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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"browser addon to diff websites TOS and EULA"
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@joepie91 I firmly believe that "it's a Linux distro" statement is the prime culprit for making it seen as just another barely different Linux distro by the Linux majority. Just like Windows users consider Linux a "Windows for geeks": obvious downsides with no upsides. If it was instead marketed as "the only configurable OS that just so happens to use Linux", the world would've been a much better place.
@monk I've been thinking along similar lines, yeah, but I don't have much more than a hunch to go off there.
(I may or may not have a related project in-flight where I intend to try this)
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Quite apart from the gratuitous climate vandalism, I think what pisses me off so much about the #Starbucks CEO commuting by private jet is the arrogance of the assumptions that this is justified. Like this isn't an organisation trying to cure cancer or end world hunger, it's a chain selling overpriced coffee with various sugar syrups. Nothing bad would happen if it ceased functioning, its continued existence doesn't justify its CEO behaving like that.
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‘Waarom zijn er zoveel zeurende oude mannen op tv?’ - https://www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/brompotten-grumpy-old-men-op-tv
Folks who post mutual aid posts: it looks from my perspective like more donations are being made on average, since the whole Harris thing started, still going on to this day. Is that impression correct?
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Don’t ever fix your lips again to say that tech IS neutral/apolitical…DON’T YOU FUCKIN DARE
Tech is ONLY apolitical for those who benefit as the DEFAULT to systems, institutions, and policies DESIGNED to benefit the few at the expense of the many
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An alle, die eBücher bei Weltbild gekauft haben:
Der Laden ist insolvent und wird bald nicht mehr existieren. Wenn ihr eure Bücher auf dem eReader behalten wollt, müsst ihr aktiv werden.
Die Frist ist jetzt bis Ende September verlängert worden, aber handelt schnell:
(Gerne Boosten!)
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Stadtwerke Netz: hey log into this online portal to send your final electricity meter reading
Online portal: doesn’t fucking work
average German IT project
I have faxed my electricity meter reading to them
@q You have out-Germaned them
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It's very funky that the term "bird brain" comes from the fact that the brains of birds look like they're quite primitive and are missing the structures we tend to associate with higher brain functions. Turns out birds are actually surprisingly smart and their brains just took a different evolutionary path, achieving the same advanced abilities we see in mammals by developing entirely different structures. It's really cool how intelligence can come about in a variety of unique ways ^~^
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Do I know any US folks who have experience hiring independent contractors to do game dev stuff (or to do remote work on computer/art stuff in general)?
I've got two people I'm interested in paying to do normal game development things and one is local and the other lives on the other side of the planet, and can I just like... give them money? or do I have to like fill out a form or something so the government doesn't freeze my bank account? how does this work
@cy @audunmb @baldur While I agree philosophically that copyright is not a legitimate system given the harm that it does, FOSS licenses do serve a real purpose in this context - they're essentially a legal hack that tries to subvert the copyright system. It existed before FOSS did, and continues to exist despite it.
That having been said, I am similarly bothered by how a lot of people seem to see FOSS as the 'ideological peak' of software, as if that's a long-term and complete solution to the problem, when it is really neither of those things and should be recognized as the temporary hack that it is. Useful, but still not a real solution.
@troed @baldur Out of curiosity, have you seen any concrete pointers on basic income (notably, *not* just welfare) being implemented in the near future anywhere?
Because I know that lots of countries are doing 'trials', but they've been doing that for several decades now, and then it never gets talked about again until the next 'trial' that has the exact same outcome.
@baldur You're certainly correct about the npm ecosystem as it currently is, not being sustainable.
It *could* have been, if a few different choices were made (notably ones rooted in governance, that have nothing to do with the technical decisions that people like to complain about), but they weren't, and so here we are...
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“The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus”
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/
Where I try to explain, as succinctly as I can (which isn’t that succinct), why I’m worried about where FOSS is heading
I'm kind of amazed at how... good Software Inc. is? Apparently developed by a single person over the past 9 years, their first game as far as I can tell, and it just completely knocks it out the park.
Also very amusing how it clearly copied the interior designer approach from The Sims, but then proceeds to blow it out of the water - I find it so much more nice to work with than how it's done in The Sims.
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sometimes i keep thinking things like “I wish Windows had a tiling window manager” and then I remember that Windows’ built-in WM is actually good at tiling
- 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
