Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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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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Try this fun game.
Imagine you live a hundred years.
That's 36,525 days.
Imagine you get to spend 20,000 dollars a day, every single day.
Yup you're a newborn spending 20 k a day, stay with me.
You'd die a 100 years later and you would have spent 730,500,000. That's 730.5 million dollars.
You'd be very rich, but still would not be able to call yourself a billionaire.
No one "earns" that. No one needs that.
Billionaires should not exist.
Edit: Ajusted for leap years.
@jaywink That's not mutually exclusive with using these API keys; the "migrate your follows to Mastodon" tools for example rely on API access (as do any hypothetical tools that make Twitter's life more difficult)
twitter app API keys
Oh no https://gist.github.com/pvieito/ee6d2c8934a8f84b9aeb467585277b8a
It sure would be a shame if people used that to bypass the API payment requirements
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Goo Truther 
people who describe markets as a "system" are bullshitting you
there is nothing inherently intelligent about a market and I wish economists and market anarchists would stop talking about it in terms of complex systems when they are talking entirely out of their asses. There is no emergent intelligence, or consistently beneficial properties, that can be quantified. If anything it is a pristine example of a completely non self-regulating chaotic mess that will spit out different outcomes with minor random changes in its environment which are difficult to plan for.
No, its all bullshit. Actually the people who benefit from this are the ones aware of the chaos, who can take advantage of how disorganized everything is, and create auxilliary systems of control like finance.
re: sarcasm
@thufie I'm more thinking about the endless (wrong) claims about performance and resource usage, complaints about development tooling, dismissing all libraries as if they can't possibly serve a legitimate purpose, etc.
There's a special kind of disdain aimed at anything web-related, and I'm so sick of it
And don't bother correcting any of the hundreds of misconceptions and outright false claims that float around, because people immediately get very angry at you as if you've personally wronged them
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@thufie Everything in the US does recruitment for the military, it seems
I wonder if people realize how much of software development is just translating between slightly incompatible APIs and formats
@rune I mean, as soon as I cross the border from NL -> BE, my mobile internet always immediately goes to shit as well
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"queer culture" shitpost, food
me, glaring at my unhealthy queer friends: lesbian culture is eating your vegetables. bisexual culture is going outside and taking a walk
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Infodump on my #Framework Display Kit re-use project
Also contains lots of loose info on Type-C P/D alt-mode (DisplayPort) negotiation and implementation options that might be interesting (or totally wrong, this is all pretty new to me)
https://community.frame.work/t/custom-lcd-driver-board-for-display-kit-as-type-c-monitor/26910
In general I’m at a bit of a crossroads in the project now, unsure what option to design around since none seem particularly enticing…
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Periodic reminder that we are not anything like "post"-pandemic. We are mid-pandemic; Peri-pandemic; Right smack dab in the fucking middle of a goddam pandemic and no amount of squeezing our eyes shut and plugging our ears and going "la la la it's not real" while wishing it were otherwise will make it so.
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It's 2023. "Gosh, we didn't realize how people would misuse this" just isn't believable anymore.
Bare minimum, with any new tech:
1) How would a stalker use this?
2) What will 4chan do with this?
And don't release, not even as alpha or beta, before mitigating those risks.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579289/ai-voice-clone-deepfake-abuse-4chan-elevenlabs
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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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More people need to ask themselves "who does this line of argument serve?" before engaging in discourse
- 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
