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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pspol, uspol, genocide
I feel like another thing I hear from liberals pretty often is:
Biden didn't start the genocide
Because they have mostly shifted from "it's not a genocide" from what I can see these days. This is still a good post though. Stole it from someone else who posted it without alt text or CW.
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ACAB
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Covid-19 Poll
As of April 2025, how many times have you had covid, do you still mask, and did you get at least one round of vaccinations? 
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evergreening this meme because it's great and because people who didn't see it before won't get my last boost
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I mean the real reason is probably that so much of the "espresso community" considers themselves an exclusive Rich Coffee Person Club and thinks themselves above something as serf-like as grinding beans by hand. Get the nicest and most convenient equipment or get out. I hate it.
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I actually asked on the Reddit espresso community. Got downvoted to heck and my suspicions were confirmed. Pretty much everyone in the comments can't imagine why someone wouldn't be able to spend an additional couple hundred dollars to save themselves 2 minutes of mild physical effort in the morning. They're all screaming about convenience and speed and how they just can't be bothered to put in a bit of effort so they'd rather spend a fortune. And so they can't see why they'd ever suggest a hand grinder even if someone specifies they're on a budget.
What a bunch of privileged pricks.
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Internet search in…
1990: ask people you know for their FTP server address
1995: scroll through twenty pages of Altavista results
2000: ten blue links
2010: ten blue links below ten ads
2020: one useful link to Wikipedia below the fold, all ads above
2024: AI summary followed by ads followed by a Wikipedia link
2025: AI summary followed by AI summaries of ads followed by a Wikipedia link behind an AI summary
2026: ask people you know for their archive torrent address
@WeirdWriter From what I can tell, adaptive mode increases the contrast and font size; markup-wise, it changes the form elements so that the label is attached to the checkbox input through a for= reference, rather than nesting the checkbox inside of the label.
Both approaches should be valid and equivalent to connect the two elements, but I wonder now if some screenreaders handle these cases differently somehow.
(If I can find the time, I'll try setting up a screenreader to see what it makes of it...)
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Systeem: "Preview? Nee dat kunnen we niet. Je moet publishen om te zien of het werkt."
Ook systeem: "Ja, je moet wel even handmatig de cache resetten, anders zie je het niet"
Ook systeem: "Je reset de cache te vaak, onze systemen kunnen dit niet aan."
Nou, mijn systeem kan dit niet aan. Error 503. Brain not available.
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@baldur It doesn't happen often nowadays that I read something that makes me go "yep, this is what journalism should look like", but this one absolutely fits the bill
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We are almost there folks hang in there
2020 ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 596.80%
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swappable battery is cool and all but I wish my phone would allow hotswapping it if plugged into a charger, so it could stay booted (I wouldn't mind modem etc. restarting, just the main OS should stay up imo)
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@quinn This seems awfully like Israel's Iron Dome, But In Space
hot take, social media
@KFears I think it's a bit of a "trial by fire" situation; people learn organizing because they *have* to, and in the process learn (some) community building skills.
Unfortunately that's learning to build a *very particular kind* of community, one that aims to fight something that already exists. But once the problem is solved you need a different kind of community, one that *builds things up* and sustains them for the long term, and that requires very different skills.
I don't have concrete data to back this up, but my suspicion is that this might play a role in the tendency for revolutions in dire circumstances to result in decades of misery afterwards; because the revolutions are carried out by battle-minded folks, and they are not prepared to do the second, constructive part of the process.
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Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
Ah, the German heptateutonic scale.
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sorry about the ipv4 address shortage . i was a bit hungy
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Apps that log you out because you haven’t used the app in over a week. WHY? It’s isn’t even a crucial app like a bank or something.
- 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
