Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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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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You don’t need to be Jewish to apply.
$10,000 interest-free loan for folks who need to relocate because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence.
@chriscoyier There are two major points that seem to be missing here:
1. Google, through their involvement in (and more recently, dominance over) the standards process, has generated a lot of changes and expansions to the web platform that primarily serve Google's interests, not those of users or 'the web' more abstractly. "What's good for Google is good for us" absolutely is not true, and this 'investment' comes with strings. It's worth asking how many of these 'contributions' to the web platform are actually desirable, and how many of them merely serve to make developing a competing browser an insurmountable task (as everyone who has tried has already discovered).
2. Because Chrome is so heavily subsidized, precisely *because* it does not need to be free-standing to survive, it has generated an environment where nobody can meaningfully compete with Google (at least, without becoming similarly malicious as Google) because they do not have a surveillance capitalism sidehustle to fund their browser development with. This has created a Chrome monoculture, which is the opposite of an open and standards-based web. This kind of bundling is, in fact, the core of antitrust issues, for exactly this reason.
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θΔ ⋐ & ∞
tfw you see a 90s style website but it uses like nuxt js or some shit so includes 500mb of different js files when it could easily have been made in php and/or xslt or even some fucking js static site generator like eleventy or some other thing that maybe even uses jsx or whatever it is
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@bl00d
making game solid: $350,000
legal: $85,000
office: $120,000
???: $450,000,000,000
someone who is good at the economy etc
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@Qyriad Honestly that's the most frustrating part to me - the protocol isn't *fundamentally* awful, it's just awful because they got the 'last mile' wrong!
The spec is incomplete, the docs are bad, the governance is crap, the libraries unreliable, the endpoints inconsistent. These are all solvable problems, they're just not... solved.
It would be entirely possible to have a governance change and issue a new revision of the protocol and solve all of these issues overnight without a server compatibility break. If the people in charge were actually willing to commit to it. Which they're clearly not.
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In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.
2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779
2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html
2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."
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vague about news & CWs, lack thereof
fwiw
there is a big difference between educating people to understand what's going on
and creating an endless flood of The Details
like for example, I am exceptionally grateful how many people are relentlessly documenting all of the terrible things happening right now. this is good and important. sharing it, with adequate warning, is good and important
but I don't need All The Details
for example, I am still on the never-ending hell quest to get my partner in the country so we can finally be together. I wish there were an easier path, like me maybe going to her instead, but this is the best we've got. and knowing all of the details about immigration shit, and trans shit, happening right now, is very useful and good.
but quite frankly, I do not need to be inundated with untagged content about the latest border-related suffering happening right now. it does not help. you just make it so sometimes I get so stressed and upset I have to just lie down and accept I'll get nothing good done for the rest of the day.
please tag your posts. giving it without adequate warning does not help
@rune (Basically my attempt at sourcing an equivalent of T-track since that seems to be unobtainable here at any kind of reasonable price)
@rune It would have to be a very big ziploc bag, since these are 1.5 meter long aluminium profiles
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Aha, rich man, you know the laugh’s on you
You live and die by another man’s rule
And when we both are dead and gone
The legend of my kind will still live on
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The rich man has no use for me
Nor have I any use for he
He’ll judge a man by the clothes he wears
Judge I a man by the burden he bears
On the other hand, they *did* include a few parts that I didn't actually order
I now also know why the parcel was delayed by a day because the box had clearly been damaged in shipping and patched up with tape
Just received an online order, and using a heatsealer to split a ziploc bag into compartments sure is a... choice.
One that makes the whole 'ziploc' part completely useless 🙃
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TL;DR: With Firefox 56, Mozilla combined Firefox Health Report and Telemetry data into a single setting called “technical and interaction data”, which was then enabled by default. This included data about advertising within Firefox’s New Tab page, along with a lot of other technical information about the installation of Firefox. The Firefox preferences UI makes no mention of usage of this technical data for advertising purposes. Mozilla has also recently shared that they share data with their advertising partners “on a de-identified or aggregated basis”. Mozilla has given no indication that this is a new occurrence.
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*old man voice* back in my webdev days, every website was just bootstrap2.css, now everything looks like this
@marlies Spotify has a long history of hosting fascists and nazis, unfortunately. See also the Joe Rogan thing. People have been boycotting it for a while for this reason.
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Skype is shutting down in May. I've been using it to speak with my grandmother, and I am looking for an alternative, with the following features:
* can do live subtitles (in French)
* works without a phone number/sim card
* can call your contacts and be dialed (i.e. not only invite by email/calendar/url…)
* simple UI/UX (with big buttons) is far more important than feature rich.
I know various things that do some of the above, but I'm not sure what (other than Skype) does all of it.
Any help?
@SURF Bedankt. Na dat artikel gelezen te hebben resteren er mij twee vragen:
1. Hebben jullie al onderzocht of een nuttig model uberhaupt haalbaar is met een dergelijke beperkte dataset? Onderzoek hiernaar in het verleden liep namelijk uit op teleurstellende resultaten.
2. Wat is jullie plan om te voorkomen dat het model de al-bestaande vooroordelen in de maatschappij 'vastlegt' (deze zullen immers ook in de trainingsdata verwerkt zitten), versterkt, en als het ware een ideologische 'eenheidsworst' creeert omdat iedereen hetzelfde model gebruikt met dezelfde ideologische waarden erin gebouwd? Aangezien dat flinke schade kan veroorzaken aan de maatschappelijke ontwikkeling, nog meer dan veel ICT-systemen nu al doen.
- 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
