Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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A point I buried in a footnote last week, but should probably draw out:
We know that frontend is wallowing in irresponsiblity because regretted approaches continue to spread (e.g., CRA, "CSS-in-JS", etc.) *even when their creators disavow them*. Why? Because those "leaders" do not put warning signs on their abandonware. They do not do the right thing and strongly recommend that users avoid those systems.
Don't believe me? Check out CRA's home page:
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I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.
He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.
The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."
On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"
The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.
Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.
re: offer of software/help
@amy (Also feel free to ask if/when you would like a copy of the spec in its current state - I haven't included it because it's not final yet and may have changed by the time it is needed, so probably best to work from an up-to-date copy by that time)
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Do you think that person who coined the expression "One Hit Wonder" had any other expression that became popular?
re: offer of software/help
@amy I... may have written a bit more than I had initially anticipated 😅 Here's the introduction so far: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/f4f9a56d37a5935833c242defd4f732c
Feel free to ask if anything is missing/unclear!
re: offer of software/help
@amy Alright, I'll put together a short thing later today on how they work at a high level 🙂 The 'getting started' so to say. And then I can answer any questions going from that. If that works for you?
@venite Zal denk ik aan de bezorger liggen; het kan niet verwerkt worden als statiegeldblikje (want niet leeg, dus kan niet gecomprimeerd worden) dus het is extra werk voor de bezorger om het te verwerken.
Hier een keer uitgebreid met een AH-bezorger gepraat over hoe het proces voor hen werkt en wat ideaal is; die was heel blij met de krat die volgestapeld was met blikjes in rechte lijnen en vooraf geteld want dat scheelt een hoop werk. Glazen flesjes moeten apart verzameld worden (want die kunnen niet leeggestort worden ivm breuk). Blikjes/flesjes worden wel leeggestort.
Je kunt de volle blikjes altijd nog onder een afdakje voor de deur zetten met een bordje "gratis, ik lust ze niet" en dan zijn ze denk ik ook zo weg 🙂
no man's sky voice
hungy levels, rising
The answers I've gotten to this so far are very different from what I expected, but very interesting!
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#AskFedi: for those whose first computer experiences were with Windows 95/98 (or NT) and who look back on it fondly:
What would be needed to rekindle that early experience of wonder around computers and/or the internet? What stands out in your memory as the cause for that sense of wonder back then? (The answer to these two questions can be different!) 
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@kf I suspect it's the sci-fi aesthetic, to be honest. Makes a lot more sense when you think of these 'smart home' installations as a form of interior decoration for nerds!
@sindarina I have difficulty believing "solar panels ruin the appearance" claims since seeing what the Efteling did with Symbolica, to be honest. Clearly it can be done well if you put in the effort. A lot of people don't even recognize those as solar panels!
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“Many Procreate users can breathe a sigh of relief now that the popular iPad illustration app has taken a definitive stance against generative AI. ‘We’re not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products’, Procreate CEO James Cuda said in a video posted to X. ‘I don’t like what’s happening to the industry, and I don’t like what it’s doing to artists’.“
Ohhh, nice!
offer of software/help
@amy I've been working for a while on a better streams specification for JS (interoperable with Node streams and papers over their bullshit because wow they are terrible); would you want to try out those and see if it works better?
Caveat: API is simple but documentation is incomplete and there may still be some rough edges in the reference implementation (which I'm working on polishing out of the design before releasing it). And I can answer any questions about how to work with them of course, and fix issues.
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Fedi, what are your comfort TV shows?
grumbling about cars
Just get out of your goddamn car and walk up to their front door, instead of repeatedly honking loudly and bothering the whole neighbourhood with it.
Fucking carbrain.
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Je zou ook, ik noem maar wat, mensen waarvan je weet dat ze recht hebben op toeslagen de toeslagen kunnen geven.
CW-boost: transphobia, pink news, capitalist BS
@marlies Pink News has a long history of sketchy things so I'm pessimistic on this one
CW-boost: transphobia, pink news, capitalist BS
- 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
