Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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- 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
inconsequential grumbling about software licenses, mention of RMS
There are lots of potential issues with the anti-capitalist software license, but jesus christ Reddit, "RMS says it's a bad license" is not one of them
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What’s your favorite ebook store that isn’t some mega exploitative, gross place like Amazon? I wanna start buying my books elsewhere
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Any country that implements a Universal Basic Income, Universal Healthcare, and free public education, is sending the message that if you are a citizen of that country, you will not live in poverty.
Could you imagine the cost savings of eliminating poverty?
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sci-fi musing, apocalypse
A "fun" apocalypse idea: a bacteria that feeds on fr4 (the stuff circuit boards are made from) Created in a lab to help with the e-waste problem but some how gets out. No complex electronics left afterwards, fragile webs of copper and components left that collapse and short out under their own weight.
Of course it couldn't just eat fr4 it would have to eat the solder mask, and ink, and so on too. Would probably work better as a fungus or something that creates spores to get around.
Your phone would be fine as a mostly waterproof sealed unit, but a data center or telephone exchange would be fucked with all the air intakes.
@polotek I'm curious, have you written any further thoughts on this anywhere? Would be interesting to read.
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#mutualAid
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fedi meta, anarchism
@doggo All of the above, to varying degrees.
Probably the most obvious case is how Mastodon de facto determines how fedi is structured due to its large adoption base, with the project being essentially controlled entirely by Eugen, and community concerns routinely being ignored.
There are less obvious patterns like it, too; operators of large instances who throw a tantrum and angrily shut down their instance with almost no notice, leaving thousands stranded... and as another reply mentioned, the frequent occurrences of racist behaviour in many places on fedi.
All of these are things that should have no place in a network like fedi, and yet they exist, all the while people are loudly proclaiming that "nobody controls fedi", when that simply isn't true. It *should* be like that, but it isn't, and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge that.
wayland development
Wayfire, meanwhile, is telling me my ack_configure serial is invalid, even though it is the serial that it sent me in the configure event.
At least it gives me an error message instead of quietly doing the wrong thing, but the error message doesn't actually tell me *why* it is invalid...
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@foone The smallest one I know of is https://fpx.oxplot.com/
It's configured by blinking lights on your screen to a light sensor on the board
@foone Invisible overlay from a modal gone wrong?
wayland development
@porkroll (And running under Plasma Wayland natively)
wayland development
@porkroll None; I'm developing my own client library.
wayland development
Seriously, this has baffled me for several days now. I can't find any possible explanation for this behaviour, and nobody seems to have written anything about it anywhere either...
wayland development
Why does Plasma keep constantly sending my client xdg_toplevel.configure events with a requested surface width/height that's 100 pixels less than the last time, any time the window state changes??
fedi meta, anarchism
I'm seeing the exact same failure mode happen with fedi that I've seen for a lot of 'anarchist' movements - they proclaim that "nobody is in charge", and then fail to identify that someone *is* in fact informally in charge (who shouldn't be) but they're just not taking responsibility.
Perhaps we should be making a point of saying "nobody SHOULD be in charge of fedi" instead of "nobody is in charge of fedi", to help people understand that "nobody is in charge" is a goal that needs to constantly be defended, rather than one that has been magically achieved?
Like, "nobody is in charge" *is* a good model to aim for, but it does require actual work to keep it that way because some people will try to take power by any means necessary, it's not something you just proclaim and then you're done.
@splatsune @vkc FWIW, Electron is entirely capable of doing multiple windows (with different content) in the same process, so this one is entirely on the application developers.
(Most likely the reason they don't do this is because they're trying to save a buck by reusing the same codebase for web and desktop, and in a browser you *can't* do this)
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I just realized what I hate about modern chat: it's not a small window on the screen anymore, it's *the whole screen*.
Discord (et al) is barely usable in a small window, whereas AOL Instant Messenger was *very* usable in a small window as you went about your browsing.
For me, smaller window = fewer distractions.
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You can't change these systems without explicitly dismantling white supremacy. That's something that White Americans don't want to contend with. Because so many other parts of life seem to magically bend around their wants and desires, they get confused about the parts that don't. This is a big problem for White liberals especially. They really thought they were fixing police brutality in 2020 by just exclaiming loudly that they wanted it to stop. But white supremacy is not under your control.
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What I'm saying is that a lot of American Exceptionalism™ is based on sacrificing people. It is a very long tradition. And up until very recently, Black people were the default sacrifice. That was our explicit role in White American society. As soon as you understand that, a lot of American history starts to make way more sense.
And today starts to make more sense too. This is an America we're it's not so easy to designate groups for sacrifice. And we are finding it harder to get things done.
- 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
