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
It is also worth noting that none of the self-hosted infrastructure around NixOS ever seems to have this problem
Tech people always defend the SaaS providers with "well they are the experts at running things at scale, we need them" and then nixpkgs breaks Github for the fifth time for no apparent reason except that the repo is big
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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CW-boost: palestina, 4 en 5 mei
CW-boost: pewdiepie, linux, fascists
https://fe.disroot.org/objects/d7fae2e9-03b6-459b-9e8b-b2154b5e2aa6
I don't know about the "vast majority of his fan base" claim, but the other points are good ones regardless.
@jbz Obligatory warning that "Morpheus Research" looks like a short seller.
These are traders who try to profit from shorting stocks by creating a controversy, whether well-founded or not, to crash the stock.
They do sometimes dig up legitimate issues, but their motivation certainly isn't one of "informing the general public" and they have a tendency of embellishing things to create a panic.
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Aww yeah, the Godot game engine 4.5 dev 3 snapshot is out.
For those of you to whom that's just alphabet soup, 4.5 dev 3 integrates AccessKit! This means that the editor UI, and any game UIs made with it, are screen reader accessible out of the box.
I just spun up an instance in a Fedora distrobox. Haven't gotten far, but the intro and project creation dialogs are certainly usable. Though the creation dialog seems to set its content as the label for all fields which is verbose. Filing that issue but still this is an amazing development!
re: politics
@mjdxp @ramin_hal9001 This is kind of a weird response?
Like, you're arguing that it "doesn't mean they should be barred from using an operating system", but nowhere in the original post was that even suggested?
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For me, this is the best image symbolizing what Gen AI actually is. A black box, burning the planet, understood best, paradoxically, through technological means.
What you see here is a thermal image of xAI's Datacenter in Memphis, where 33 methane power generators are burning without permission.
Photograph: Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for Southern Environmental Law Center.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
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@joepie91
Plastic and also crappy, that's awesome!
Right up there with when I learned the "Celestial" in "Celestial Seasonings" tea refers to their extraterrestrial cult and isn't a cute play on their sleepytime tea or something.
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saw a facebook reel showing a tram being rebooted by putting the pantograph down and back up again and i have never felt a greater sense of community with everyone else who has to suffer with computers
(Previously: the PLA-in-teabags stuff, them seemingly having removed ceylon from the Yellow Label tea, the supposedly 'forest fruit' tea actually being red fruit and the forest fruit apparently not being available anymore, the earl grey being bitter garbage, the orange tea no longer tasting like it used to...)
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:rabiesPride: 
also haiku's wm is heckin amazing and i love it, haven't seen anything like it on linux. it's floating but it's possible to stack them together and switch using those tabs on top
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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why must partition labels and filesystem labels be seperate
I have to say, Pewdiepie's video on Linux was... a lot better than I had expected.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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i need advertisers to understand that putting an asterisk on a claim looks so insanely suspicious that they would've been better off not making the claim
@eta (And I see it more as "attaching consequences to choices" than as "violence", exactly, even though the mechanisms are similar)
- 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
