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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aperiodic reminder (hi new followers) that probably everyone who follows me is some flavor of autistic (imo ADHD / executive disfunction impairments are a color in the autism spectrum) just in case you've been struggling in a way it seems like most people you went to school with aren't and you don't have a name for what's up with that
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It's so funny in games when you move between two areas and you see the colour grading change before your eyes, and then you turn back and the place you were just in now looks completely different
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You know, I could write a whole blog post about this—and I might—but I think we need to start addressing the very likely possibility that the *entire thesis* that “UI should get out of the way” and “apps should focus on content” is wrong.
Apps aren’t just for looking at photos or videos. They’re for navigating through these things, organizing them, editing them. The tools to do those things should not get out of the way. They should be clearly defined and separate from the content.
Time for another episode of "how is the ESM migration in Javascript going?"
There are still 7 times as many recent downloads for the five-year-old version 6.6.2 version of p-queue (the last one to support CommonJS) as for the most recent (ESM-only) 8.1.0 release from five months ago.
Looking at all versions inbetween, the 6.6.2 version still has about 4.5 times as many recent downloads as *every ESM-only version in the past five years combined*.
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When I became a homeless, mentally ill sex worker in my mid-20s, I remained white and educated, and was able to talk myself out of more than one sticky situation with cops. I survived with trauma and a nicotine addiction so, practically unscathed.
Etc.
This Disablity Pride Month, please do not donate to me. Please direct it to a Black or Brown disabled person. That is always fairest, because of the widespread theft from their incomes and expenses by our entire society. Just my 2 cents.
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Correction: one of the eight books *is* marked as 'removed from the collection'. It's the one that seems to originate from another branch. But the other seven are not.
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: went back to sleep
is losing data vs having backups a time and space tradeoff
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“I told you so.”
negative. assigns blame. a cliche. you are being petty.
“it was foretold.”
ominous. no one's fault. rad as hell. you mght be a prophet.
@bananas Sure, the problem is that if eg. someone leaves an in-collection book hanging around in the out-of-collection pile (briefly put it down to put on a coat or whatever and forgot about it), there is no way to spot this at any point in the process of selling it
I bought a bunch of books from the local library, stuff they were removing from the collection, and I'm kind of confused about how their process works.
They're not labelled as 'removed from collection', they still have the original inlay and RFID tag, they're indistinguishable from regular borrowable works in every way that I can identify, and they didn't scan them to sell them to me either - they just counted them and multiplied them by 1.50 EUR.
I have absolutely *no idea* how they are preventing these books from getting mixed up with the rest of the collection, whether unintentionally or otherwise.
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Bass: exists
Humans: wobble
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always a good reminder for the freelancers out there, educate yourself a little on legalese. I'm not an expert by any means, but a little competency goes a long way.
I recommend the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook as a good reference for this as they have example contracts. I got recommended this early on in my career by a mentor of mine, and it changed how I approached running a freelance business: https://graphicartistsguild.org/the-graphic-artists-guild-handbook-pricing-ethical-guidelines/
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I was a bit shocked. They weren't even offering a great rate. But still.
There's no way I'd sign a non-compete when I run a freelance business working with many direct competitors. They'd have to lock in a long-term contract with very high pay for me to even consider that.
No thanks.
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Had a possible new client there who sent me their NDA so we could talk more in detail on the project before signing contracts. But it included, no joke, conflict of interest and non-compete clauses for up to a year... for an NDA!
They wouldn't remove them, so I walked.
Always read every agreement.
@denmanrooke As a freelance software developer, I've seen companies do this so often. I eventually got tired of having to argue about the non-competes every time and just paid to have my own (actually reasonable) T&C drafted and now I offer them that instead of signing whatever garbage 'contractor agreement' customers come up with.
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if any programmers want to know what chronic pain or sensory issues feel like, set your compiler to "treat all warnings as errors" and to be as pedantic as possible.
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anyway, empathy is an ideology according to capitalism instead of essential
all because it couldn't be commodified until charities came along
but is that commodified empathy, or commodified guilt?
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:rabiesPride: 
lewd, piracy
netflix and chill 
jellyfin and fuck
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"[M]ost people don’t know what Pride is about. The anguish, and the hurt, and the reason why Pride started in the first place—it was an anti-cop event. Look, yes—I know there are trans police officers. You have Black people who are police officers, and women police officers. All that’s cute, but guess what: It’s blue first, your other allegiances second. Once you get on that blue, child, it goes straight through to your brain, dyes your brain blue, and you’re no longer whoever the fuck you were before. So no, they don’t need to be there. That’s where their loyalty lies. So stay the fuck away from me."
—Miss Major
["Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary" by Toshio Meronek]
#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #policing #LGBTIQA #PrideProtest #FirstPrideWasARiot #MarshaPJohnson #MissMajor #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #NoCopsAtPride
- 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
