Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
@sindarina (Did I miss some bit of news? Or was this an evergreen comment?)
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brain cell: "it would be really nice if there was, like, a directory of fediverse people's online shops so I could buy all their stickers and music and stuff"
only other brain cell, bopping around inside of skull: "Mallstodon"
@bram Not seen a reason to do so so far, but will keep it in mind :)
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So we shouldn’t hold people accountable for bad behavior at all?
No, we should definitely hold people accountable for bad behavior. But we have to ask ourselves what the purpose of holding them accountable is? Is it to punish them? Make ourselves feel better?
Or is it to change their behavior?
Because only one of those options makes the world better
adding onto it with how I personally approach this
@robinhood As an addendum to this: it can be hard to distinguish whether someone has changed for the better, or whether they've just gotten better at hiding it.
My personal benchmark for this, that I've found to work quite well: are they 1) acknowledging what they did wrong, and 2) demonstrating an understanding of *why* it is wrong, eg. what harm it has caused?
If someone pretends that the bad thing never happened, or shows no understanding of why it's bad, their promises to do better are not really worth anything; there's no reason to believe that they *will* do better.
But if someone shows that they understand the harm and how to avoid it the next time, they will get the benefit of the doubt from me; when the inputs change, the results are also likely to change.
(I usually overtly state to people that this is my benchmark, and it has spurred some people to actually do the work of understanding the problem and improve, too.)
@bram Honestly, my judgment of people's character is almost a 1:1 correspondence with "how they respond to non-adversarial criticism, and whether they provide it non-adversarially themselves"
subtooting, queerphobia, "you"
(Aimed at someone else) "Well you should have expected to have to field questions about your weird bio, otherwise why put it there? You must be setting yourself up to get mad at people"
Have you considered that, y'know, not everything revolves around you and your understanding of someone's identity?
Have you considered that they might not give a shit about whether you understand it, and were expressing themselves for their own enjoyment, and you are the asshole crashing the party by demanding Justifications about something that wasn't For You to begin with?
This sort of shit really pisses me off, as if existing in public somehow comes with a built-in obligation to be understandable to ignorant cishet dudes. Like, no, fuck off, gaining understanding is YOUR job.
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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...?"
- 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
