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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- 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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@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev what broke this time
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Indymedia: **Pand gekraakt Ferdinand Bolstraat 14 [Amsterdam]**
"Vanaf 13 juni pandje gekraakt van de Gemeente Amsterdam in de Pijp. Staat al een jaar leeg met de voorkant dicht geplankt en dikke laag posters erop."
@aeva@mastodon.social I don't know, I think the main problem here is that browsers try to fulfill the "instantly run software anywhere without install" and the "universal application platform" dreams at the same time, and that results in some complicated privacy issues (like fingerprinting) that would be less of a concern if all the software you ran was trusted to some degree... though then again with how *non-browser* software constantly snitches on people in the background, I'm not sure the fingerprinting issue is even that prominently an issue in the bigger picture
@aeva@mastodon.social I'm working on it :p
@aeva@mastodon.social And policy/monopolist problems *suck*, but it definitely proves that the goal itself is quite achievable in the real world!
@aeva@mastodon.social The tech is still there, though - which downgrades this from a "we need to somehow build it and get it adopted" problem to a "we need to whack Google over the head" (ie. policy) problem
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Something that I don't see enough here:
Non-binary people don't owe anybody androgyny.
Did you know that the dream of a universal computing and application platform that works on any device, regardless of operating system, actually already exists and works?
They're called browsers.
Did you know that the dream of fully hot-swappable interchangeable software components that don't require architectural reworks, actually already exists and works?
They're called 'small modules' in JS.
I think that instead of constantly getting bogged down in minor complaints and superficial tech "in-crowd" affiliations, people should more often take a step back and look at the bigger picture; and realize that maybe there's actually something to these much-maligned technologies.
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@ben my all-time favourite from yahoo answers:
Is it 'for fuck sake' or 'for fuck's sake'? It's for a work email so has to sound professional.
@SigmaOne@toot.party @aral @amatecha @haverholm@imaginair.es @n8chz More precisely: they're designed to be hard to navigate, while at the same time being easy enough that a techbro can still plausibly argue that "it says it right there! you just need to read" so that the weird nerd brigade will jump to their defense
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@Alonealastalovedalongthe @schratze And another feathered friend :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7UFoEuzYvc
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@maia And a picture from the back, too!
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
if you see front-end as lesser or lazier developers, get out tbh
@y0x3y@hackers.town @f0x I'd say that the stand-out differences for me are:
- Conflict-free dependency management
- As a result, many purpose-specific tools with high interoperability across the JS ecosystem, instead of a few big frameworks that all have their own incompatible ecosystem
- The language is a lot more functional-ish than most popular languages (which allows for writing very readable code when used correctly), but without being restrictive about it - you can still do OOP where it makes sense
- Because of the high degree of interoperability/composability of things, it's much easier to work with JS than with most other languages when you have strange projects/usecases that nobody has built some specialized framework for yet, just by mixing-and-matching existing pieces
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… And that’s why it riles me up to no end to see corporations like Mozilla Corporation that are not what they say they are getting away with blatantly lying to our faces while very successfully staving off effective regulation for Big Tech, sucking up funding, and acting as honeypots for devs who do really care only to neutralise them with projects they know will not actually threaten the Silicon Valley status quo.
(Also, I suck at stepping away from the keyboard apparently!) :)
- 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
