Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
CW request: medical topics, especially COVID
@skyfaller @schratze This doesn't actually fix anything. Any tagging convention consistent and agreed-upon enough to actually work as a CW substitute, would de facto become *equivalent to* CWs and thus inherit its associations
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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CW request: medical topics, especially COVID
Can everyone please CW their posts about medical topics, particularly COVID?
I have somatic symptom disorder and an anxiety disorder around health. I worry so much about my own health that it makes me sick
I need to be in the right mindset for engaging with medical topics, so I would appreciate it if you could use content warnings for them 
CW-boost: payment processors, sex work, actionable
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Hey OpenStreetMap people! I am looking for a specific tool/service:
- preferably self hostable
- stores a part of the OSM map (the size would be a 100k city)
- allows adding points and other additional data
- has an admin panel for user management
- is easy to use for non technical people
The background is that my dad is a historian and I had this idea to give him a tool that would allow him to create a map of historical places of our city.
I would handle the technical stuff and just give him admin access to edit the map.
#openstreetmap
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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today's interesting website: running https on port 3, just so the URL has :3 in it
https://silliest.website:3/
https://silliest.website:3/
@pinkflameinthepan It may just be some spammer placing spoofed calls with random numbers and yours happens to be one of them?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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So, who else is going to #WHY2025 and wants to meet up?
@silvermoon82 This reminds me (in a bad way) of the subtitles for The Expanse, which depending on the episode you're watching are either excellent or misspell every single Belter word sometimes in different ways in different places
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Hi. I'm looking for folks and SWers familiar with the really dark shit that happens in the industry (not necessarily even personally, just knowing about the sorts of things that happen). I don't need a blow-by-blow but since I am working on something that could potentially be picked up by horrible people and used as a tool of exploitation, I would like to have conversations ASAP about how to do things NOW such that this is mitigated/entirely prevented.
You can DM me here, or preferably on signal at zkat.1312.
Boosts welcome!
To be fair, part of the procrastination was because I couldn't settle on whether to make a gts-specific subdomain or just 'fedi' or 'social', because migrating subdomains between software isn't trivial, but by this point I've pretty much settled on "I'll probably be happy with GtS anyway", partly because of following its development and partly because of my needs changing
serious reply
@njion Nope! Caffeine dehydrates!
@njion (The remainder of that rule is "mate is not water" but that does not seem relevant in this case :p)
@njion Hacker event rules: "drink water. coffee is not water."
software dev ranting
@operand (The only difference at Netflix scale is that the difference in outcome between "targeted scaling" and "microservices" is relatively smaller and so it's a bit less inefficient than it would be in smaller-scale setups. But it's still inefficient.)
software dev ranting
@operand It doesn't make sense at Netflix scale either, and this is why: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/114913879539717578
The scale just doesn't matter. The correct scaling strategy at *any* scale is "find where the bottlenecks and constraints are, and scale specifically that part" and that just isn't what microservices do.
(I didn't, until I started growing them...)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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what’s a good music player for linux with dark mode or custom themes?
(so no strawberry since it doesn’t have it as far as i can tell)
- 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
