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
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rimworld shitpost
mod that randomly makes pawns realize they are trans after psychic drones don't affect them as expected
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it would be an absolute shame if anybody misused this portal the german police set up exclusively for snitching on the people responsible for the NYE riots in #berlin #b3112 which the right and ofc also the center are now using to dig up their favorite racist stereotypes about migrant youth...
max 2GB per file... idk if there is a limit for how many files you can upload
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can you all CW your posts on US electoral politics? not because they're disturbing, but because they're boring as fuck and I don't care about them at all
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Hey cis friends, have you ever fantasized about being a different gender? Any context: sex or cool clothes or whatever, no shame attached.
Some trans folks I've talked to think everyone questions their gender, but the few cis folks I've asked either say no, or only a tiny handful of times.
If none of these choices make sense for you, my DMs are open. (Edit: See also the secondary poll below, which has more options.)
Trans friends, please sit this one out, but please do boost for reach.
@amberage@eldritch.cafe @mmin Of course not, nothing existed before they arrived, no work was done - after all something could not have meaningfully existed before they heard of its existence, and therefore they must enlighten us all
/s
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i solemnly swear as types admin that i'm going to hold off the gentrification of this fucking network as long as i physically can
re: meta, short rant
@ssundell In this particular case, it was about the LinkedIn For The Fediverse asshat, but it's an evergreen toot really
It is taking an absurd amount of time and reading of documentation to figure out how to go from "AppStream is a format that exists" to "I have a full dataset of packages and metadata about them"
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considering that we'll likely never see the prince of persia original artwork again after it disappears into a private collection, here's a lightly cleaned up version of the scan done by the auctioneer.
yeah, it would have been nice to have a professional art restorer do a proper clean up of the faded edges, but in the absence of that, a 300 dpi jpeg ain't bad.
full res PNG here: https://vga256.com/dialup.cafe/uploads/pop-florczak.png
enjoy!
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I'm willing to pay up to $10,000 (USD), to whomever I need to pay, to solve the #GNOME AT keyboard input handling problem once and for all. Currently, toolkits implementing AT-SPI have to pass all keyboard events to the AT-SPI registry, then wait for a response on whether the event should be processed as usual. No other platform does something like this, and this unique platform-specific requirement is a major complication for #AccessKit. I want to get this fixed. #accessibility
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meta, humorous
I kind of love how cross-posters have established the convention of acting like twitter.com is actually a federated instance, as in @example@twitter.com. Feels like a great little nose thumbing, honestly.
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meta, short rant
Tired: Don't Invent the Torment Nexus
Wired: We Invented the Torment Nexus from your favorite novel, "Don't Invent the Torment Nexus."
Inspired: Someone Else Would Invent the Torment Nexus Anyway, So We Invented It First
(with apologies to @AlexBlechman@twitter.com)
meta, short rant
Isn't it remarkable how *every single time* some asshat tries to fuck with the fediverse by corporatizing or full-text-indexing it, they *always* justify it by saying "well it's inevitable, it'll happen eventually", apparently not realizing that *they are the one making it happen*.
re: further funmaking of that hilarious realname corpo instance equel.social
@Vierkantor That particular passage sure sounds like they're promising full-text search indexing next. I hope they at least have the sense to only do that for their own instance..
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Anne C.A. Baanen
further funmaking of that hilarious realname corpo instance equel.social
Algorithmic feeds and fuzzy search are both inevitable mainstream features as the ecosystem grows. People need those to be able to use the platform effectively.
good thing i'm not people because i've been using the Fediverse rather effectively without any of those things thank you very much!
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@freakazoid @haskal @alasaarela@equel.social "venture capitalist startups" versus "corporate overlords" forms a distinction in achievements, not in intentions.
@mmin @alasaarela@equel.social Folks here *have* thought that through. To an excruciating degree. For years. The discussion has already taken place. Exhaustively. Over and over again. By the people who have dealt with platforms for years or decades, often from a marginalized perspective.
*Why* exactly do you think corporations are being told to fuck off?
@Ruby@hellsite.site @haskal @alasaarela@equel.social It's even worse than that: startups are *specifically designed to be* corporate overlords. The whole model exists very specifically to breed baby monopolists. That is its sole purpose.
That's why "customer acquisition" is where so much of the VC money goes, and why they love "social" stuff - it allows them to create network effects (ie. lock-in). It's all about "dominating a market".
Startups were never a grassroots anti-corporate thing. They were always just the foot in the door for *different* corporations to gain power, exploiting naive enthusiastic young folks in the process of doing so.
- 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
