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
Relatedly: pay attention to which brands have *exactly* 30% recycled plastic content... they're the ones that are trying to do the absolute bare minimum they are required to.
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chronic illness and pain is a lot like heffalumps. hard to explain to people, but if you know, you know. maybe not the extent. but the dread and exhaustion. and also the incredulity.
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(reposted because somehow i erased all the answers so far, sorry!)
to all the chronically ill and disabled folk in fediland:
how do you feel about posting about how you feel? i do post stuff about illness sometimes, but i also often worry that i'm just boring people or whinging, and that no one cares if i'm incapacitated (again/still). but it's such a MASSIVE part of my life (sigh), so sometimes i feel like i'm ... idk ... not lying? but ... something ... by glossing over it. but equally, i don't want to dwell, because it's not great for anyone to get mired. and it might be boring (and it will be repetitive).
anyway just interested to see what others think.
(boost if you like, but you don't have to.)
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@moonrabbit disabled people talking openly about disability is literally revolutionary praxis imho
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It also has a beautiful scent. For years people eliminated it as a so-called weed doing untold damage to insects which need it like the monarch. Do we really think that left to our own devices we’ll do a fair, equitable and complete job of pollination? Or will we simply build devices which pollinate lucrative and desired crops?
Clearly we need to ensure that our native pollinators survive and thrive for the health of the ecosystems in which we live.
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A piece for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination about who decides what gets pollinated if humans and our devices are the only pollinators.
The definition of “weed” is usually pretty arbitrary and usually all sorts of native plants get caught up in our human biases. Milkweed is insanely popular with the pollinators in my garden and the host plant of the monarch butterfly. 🧵1/2
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #pollination #future #milkweed #ecology
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@rune Feels like the more critical question here is "how did this code ever make it into a commit in the first place"...
Dit is toch wel een van m'n favoriete sites: https://www.tabaknee.nl/
Niet omdat ik nou zo diep in dat onderwerp zit, maar omdat ze al jarenlang onverminderd graven in de tabaksindustrie en alles op tafel leggen.
Als activist is het voor mij een hoopvol voorbeeld van hoe activisme er ook uit kan zien.
@schratze One of my least favourite kinds of discoveries is when something doesn't give me error messages, and I start looking into why that is, and I discover that the underlying protocol literally doesn't have an explicit failure state; it either succeeds or does not respond.
Particularly common with network discovery kind of stuff... 😕
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None of this is transparent or makes sense in any way
What if there were error messages instead of things just not working
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Like, there's at least two parties involved in every transaction, and if you're only ever thinking about the needs of one of them, what the fuck are you even doing? Because it sure isn't "making sure people have food on the table"!
venting, paid software, piracy, etc.
I'm kind of sick of the way some people talk about paid software, going so far as to call people 'freeloaders' or worse things when they use cracked versions.
Like, yeah, sure, software developers need to eat. But *so do other people* and the reality is that an awful lot of people who use cracked software do so because they literally cannot afford it.
If you care so much about sustainable software development, why does your thought process terminate at "charge a purchase/subscription fee and demand that people pay it", instead of continuing to think about *more inclusive* ways to make things sustainable?
Why do you refuse to think about anything beyond "every single user must pay"?
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@schratze On my phone, Android seems to try to murder the KDE Connect process all the time and that's why my computer can't find it until I unlock the screen again 😕
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KDE Connect is fucking great
Unless your laptop is unable to find your phone and your phone is unable to find your laptop
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*taps the sign*
Do not fucking run your fedi instance from behind Cloudflare proxy
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I really love writing characters where your first impression of them is both terrible and correct, and they still grow on you anyway because people are complex and there's good in them, too.
This is hard to get right and doesn't work for every reader. But when it works, it's magic.
Some of my favourites: Usther from Tombtown, Hanna from NPC, and Boro from Space Dragons.
I read a book by @rowyn recently that was absolutely masterful at this.
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💸 Germany sends €204.5M to Microsoft annually while European open-source projects need investment.
Our Account Manager's analysis shows how redirecting these funds could:
✔️End vendor lock-in cycles
✔️Strengthen data sovereignty
✔️Create local tech jobs
✔️Support FLOSS innovation
XWiki, CryptPad and other open-source solutions prove alternatives exist, they just need proper funding.
Read the full analysis here: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/why-governments-should-invest-in-open-source/
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Genie: What is your wish?
Boy: I wish I were you.
Genue: Weurd but alrught.
- 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
