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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- 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
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PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“
Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.
These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.
Please spread this knowledge.
Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.
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Wait, AGDQ got rid of its masking policy? Maybe they should switch charities to some long covid research foundation then, since they think it's okay to have their attendees speedrun Long Covid% category
Lmao I just looked up their covid "policy" and besides recommending but not mandating masks it also talks about handwashing. Because of course it fucking does. Gotta keep up that hygiene theater and pretend that fomite transmission, not a single case of which has been conclusively proven in 4 years of pandemic, is a significant factor in spreading a literal airborne virus
All of this during the worst covid surge since the emergence of omicron, with a new variant that is as different from omicron as omicron was from the initial ancestral version of covid, and which is more severe and immune evasive
So disappointing 😒
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Dit arbeidsconflict gaat in de eerste plaats over onze leefomstandigheden. Ten tweede gaat het ook over goed openbaar vervoer, waar we de tijd hebben om te wachten tot oudere mensen zitten of om de rolstoelgebruiker de bus in te helpen. https://www.doorbraak.eu/wat-hebben-we-aan-elektrische-bussen-als-er-geen-chauffeurs-meer-zijn-ov-reeks-deel-3/
re: Matrix governance shit, rant
@MTRNord I am not expecting them to 'backchannel'. I am expecting them to *prioritize* it. To be proactive about the thing that is literally meant to save their broken and falling-apart processes.
I *deliberately* made it an MSC *because* I didn't want to backchannel this.
This is the actual problem here: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/111736936127357679
re: Matrix governance shit, rant
@MTRNord I have also left out the several years of private conversations with Travis and Matthew where I gave them practically paint-by-numbers solutions to get out of the hole they'd dug themselves into, which were then promptly ignored.
re: Matrix governance shit, rant
@ryan That is exactly what it is, apparently, and that is exactly what it resulted in.
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To summarize this whole thing: if you're in a crisis, I lend you a helping hand to get you out, and your response boils down to "you didn't file the correct form"... then I don't think you actually want to solve the crisis.
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Sure sucks how capitalism ruins everything it touches, huh?
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@deluisa Yeah, Belgium can fill a museum with these.
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-Fanatikerin 
@smveerman but how many pieces of art like this one do you have, huh?^^
re: Matrix governance shit, rant
@183231bcb@transfem.social I mean, I know where the problem lies, and afaik none of them are subject to replacement in the governing board elections
@determinerik Is er eigenlijk ook iets van een Matrix-server o.i.d.? (Hoeft niet per se van BIJ1 te zijn, het gaat me meer om de mensen)
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re: unnecessarily harsh take on alt text that is also a subpost
like I call this "unnecessarily harsh" because I know that people don't just wake up and decide to be ableist, and that in fact, we do live in a society
and that working on your internal oppressions is a nontrivial amount of energy you do have to spend, that people might not have because society is already being shit to them
but like, at least as someone who has spent a lot of time getting over those internalised issues… it feels like people are confusing the energy to actually do the thing, with the energy required to become a better person, and as a result do neither
like… sorry, buddy, but if you're upset about people calling you ableist, they're doing that because you are
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unnecessarily harsh take on alt text that is also a subpost
honestly writing alt text is a lot of work that often gets unnoticed but I do genuinely feel like people don't understand the distinction between
"this is a lot of work I don't have the energy to put in"
and
"performing this work makes me think about how low-vision and low-bandwidth people interact with media and how that must be a shit experience with so few people accommodating them, which makes me feel bad, which I don't like feeling, so, I'm not writing alt text so I don't have to think about it"
like it's one of those cases where people think so rarely about other people's experiences that the act of doing so tires them out, and then they can use that as an excuse for not having energy to do the thing
like again, alt text is difficult, and that is a genuine energy drain for some. as an autistic person, I know all too well how difficult it is to be forced to describe things in multiple ways, and having to make a picture and write text for the picture? sometimes that feels impossible
but sometimes I genuinely don't believe that people are being genuine about their inability to do alt text. like they don't see it as part of the full package of sharing a thing and so they do the visual part and then oops! out of energy, sorry, I'm still gonna post and get all the likes and shares tho~
re: Matrix governance shit, rant
Also growing increasingly tired of the "the Matrix spec is a collaborative process, and we would like more people to get involved in development" refrain
Well maybe you shouldn't have these kind of fucking barriers that you can only pass if you are abled or it's your full-time job, then
re: Question about bicycle lights with replaceable batteries
@maxi I've personally not had issues with them, but it's possible that some models don't stay put quite as well, of course... so I don't know.
(Note that these things come disposable batteries included, usually, but they can be swapped; you'll have to track down rechargeable 2032s yourself though, and last I checked they *are* trickier to find)
re: Matrix governance shit, rant
As I was told: "it's not tracked as something which needs comment in the next 3 months."
Okay then. Guess you don't actually want your capacity issues to get resolved.
re: Matrix governance shit, rant
This marks the end of my attempts at fixing the governance process, I guess.
The MSC is here, in case you want to read it: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4073/
Matrix governance shit, rant
Seriously, when will the Matrix people accept that their governance procedure is exclusionary and doesn't work?
Today I learned that you're apparently *expected* to repeatedly ping them for status updates over a timespan of months to get any MSC moving, including for an MSC whose purpose is literally to fix the governance and capacity issues for everything else
Fuck this shit, honestly. Fix your governance process if you actually want people to contribute. I can barely remember what I ate yesterday, why are you expecting me to do your job of proposal tracking
- 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
