane Slightly less I *think*
OH: "Pinata Economics"
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eating disorders, question
Does anyone know of any useful articles about eating disorders and their relation to plurality and/or other neurospicy traits?
(That aren't some ableist garbage like "autistic people cannot communicate")
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Baffling how more often than not articles on hackernews are neither about hacking, nor new 
food packaging
Ah, I see that Lidl has also worked out the loophole
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If you want to know how it's going in Portland, Oregon: we have a minor feud between two competing naked bike ride groups.
https://bikeportland.org/2025/02/25/get-ready-for-two-major-naked-rides-this-summer-392947
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Oh yeah stumbled across this banger forum thread about retro homebrew feeling very commercialized now (by someone I recognize from Fedi) while I was looking at emulator drama yesterday: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=24744
@rune Well, I did try to search the internet for an error message only to find out nobody else in the world had that problem, because it turned out that *I* wrote the code that produced that error
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Do you ever search the Internet for an error message only to find out nobody else in the world has this problem because your teammate wrote the code that makes this error?
@serapath Basically: if you are funded by businesses, then you are going to be developing for the needs of businesses, not the needs of people
The perpetual conflict between wanting more shared/reused infrastructure for FOSS projects to extract sustainable funding from businesses, and not wanting FOSS to center around business funding because of the perverse incentives it introduces
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The window cleaning guy is in the street. A bunch of houses in the street pay for his service. He arrives in a little van and pulls out a hosepipe that is the length of the ENTIRE STREET and walks back and forth with it cleaning the windows, yellow hosepipe strewn over the road haphazardly. Never has a person wielded as lengthy a hosepipe as this.
grumbling, noise
@StroomAfwaarts Motorbike, in this case. They seemed to be trying to use it like an air compressor.
@petrichor The conclusion from that is that the tools are there already, but the economic incentives are not, and this is unlikely to change until Facebook is dethroned as "the place where everything happens and everyone is".
@petrichor "but so many small businesses still make do with just a Facebook page: why do they do that?"
From what I understand, the answer to that is very simple (but probably not the one you want to hear): Facebook is where people are, and so it's where you market your business, and barely anyone still clicks through to a website (also because platforms like Facebook de-emphasize that) and it's just not worth the time and effort to maintain a site that essentially duplicates the information on Facebook.
What drives a business is typically not personal expression, but rather economics and marketing incentives, so something needs to have a return-on-investment to do it.
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When BSDCan started, there was discussion about starting a yearly BSD conference in the US.
Then we looked at the Patriot Act and said, "Y'know, maybe it's best to just have everyone go to Canada."
I'm feeling rather prescient these days.
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So with Kagi and DDG all-in on "ai" and otherwise enshittening themselves, what are people recommending for search?
I can't even use the DDG app without bumping into surprise chatbot buttons any more.
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ropol, probably good, genocide mention
Oh ok turns out they are charging him with building a fascist group, promoting the cult of personality of perpetrators of genocide, and building or participating in antisemitic groups
- 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
