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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Tata Steel is de grootste uitstoter van CO2, stikstof en zeer zorgwekkende stoffen in Nederland.
Het bedrijf geeft mensen in de omgeving aantoonbaar kanker, overtreedt continu straffeloos de wet, betaalt geen cent winstbelasting en aast nu met een agressieve lobby op miljarden van ons belastinggeld.
STOP TATA voert actie om Tata Steel te stoppen.
@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt Yeah, pretty much. I'm not sure if you're *required* to have separate playlist files for each 'quality' - I don't think that's strictly necessary if all your entries are single video files (as opposed to segments). There's an RFC, too.
@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt Ah, no, it's not fully self-contained. I don't think that you'll find such a format with browser support - as every time you wanted to watch a video, you'd have to transfer every version of a video including the ones you're not using, which could easily 5x the filesize. So I don't think browsers would have a reason to support such a thing, them being primarily network-oriented.
@f0x Might be worth borrowing some of the UI cues from slicers here, which generally have some way to indicate "this setting has changed from the preset"
@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt That kinda sounds like HLS?
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Rant about the word "everyone"
Everyone is almost always a shitty word to use.
The context in which I saw it today was: Everyone can protest at date/location. Well, I can't. Very ill people can't protest.
I often run into "everone can still see" when talking about a disaster from the past. I have aphantasia. I have no visual memory of the thing you're mentioning.
It happens a lot. "Everyone loves sunshine" (No, usually it hurts too much.) "Everyone listens to music" (I couldn't for at least 5 years because sever sensory overload.) "Everyone loves banana's" (I hate them. Sorry.)
"Ëveryone on the internet loves cats." (Not trying to offend your cat here, but, no.)
All these statements hurt me. They list a common experience as being true for everyone. But it's not true for me. So what am I? Not part of everyone?
It makes me feel disconnected. It makes me feel like I don't belong. It makes me feel like I'm doing/being something wrong for not being part of your statement. It makes me lonely.
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UX design question: do you like it when forms warn you of unsubmitted progress before navigating away?
@f0x Assuming I've actually interacted with the form, yes. If it's still in its original untouched state, no. In many cases I would *prefer* a form just silently persisting my form input instead though, so that it'll be there if I come back later.
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I have misplaced my stud finder and cannot find it. I need a stud finder finder.
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I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.
re: fines don't make any sense 
@whreq (This is a very common problem with the "justification" of punitive measures in general, and it's a big part of the problem with contemporary "justice" systems)
re: fines don't make any sense
@whreq Honestly, I think that's an incredibly weak argument. It essentially ascribes (a form of) malice, without ever actually answering the "why".
People don't do just things for no reason. There's generally *some* sort of reason, *some* sort of consideration behind them (modulo mistakes). The key to solving problems like these, is to figure out what that reason is and address it.
Going "well this is just what people do, we have no choice but to fine them" is taking the cheap way out, refusing to introspect on the root causes, and applying a punitive system without any real justification.
fines don't make any sense
In the Netherlands, if you're caught cycling in the dark without bike lights, you will get a fine. But... why?
Maybe you forgot to turn them on. That can happen - everybody forgets things sometimes, and some of us (particularly those with ADHD, for example) forget things often.
But... why is that punished with a fine? It isn't going to make you un-forget, nor is it going to prevent you from forgetting in the future (since forgetting is an accidental thing). So it doesn't solve the problem.
Maybe you don't have lights on your bike. Okay, why? Perhaps you're poor, and couldn't afford them. Okay, so now you get a fine, which costs you even more, and you *still* don't have lights. This clearly doesn't help either.
Maybe you do have the money, but haven't gotten yourself to buy them yet, eg. because of executive dysfunction. So now you get fined for suffering from executive dysfunction. Which again doesn't solve the problem.
How does any of this make sense? Why wouldn't you just hand out a light to anyone who is missing one instead, which would *actually solve* two of the three causes (and serve as a reminder for the third one)?
Why would you fine people for this? By what logic is it justifiable to issue fines? (And yes, that is a rhetorical question.)
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It's nice to see positivity about trans people and trans men/mascs in particular.
But I find it really uncomfortable how often both cis people and trans women/femmes frame that positivity by crediting us with non-toxic masculinity.
First of all, toxic masculinity exists in trans dudes! And cis dudes aren't inevitably toxic!
But also...this is just a huge responsibility to put on a small and marginalized group. Don't leave it to the trans guys to fix masculinity. We can't do it alone.
I wonder if you get some kind of reward once you've discovered all of PayPal's different payment flows
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No free view? No review! Join us in our boycott of closed-access journals as reviewers #NoFreeViewNoReview:
https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
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Notice:
It is the official policy of Scholar Social that
Swearing at someone exactly once because they were being racist doesn't count as "harassment" in the slightest and is honestly kind of encouraged here
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Absolute nightmare of an experience at Brussels airport passport control. Likely getting profiled because the birthplace on my French passport says Turkey and the chip isn’t working (which is why I was in the manual control lane to begin with).
The joys of being white passing in racist countries. You’re fine until they see you might be a bit too Brown inside.
Now sitting in a room with other Brown and Black folks, waiting (and they have my passport).
- 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
