Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @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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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
@mjdxp Yes and no; there's a very basic example browser shell that comes with Servo itself, but to my knowledge nobody has built an "end-user browser" yet.
Servo has very recently improved its embeddability, which from what I understand makes it easier to start building such a browser for end users.
@Timo_Micro I did grow up with carnaval (to some degree) and at least back then, the recognition of history was mixed; there was a lot of focus on the local traditions (those in Roosendaal in my case), but not so much on its historical roots.
It was mostly seen as an 'event for everyone to come together and have fun', to kind of blow off steam and generally celebrate.
That 'everyone' part seems to have persisted to this day, given the controversy this year over carnaval events moving indoors and requiring (paid) tickets to get into; a lot of people are calling out how it excludes a lot of people from the festivities, and is not in the spirit of carnaval.
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hey mozilla how is your legal department so bad that you start your acceptable use policy with "follow all laws" and about halfway down there's "don't harass people" and everything else in there is something that sounds close to a law but is misworded in such a way that it basically makes all online communication illegal
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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today i learned: KDE has open species documentation
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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You wouldn't believe how common it is for software companies to literally make it impossible for me to give them money either because of a consistent software error or an outright design flaw.
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A recurring thing I've been encountering over the past few months is SaaS pages erroring out when I try to pay them because nobody in-house seems to be testing whether non-US orders work.
"This browser isn't from one of the countries in our list. Let's just say it's in the US."
"Oh, no. Your payment method is from a different region than the account. Please choose a different payment method."
Then everything 500s all over the place once you try to change the account region.
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us pol
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.
- 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
