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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- 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
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In defense of misunderstanding as a plot device, speculation on a culture not my own
It seems fashionable in the Anglophone literary world to deprecate plots that depend on misunderstanding and I'm not sure why--aren't they a staple of white Anglo classics like the works of #Shakespeare and #JaneAusten? 🤔 I guess there are a ton of cases where the misunderstanding is kind of meh and written in for plot convenience more than anything intrinsic to the characters and the world, but like any other plot element it can be handled well or poorly.
Personally I love a compelling misunderstanding where misinterpretation and crossed signals arise out of circumstances central to the story like "civil blood mak[ing] civil hands unclean," (Romeo and Juliet) or because honest communication about subjects like romantic yearnings is so high-stakes it's basically impossible, especially for women (much of Jane Austen).
And maybe there's a tendency to kind of sneer at this because these stories took place in the Olden Days(TM) of whalebone corsets and slavery and people are supposed to be above all that now. The last time I checked misunderstanding didn't die out with the advent of industrialization, though, unlike passenger pigeons and dodos (too soon?). Despite the enlightenment and freedoms constantly touted to us, how much goes unspoken and undared, dropped, forgotten and (un)missed in the odd spaces that open up between our fragile forms? Which, and whose, silences and misapprehensions do the loadbearing work in our lives?
I think these questions of misunderstanding and miscommunication are worth exploring in any age, especially if books are optimized for exploring inner lives as seems to be another common consensus in Anglophone lit crowds. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Beowulf among others might disagree, but hey, they're old news and drawn from oral tradition so they get filed differently maybe? 🤷♀️)
re: In defense of misunderstanding as a plot device, speculation on a culture not my own
@ljwrites I can only speak for myself here - while I appreciate a well-written plot centering around misunderstanding, I find that a lot of them just... aren't. *Especially* in US television, but it's not exclusive to that.
In US TV there's often entire seasons of a show with an otherwise interesting premise that just gets bogged down in endless fights over romantic interests that could have been prevented if *anyone*, at *any* point in the several years during which the story takes place, had made even the smallest idle comment about that. Which even in the most dysfunctional real-world family, someone *would* have done, even if out of anger.
I just don't find that sort of 'misunderstanding' convincing, and I feel that it makes for boring, cookie-cutter plots that just drag on and on. There's so much other plot space that could be explored but that's left on the table.
I often shorthand this to "I do not like plots about romantic conflicts", even though plots with compelling romantic conflicts could plausibly exist - because in (popular) Anglophone culture, they are often so difficult to find. It seems to be better in books, but they're certainly not free of this issue either...
I feel like the examples in the official docs for a programming language tell you a lot about what the community is going to be like
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Superpower that I wish I had
The ability to tell whether someone is themselves falling for a scam, or if they're also a grifter who knows it's a scam and is hoping to benefit from it
Because I feel like the strategy you'd use on that individual is different between those cases
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That's incredible.
Part of registering a business for payroll in California is a phone verification.
They will call from a random-ass number that might or might not be 916 area code, or might have ID blocked. 🤷
Caller will identify as a government employee. 🤷
You must then provide your business' tax IDs and other credentials.
Including the officers' social security numbers.
For reasons that are not obvious to our legal team or our vendor, many of our clients are not completing this process.
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@joepie91 My go-to argument to cull microservice cruft at my employer has been "we do not have the development capacity for this" and it worked quite well
microservices, re: software dev ranting
@shine @rune I've found that this is pretty much the key to how microservices caught on in the first place, too. All the supposed 'benefits' of it being touted around are *really* just the benefits of modular code, and having separate services plays no role in this at all...
But you are pretty much *forced into* writing modular code with microservices, so people who have otherwise never learned to do so attribute all these benefits to microservices instead, which of course is great for the tech companies like Amazon that popularized the concept to begin with, because microservices are way more profitable for them
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microservices, re: software dev ranting
@rune Applying the "quacks like a duck" methodology yields a definition: microservices are an architecture where components of the application are split up into separate processes or (network-accessible) services proactively without having a concrete technical need for it yet".
As far as I'm concerned, that's the definition because it's the only fundamental property that sets microservices apart from everything that existed long before it (separating out intensive tasks is not exactly a new concept after all).
And if that definition sounds an awful lot like "premature optimization" to you, ding ding ding...
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software dev ranting
"Microservices" are such a fucking awful idea that so obviously has no redeeming features if you think about it for five minutes and I have come to deeply distrust anyone who promotes it as a 'modern' architecture
Welp. One spoons crash and recovery later, I'm back(-ish).
*Really* do not like it when third parties start stacking non-optional problems onto my plate without having a choice in the matter.
@tuban_muzuru @landelare @eniko Fuck off with your LLM boosting.
@petrichor FWIW, there's a pretty sizeable collection of purpose-specific BitTorrent modules in the JS ecosystem (especially the stuff underlying WebTorrent). Might make it easier to build a custom thing out of easily modifiable/replaceable parts?
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I got threatened and had to settle with some lawyer for a few hundred bucks because a catsitter torrented a movie on my wifi network. Yet Anthropic just got away with torrenting the entire Internet and got away with it.
Copyright is a fuck. The fact that the Bavarian gov allows cooperations to bully individuals is a disgrace to the rule of law
A tip: a lot of those price increases for food and other stuff are happening at the lower end of the pricing scale.
It's worth reevaluating for yourself whether that difference between 'the cheap stuff' and 'the more sustainable/fair expensive things' is still as big as it used to be, or not. It just might have become an option.
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being obsessed with programming and computers my entire life, then learning everything about them and having that as a job is really funny
because now i don't rally feel that way anymore, but still find it fun?
it's like being a jaded wizard, someone asks me about the magic of how any of this works and i sigh and say "ah, yes of course, DNS"
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Whenever I mention that boycotting is a privilege, I inevitably get people trying to explain how wrong I am.
How “easy” it is to find alternatives.
How “important” it is not to support big businesses like Amazon.
How “lazy” it is not to shop local.
They talk over me, condescend and accuse me of not fighting for the cause.
Disabled people need your support and solidarity.
We’re all in this fight together.
When we tell you something is inaccessible, believe us.
Most of us already feel guilty we can’t do more, but there’s many things that aren’t “easy” for us.
Survival is resistance. It’s not “lazy” to utilize a service that will keep you alive.
Fight the fascists. Not one another.
Game tip: if you liked Tavern Master, this is also a neat game to try out: https://www.gog.com/en/game/winkeltje_the_little_shop
Doesn't seem to be well-known, but very much scratches that same itch with the satisfying gameplay loop, and seems to have a bit more meat on the bones too!
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I'm looking to commission a sticker design! Details inside
Theme: anti-AI, focusing on the labour exploitation aspect.
Style: must draw attention and be colourful; otherwise it's up to you!
License/attribution: must be possible to redistribute under CC-BY or CC0 (your choice). Feel free to add your name/handle into the design if you want.
Technical: to be offset-printed (full-colour) as an 85x55mm sticker, so must have a decent 'non-critical margin' that is covered by the design but contains no essential elements, as sticker cuts will be inaccurate.
Obviously, no "AI" must be used in its creation.
If you're interested, please respond with some examples of past work that you feel are relevant, and a price estimate (can be adjusted later based on revisions etc.). Either reply or DM works.
Note that I'm often low on spoons so I will only be able to respond to the offers that look most relevant to me. I'll star every reply as an indication that I've seen it, but can't guarantee a response beyond that!
- 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
