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
Ah yes, I see the temperature will be Misery tomorrow
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@Gargron That’s one side of the deal. The other is to listen to the needs of the full diversity of users. If you want us all to be your marketing team, you need to accept everyone on your product team too.
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Ticket revenue is also a way to keep property taxes lower in white suburbs.
Fines shift the tax burden from those who benefit from police presence to those who don't.
Tickets & fines are yet another form of tax evasion for the wealthy.
https://fortune.com/2023/09/25/speeding-traffic-tickets-broke-cities-towns-policing-for-profit/
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@openaeros needs some help! If you have any connections with anyone familiar with IEC 61010 and CE compliance we would love to chat. We get the basics, but want some help navigating the labs & companies. Basically just need the inside scoop since this our first time.
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What does an extra ~2-2.5 eACH cost for a classroom? This year it was $30 for air filters and $3 in⚡️, for a whopping $1.43 per kid per year!!! Took 7 hours to do 23 rooms. This ain't rocket science.
Not a paid endorsement, no connection to brand but 0/23 failures in 3 years🤷♀️
twitter, bluesky
Did we all catch the part where Jack Dorsey, now of Bluesky fame, still has shares in Twitter?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/2a00ce74-6d58-4f8e-bc2c-1bb820ee4705.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_10
@jacksonchen666 It's related (and about the same concept), but it's not the post I was referring to :)
(I don't have post search here so can't easily find it)
@jacksonchen666 (Basically I have strong feelings about how "social media" came to mean "egocentric platforms" and how that is responsible for a lot of the problems we have with online social spaces now, even on federated/decentralized networks that are still fundamentally egocentric)
@jacksonchen666 Quite some time ago I posted a question on whether people would be interested in a social-media-ish thing that's focused around interests and communities rather than individuals (though not in those exact words) and this is the result of that, basically
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that "nazi bar" analogy
@Heidentweet @joepie91 no, but the metaphor is moot anyway because the bar is owned by a nazi so even if other nazis were being kicked out by staff that’s still kind of a problem. But if we say we shouldn’t protest on the opressors turf, we’re doing the opressor a favor. So, it’s complicated and policing people for still being on there is a distraction not worthy of time, effort and goodwill regardless.
that "nazi bar" analogy
@Heidentweet Right. The original story and metaphor make a lot of sense, in their original context, and are a very important community management lesson, but the way in which that metaphor is being misused to imply things that absolutely were not part of the original story... ugh.
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special love to the people online who for some reason are finding buffer overflow exploits for scientific calculators
So I guess I'm resurrecting my 15-year-old community software project, then.
(This is a follow-up of a question I posted months ago)
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I genuinely wonder why, in 2024, user manuals still include a paragraph in the safety section stating that disabled people shouldn't use the appliance without supervision. Well, it's worded differently, but that's basically what they're saying.
Someone should really tell the folks who write manuals that we are in fact perfectly capable of operating, say, an airfryer without burning the house down. And while we're at it, we should make touch displays on kitchen appliances illegal.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk *gets off soapbox*
@unlobito Right, yeah, my concern is specifically network speed rather than screen resolution, and loading a reduced-resolution version first (whether quality or resolution) works around that issue
@lnl Unfortunately it's not really a format problem, rather I'm trying to do progressive loading without JS, ie. a low-resolution version is visible while the high-resolution version is loading in the background
that "nazi bar" analogy
When talking about the "nazi bar" story, you should remember that the moral of the story was that the *barkeeper* had to throw out the nazi, and not that the other patrons were nazis for staying in the bar.
It's a story for community moderators. Not for everyone else. And trying to apply it as a universal analogy *will* go wrong.
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@cstross I knew someday we'd get to the point of cool "haunted spaceship that's not safe to be in" situations but I kinda expected it'd take a few more decades/centuries and it'd be an unregistered torchship found floating around Ganymede without its crew, not this relatively boring situation
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my favorite thing about the fact we can't have personal dedicated servers anymore is that everybody in the south hemisphere just can't play multiplayer games with decent ping because nobody bothers making servers for them
- 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
