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
@rune Apparently! Better hope none of the greenhouse components are made of PLA
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@joepie91 what are you building? An industrial PLA composting facility?
@adam And as is the standard with these kinds of posts, zero words are spent on exactly *why* people were holding them responsible, and instead it's called "drama", and (in this case the linked post) talks a big game about "neutrality" and "not letting politics influence it" but without ever *quite* specifying exactly what politics those are...
Honestly it feels to me like all these "I'm quitting fedi because you were mean to me, the admin" posts are basically interchangeable and you could swap them out and people wouldn't be able to tell
@rallias I can't hear you over the sizzling plastic of the thermometer
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They target trans folk because they think cishet folk will look away. They're counting on you not defending those who aren't like you.
They target Black and Brown folk because they think white folk will look away. They're counting on us not defending those who aren't like us.
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Just learned about pretendo today.
Pretendo is a free and open source replacement for Nintendo's servers for both the 3DS and Wii U, allowing online connectivity for all, even after the original servers are discontinued
This is so cute and good! 
@Vampire Ah yeah that's what they say on the *front* of the box, if I'm not mistaken
I spent like, a couple of euros buying these various teas from them while they were on discount, and I don't think I've ever gotten this much disappointment-per-euro before, which I guess is an achievement?
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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
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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
- 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
