Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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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As an archivist, let me say clearly:
Modern copyright law is actively harmful to the preservation and study of our culture.
It harms artists by giving undue power to publishers. It harms artists by limiting remixes. It harms preservation and research efforts.
It's broken. It's bad. It should be massively reformed.
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are you an instance admin or mod on the fediverse?
do you hate meta, facebook, instagram, and threads?
wanna help keep them outta the fediverse and retain what makes this community so relatively safe and comfy?
send a clear signal that you're not fuckin around and just want them gone: sign the fedipact today!!! 
@blakespot Ah, okay, thanks :( Do you happen to know how long the GOG lag usually is? So I know when to check back in, approximately
geklaag over treintoiletten
(Eh, of was het nou de Flirt? Nou ja, die schuivende ronde deur dus, die je met twee knoppen dicht moet doen.)
geklaag over treintoiletten
Echt, wat een UX-faal zijn de toiletten in de SNG sprinters toch ook. Nagenoeg 100% van de keren dat ik iemand naar het toilet zie gaan, snappen ze niet hoe de deur werkt - dicht proberen te trekken, niet op slot doen, op "open" drukken... Ik heb intussen zo ongeveer alles wel gezien behalve de bedoelde procedure.
Daar had echt iemand terug naar de tekentafel gemoeten. Dit ontwerp is duidelijk nooit door de user testing heen gegaan.
@rune Hans from Stuttgart?
@blakespot Hmm, is that an announcement of an upcoming update, or has it already been released?
(The GOG version still seems to be stuck on Adrift)
re: advice to independent software developers
@KuJoe (Bonus: a frankly shocking amount of 'custom hardware platforms' in large companies are essentially Raspberry Pis or equivalent boards in a trenchcoat, sometimes even repurposed consumer hardware)
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advice to independent software developers
Speaking from many years of experience with software development, personally and professionally: There's really nothing special about the stuff that large tech companies do, actually.
In the vast majority of cases where it looks like they have some magical technology that's miles ahead of what's publicly known/available, in reality they're using the same commodity tools and techniques that you are using, they've just papered over the sharp edges with marketing / manual labour / UI design / etc.
Sure, they have more budget, more marketing teams, more developers, more testers (well, hypothetically anyway), more control over the market and so on. That is all true.
But ultimately you could totally build the majority of the things they build yourself, as long as you set realistic goals. (Whether you *should* do that is a case-by-case question, of course...)
re: advice to independent software developers
@KuJoe Honestly, even in those cases the custom thing is usually made with commodity processes and parts (just optimized to their specific needs, as opposed to general-purpose tradeoff choices).
Custom hardware definitely requires some capital investment, but often you can get surprisingly close with stuff like affordable off-the-shelf FPGAs.
@jalcine 🤦♂️
"Help! Someone stole my... uh... plagiarism bot...?"
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Jailbreaking RabbitOS (The Hard Way)
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/r1-jailbreak.html
Spoiler alert: they're violating GPL, but that's the least of their worries
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/r1-jailbreak.html
Spoiler alert: they're violating GPL, but that's the least of their worries
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Sometimes I feel like pain in the ass to some moderation teams I'm in. I tend to bring up that some actions of other moderation team members are unfair towards moderated users and this usually results in some members of moderation not being very enthusiastic about interacting with me.
I think as much as we try, there will always be a power difference between moderators and users with no moderation powers, and moderators always ought to mind that and consider it a bias so to try and eliminate it from their actions.
Moderators should always look from the eyes of moderated and consider whether moderation action against them would be fair. Try to give benefit of doubt.
advice to independent software developers
Speaking from many years of experience with software development, personally and professionally: There's really nothing special about the stuff that large tech companies do, actually.
In the vast majority of cases where it looks like they have some magical technology that's miles ahead of what's publicly known/available, in reality they're using the same commodity tools and techniques that you are using, they've just papered over the sharp edges with marketing / manual labour / UI design / etc.
Sure, they have more budget, more marketing teams, more developers, more testers (well, hypothetically anyway), more control over the market and so on. That is all true.
But ultimately you could totally build the majority of the things they build yourself, as long as you set realistic goals. (Whether you *should* do that is a case-by-case question, of course...)
@donaldball @baldur Honestly, it's probably a lot simpler: the only way to differentiate yourself as a new advertising broker is to claim to have data that your competitors don't, and so it's in the direct financial interest for adtech companies (including but definitely not limited to Google) to insist that behavioural advertising is not only effective, but *crucial*.
Because if you can't convince advertisers of that, you don't have a business; you can't get fat profit margins from brokering commodity contextual advertising spots, because anyone can offer those, so you have to invent some special sauce that justifies your existence and cut, whether it really exists or not.
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“Adactio: Journal—Ad tech”
https://adactio.com/journal/21285
> But the idea that behavioural advertising works better than contextual advertising has no basis in reality.
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All I want is sweeping systemic changes, is that too much to ask??
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Does that advertisement thing Mozilla is doing to Firefox now bother you? Simply switch to a browser that respects your privacy, such as:
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- 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
