Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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
@david@tech.lgbt One Dark Vivid (now apparently renamed to One Dark Space Gray) is what I use as a dark theme, and it does well on both "good contrast" and "not excessively dark/bright causing headaches" points for me.
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me: (chilling out) 🙂
my brain: ✨ Stressful Moments Compilation ✨
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any copyright lawyers available for a question?
@ifixcoinops
Me in 2010: Oh hey maybe this Flattr thing will allow me to give people 10p
Flattr: We regret to inform you that we no longer allow tiny donations
NL politics
So one of the election policy points here is "giving firearms to not-quite-cops [who haven't had deescalation training]" (think kinda like mall cops, but typically city-employed).
*How the fuck* are many of the supposedly leftist parties open to this idea, and moreso, *how the fuck* is it the fascist parties pointing out that "this is a terrible idea"???
re: long, strong opinions
@samgai (Also that's the short version, I could probably talk about this for hours on specific points)
long, strong opinions
@samgai I would very much like for a unified package management system to exist. The closest thing to that currently are Nix/Guix, and only barely (they can abstract over other dependency systems but still require a lot of wrangling to make that work).
Basically every other distro package manager is a no-go because it cannot reliably handle transitive dependency conflicts or multi-source installations.
Forcibly flat dependency structures just do not work in practice, and have strong negative externalities (eg. incentivizing heavily monolithic tightly-coupled dependencies and lockstep versioning, among others).
I also find the policy of "a sanctioned dependency set provided by the distro" to be completely outdated and unrealistic to work with. Any unified dependency system *must* support dependencies from arbitrary sources to actually work. The distro approach does not scale.
For a unified dependency system to actually work, it must provide mechanisms but not policy, and Just Work even with complex dependency trees where you cannot guarantee uniqueness or transitive compatibility.
(This whole thing has been a pet peeve of mine for the past decade and I get really annoyed by people defending very obviously broken systems in this area because "well, that's how it's always been")
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I know it upsets a lot of people when I point out hypocrisy in the way liberal policy conversations seem to ignore a still grave threat for millions of people in #COVID , but I do it for the same reason you want less guns.
All ages are being hurt. Hundreds of thousands will die every year from acute infection or complications from that infection.
If you want less guns, you should want less COVID transmission. But you can't just hope for it.
#WearAMask N95+ push for more, not less, protections
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Great news for trans Apple developers: In Xcode 14.3 beta, the Authors view and other git features now support mailmap files. That means you can make old commits show your chosen name instead of your deadname without the disruption of rewriting the repo’s history.
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing my name next to code I wrote before I was out!
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Over the past year or so something I've been really unpacking is how badly brainwashed I am by this particular nasty phase of capitalism where you have to have a ~thing~ and market yourself as the ~thing~ to the detriment of your wholeness. There are so many things I am interested in, I have a variety of skills and perspectives that in some ways converge and in other ways do not.
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the collapse of google search results as a useful source of accurate information is a boon to screenwriters everywhere. "why didn't they just google the house to see if it was haunted" they did and the top ten entries were identical automatically generated real estate ads on different seo-scumming websites
@jfhbrook No, AFAIK it's a wrapper that automatically internally transpiles code and lets you use it like the regular `node` command, either as a REPL or as a runtime
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The real story behind all those UFOs the Air Force was shooting down last week is quite embarrassing.
I’m guessing someone at NORAD has now figured out why the sensitivity settings on the radar was turned down in the first place.
@jfhbrook I'm not remotely a fan of TS, but isn't this exactly what `ts-node` is for?
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MICROSOFT: Alright, our last browser was super slow, so this Edge has to represent speed
WORKER: How about we make the logo a snail shell?
MICROSOFT: Brilliant!
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Hey, can y'all please CW examples of transphobia, e.g. screenshots of transphobic articles? My mental health is not great today and I'm guessing a lot of other trans people's isn't either.
If there is an un-CW'd post you want to boost:
1. Fucking don't
2a. Make your own CW'd post about it,
2b. Make a reply to the post with something like "CW: transphobia" and boost your own reply instead,
2c. Put the link to the post in a CW'd post of your own
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This French city is introducing free transport
Montpellier in southern France is set to introduce free public transport. It will become the largest French metropolis to introduce such a scheme.
“By introducing free transport, we are bold in taking a great measure of social justice, of progress, which works for the ecological transition,” tweeted the mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse.
Okay, so now that we all realize that blockchains are awful, Cloudflare is evil, and SPAs are not a good idea, can "monorepos" be the next terrible software development idea we kill off?
- 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
