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
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I'll certainly miss having a space on the internet to ask questions and receive help
Dear Author! We always had that. It was IRC, it was mailing lists, it was forums, it was the Fediverse. Still are, really.
You know what's common between all of those? None are centralized silos run by for-profit corporations. Maybe there's something to learn from that.
I'm sure we'll see spaces where developers hang out and help each other continue to be popular – whether they are in the form of Discord servers, WhatsApp or Telegram groups, or something else.
...or maybe some won't. Too bad.
@pinkflameinthepan Zo staat het in ieder geval op de pagina van het initiatief, die met de kaart: "Threshold: To be successful, a European citizens' initiative has to reach one million statements of support as well as minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries."
Maar ik ben er verder niet heel bekend mee dus ik weet niet of er verder nog voorwaarden zien die daar niet genoemd staan. Maar de "minimaal 7 landen" is in ieder geval al gehaald.
@hongminhee Thanks, I will have a look 🙂
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Several commenters under this post seem upset that the pill is prescribed starting at an age of 13 years.
Do these commenters want more teen pregnancies? Cause that's how you get more teen pregnancies
@pinkflameinthepan (Nog even los van dat ik mijn twijfels heb over of dit echt een resultaat op gaat leveren als het gehaald wordt, maar dat is weer een heel ander verhaal)
@pinkflameinthepan Zoals ik het begrijp (en zoals het ook op de pagina staat) hoeft het de threshold maar in 7 landen te halen en een totaal van 1 miljoen, toch?
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my great uncle was a military orchestra conductor and eventually ended up in tiraspol and settled there with his family. no one really had contact with that part of the family...until we got a letter in the early 90s. asking for a vhs recorder. because they had heard we made it to the west, and therefore, we owed them, and they wanted a vhs recorder. so obviously my mom got them a used vhs recorder, because not doing so would be kinda admitting that all that emigration gave her was depression, xenophobia and isolation.
there's just the small issue where tiraspol ended up being the capital of an internationally unrecognized splinter republic. sending a vhs there turned out to be an bureaucratic nightmare. after regular mail failed, she eventually paid a long-distance bus driver to take it to ukraine and hand it off to someone there.
we never heard anything back.
anyway, that's the shit i think about whenever i see an vhs recorder in the trash
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@hongminhee I never really followed any library projects on any social media before so I have no frame of reference for what they would post 😅
I *have* followed FOSS projects before, but they were always "end-user facing" projects and so the things being shown were often a lot more... visual? than I would expect to be possible for a library project
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@hongminhee Hmm, as someone who's working on quite a few libraries (eg. https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/what-are-promistreams as an example), I'm curious, what sorts of things would you expect those accounts to post?
@trysdyn I *think* this behaviour is one of the things that's turned off in strict mode? But I'm not 100% sure
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Free texture websites for 3D artists. I replaced a link with a new one: **OnlyGFX**. I believe cc0-textures' security was compromised, not sure, but playing it safe for now.
#artresources #assets #2dassets #gamedev #indiedev #textures
http://texturer.com/
https://ambientcg.com/
https://duion.com/
https://polyhaven.com/
https://stocksnap.io/
https://texture.ninja/
https://texturelabs.org/
https://www.cgbookcase.com/
https://www.onlygfx.com/
https://www.sharetextures.com/
https://www.texturecan.com/
@trysdyn (There's a pretty big collection of very cursed old browser stuff that we're all collectively pretending doesn't exist, because Never Break The Web means that it cannot *actually* be removed)
@trysdyn Your guess is exactly correct - this used to be a more common practice in the bad old IE6 days, if I remember correctly, especially with form elements, but at some point people realized that this was generating bugs like nobody's business and so it got functionally deprecated by the broader webdev community
@hongminhee As in software libraries or as in book libraries?
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omg this is awesome!
There's a spot in town marked in Google Maps as "Turtle Log".
It is what it says, just a cool log where turtles hang out, but since it's tagged as a place I can ask the satnav for directions to "turtle log" and it'll work.
@quixoticgeek @mwl (I think I've argued with literal hundreds of these people on the startup side of the Node.js world by now, so these conclusions are not based on a small sample size either)
@quixoticgeek @mwl Guy runs a hosting startup, so I'm not surprised. This sort of 'advice' has been going around in startup circles for a very, very long time, unfortunately...
The people giving this advice also invariably have extremely limited (and often no) experience with self-hosting things, and systematically overestimate the difficulty of Linux administration tasks, and *underestimate* the difficulty of interacting with SaaS/PaaS APIs and dashboards.
It's like the people arguing "AWS makes hosting so much simpler than running your own servers" and then hiring specialized "AWS engineers", ie. sysadmins who can only work with vendor-specific systems...
- 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
