Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
@elilla The couple of 'full-spectrum' analyses I've seen float by of cost-of-living suggested that the effective cost-of-living is quite a bit higher in the US than in Germany, even with the tax difference, due to the sheer amount of tax-funded stuff, yeah
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
@cjrando Relatedly: "staying up to date on the news cycle at all times and drawing conclusions based on long-term trends", which people often defend it as, has a name
It's called "journalism" and if that's not your official job description then you're most likely not actually doing that, you're just doomscrolling
(General "you", not personal "you")
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
People act like it's super important to be hooked into the news cycle and know what's going on around the world all day, but if it doesn't substantively change your behavior, and it makes you feel like shit, maybe it isn't really all that valuable.
@jacksonchen666 My "New Tab" page (I have a custom extension for that) and, weirdly, Mastodon
(I have set the about:config flag to disable WebGL for now)
Due to a distro packaging error any attempt to load WebGL content currently crashes my Firefox
So I'm playing "the WebGL is lava" with my browser today, and mostly losing so far
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
why is it that "getting laid to rest" has nothing to do with "getting to rest" and also nothing to do with "getting laid"
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
I'm a totally blind software tester with previous testing experience. I know there are many of you in the #Fedivers working on many cool projects, I'd love to test them for accessibility if you're looking for an accessibility tester or any accessibility consultancy please get in touch :-) if everyone could repost this, that would be great thanks very much :-) #a11y #Blind #Accessibility
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
very obvious exercise tactic
if you too hate embodied existence
and dislike the extent to which cardio rubs it in your face
all of the same things that you've ever found overriding your body's natural signals to sleep are excellent to distract from the unpleasant combination of exercise and existing in a corporeal form
(e.g., mine: short-form video, slay the spire)
i wish i'd figured this out before the age of thirty, but here we are
@sasha @dumpsterqueer I did also post my question in the GTS help room after this was suggested; when posting this initially, I didn't realize it would be a software-specific question 😅
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
why don't video games have iconic melee weapons anymore
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Question for a project I am developing; music makers only:
do you know any computer programming / scripting language, if so which ones?
*Edit:* I have gotten way more and varied responses than I expected. If you would like to help please fill in this 4 question questionnaire https://s.surveyplanet.com/k6r85nz1
I've picked a platform that won't steal your data, and this way I can build a better idea of what experience levels people have in music and programming.
Boosts appreciated.
#FediAdmin question: I'm wanting to experiment with running my own fedi instance, but I'm not entirely certain what software I will end up settling on. The first thing I'll be trying is GoToSocial.
If I decide that GTS is not for me for whatever reason, and want to run something else on the same domain (that is, with the same hostname in the account address, not a different subdomain!), is it *possible* to change to a different software under the same hostname?
(Note that I don't care if it's "a lot of work" or "pretty tricky" to make that happen; just if it's *possible*, or whether there is some sort of AP implementation detail that would cause federation to break no matter what I do.)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
I made the NS/Prorail version of the printed timetable for 2024: https://www.partim.org/misc/spoorboekje.pdf
Grumble. I was planning to try out GoToSocial today, but my brain is extremely not cooperating
re: protest stuff
@StroomAfwaarts Their ultimately goal is to make you look bad, silly, clueless, not worth taking seriously, and so they are always looking for spectacle that paints themselves in a relatively good light and the interviewee in a relatively bad light
If they can't get that sort of spectacle out of you, they will eventually get bored and give up
re: protest stuff
@StroomAfwaarts Whatever you end up doing, it's important that you remove people who are not confident to speak publicly, from the picture - they are the most likely to say things that can be turned into incriminating footage because they leave pauses and "uhhs" and "ahhms", so they should remain mostly unnoticeable, and if they are still picked out, they should act as boring and uninteresting as possible
re: protest stuff
@StroomAfwaarts It's somewhat dependent on the current tactics they use, but one perennial tactic on the part of these broadcasters is to ask leading questions and then cut-and-paste the answers to imply you've agreed to *different* things
So the fastest way to drive these "reporters" to frustration is to make sure that you always include part of the question into the answer and never answer with just a "yes" or "no" (rather make it something kinda fuzzy that implicitly confirms/denies it), and watch them realize that none of this footage is really editable
Other tactics vary, but include "making the most well-spoken people also the most visually identifiable" (colourful clothing and a front position are good ones) so that they are picked for interviews, and never really answering their questions but instead diverting the answers into your own winding narrative about what *you* think is important
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Macy's workers at Southcenter Mall are on strike. The store was supposed to open at 6am, but it took until 11am to scabs on site to open the store.
📸@daeshikjr@twitter.com
- 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
