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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Reminder to #serveradmins that there's a Mastodon security update coming at 15:00 UTC today
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Ann Summers should not sell rope. They target a curious vanilla audience, people who will be rope newbies, yet they sell rope that is of incredibly poor quality, and do not stock shears or any other safety equipment. When they sell rope they do not give you any associated safety information, any warnings, even any "use responsibly". Nothing.
When I bought rope from anatomie, a shop targeting their products very much at experienced riggers, they bundled an information sheet about rope care, and an information sheet about nerve damage. Their website recommended I buy safety shears with my purchase and gave me a direct link to do so if I did not already have any. This is good.
Yet when Ann Summers sell rope to somebody who is likely a complete beginner, they do no such thing. This is ridiculously irresponsible.
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With Chinese or Lunar New Year coming up, here's a random Chinese word:
"避年" -- "avoid" + "year".
Implies that the party avoids the New Year by (almost always) travelling. 
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Interesting, Elsevier is starting to add hyperlinks to their own AI-generated information mishmashes of portions of other Elsevier papers. I suspect this occurs without the consent of the authors. #scholarlypublishing
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gonna disrupt the whole user interface industry with my new invention, "tactile buttons that make the computer do the thing when you press them"
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Mozilla financial apartment approving AI development and advocacy in budget: absolutely, say no more 🤑
Mozilla financial department approving development of Firefox in budget: ohh I'm sorry were incredibly low on money right now you'll just have to go and ask for donations 🥺🥺🥺
I continue to be fascinated by all the novel ways in which US recipe sites misunderstand the concept of "metric conversion"...
This frustration brought to you by the Jellyfin Chromecast player receiving a casting error from the Cast SDK and then just logging "casting errror" while completely ignoring the error parameter
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Man die zich drie slagen in de rondte post om duidelijk te maken dat hij echt geen seksist is en daar ook niet van beschuldigd mag worden zegt dat ik het ‘in mijn hoofdje haal’. Hoofdje.
What is *with* developers writing code that just swallows error messages and doesn't bother passing them on down the chain?
Makes debugging failures completely impossible, argh
hot(?) take, politics
Reaching the right goal in the wrong way is often preferable over reaching the wrong goal in the right way, actually.
Why? Because getting the goal wrong does long-lasting harm, but when *getting there* the wrong way, the harm is only temporary.
And yes, that means that sometimes the end really *does* justify the means, and exactly where that boundary is is an incredibly important conversation to have, not something to categorically dismiss as a slippery slope.
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People of the fedi, I think I'm on the lookout for a new instance, where I can say 'Fuck the Israeli Apartheid State' as much as I want.
Tell me why I, an extremely sensitive autistic, queer, anarchist, vegan, non-binary musician, would find a welcoming home at yours.
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I knew those authors using AI to churn out books reminded me of something...
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If I were “the most powerful person” in an industry where workers (e.g. editors) are already underpaid and concerned about their jobs and the product (i.e. writers) are very concerned about the impacts of a technology for different reasons, I probably would not tell the New York Times how excited I am about AI. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/books/penguin-random-house-nihar-malaviya.html
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@jacksonchen666 Oh and "best practices" that are actually just tech-company-specific conventions, of course
@jacksonchen666 Many different things, usually varieties on "this is how you do things Like The Big Tech Companies", involving a lot of copypasting and mimicking what others are doing without understanding the problem it was originally meant to solve (which they don't actually have themselves, usually)
I guess people recognize my name because of my VPN gist now...
- 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
