Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
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🦊checking out our steam wishlists and this "Lesbian Toggle" post has caused them to go *way* higher than being in Steam Next Fest has
the logical conclusion is that every game should have some kind of toggle like this, and also lesbians
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Things can be complicated and uncomfortable and still worth doing.
mozilla, browsers, actionable 
@serrebi (The background for my original post is mostly that a lot of people don't know that Servo is alive again, and "them contributing to Servo" probably gets us to a viable alternative faster than "everybody building their own incomplete alternative browser" would)
mozilla, browsers, actionable
@serrebi By this point Servo is not even a usable feature-complete browser yet; a lot of stuff is missing, so I'm not at all surprised that accessibility would be one of those things.
I don't know what their exact plans on accessibility are, but based on the general community around it, I would expect it to be considered, but for it to take some time because it's essentially a from-scratch implementation of a lot of things including UI integrations.
(The 'actionable' part right now is mainly for developers who can contribute towards making it a usable browser engine, less so for end users)
personal, discussions
One of my least favourite interaction patterns is when I try to subtly/non-adversarially communicate that someone holds a problematic belief, reference a word they used in the process, and then the response is "well no that's not what I meant with that word, I meant <non-problematic thing> instead".
Except that everything else they've said and demonstrated is consistent with the interpretation I'd used, and not with what they claim the word was meant as.
By that point there just don't seem to be any non-adversarial responses left...
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mozilla, browsers, actionable :boost_requested:
@joepie91 and that goal makes it instantly way better than Gecko, because at least from what I've heard, embedding it into anything else is a huge pain.
The current situation finally pushed me to start monthly donations to servo :)
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I think there should be a sticker collection mechanic where you can collect stickers that you can put on the borders of your UI
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one time a tim hortons was opening up near where i lived. i stayed up late enough to catch them right when they opened to be the first ever customer. i bought a single donut and paid with a winning rim from the roll up the rim contest. all so i could say that i, personally, put a tim hortons location into debt
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In light of Mozilla's recent terms-of-service bullshit (and well, the years of enshittification preceding that too)...
Here's a reminder that Servo:
- Is an independent browser engine that exists,
- Is no longer a Mozilla project,
- But *is* being actively developed and maintained,
- And needs your help and contributions to make it a full-fledged alternative!
https://book.servo.org/contributing.html
(Its current primary objective is defined as being an "embeddable browser engine" but this is only the first step, and more importantly, it's where 95% of the work in "building a complete browser" lies)
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If we survive the next 4 years, I hope we'll have finally burned out our collective admiration for arrogant, abusive assholes. No matter how adept they are at performing brilliance and promising miracles. I hope we'll turn instead to supporting people who have track records of being careful. Of skillfully maintaining the quietly valuable. Of assiduous, thoughtful repair. Because we're sure as fuck going to need it.
10/10
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I've been thinking about the shitshow that is DOGE, and I see two kinds of professionalized arrogance: tech and MBAs. A thread!
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@Asbestos @sterophonick I checked, but this one definitely didn't have anything. And yeah, the goal was not to go without one, but rather to make it shut up until the landlord sent someone to replace it, so that people could actually sleep.
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Got some free time? It’d sure be a shame if folks flooded this site with bullshit:
I recommend believable stories with completely made up schools, or reporting your local private right wing Christian private school. 😇
(Remember they’ll probably just feed it into AI, so the goal is to poison the data.)
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one time we had to smash a smoke detector with a hammer to get it to shut up (it was malfunctioning)
@sterophonick Reminds me of the Landlord Special smoke detectors that got installed in this block, and the one at the neighbours which kept going off despite there being no smoke.
Of course these were the '10 year' things which did not have a removable battery, nor any (intended) way to shut them off...
Good thing I have a set of wire/sidecutters and tools for prying 🙃 Ended up disassembling the thing, cutting the internal wires, and declaring it "the landlord's problem now"
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re: slightly spicy take, funding (2)
@joepie91 well, you gotta ask for a lot of money first in order to make the claim that "people don't care enough to donate to FOSS projects (or whatever)" later
re: slightly spicy take, funding (2)
@jonah I do sometimes get the feeling that this is the intention of some projects... and that people are just looking for a way to confirm their prejudices.
slightly spicy take, funding (3)
Basically, in my opinion, a responsible and sustainable donation-funded project makes a deliberate effort to stretch every donation as far as it can plausibly go, to get the most effective impact out of the limited pool of funding available to them.
That doesn't mean underpaying people or cutting corners, but there's a very big spectrum between that and "running things like a startup with millions to burn".
slightly spicy take, funding (2)
More specifically, the 'red flag' to me is when a project is asking for an amount of donations that's so large, that it's obvious they haven't really tried to reduce operational costs, and instead went for the nearest most convenient or familiar option, usually one that's explicitly designed for corporate use. Think stuff like building everything around AWS.
Even if they don't *intend* to monetize things later (but it's likely that they're not very opposed to it, because it often signals a corporate background), with that kind of operational cost, they will eventually *have* to monetize things simply because the operational cost is not sustainable.
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@linus what we want: EU funded browser
what we get: browserchoice.eu
- 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
