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 the textiles industry, misaligned patterns is a looming issue.
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I tried to get them to voluntarily stop, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to recommend a #Fediblock against flockingbird.social
They are scraping post content and making it searchable
*Edit:* It will be difficult if not impossible to block them, because they are evidently getting their content from the hashtag timeline API of botsin.space
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@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul
if it's possible, someone *will* do it, eh? Nah, I reject that.
I think your point was to say "it is difficult or impossible to entirely prevent on a technical level", and I totally agree there.
But, man, there are so many basic fuckin' accessibility projects that haven't "just magically happened" because they're possible. Things get built because people care enough to build them. It's hard to look at what you said and not be bitter as fuck, and this is as someone who spends time building accessibility tools, but wanting more.
Being toxic to toxic developers saps the 'caring' out of their project and drains their energy, which usually shuts them down. It isn't a 100% solution, but it's pretty dang effective and requires no changes to code.
@clarfonthey @researchfairy Worth noting that the primary reason for this is patents - essentially all "production-ready" e-paper patents are held by the E-Ink Corporation and they've historically been extremely cagey about letting others use them.
@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul I can assure you that scraping is impossible to reliably prevent. I know this because scraping (albeit ethically) is my specialization and I have yet to see even multi-billion dollar companies figure out a reliable way to stop it. Even Google's completely absurd and over-the-top TCP fingerprinting (which requires a level of infrastructure control that fedi instances do not have) can't stop it fully.
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Free Advertising Update (see thread): between emails, DMs and replies on this thread I've had somewhere between 33 and 38 people ask for advertising, and I've put 33 ads up (some weren't a good fit or had bugs that firefox didn't like).
The recurring theme is that all these sites are WEIRD
I'd forgotten how WEIRD was the realm of the personal hobby website
It is truly wonderful browsing these sites and I will generate a full page of them for you all soon
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racism, YouTube
For those that don't know or won't watch the video, starting in the late 1950s, bipoc people in the Palm Springs area who could afford the more expensive homes outside of redlined neighborhoods, were living in an area known as Section 14, and were hastily evicted from their homes purchased by development corporations. Some people even would go to work and come home to their house bulldozed over.
@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul Again: the problem is perfectly well-understood. You cannot prevent scraping on a technical level. It doesn't matter what you do. It's not fixable. This is known. Nobody is "pretending that it doesn't exist".
Quite the opposite: people are *very much aware* that it exists, and since it is not solvable on a technical level, addressing it on a social level. By throwing out people who seek to abuse it.
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Any other #MastoAdmin notice that the Storj e-mail they got tonight didn't put the recipients in the BCC field so all 265 e-mails are visible? 🤣
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If anyone has citations for the “fix retention before you try to recruit” argument related to institutions and inclusion of minoritized demographics, my brain is broken please leave them here?
Boosts appreciated.
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I like that the edit function in Mastodon alerts people who interacted with the original post.
Not sure if it was the main purpose, but it means that if you posted something and want the correction to reach those who read the original, you can append an update and everyone who boosted the original will see it.
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So at what point do we make the same link between Rails and DHH that we made between HP and JRK? Like I know a lot of people use Rails but I’m definitely starting to feel the susness
@david@mstdn.ything.xyz @aurynn @maegul This is *dangerously* close to the argument that you should allow bigots to exist in your spaces, because "otherwise they go underground where you can't see them". In practice, that policy just puts people in harm's way with no benefit to the community.
People are not shunned for carelessly building something either. They are shunned for doing so *and then refusing to take a step back* when it is pointed out to them that it is not acceptable.
If one feels so both willing and able to knowingly violate people's boundaries, then they *shouldn't* be allowed into our communities. Their behaviour certainly shouldn't be condoned, or tacitly permitted under the excuse of "oh well it was gonna happen anyway".
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@aurynn A developer sees themselves more like a young person hacking away at something for fun. This is still held as an ideal. They don’t tend to see themselves as a professional contributor/operator of an important social system with serious responsibilities.
All of which is essentially unfit for someone trying to affect the culture of a social space that emphasises the importance of culture over convenience. Arguably, the archetypal developer struggles with that very idea.
- 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
