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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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For anyone interested in the secrets of living a fulfilling and satisfying life, I know of no better set of hints than to consider all the things that are explicitly devalued, derided, even outright forbidden under white anti-culture:
Things like softness, vulnerability, weakness, silliness, frivolity, spontaneous dancing, ecstatic laughter, femininity, affection for tiny things, childlike wonder, uncompromising honesty, playful imagination, love, reverence, rich connection to the past, celebration of our deep interdependence on each other, crying until our feelings are finally felt...
These are among the most sacred elements of a truly flourishing life.
It is no coincidence that the society around us works so hard to push us away from them.
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a recent trend that I really enjoy is manufacturers offering tools in “non-traditional-colours”. Be it Rigol with their black cases, camera and lens case-mods (this is a huge thing in Asia!), or microscopes in very enjoyable colours! I also have seen blue and mint ones
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white smoke just came out of our router... this means that the DHCP conclave has ended and a new IP address has been selected
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Dat het volk nu een dagje Efteling betaalt voor asielzoekers is een belangrijk politiek feit.
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“AI Slop Education”
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-slop-education/
> Students' utter disengagement with college (hashtag not all students) stems from a variety of factors, both within and well beyond education policy and practice
@k In my experience, it can, but it depends a lot on what kind of software and where the donation link is.
Libraries and other internals, almost never get donations, even when people use them in projects. "End-user software" gets donations way more often.
Likewise, just putting a barely-discoverable donation link on the site somewhere doesn't do much. Actively *prompting* people for donations, however, does.
The best results I've seen (also in other projects) are donation prompts that only appear after someone has been using something for a bit, presumably because by that point they've decided that it's useful to them.
Likewise, honestly explaining what the donations are for, and what sort of donations are expected (in amount, frequency, etc.) seems to help encourage people to donate, as do 'progress bars' for donation targets. Helping people understand where their money goes, basically
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GitHub having the audacity to complain about AI bots crawling their website being unsustainable is the textbook definition of hypocrisy.
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/
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AI chat bots replacing forms is the new Discord replacing forums.
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@broadwaybabyto Yes. The modern " wellness" industry promotes the idea that perfect health is the default state of every human, and is achievable by every human. Tragically people don't see that this is a myth perpetrated by those who want to sell you vitamins and sundry treatments for profit.
So we get people who believe that the reason we have a serious chronic illness eg ME/CFS is our failure to got to the Health shop and select the right products.
It's insulting and it trivialises our illness/ disability and the impact it has on our lives.
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One of the hardest parts of chronic illness is that you can do everything “right” & still have a setback.
You can rest, eat healthy, manage stress & take all your meds & still have a horrible flare.
The loss of control is painful, and a big part of why folks are afraid of people with disabilities
The non disabled need to believe that they can “healthy living” or “try harder” their way out of disability.
That they’re the exception. That we have failed because we didn’t really “want” to get better.
They can’t fathom that sometimes it doesn’t matter what you do, you still get sicker
(The idea of predefined 'cloud services' being cheaper originates in the idea that you don't need to hire dedicated staff and can share it with other customers. This is of course a) also true for managed hosting, b) completely distorted by things such as vendor lock-in, and c) irrelevant when you are a literal government-sized organization)
There's this argument that European cloud providers just can't offer the same breadth of services as something like AWS, and it really annoys me because what AWS offers is merely a subset of what dozens of managed hosting providers offer *and have been offering since before AWS existed*.
When you buy this stuff from a managed hosting provider, they do whatever they have to and hire whoever they need to, to provide you with the service you need. Having a fixed set of predefined services in a fancy control panel (like AWS) is not actually better than this!
(And it's not cheaper either.)
@kiwa@bitbang.social I believe you can do it with `ia download --search` (and then filtering by uploader): https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html
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#RadicalRoutes is a network of radical housing co-ops, workers co-ops and social centres, whose members are committed to working for positive social change.
The next Gathering is this weekend,
May 9-11th, camping at Highbury Farm, Monmouthshire, overlooking the glorious Wye Valley.
https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/next-gathering/
Then Aug 15-17 : Wild Peak
@Ashedryden Hang on. Hasn't the guy made *exactly* this promise before, for an earlier year?
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Bronnen bij NS geven aan dat er geen overeenkomst is bereikt over een nieuwe CAO en dat vakbonden zich gaan voorbereiden op stakingen. Wordt vervolgd.
Internal sources at NS are saying that an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement couldn’t be reached. The unions are now preparing for strikes. To be continued.
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- 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
