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
CW-boost: description of psychological domestic abuse, reference to other types
@Qyriad I think there is a lot of room to reconcile the two in principle, like through funding/payment methods that do not exactly map to "one user, one payment" (which is designed for proprietary systems after all); but I've long been disappointed by the lack of organized efforts to actually do so. New funding models aren't going to build themselves...
The only one that really comes to mind is OpenCollective. And I guess bug bounties, if I'm being extremely lenient.
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really it's less that i "believe in open source" and more that, like open, not-paywalled access to scientific knowledge, i find the alternative kinda unconscionable
@rune I''m really fascinated by people just sort of... assuming that everyone agrees that "doesn't scale to massive audience" is a bug that needs fixing
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Every time someone on fedi explains that lots of small instances "just doesn't scale" I smile and go "GOOD 
" in my head.
Is it a cool feature of fedi if it's expensive to have thousands and thousands of followers? Yep
Are there scaling problems for normal people who interact with a normal amount of people? Nope
Should we care? Nah
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A comment I made to a friend about the value of learning to use nonproprietary tools:
"Having a box I'm told not to open makes me uneasy. I'd rather learn than worry."
@mynameistillian I've had relatively more success by pointing out "if it were just stealing, there wouldn't be a separate law for it, we already have a law for stealing" and often that's enough of a "wait hold on a moment" for someone to be more open to reconsidering
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ranting, 'frontend', web development
And to make this explicit, though I suspect it'd be implicitly understood by most: that means I want to learn more new things from women, non-binary creatures, Black folks, disabled folks, plural collectives, and so on, and so forth, everybody who tends to get drowned out of the Tech Discourse(tm).
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ranting, 'frontend', web development
When I was younger, I used to enjoy reading articles about web development. About new CSS or browser features, novel ways of solving issues, browser compatibility things, and so on. Most of the sites and blogs with these articles were maintained by enthusiasts. There was so much cool stuff to discover and learn!
Now the whole "frontend" (what happened to "web development"? Not everything is a damn app) world has been taken over by fancy VC-funded startups so hard that you almost can't read an article about anything "frontend" without it trying to goad you into some proprietary service or "pattern" that's tailored around a specific company's offerings - and I can't even link most resources to others without implicitly advertising some tech company with a higher body count than some governments.
And if you manage to avoid *those*, you then end up on the Deep Philosophical Thoughts of Very Smart Men who have never in their lives looked at anything from the perspective of anyone besides themselves. And they probably are working for those *same fucking companies*, too.
This fucking sucks. I want to learn new things from other folks with nothing up their sleeves again. From enthusiasts who tinker and discover. Who might have a different perspective. And who actually enjoy the process.
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Yeah uh I don't think I'll be buying a Yubikey again, if this is the grade of support to expect, what the fuck
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Man, the Yubikey software is some absolute hot garbage.
"Oh yeah to scan QR codes under Wayland you need to have gnome-screenshot installed [which doesn't work on anything other than GNOME] [because we couldn't be bothered to implement the screen capture protocol correctly]"
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I've haven't heard a ton of people talking about this, so I wanted to spread it. The state of California has removed 4 outdated hydroelectric dams that were blocking the breeding ground for Chinook salmon. This removal unflooded 2200 acres of land, and in preparation for this removal Native American tribes have been collecting and breeding seeds of native plants. They took these seeds and planted them along the restored river bank, taking the first steps to restoring the area. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/before-and-after-photos-show-californias-unprecedented-dam-removal/ar-AA1rMwPg
Edit: different link incase the first one doesn't work: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/01/climate/klamath-dam-salmon/index.html
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bad vibes company alert
that's, upsetting.
company in melbourne appropriating the "spoony" label to try and get a bunch of disabled people to join their custom social network
it is VC-funded, and even if the people running it are disabled themselves this still strikes me as inherently bad
link is https://spoony.app, and it has very bad vibes all around
they also have very strange terms, like… you guarantee to be as authentic as possible and not "misrepresent" your age, identity, etc., which like. I have a feeling this is supposed to be a "don't pretend to be oppressed when you're not" rule, but it feels more like "we will very carefully scrutinise your identity and banish you if you don't follow our rules"
they also say they're moderated with "AI and humans" and given how they supposedly have less than 10 employees I have a strong suspicion that it's mostly not humans
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remember to not invalidate people's struggles! what's easy for you might be difficult for someone else.
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genre is a content warning
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okay this sounds like a shitpost but the difference between "I don't want to watch a romcom right now" and "I don't want to watch a movie with an emotionally abusive mother right now" is not ... like, these are not statements from different planets
it feels like people hate content warnings the same way people hate pronouns - which is to say, they're perfectly okay with them until they are made the focus of attention, at which point they suddenly get reinterpreted as something alien and foreign and probably villainous
and like
they're the same thing
even when you're not focusing on them
@Tak @karinjiri Wow, that sucks actually. How do mobile browsers *still* get this wrong?
@karinjiri Is the "full precise timestamp" alt/title text that those systems typically implement, not sufficient for you to address this? If not, why not?
(That's a genuine question; the answers are useful for design choices in my own projects)
@baldur It seems that they often seem to perceive leadership to mean "the ability to force other people to do things that are in my interest" which, well, explains why so many of those folks who consider Mullenweg/DHH "great leaders" are white men.
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"How bad were the billionaires?"
"Just one of them managed to ruin the sky for everyone. The sky."
- 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
