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
@raphael Not liking this shutdown post. "This is not an Our Incredible Journey shutdown post", then continues to tell you that it's shutting down the thing people use it for, and they don't yet know what else they're going to do...
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I am glad I never used nor recommended glitch dot com as it is now shutting down. It sure felt like a great project, but I am sick of the dependencies we feed when using those kinds of startup’s tools. Make your own tools or use free [software] ones.
If you are interested in an alternative to glitch, check out https://gitlab.com/raphaelbastide/stolon, it is community made, self-hostable and flat file.
#glitch #digitalLiability #selfhost #prototyping
@xgranade@wandering.shop (For example, in EXIF data, you might pick the start of a date range for the 'standard' field and then add the whole date range in an additional custom field, for applications which can deal with the uncertainty)
@xgranade@wandering.shop Where the uncertainty is in the data, I'm honestly not convinced it's actually that complicated - usually the data layer is the most-custom, least-outsourced-to-an-abstraction part of an application.
And when you do need to interact with something that requires certainty (eg. a "sorted by date" item list display), you can convert to the most reasonable estimate for that specific context, from a source data structure that is designed for uncertainty?
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seeing a show from a streaming service that’s got like four seasons and still going is, like, how did you survive, little guy? did they not notice you?
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“Their response? A masterclass in liberal evasion.
Rather than engage the substance of my critique, SMA’s leadership sent back a polished, polite note thanking me for the “tone” of my letter while ignoring every single argument.They claimed “capacity constraints” as the reason they couldn’t continue the conversation.This, despite launching a book, fundraising, hiring teams, and expanding globally.
In other words:they had the capacity for power,but not for accountability.” https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/how-elites-rebrand-power-as-virtue/
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Vor ein paar Tagen gab es ja diesen Vorfall mit dem Containerschiff, was im Garten eines Norwegers eingeparkt wurde.
Jemand auf Bluesky postete den Link zu dem Livestream, in dem nix passierte und das ganze mehr ein entspanntes Stillleben war.
Daraufhin haben sich alle so sehr in diesem Thema hochgeschaukelt, dass ich gestern allen ernstes ein Fanart zu dem lustigen Boot gemalt habe.
Es ist random, ja, aber für solche Momente liebe ich das Internet. ❤️
@eloy I think the problem with this idea, while it's very much correct in and of itself, is that the majority of developers are not in an environment where they *can* learn and gain insight - whatever they write is to be shipped to production, and that changes the consequences of reinvented wheels rather severely 😕
@elilla Right. I don't know who came up with that definition of 'left' but it does not make an ounce of sense.
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@joepie91 https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOMO
They're made by several manufacturers, that are certified to use the brand name. When a manufacturer screws up, they can lose the accreditation.
Just learned that there's a trashbag brand in NL that has a whole dedicated 'complaints' website, with an extensive list of possible manufacturing errors: https://www.klachtenadreskomoafvalzakken.nl/
Can't tell whether they really care about quality, or they just have so many manufacturing issues that they needed to automate the complaint handling process this extensively
re: Racism, Nottingham
@TatraT815@queer.party I would not publish it, because indeed it would just amplify their crap.
Probably the most useful thing to do would be to send it to a local antifa group? There's usually people who dig through this sort of footage to find the fascists who keep showing up everywhere, and map out fascist orgs.
@elilla Just learned about the BSW, looked it up on Wikipedia, wiki page claims it's "left to far-left" and then immediately rattles off a bunch of right-wing policy positions...
What on earth.
@jacksonchen666 I've definitely noticed that for comments with links in them. But in these comments, I deliberately avoided linking to stuff to keep it from getting automoderated.
So what exactly is it triggering on then? Because I couldn't identify anything other than "talking about government" as the common factor 😕
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mozilla, AI, questions, complaining, wei are so tired
@joepie91 ¿Wtf is 'smart search'? Doesn't FF just blob out their searching to google or duckduckgo or something?
The only good thing they mentioned in this is vertical tabs. A shame that tree style tabs are a few parsecs ahead in terms of features and usability.
Wei never used these removed features, and yet wei feel upset they are being removed [especially] for more effort into garbage llm [etc] stuff. It's amazing the culture of disposability in tech. Everything is only here for a few years, maintaining trusted apps, programs, etc not as cool as just pivoting to new slop. 
It's particularly odd because it's the comments where I explain some government procedure that get removed, and not the more irritated superficial comments.
Hmm. Lately I've noticed some of my comments on YouTube disappearing from view, especially those that mention government in some way; both in Dutch and in English.
In all cases, it's unlikely that they were removed by the channel owner, given the content of the comment, who operates the channel, and the rest of the comments around it.
Wonder what's up with that.
(This has been true for at least 7 years by this point, probably longer)
Since I realized that probably not a lot of people know this: Google does network-level (ie. TCP/IP-level) fingerprinting to detect automated requests, in addition to HTTP fingerprinting and more 'traditional' methods such as cookies and IP tracking.
I only know with *certainty* that this is used for scraping prevention on the search engine, but I would not be surprised if this were used for user tracking as well, given Google's history.
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If I'm going to spin up a new Fedi instance, I think I'm going to establish this rule:
Do not use the term NSFW in content warnings. When describing the subject matter of a post in a content warning, you must be specific (e.g. "explicit sex" or "nudity").
NSFW is a bad term to use for three reasons:
It's vague. It doesn't describe anything in the post to the viewer. They don't know what they're getting into when they open that CW. Adding "NSFW" is either cruft that could have been dispensed with entirely, or a catch-all that the poster uses to escape responsibility for adding more specific terms.
It's poorly defined. While there are some subjects that are pretty universally acknowledged as likely to get someone fired, policies vary from one employer to another. Using the term is therefore of little value to the viewer for the specific reason it's intended.
It's based on the value judgments of (generally) capitalist, hierarchical entities whose value judgments have been shown time and again to be detrimental to our society as a whole. Maintaining the kind of kink-friendly space that I want to have is antithetical to allowing such entities to define what is acceptable to express and communicate.
- 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
