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.
- 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
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re: computer complaining, docker, containers, why god
you know what rocks? clear dependency specification that is resolvable on lots of different kinds of host systems that allows for near-reproducible environments
you know what sucks? just sort of being like "the operating system is the unit of abstraction" and throwing a bunch of shit in a fucking trash pile
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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re: computer complaining, docker, containers, why god
you know i'm starting to think that this whole "docker" thing might be "fucking bullshit" and "a scam designed for cloud engineers with infinity resources at gigantic megacorporations" instead of "a reasonable technology for human beings"
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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The correct answer to the question "do #audiobooks count as reading?" is not a simple yes or no. It's "yes, now please stop gatekeeping".
@ireneista Weird but serious suggestion: only ever track the most recent pageview (URL + time, maybe user agent, nothing else), filter out known search spiders, and occasionally have a look at what the most recent pageview was. Then infer how frequently it is visited. Once a new pageview appears it replaces the old one in memory.
Firefox Inspector's Accessibility tab is showing me 0 issues on my page design and now I can't tell whether the issue detector is broken or I just somehow got all of it right on the first try 
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@rune That is my understanding.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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this is a 
De Lijn appreciation post
✅ good tracking, with app that actually works
✅ nicely designed bus stop flags
✅ cool bluetooth feature to find the bus you're on
✅ contactless payment, with >1 person per card even
✅ timetable sensibly connects to mainline trains
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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public health idea: increase vaccination rates by referring to new seasonal vaccines as "limited edition drops"
If you want a practical example, here's one: a lot of edge cases are simply not supported in "digitalized" versions of government processes, because it would be prohibitively expensive to develop support for those few edge cases; things that could previously be handled on a case-by-case basis by a government employee just fine. And now they just can't, because the 'offline' infrastructure is no longer there.
Every once in a while I am reminded of how fucked it is that we're almost forcibly moving all social and bureaucratic processes 'online', without ever recognizing that all those things that "nobody wants to host" and "nobody wants to be responsible for" are now just outright impossible, even though they were widespread and perfectly fine things to do 'offline' before.
(This may sound like it's referencing a specific thing but it's not - there are *so many* things that this applies to)
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I think more applications should have the search menu that blender has. It's so good. If you can't remember where something is in the menu tree you just hit f3 (or space... depends on your bindings) and then type what you want to do. It's amazing.
(All of these are obviously subject to change as culture and expectations change, they're just the best summary that I can give of my current approach)
My protest photo boosting policy, broadly:
- I will not boost photos that do not include descriptive text in either alt text, post body, or somewhere in the replies.
- I will not generally boost protest photos without CW; I sometimes make a case-by-base exception when the focus of the post is clearly on the solidarity and coming together, and not the world's misery.
- For photos that show faces, I will try to make a best guess on their context and consequences to decide whether to boost them. Depends on where they come from, pose, topic, and some other things.
- I am slightly (but only slightly) more lenient for photos from Dutch protests, as current protest and photography culture here are different.
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Vandaag was er een sit-in protest op Nijmegen CS. Om iedereen eraan te herinneren dat de bezetting en onderdrukking van het Palestina al vele decennia duurt. En niet pas begon op 7 oktober. Foto-impressie in de post.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Okay, after reading this email, I can shut down my computer and change jobs:
'Dear colleague, the fact that our software does not function after 24 hours is perfectly expected. It depends on many dependencies, and we do not have complete control over all of them. For this reason, we suggest, as a standard practice, a service restart every 12 hours. This will ensure everything functions correctly.
And as a general recommendation, we always suggest restarting all services (if you are using Docker) or the entire server (if you are using a traditional setup) every 3 days, as systems tend to get bogged down over time and need to be optimized.'
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@alterelefant @broadwaybabyto Tja, dan niet he. Maar dan ook straks niet gek opkijken als ze hier "ineens" wel verboden zijn, deal?
@alterelefant @broadwaybabyto You are missing the point. I live in NL. I am telling you that mask ban rhetoric is starting here as well. Instead of looking into it or inquiring, you... start arguing that they are not banned *right now* as if that means there is no problem?? How do you think mask bans in the US started, exactly?
- 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
