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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- 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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Here's my pitch
You know how some websites have a little progress bar highlight across the top of the page to show how much of the page you've read?
Imagine a similar tool that shows you how much of the page is in view and how much remains, but persistently visible on every window on your computer, along the right side, integrated into a user interface tool that's wide enough that you can click on it, and not a moving target that disappears sometimes
I call it the "scroll bar"
LLM shit
Ugh. Just found a "teacher's resources" website that pushes teaches to use an LLM for generating lesson plans and educational materials
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how bigots who style themselves "centrist" claim to think
"I thought people from this marginalised group deserved human rights, but one of them was rude to me once, so now I don't anymore."
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oklch() retains perceived lightness for different hue angles (7min) a very cool demo by @stefan so that you can test this yourself. I need to start playing around with oklch(), but, no time at the moment. Meh
https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/oklch-perceived-lightness/
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To that end, I'm going to try to get into the habit of sharing cool, perhaps lesser known websites and projects under the hashtag #WebMadeThis. Perhaps others will do so as well. <3
Here's a first one, for fans of #retro computing:
This is wicked cool web-based player for C64 music (8-bit #chiptune stuff). It takes a while to explore its features but I'm just blown away by the love & attention to detail behind it.
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A common refrain is that the web is _turning into_ garbage because of LLMs.
But that's not really true. It's just that the garbage is _drowning out_ everything else, especially in search engines that themselves have decided to go into the garbage generation business.
What can we do? We can promote the #IndieWeb right here. Highlight the good, perhaps obscure websites and blogs you come across, especially the ones that aren't loaded with ads & trackers.
The web is still full of awesomeness.
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From the EC's text on overlays:
Automatically repairing accessibility issues requires that those issues can be found automatically. Claims that a website can be made fully compliant without manual intervention are not realistic, since no automated tool can cover all the WCAG 2.1 level A and AA criteria. It is even less realistic to expect to detect automatically the additional EN 301549 criteria. Moreover, automatic repair is more challenging than the automatic detection of accessibility failures.
In addition, some overlay tools have been reported to interfere with the assistive technologies used by people with disabilities. In other words, overlay tools may make a website less accessible for some users.
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Neither of the above categories of tools can substitute for the manual work of making a site accessible. DG COMM cannot endorse any tools or products that fall into the categories of overlay tools or widgets.
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they overbooked my flight and they are BEGGING for someone to not go, offering 250 EUR cash rn lol
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Het is te bizar voor woorden (en redelijk eng...) dat er tijdens de informatiefase gesproken moet worden over de grondwet en onze grondrechten, omdat één van de betrokken partijen al jaren dingen roept die tegen beiden in gaan.
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Btw the Netherlands recorded the highest number of viral covid particles in sewershed ever this week and things aren't going much better in the US, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark. And that's just the ones I personally know of. And we haven't even hit Christmas and NYE yet
So this winter may just become the literal worst one on record for covid since the pandemic began, just in case you still think covid is over, or even just believe the covid situation is overall improving
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I was just listening to some commentary about how Adobe couldn't acquire Figma, because EU regulators said it was monopolistic. I don't think I agree with the regulators exactly but I thought it was still an interesting situation. The commentator was saying it's really unfortunate because 'if you build an amazing product but you can't sell the company, what are you supposed to do?' and 'what does this mean for exits in the tech world moving forward?'
This just highlights the whole problem with this industry and capitalism more widely, this is why everything reduces to enshittification some day. The people who are trying to get their 'exit' are not the people who built it, they are the investors and executives. The people who built it are already profiting, they have good jobs working on an interesting problem. If your product is maybe worth $20 billion to Adobe then maybe it's worth something on its own, you could keep selling it like you have been?? Getting acquired by a huge company should not be the goal and it frustrates me that it's the only answer that investors are satisfied with. They want their cash back immediately and they credit themselves with having built the company.
This just highlights the whole problem with this industry and capitalism more widely, this is why everything reduces to enshittification some day. The people who are trying to get their 'exit' are not the people who built it, they are the investors and executives. The people who built it are already profiting, they have good jobs working on an interesting problem. If your product is maybe worth $20 billion to Adobe then maybe it's worth something on its own, you could keep selling it like you have been?? Getting acquired by a huge company should not be the goal and it frustrates me that it's the only answer that investors are satisfied with. They want their cash back immediately and they credit themselves with having built the company.
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this x1000 for fedi bullshit in the past week.
will we ever heal the rift between those of us who view this as a community of people, and the folks who view this place as failing to be a broadly appealing consumable product?
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British Gas's programmers don't believe that a surname can be only a single character.
Their customer service agents worked around this by adding a parenthetical note to my record.
The result is hilarious postal mail that tries to reassure me that my surname really is what it is:
EDIT: Well this blew up. FAQ etc. at https://danq.me/it-is-only-q
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Screenshot from my old account
I guess I've been banging this drum for the last five years huh
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i get the "newsletters are just blogs with extra complication" argument in my heart, i really do, but i so understand why you'd want to retreat from What All This Has Become
Like, I can see why this might not happen for cryptocurrency companies, despite how many people they've screwed - it's usually a chain of shell companies run by barely-identified people with highly-paid security, which is difficult
But like, I don't think LLM companies have any of that?
It's kind of surprising that none of the LLM company HQs have burned down yet, to be honest
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putting interesting stuff on the internet is on its way out
- 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
