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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- 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
@raito The thing is, I don't see why point 1 would be in any way desirable, and point 2 doesn't seem to be what people actually are doing - instead they're trying to 1:1 emulate how human brains work, warts and all.
@eloy @linus This feels like the logical next step after they were planning to move away from IRC, and "Discord" was a serious candidate in the running...
The rationale back then was something along the lines of "running our own comms is not our core business and we just want something that requires no effort to keep running" and that was pretty much already the point where Mozilla was dead to me, because clearly they were unwilling to build the kind of world they claimed to want to see.
I might expect that kind of answer from a tech corporation. It has no place in an organization that ostensibly exists for activist purposes.
Serious question: why would we want to create artificial intelligence?
And I mean the actual meaning of the term, not "a bunch of algorithms in a trenchcoat" and *definitely* not LLM grifts, but something that you could plausibly consider a form of genuine sentient life.
Why is this even a goal worth chasing? What does anyone hope to actually achieve with this?
@z This looks a lot closer than most, thanks! From a quick look it's a bit too restricted for what I'm looking for (being tiling-only) but it's definitely quite close to the category I'm looking for.
Honestly, Aging Wheels feels like Top Gear but not run by shitheads
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is there precedent in the linux kernel for how to treat Signed-off-by lines wrt plurality
@ckie That's still definitely in the "rolling your own" camp. I'm more looking for something that's firmly outside of the "For Software Developers" category.
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anyway so bluesky continue not to fix this nonsense so i am going to keep abusing it until someone does something about it
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Abusive relationship, Sexist language
If he's ever called one of his ex's a "crazy bitch", do not have sex with him. Do not have children with him.
Do not move in with him.
Do. Not. Have. Sex. With. Him.
Ghost him immediately and don't walk home alone at night for the next few months.
He's not safe and he doesn't respect women. He's dangerous. Treat him as such.
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Also I've met a lot of people who are like
Surprised and delighted or sometimes alarmed when I do this
Like their only experience of friendship is through the lens of trying to meet the expectations put on them, live up to standards that they have to guess at
People who apologize for liking things that they expect I won't think are cool
People apologize a lot for being themselves, especially trans people
Our survival can depend on meeting other people's expectations
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Hey y'all I'm gonna strongly recommend that when you date or make friends with someone that you uh
Listen to them, watch them, learn who they are and take joy in that process
I see so many people trying to find someone who matches their idea of who they want to date, and then learn a little bit and make up the rest
And when it turns out that the rest of their partner doesn't match the made up person, they get scared or angry or resentful
I love learning new things about a person??
Do that
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(nature documentary voice) while these creatures must face many threats, one of the most severe is said to be the loss of their habits
(the creatures are those with ADHD)
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Oh shit happy 45th birthday Pac-Man
(it was yesterday)
@natty From what I know of both, what I'm looking for would be sitting somewhere in the middle between those two
@TyberiusPrime Unfortunately that is very much "rolling your own with a bunch of libraries"
Are there any Wayland compositor 'toolkits'? 
I'm thinking something that lets you design your own compositor by writing limited code and configuration.
Not locked into a specific paradigm and more capable than just "customize this off-the-shelf WM", but less work than rolling your own with a bunch of libraries.
(Customizable WMs *may* be suitable answers, if you can customize both their appearance and behaviour far enough that a user would not be able to identify the underlying WM from using a customized installation, as an imperfect yardstick.)
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Any tips for a privacy respecting, free event organization platform? I'm thinking about features like:
- Some rich text + images hosted online for the event
- Subscription form to get updates
- Stats about expected attendance
- ??? (this is my first time)
Edit: I don't charge anything for the event, so percentage commission can work.
- Some rich text + images hosted online for the event
- Subscription form to get updates
- Stats about expected attendance
- ??? (this is my first time)
Edit: I don't charge anything for the event, so percentage commission can work.
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Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
- 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
