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
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@aud right??? like nobody's saying it's easy, but if it's an important problem, we have to start by assuming we're going to succeed. that reduces it to the task of figuring out HOW.
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is this a large effect? well, it depends on the subject matter
is this the only thing that's needed to bring about change? almost never
is it a big deal that helps a lot? yes, definitely
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the world is just a collection of people who talk to each other. we all, including ourselves, tend to default to mirroring the attitudes we see around us back at others unless we've specifically taken the time to self-reflect and choose otherwise.
therefore, the way we talk about problems affects the people around us, which affects the world.
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please remember, always: the future is not written, and we all have the power to change it.
it is not inevitable that something will keep happening just because it has been happening.
when we talk about large-scale problems in public, it's probably a good idea to talk in ways that remind everyone of our own ability to choose, of the options we have, that express hope.
@smveerman Tjonge. Dat is echt weer een Flix-dingetje ten top 😂
Ach, je kunt niet zeggen dat 'ie niet opvalt, I guess.
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The way software development's shifted from people wanting to do it better to people wanting to get rich reminds me of how contemporary music schools shifted from people wanting to get better at making music to people wanting to get famous.
There's a real X Factor feel to the common discourse, with lots of folks obsessing over levels of commercial success they're never going to experience - too busy preparing for hypothetical stadium tours to learn scales.
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Boost with CW, COVID, Please mask
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once again subtooting a tweet I glanced at like 4 years ago that said something like
everyday billions of us wake up and remake the world exactly how it was but we could be creating something else, none of this is mandatory
politics in tech
@hyperreal (But this is a pattern I've been noticing throughout hype cycles, and rather than specific technologies, it seems to be the *class* of technologies where the overlap lies, these are just currently being hyped up)
politics in tech
@hyperreal Sure. Bun is one that shows up a lot. Likewise Vercel.
politics in tech
Can't help but notice that conservative/fascist/etc. software developers seem to consistently be hyping up the same technologies and frameworks, and I'm not talking about the well-known hypes like "AI" or "cryptocurrency" here.
They're also disproportionately technologies that don't actually do anything new or better, but rather have shinier marketing than the thing they claim to 'replace'.
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There is a difference between
a company that provides a product or service which requires money to continue providing that product or service,
and a company that accumulates money which requires making a product or service.
What they have in common is that both will present themselves as the former.
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Part 4: The Way Out
Unacceptable performance is the consequence of a chain of failures to put the user first. Breaking the chain usually requires just one insistent advocate. Disasters like BenefitsCal are not inevitable. Responsibility is always an option, and it's generally easier and cheaper in the medium to long run.
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Is there an alternative to Grafana that is snappy, fast, pretty? We can have triple A games render a gazillion polygons at 240fps yet I can't display 200k data points without my browser tab crashing. There must be something better out there no?
@gsuberland@chaos.social Assuming this is in reference to the Matrix thing, keep in mind that there's a bit of a special dynamic going on there; whenever a problem or vulnerability in Matrix anything is found, there's a small group of (always the same) people that sees this as an opportunity to start going around and loudly telling people "don't use Matrix, see, it's bad".
So "stop saying we shouldn't use Matrix"-type responses are usually more likely to be in reply to that phenomenon, than to the original finder of the issue.
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went in a dessert shop earlier and they had the menu up on 2 screens but they had more than 2 screens worth of menu so if someone wanted like a milkshake the worker had to reach up and manually page through to the milkshake page with the buttons on the monitor. good system
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Everyone excited for #gmtkjam
? I'm kind of nervous for the theme announcement
If you need music or fonts for your game I have plenty of 100% free CC0 options for you - a 🧵
Out of curiosity: do we have any fundraisers on fedi for anarchist community spaces in "low-income" countries? Or people seeking to set up such things?
Does not need to consider itself 'anarchist', as long as it's ideologically close enough (ie. anti-authoritarian, autonomous community space), and run by locals (so no "digital nomads" and whatnot).
- 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
