Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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.
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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
re: grumbling about funding
Like, if you're "competing on the open market" for developers to hire while your community is desperately trying to collect $30 a month to keep an important service running, you are doing something extremely wrong as a project, and that is just one example
grumbling about funding
One thing that will forever continue frustrating me, is how there are certain very institutional organizations behind eg. FOSS projects that are comparatively swimming in money, indiscriminately spend it like they're a startup with cash to burn, and then still manage to run out of it
All the while grassroots community endeavours are desperate for *any* funding at all, and could have achieved more with less than a tenth or a hundredth of the budget, but got absolutely nothing in the process
This is not any one specific organization I'm thinking of, it is happening all over the place
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The absolute gall of this question. A required question, mind you.
I will likely not be getting called in for an interview, but it was totally worth it.
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Trans, suicide, nlpol
Helaas hebben we de eerste transgender vluchteling die in Nederland een einde heeft gemaakt aan haar leven van 2024 alweer. Trans vrouwen die in hun thuisland, zoals in dit geval Rusland, niet veilig zijn komen hierheen omdat ze denken dat ze hier wél mogen bestaan. En vervolgens behandelen we ze als oud vuil en bieden we ze geen sprankje hoop.
Slaap zacht, lieve Antonina.
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Trying a new personal position where if a tech company lays people off after posting strong earnings, I don't buy anything new from them and cancel any existing subscriptions (at least in the short term). So there goes Discord Nitro
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OpenAI, Aaron Swartz, suicide
When billionaires ask to do illegal copying of all known works it gets taken seriously.
When a kid simply downloads scientific articles too fast they (lawyers) hound him until he commits suicide.
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@craigmaloney as a [user] i wish to [feel fulfilled and supported by my software, and just sit with it open while wanting for nothing]
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No more piecemeal half-measures that only enrich Elsevier anyway
Abolish copyright on academic publications
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I don't want better funding or whatever for Open Access 
I want copyright on academic material abolished by law
Just legalize Scihub 
for fuck's sake
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This is at least 8cm of ice which is necessary because that’s a field underneath. If you look closely you can see the grass waving in the moving water underneath while you skate.
medical software
Unrelated to my previous toot, just learned that the vendor of my hospital's patient portal went bankrupt late last year (different vendor)
racism, medical
Love (do not love) running into racist shit in medical software...
Fuck you too, Epic Systems Corporation
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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.
- 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
