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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- 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
Today I was at a store where the staff actually knew what they were selling. They still exist!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I feel like free software advocates don't talk about the painful switching cost of moving from proprietary software.
I feel like it's important to be honest about how much work it is to switch to free software.
I also feel it's important to give people hope. That yes, some parts will be hard, but there is also joy in discovery and finding new community.
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I think I need to write a meta blog post on "How to support people trying free software."
The first comments I usually get when explaining my negative user experience is:
- "I think they fixed that, have you tried it again recently?"
- "really? I've never seen that before"
- "here's why they made that design decision" followed by long technical details
UGGH! This does not acknowledge my negative experiences, my feelings, or my usage constraints. It immediately jumps into troubleshooting, problem solving, or software architecture.
Please for the love of your fellow human beings, validate people's negative experiences with free software!
Even a simple, "I'm sorry that you experienced that, it sounds really frustrating," would help.
reddit, software development
@wmd@chaos.social These are the same old arguments that have been used since time immemorial, none of them have ever held up to scrutiny, they do not relate to my point, and they are not really things I'm interested in arguing them further.
software development compatibility gripes
@wmd@chaos.social That is precisely my point. The cross-platform FOSS options cannot compete with Adobe and the like. So it ends up being either webapps or no apps on Linux, from the perspective of most people.
reddit, software development
@wmd@chaos.social There is nothing fundamental about webapps that make them require more resources. That depends entirely on the application.
reddit, software development
@wmd@chaos.social I think there's another lesson to draw from that, too: how misguided it is to complain about webapps and that things need to be 'native' apps (which really just means "runs on a single OS").
It's the widespread availability of webapps that is making Linux accessible to many people, not the native Linux apps (which still frequently can't compete for one reason or another).
@MikeBon That is called a 'forced work scheme', it's how several countries have tried to implement their welfare system, and it has overall been a disaster. This is absolutely not 'better than a basic income', it just fits better into a very specific (and regressive) ideological view about work.
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Did you know that in terms of sorting, the letter 'ö' is treated as a modified 'o' in French, but as a letter completely independent from 'o' (and sorting after 'z') in Swedish?
You can learn this and tons of other random facts about text in "The Character Model for the World Wide Web"
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From yesterday;
“The clean-up operation following Monday night’s farmers’ protests in several parts of the Netherlands continued on Tuesday morning as council officials cleared rubble and other waste from several roads.
According to the Telegraaf, several people were injured in traffic accidents caused by the protests and two were taken to hospital.”
Everything they claimed about the XR protests, where a thousand people were arrested this past weekend, is only true for these tractor terrorists setting fire to asbestos and such.
So far, they have arrested … *checks notes* ... two?
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/02/farmers-dump-rubbish-on-roads-and-set-fires-as-protests-continue/
https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/boerenprotesten-levensgevaarlijk-automobilisten-raken-gewond
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Nog even los van de zwakke reden voor het afbreken van formatiegesprekken, als je als politicus verbaasd bent dat meneer "Ik Doe Niet Meer Mee Als De Richting Me Niet Zint" Omtzigt wegloopt omdat de richting hem niet zint, dan heb je het echt niet helemaal begrepen. Man man man...
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When you book your 
off-peak train tickets a couple of weeks in advance, this can be cheaper than having a paid off-peak discount card (normally € 5,60/month, now € 2,50/month). I’m not sure if I am fond of this idea. Some examples.
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Commentary on autism "functioning" labels
Yeah, sounds about right to me.
@whreq Soup is a dish produced by steeping any sort of ingredient in water; tea is a dish produced by steeping tea leaves (or, colloquially, functionally equivalent ingredients that are low in nutrition but high in flavour) in water; therefore the latter is a subset of the former
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Gentle reminder for anyone that needs it right now: It's alright to cry, it's alright to be angry, bad feelings are here for a reason and it doesn't make you bad for having them. What you say to others is important, but what you say to yourself is everything. Speak words of kindness and encouragement.✨✨✨✨
tea is a type of soup
reference to AnonOps, "journalism"
@gsuberland@chaos.social I'm reminded of how back in the AnonOps days we decided to do a little experiment and send a completely false and unverifiable claim about a non-existent hacker group (with an obviously unserious name) to a bunch of Dutch and Flemish news outlets.
A bunch just ignored it. Several national tabloids printed it without any verification - one of the tabloids even *made up extra stuff* to fill the story, without asking anyone. We were just baffled by this. The only outlet that did any attempt at fact-checking and then decided not to run the story, was a small regional outlet.
It's hilariously (and frankly concerningly) easy to get something published in large mainstream press outlets with absolutely zero credentials or verification.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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- 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
