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- 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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- 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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@hazelnot Maybe they do *understand* Romanian and/or English but just don't feel comfortable enough with it to speak in it yet?
Like, that's how I interact with a lot of languages - I can only really *speak* Dutch and English, but I can make a reasonable amount of sense of probably like half the European languages when reading them in context?
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Kijk. Het kan dus wel gewoon. In een land waar de biljonairs niet de dienst uitmaken en waar de regerende politieke partijen zich niet louter bezig houden met korte termijn bedrijfswinst kan dit wel gewoon.
Hier hebben we een premier die in het kader beeldvorming wat zit te zwetsen over barbecueën en politieke partijen die moeilijke beslissingen oneindig voor zich uit schuiven, in de hoop dat meeste mensen vergeten wat het probleem was en wie het veroorzaakt heeft.
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this no-terraforming run has gone terribly, horribly wrong
#OpenTTD
re: Beverage opinion
@souvlaki @schratze Same happened here for ~all Coca Cola manufactured drinks and now I can't drink most of them because of the nasty aftertaste that lingers all day :/
I still don't entirely understand why this happens, Freeway (Lidl) replaced part of the sugar in their orange soda with sweeteners and it's still fine, but Fanta is since undrinkable to me, idk where the difference is
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I'm joining the war on adblock, on the side of adblock
@ben I imagine that someone appropriately labeling their complaint as the severity it actually is, is probably a breath of fresh air when you work at a Gaming Company(tm)
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@soatok Personally, I'm of the opinion that more blogs and writeups should have pictures of cartoon animals in them. It would certainly be more pleasing to the eye than when I have to read through extremely dry RFCs and whitepapers
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Looking to reinstate Improbable Island's wiki and noticing that Someone or Someones has been updating a What's New page for me, for YEARS, tooting the Island's horn Way Better than I ever did
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The Rust Foundation has repeatedly said "no, but you see, we have to offer paid promotion to defense contractors and cryptocurrency startups because we're legally obligated to."
_I_ don't have to offer paid promotion to Helsing and Parastate. How in the hell did you fuck this up?
bluesky
Why are media still calling Bluesky "decentralized"? Why are journalists so goddamn gullible?
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Are you an educator who wants your students to use botsin.space? I'm absolutely begging you to contact me directly so I can give you an invite code for your students, and I don't have to approve 100 signups.
@bunny_jane Do not eat icon
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Hey everyone! See that thing happening with Chrome, where Google seems to be using their de-facto dominance over the mainstream browser environment to try and outlaw user-agent content filtering, AKA ad-blockers?
May I suggest you take a long, hard look at VSCode and GitHub and have a little wonder about those and where they might be heading a few years hence?
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For everyone in the EU currently being spammed with black friday sales:
Check if they hiked the price to fake the sale
If they did, they're violating an EU mandate that started this year, that the "before price" HAS to be the lowest of the last 30 days. Fines can go up into the millions, so you really don't want to mess this up :>
Feel free to send them a gentle reminder if they do. I have zero sympathy for the practice or the companies doing it. Stop leaning on psychological warfare for sales
Looks like opiuo's new album is out: https://opiuo.bandcamp.com/album/opiuo-the-opulent-orchestra
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accidentally meowing in the incorrect DM conversation is a preventable tragedy that strikes many people every day
moderation advice
Kind of related to my previous toot about moderation...
Probably the most common mistake I see inexperienced moderators make, is trying to moderate by "fairness". This just doesn't work.
"Fairness" assumes that every party in a disagreement is acting in good faith, and so the concerns of each party need to be taken into consideration. But usually, the situation that one party is *not* acting in good faith is the reason you are called in to moderate in the first place!
Effective moderation always revolves about shaping a community, about working towards a certain experience for its members. This goal can be many things; maybe your priority is to make it a safe space, maybe you intend to 'rehabilitate' difficult folks, maybe something else. All of these are valid goals to have.
But crucially: you need to *pick* one. And only one. This is something you need to have figured out *before* you start a community, and *before* you do moderation work. You cannot have, for example, a safe space that is also a rehabilitation space; these goals will conflict.
Your moderation policy must follow the goal you have set, and you must be able to explain that goal to your community members, and how that has played into your decisions.
Sometimes this can mean banning people who "can't help it". Sometimes it can mean giving space to people who are being assholes. Sometimes it can mean other counterintuitive moderation decisions. It depends on what your goals are.
But those things should always be informed *by* your goals, not by complaints about "fairness". Approximately nobody ever thinks that action taken against them is fair, and basing your moderation on perceived fairness will only result in inconsistent moderation where the most aggressive and abusive users get to stay.
When challenged on a moderation decision, the conversation should thus not be about "was this a fair decision?" - it should be about "was this decision in line with the goals of the community?". You shouldn't assume that you always get it right, but you also shouldn't cave under pressure of chasing something that wasn't your goal to begin with.
re: Cities Skylines II copaganda, violence
@hazelnot While it's true that it's the least car-centric "classical" city builder I've seen so far, that more feels like an indictment of the genre, to be honest. Especially considering where the developers are located...
(The mixed-use zoning still seems to be extremely limited? And once again the non-car road types seem to be super limited...)
- 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
