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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@kim Joke about only depending on stuff you've already written yourself before :p
@kim "As per my previous e-mail", dependency edition
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I'm sharing my 2023-01 Krita brush bundle under CC-0/Public Domain, I hope you'll like them!
Blog post to download: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article953/krita-brushes-2023-01-bundle
Finally fixing my SickGear setup... out with the Transmission, in with the qBittorrent
@Gnuxie They don't, but that doesn't make it any less disrespectful and rude to instead expect a contributor to do that same annoying work *several times* and immediately yeeting the results into the abyss, never to be looked at by anybody. Which is what stalebots do in practice.
This is not respectful of people's time, regardless of circumstances, and completely unnecessary. This whole thing can be entirely avoided by not asking for repro/activity until such a time that the results will actually be considered.
@zkat @shine That is not "literally" what stale bots do at all. I understand perfectly well how stalebots work, and that is exactly what I am criticizing.
The problem there is "X amount of time". It doesn't ask people to verify the issue validity *when you plan to fix it*. Instead, it repeatedly asks them to do so, every X time, with no guarantee that anyone will look at the results whatsoever.
If your stalebot is set to 3 months, and it takes you 2 years to get around to fixing an issue, that means that a contributor has been asked eight(!) times to reproduce the issue, and seven of those times that work was entirely for nothing, and effectively discarded.
If you ask for issue validation when you actually plan to fix it instead, they only have to do that work once. And the result of their work is actually looked at.
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Allowlist nothing. Blocklist everything!
If their business model cannot survive without selling advertising, that is not your problem.
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Remember: Everyone in your life needs good adblocking. Help them have good adblocking. End internet ads.
@zkat @shine All this boils down to is "instead of wasting my own time on reproducing them, I will expect contributors to do so".
Not to mention that there is a much better solution to this: ask in an issue whether it is still relevant, *if and when you are planning to tackle it*. So that the contributor only has to do that work once, and their work doesn't get thrown into the void.
@zkat A stalebot does not solve this issue. If you do not intend to fix an issue after triage, then mark it as "won't fix" and close it. That's fine.
Stalebots have no such insight nor decisionmaking; they just blindly close issues because they've gone quiet, with complete disregard for circumstances, and frequently asking people to do triage work over and over again even though nobody will actually be looking at the outcome.
If you auto-close issues with a stalebot, I will not contribute to your project. Stalebots are incredibly disrespectful towards contributors (and yes, that includes people filing issues - they are contributors too).
@eloy Yep, necrocomputing is very much their thing. Unfortunately also extends beyond suckless.
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Posted this to Twitter today.
You know, human beings really are creatures of habit.
We will put up with so much as long as it comes with a little gratification and validation. Even when the good parts are outweighed by the bad.
Some of the same people who moaned about how "annoying" Mastodon is, are the same who moan about Twitter's many issues.
I'd rather experience some growing pains than slow poisoning.
Thank you to everyone who was willing to make a new start here.
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"You can't recycle your way out of climate change. You can't shop your way out of monopoly. Systemic problems need systemic solutions.
What the individual can do is think of themself as part of a movement. If you join a movement, then you and the people with you can make change. But not you on your own."
—Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
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talking with other leftist coalitions in the area and the way they think about burnout is like this inevitable contagion that just happens when you're leftist enough but like
IDK, is it burnout you're feeling or is it being normal tired from doing regular work, or do people feel aimless and are disillusioned with a nebulous goal, or are beaten down by project failure, or see no example to strive for, or feel no connection and community with the group, or etc etc etc
I feel like there's this tendency towards blaming org issues on burnout because it individualizes the problem, but it's exactly that tendency towards individualizing issues that we're actively fighting as leftists
re: debts, poverty is expensive, central european neoliberal hellhole
@instereo256@kolektiva.social Jesus christ
re: debts, poverty is expensive
@crashglasshouses@tsukihi.me They'll just seize your bank accounts here if you don't, unfortunately.
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grumbling, activism
If you feel that radical folks are "too radical" and "scaring off others", but "you agree with them in principle", why aren't you volunteering to do the job of explaining this to liberals/centrists/etc.?
Why are you instead demanding that the radical folks moderate their speech, look friendly, and generally shut up about the incredibly taxing and frustrating experience of constantly getting the same milquetoast subtly-bigoted shit thrown at them masquerading as progressive politics?
Why are you expecting the people who are *already* bearing the brunt of abuse and doing most of the work for social change, to do *even more* work to look less scary and more appealing? Why aren't *you* the one doing that?
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it takes significantly more bravery, courage, and work to be a sex worker than it does to be a cop or any form of military service member hope this offends
- 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
