Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
@jon You sure that would work? AFAIK some tickets are 'flexible' in that you can rebook onto other trains, but only if there would still be seats available on those trains (ie. you can't just hop onto whatever). Not sure if that's the case for SNCF.
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also for that matter "not giving someone a free lunch" is a fucked up sentence because lunch should be free, actually. all food should be free because people uh, you know, need it to *live*
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@thcrt see also: companies which have exactly one (1) product used by every company in the world, but don't mention it ANYWHERE and you can only find it via the wikipedia page of companies run by known criminals
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me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does
the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.
the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.
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The fact that NASA operates an official youtube account that doesn't also provide direct download links for all videos, and isn't mirrored anywhere non-proprietary should be illegal.
I shouldn't have to make money for google in order to view NASA content. I shouldn't have to subject myself to youtube DRM in order to watch NASA content. I should be able to download any video NASA produces, since NASA can't own a copyright on them.
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I submit this thread for nomination as one of the most iconic threads of the post-2022 fedi era. What a journey from @sundogplanets
@kissane @foolishowl Having gone through all of those hype cycles (and a couple more smaller ones), I can't help noticing that the tech hype cycles keep getting shorter and wondering what happens when they approach zero.
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more shows like the expanse, please!
sci-fi with real people having real problems in a society and moral culture that's at least somewhat plausible for the far future
dubious lead, re: crips and photographers: looking for good photo of person using a mobility scooter
@skye It seems that if you search on Getty NL for 'scootmobiel' (the Dutch term for these scooters), it turns up a number of everyday scooter models that appear to be taken consensually, particularly those from 'Els van der Gun': https://www.gettyimages.nl/fotos/scootmobiel
I'm unable to find contact details for the photographer though (for talking about usage permission), but I figured that an imperfect lead might be better than none at all - and the general approach of searching for it in another language might help more broadly.
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Agree with @baconandcoconut who mentioned on the #EuroPython panel about OSS that we shouldn’t celebrate if ppl are able to maintain a library alone for 20 y, we should instead celebrate if they manage to get more ppl on board, divide responsibility, delegate, and over time pass the project on someone else, ideally a team. Over my volunteering career I learned that if the thing I built would die with me, I didn’t actually manage to build it yet. It’s not done until it lives without me involved.
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it's called the "user agent" in the specs for a reason, and i'm not talking about the string
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Voor een (journalistiek) stukje ben ik op zoek naar organisaties die op het punt staan hun email te migreren naar Microsoft of Google, of dat net gedaan hebben. En die mogelijk publiekelijk kunnen vertellen over het waarom, of de problemen die ze eerder hadden. Mail is welkom op bert@hubertnet.nl of op Signal BertHubert.72 - dank u!
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There's this guy on Youtube with a bunch of shorts showing a house being 3D-printed, and *every single one* of the videos has a comment section filled with people pointing out the obvious and disastrous issues with the construction quality.
And the dude just keeps posting new ones and going "it's the future, just you wait". Unbelievable.
@farhaven Not quite :) Same issue as this one: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/112763949440682573
@miyuko Nope! This will break on cross-realm objects (eg. from a worker thread) and null-prototype objects
Today I learned: the `dateTime` XML type is almost *but not quite* the ISO 8601 format.
This discovery brought to you by my database mysteriously producing null results on dateTime comparisons.
@clarfonthey Well, that's the challenge :p
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
