Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
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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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- 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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The courts aren't working. They have no enforcement mechanism against the executive branch. Democrats are not going to sort this at the midterms. Don't wait for that!
There are still options aside from taking up arms. (Fighting MAGA and the army is likely to go badly.) Major go slows - just do /everything/ really slowly. General strike. Major protests.
It's possible to overturn a system by just refusing to participate in the old one.
uspol meta, negative
I'm not sure the consequences of the current situation have landed for a lot of people yet.
Losing the military support of the US means either further invasion, or increased militarization across Europe and most likely a military draft.
Neither Trump nor Putin will ever decide they've had enough, they will always continue pushing this towards its logical conclusion unless stopped by force.
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@joepie91 if I’m not exaggerating, then the “malice” is “take money from Google to keep the company afloat and then make sure you don’t compete with Google, but make every effort to appear as if you still do, publicly”
@zkat Ah, yeah, that matches what I've long been suspecting as well.
@zkat Would the 'malice' component then be something like "absorb all the community goodwill but keep the company just bad enough that it can't actually achieve its goals", or something else?
mozilla, browsers, actionable 
@esoteric_programmer @serrebi @shine AccessKit did come up in one of the open issues regarding accessibility, but the provisional conclusion was that it would not (yet) have the necessary functionality to handle everything a browser needs
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Like if Mozilla had spent half the money they basically set on fire by working on useless, unwanted shit all this time, they would have probably had enough resources to outcompete blink
Just so many failures that were clearly expensive, unlikely hail maries
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I can’t believe this company was once a place I seriously looked up to. They’ve been doing basically completely clown shoes shit back to back for at least the past decade.
Just absolute nonsense. It’s so bad I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s being intentionally sabotaged. The level of damage that has consistently been done to such a feel good brand, so consistently, for so long, almost feels like the sort of thing only malicious actors would pull off.
@zkat (To clarify, all of my concerns were about the management layer. The people doing the work all seemed excellent and perfectly competent to me.)
@zkat I was invited to their Paris HQ about a decade ago for something only partially related to Mozilla (they were hosting a dev meeting), and got to talking with some of the folks there.
Everything I learned about how the place was run gave off a very strong "startup culture" impression to me, in the unsustainable "burning through money you don't have to keep up with the joneses" way.
Even then I couldn't shake off the feeling that they were headed for disaster and had absolutely no contingency plans or organizational survival skills if the funding were to even partially dry up.
All of which is to say, I don't know that it's sabotage. It seems explainable through culture issues alone... 😕
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Mozilla have been up to a lot of clown shit lately, but slapping SaaS terms on a piece of software which is distributed to end users, with these kinds of overbearing and categorically inapproriate terms, has to be the clowniest. Fire these lawyers
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I just read an intended-to-be disparaging comment (not aimed at me) where someone said, "you're not a clown, you're the whole circus"
It took me several reads to process this as an insult.
If you use VS Code on #NixOS, you may want to look at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=arrterian.nix-env-selector - it lets you run stuff like rust-analyzer and other plugin-internal processes in the context of a project's shell.nix, which is really useful when compilations require external system dependencies
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the aliexpress algorithm has decided i’m the kind of person who’d buy a 1 ton mini excavator
they apparently are less than €2000
politiek
@roelgrif En dat is natuurlijk totaal niet credible, maar dat verwacht de achterban dan ook niet...
politiek
@roelgrif Ik zou daar nog niet zo zeker van zijn. Het lijkt erop dat dit bewust uitgelokt is om als pretext te dienen om alle steun aan Oekraine in te trekken.
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Hottest Firefox Take Yet
What if internet services were public utilities and what if that included my damn browser? Maybe I could just pay $10/mo for something way more stable and also way less caked with crap.
But I kid Capitalism and the tech bros, of course.
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the real meaning of "cloud native" is "we're too preoccupied with 'scalable' design to notice that our cluster can serve requests at about the same pace as a 486 box running debian 2.0 in 1998 could, just more complicated and more difficult to iterate on"
- 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
