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
@TakeV Like, to the point that you pretty much won't be able to 'spot the fash' unless you actually watch the whole video :/
@TakeV Some of them are unfortunately more subtle than that, trying very hard at the "neutral tech guy" appearance but occasionally letting something super problematic slip as a remark 'on the side'
@kim Right but the problem is that this does not seem to be common knowledge among everybody else, even in leftist circles
I wish more people talked about the problem of most Linux/FOSS youtubers being fashy, in hard-to-spot ways.
rant, programming, javascript, individualism
It's really telling how many people will go to extreme lengths and efforts to develop and use JS blockers for browsers... but put zero effort into eg. educating developers on better development approaches to solve the problem at the root.
"Using a script blocker" is an individualist "solution" to a collective problem. It doesn't work. It's even worse when people try to peddle it to *others* as some sort of obligation to 'protect themselves'.
Collective problems require collective solutions. Please stop this weird "I got mine" approach and actually put work into solving the underlying problem. I'm sick and tired of being the only person in the room doing this.
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politics in general
As it turns out, a *lot* of political divides come down to that kind of dichotomy, even if indirectly.
Take healthcare: the political statement that healthcare should be private immediately implies that people who are sick, poor, or disabled should just die. I reject that view entirely, even though that rejection is viewed as extreme in US politics.
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politics in general
The next time you encounter a political statement that appeals to unity (e.g.: "we're too divided in this country," or "no one just talks to each other any more"), it's worth taking a step back.
Look at the debate, and ask if one side is trying to get the other killed. That's the case with transphobia, pro-police rhetoric, anti-abortion rhetoric, and more.
It's fair and good to hold views like "I should not be killed," even if that view is extreme.
@alex I should note that I sometimes use it this way for RSI reasons, when I'm just scrolling through and reading things, so that I can lean back without needing to have my arm and wrist in a fixed desk position.
That does mean I usually rest it on my leg, kind of on its side, while holding it. I don't know if this also works for your specific accessibility needs.
@alex It's not really *designed* to be used this way, but I've found it pretty easy to hold the Logitech MX Ergo in my hand while using it - it's a trackball so it doesn't require a surface for use, and although it's not the lightest device, the shape and weight distribution are sufficiently good that I don't usually need to make much effort to hold it.
(The magnetic baseplate can be removed to significantly reduce the weight, though it makes it feel a bit unbalanced in weight)
I previously had a Logitech M570, but that one is really too slippery to hold like that comfortably.
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Normal thing to say: Cordless drill
Sounds weird: Wireless drill
@whatanerd Yeahhhh exactly. Same reason I don't really like dealing with a lot of movements that *only* focus on class struggle or worker's rights as some magical solution to everything. Like, the problem is bigger than that!
@scanlime I'm generally a little disturbed by how many people seem to believe that "making it a cooperative" will magically solve any and all issues and ethical concerns, including ones that externalize to society (who do not have a say in governance)
Like, don't get me wrong, cooperatives are generally a good thing, but they solve one specific thing *and one thing only*. You still need to do the rest of the work for the rest of the problems
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En ook nog een #bannerdrop! Mogelijk gemaakt door een stelletje klimmers, waarvan ik even niet weet onder welke groepsnaam ze door het leven gaan.
#Amelisweerd #AmelisweerdNietGeasfalteerd #ExtinctionRebellion #Rijkswaterstaat #Utrecht
@Harry So that sounds like you had an itinerary of two trains, then
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"Hand me that USB string" = bizarre weirdo talking
"Hand me that string of Christmas lights" = totally normal thing to say???
"Hand me that yarn of Christmas lights" = my spouse got annoyed at me calling her yarn "string" so I stopped and now she is more annoyed
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willen jullie helpen dit rond te strooien, mastodon ?
Ik krijg via-via berichten dat er een opstand is in Detentiecentrum Rotterdam.
Er vond een aantal dagen terug een ontsnappingspoging plaats en sindsdien is er veel disciplinaire repressie.
Op dit moment weigeren mensen hun cel in te gaan.
BOOST!
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@finn Autonomous cars are meant to save the car industry, not the environment.
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@spacekookie@octodon.social The problem is that it got rushedly implemented 'experimentally' without clearly marking it as such, people got excited about the problems it *does* solve, started using it...
... and then overlooked the whole stability thing, kinda dropped support for "explaining to nebiews how to do stuff without flakes", and the RFC process was also pretty much bypassed. It's irritating.
(I feel like this is at least partly a rehash of a longer-standing problem in the Nix community, where people get so excited about all the complex stuff they can do, and kinda forget to leave the ladder out behind them for newbies. Leading to missing docs etc.)
Flakes *should* be redone through the RFC process, properly this time. There have been some noises that this is on the table. Remains to be seen whether it actually happens :/
- 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
