Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
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holy shit!!!!! a paper on autistic burnout!!!!! among other things demonstrating that it's a real phenomenon and not the same as depression or job burnout
medical-adjacent (non-gross)
It's really nice how I can just order my medication from the local pharmacy by e-mail, and pick it up from a machine the next day.
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If you follow any of the #GoToSocial developers you've probably seen this going around already, but 0.17.0 of #GoToSocial will be the first release that includes interaction policies, aka reply-controls.
In the first iteration of this feature, you'll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts replies, likes, and boosts of your posts, depending on the visibility of the post, and whether or not an account trying to interact with you is in your followers/following list.
So for example, you will be able to create Public posts that can only be replied to by your followers and people you follow, or unlisted posts that nobody can reply to or like, etc.
GoToSocial interaction policies will be a superset of other reply control proposals created elsewhere (and already implemented by softwares like Pixelfed and Peertube), so your GoToSocial instance should recognize interaction restrictions set not only by other GoToSocial instances, but by Pixelfed and Peertube as well.
If you're interested in reading about how this will work on a protocol level, you can take a look at the documentation here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/posts/#interaction-policy
Please note that this feature is not 100% finished yet, and may be subject to change before release. We're aware of where the headaches and difficulties are, so please don't reply to this post griping about them; we already know (and this instance is still running on 0.16.0 so no interaction policies yet).
Thanks for reading :)
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Tell me you’re a US developer without telling me you’re a US developer.
re: rollercoaster of a day today
@StroomAfwaarts I'll try to remember :D
It was surprisingly simple to pack, if involved: large bike bags, thermoses on one side, everything else loose on the other side, then the box with the folding table flat on the luggage rack on the back, and the folding chairs sideways on there (so with the seat and legs pointing towards the left and the right, heavy side opposite the thermos side), and then just rigging the whole thing with a lot of bungee cords until it stays in place.
Does make the total profile of the bike almost twice as wide as it normally is, but it surprisingly worked fine! The folding table box pretty much works as a platform to rest the folded chairs on.
(The folding table is a tiny combo camping seat/table thing, basically a camping seat with a fit-over tabletop, big enough for my purposes but small enough to be bike-transportable)
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I didn't think I'll have to ask this question... but can anybody recommend any decent bank in Germany, preferably one also accessible from degoogled phones, and issuing cards in the name on Erganzungsausweis.
Our main bank of 4.5 years just sent us a letter that it decided to terminate our contract relationship on two months notice (at least not immediately...), because fuck you that's why.
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Life hack: Open a cat picture before you put your computer to sleep, using, for example, the preview function on a toot, or the #cats channel in your local Slack.
It will then be waiting for you when you wake up your machine the next time, and make you smile 😻
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This is a pretty apt image for how we prioritize the space in our cities in general, not just during the San Francisco marathon.
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"Citizen voter challenges, once an obscure practice, have transformed into a mass movement in Georgia, with conservative activists challenging hundreds of thousands of voter registrations in the last several years....Voters of color — and Black voters in particular — have been disproportionately impacted by these vast disenfranchisement campaigns.
And voting rights experts say a newly-passed election law, known as SB 189, is likely to make the problem worse. +
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"There is a large and growing pile of evidence that strict voter ID laws disproportionately impact voters of color.
"Using county-level turnout data around the country, researchers demonstrated that the racial turnout gap grew when states enacted strict voter ID laws.
The turnout effects continued even after the strict voter ID law was repealed. +
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You know, if you really want Black folks to vote for Democrats, you could do that by fighting voter disenfranchisement, instead of yelling at Black folks and insulting our intelligence while expecting our labor.
re: Seeking Chair Recs
@cephie Don't know if you're still looking, but I have an IKEA MARKUS chair and it ticks all of the boxes; I would say that it's the most comfortable such chair I've used (although imperfect), and after many years of use the padding has still not worn out. I'd actually say that the seat padding is a bit much sometimes, but not problematically so.
The standard casters suck; I replaced them with inline-skate-style casters a long time ago (note that these are third-party, and IKEA chairs have a non-standard stem size, so you need an IKEA-specific type). Though when the first set broke, they did replace the chair for me without complaint.
My main criticism would be that the (multi-point) seat recline locking mechanism is a bit janky; it loses accuracy over the years, and has a tendency to tilt the backside slightly in one direction when locked. I don't think most people would notice but I'm very fussy about that sort of thing :p
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A billionaire is someone who could lift thousands of families out of poverty without any noticeable impact on themselves, and has chosen not to.
#TaxBillionaires
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people misunderstanding worker's rights
it's very frustrating when people don't get that "they can't ask you that" when hiring is, functionally, meaningless
like, "oh, you don't have to tell a recruiter about why you left your last job, or why there's a gap in your résumé"
sure, and they also don't have to hire me. recruiters can ask me whatever they want and unless I have a good answer I can be cut off as a candidate immediately, regardless of whether I'm "required" to answer.
all of these regulations, especially including anti-discrimination laws, are functionally meaningless while employers are still free to ignore anyone for any other reason. it's only effective if you explicitly list what people are allowed to do and punish them from straying from that list, which has its own set of problems.
while people are forced to work, employers have all the power, even if they're "not supposed to"
@cab404 (It's honestly a very good phone, and I dread having to replace it)
@cab404 Huh. They're apparently still selling it. Even though it's, like, 5 years old by this point? And apparently there's an official Android 11 ROM too, though I didn't get that through the automatic updater for some reason.
rollercoaster of a day today
Oh, and a sign. Can't forget the sign. But that's mounted on a telescopic broomstick, so that's easy to transport.
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OH: this meeting couldn't have been an email, because the email client would warn you about the empty body
rollercoaster of a day today
Planned to go out today for my first attempt at 'political street conversations' - basically, plopping down some chairs and a table with coffee and tea in the city center, and talking to random people who feel 'left behind' in some way, to build community and 'update' my view of people's daily issues.
Unfortunately things got delayed and we left quite late, and then I dropped my phone on the street and the screen finally cracked, and then I realized I forgot my masks and had to go back for them, and by that point it was getting so late and I was in such a bad mood that it was not really worth it anymore :(
Back home I discovered (as I tooted about earlier) that it's apparently very easy to replace the screen on my phone (which I had so far assumed unrepairable!), so that was a nice surprise.
But still, sucks that I couldn't go out and try this today. Really wanted to get started with this project today...
At least I now know that it is in fact possible to transport three folding chairs, a folding table, two 2L thermoses, and assorted other stuff on a single bicycle.
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I picked up a hitch-hiker. I always stop for them, so I pulled over out of habit. Forgetting I was on a tween road, a ghost road, a twixt road.
"I'm going to Bonn," I said.
"What century?"
"Twenty-first."
"Close enough, I can wait there."
"Hop in."
I don't pry, but I am curious.
- 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
