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
spicy take, cryptocurrency
A lot of the scammy shit in cryptocurrency-land is basically the exact same thing that happens in the 'traditional' financial markets, just not behind closed doors this time.
And that's not a justification of cryptocurrency; it's an indictment of the 'traditional' financial markets, which are mostly fraudulent, and the absurd degree of regulation needed to keep them in check suggests that maybe we should not have them to begin with.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Did you know it used to be illegal for a company to buy back its own stock? It was understood to be stock price manipulation. (Because it is.)
Reagan's "deregulation" changed the rules in 1982.
Like everything else, companies now pay politicians to keep it the way it is.
Food, capsaicin
@reinderdijkhuis This is second-hand knowledge, but $veganPartner has told me in the past that anything fatty in nature should work quite well, and very many of the vegan replacements for non-vegan things are fatty AFAIK
@taq With the caveat that I've not looked at all of it, I came across https://sites.google.com/view/why-we-are-covid-cautious/home a while ago which seems to be a quite extensive list of studies about all sorts of COVID things - that may be helpful?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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🎨 today we're doing literature collection for a meeting with my boss to try to get covid protections in the office. if you have articles or especially studies on long covid or on testing false negatives, i would *love* to hear from you
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I think today's plan is to stop procrastinating and actually do some literature review on IQ, so I can finally finish this section of my AI piece
I don't think it's needed, but people aren't going to be happy with accepting at face value that intelligence not only cannot be objectively measured, but doesn't even make sense as an objective measure either
web and framework stuff
To perhaps make it more explicit: aiming for performance and accessibility *does not* actually require eliminating diversity in technical approaches, and if you act as if it does, I'm going to be pretty suspicious of your intentions
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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web and framework stuff
It sometimes feels like some of the "just use native browser features instead of frameworks" people are not so much arguing against frameworks, as they are arguing for browsers to be the only blessed framework going forward...
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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web and framework stuff
Sure, it's undesirable to load massive JS bundles for basic functionality on websites, you'll find no disagreement there - I've been complaining about this for years too.
But arguing for all high-level framework-esque functionality to be handled by the browser and web specs...
Have you thought about what happens to the process of incremental technological improvement when the 'universal runtime' (ie. the browser) starts focusing on providing high-level abstractions instead of improving low-level mechanisms, and so the set of viable design strategies is essentially frozen in time?
Every once in a while I am reminded that there are people who legitimately believe that "cryptocurrency scalability" is the most important problem in tech to solve
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Long shot. Bij de verhuizing van mijn dementerende moeder naar het zorgcentrum heb ik per abuis een koelkastmagneet met stoomtrein weggegooid. Ze bleek er enorm aan gehecht. Jaren geleden had ze ‘m van haar overleden zus gekregen, die ‘m bij het Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht had gekocht. Ik heb contact met ze opgenomen, maar helaas verkopen ze ‘m niet meer. Is er misschien iemand die deze heeft (of iemand kent) en ‘m aan mij zou willen verkopen? Boost is lievvv 😊 #dtv #trein #treinen #stoomtrein
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@rivm En “Mensen die om individuele redenen een vaccinatie willen […] kunnen deze ook halen in de najaarsronde.” (Zie https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/coronavirus-vaccinatie/aanpak-coronavaccinatie/ )
Wees nou toch eens eerlijk: iedereen die wil mag een booster halen!
(Realistically this was the equivalent of cold reading - there are certain things that people are *really* likely to have messed up... so if you guess that they did, you're likely to be right!)
Just found a bug in someone's code without seeing the code or ever interacting with the software 
Unsolicited QA tester strikes again!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Left pol
"make leftist theory shorter!"
Like, I get that we need to make our ideas more accessible but I don't think oversimplifying is a good idea either. That's how we get "tax the rich" and "leftists" who are pro-cop. I don't have a solution but I think there's a balance to be maintained between all Capital by Marx all the time and pithy Instagram infographic. We need an intermediary
re: Left pol
@0x4d6165 I feel like the problem is more that there's often no path from the pithy Instagram infographic *to* the deeper stuff.
Like, usually the problem isn't exactly that people are unable to watch a long video, or read a long text, or read a book, or take in some other large amount of information. It may take a while, the formats may need to vary, but people can generally do this, people can learn.
The problem is that they have no *reason* to. Nobody gives them one. Usually the first people hear about these complex sources is by someone being judgmental at them for not already knowing about it, which doesn't exactly inspire someone to read or watch it.
So we do need the complex in-depth materials, and we do also need the easily accessible infographics and slogans, but most of all we need campaigns that use *both*, to give people a reason to care about the former by inspiring them with the latter, and do so in an inviting and inspiring way rather than a judgmental one.
Imagine a campaign going "defund the police", which directly invites people on every poster, sticker, etc. to read a one-page pamphlet or website or Facebook post or whatever that briefly explains what that means and how the world would get better as a result, and which then in turn references some articles or books or videos that explain *why* it works.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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for the people wondering why you need to help federate brazilian instances: X is gonna be banned for us, it's only a question of time now that Elon just fired all brazilian side employees tbh
so yeah #fediverse it's gonna have another mass migration again, here or on bluesky, we don't know honestly
so yeah #fediverse it's gonna have another mass migration again, here or on bluesky, we don't know honestly
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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the two types of regrettably unboostable posts:
the followers only
> most boostable post this week, followers only
> incredibly powerful move
the lack of alt text
> it literally takes 40 seconds to write it come on
> will judge you for it
the followers only
> most boostable post this week, followers only
> incredibly powerful move
the lack of alt text
> it literally takes 40 seconds to write it come on
> will judge you for it
klacht aan verhuurbedrijven
Als je moet betalen om een fiets te gebruiken, dan is het een huurfiets, geen deelfiets. Huurauto, geen deelauto. Huurstepje, geen deelstepje. Enzovoorts.
Delen is iets sociaals, iets dat je doet zonder dat je er iets voor terug verwacht. Ben eigenlijk wel een beetje klaar met commerciele bedrijven die dat soort woorden proberen te kapen om hun eigen ding minder commercieel te laten klinken.
re: offer of software/help
@amy No worries! The offer of help remains open in case you run into something else later where they'd be a good fit :)
- 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
