Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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.
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- 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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VPN ads from English speaking youtubers: you ever got mad that there are not enough Netflix shows?
24/7 VPN users from totalitarian countries: I just want to fucking use the internet
"Geen vervolgopleiding, wel migratieachtergrond? Grotere kans op celstraf" - een artikel over klassenjustitie (o.a. racisme) in Nederland. De video is ook zeker het kijken waard.
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I'm pretty annoyed RE my #COVID infection.... I think I know who I caught it from. A friend of mine spotted me on campus and walked up to me while my mask was off, and by the time he was in my face I realised he had covid symptoms.
Like why do people lack basic fucking germ theory knowledge?! It's 2024, and IMO, its incredibly fucking rude to breathe in the face of anyone while youre symptomatic with any contagious disease!!!!
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[picking up the phone]
ryanair hiring manager: our other candidate fell through, are you still interested in this role? we can pay you €50,000
me: sorry, since you didn't make me an offer right away, i'm now demanding at least €90,000
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[interviewing for the position of UX Designer at Ryanair]
interviewer: tell me about your last role
me: I added 7 screens to the checkout flow and single-handedly reduced customer satisfaction by 63%
interviewer: [gasping excitedly] when can you start
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Anyway if you think the "danger, Will Robinson" styling of CWs in the new Masto skin is as dismissive as it is infantilising - or it's just not for your site - drop the css in reply into your custom css and be 
wuvoo, kiss kiss
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@joepie91 Haha ik weet nog dat ik in de brugklas bij economie deze termen leerde en dat ik toen heel erg in de war was om deze reden. En de docent begreep mijn verwarring niet.
@eloy In principe wel, maar dan gaan mensen er toch weer vanuit dat je de 'gangbare' betekenis bedoelt... die kans is verkeken, ben ik bang
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Seems to suggest a disconnect between the dev team and the user community, but what do I know?
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It's amusing how, after each Masto update, my feed turns into a chorus of "suck it, website boy!" as admins sort out how to override and undo this version's nasty UX surprises and questionable choices.
@welshpixie This feels like a gameshow quiz question
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@ExperimentV Do you have a link where I can read more about this, by any chance?
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in this essay, i won't
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fediverse CW field curb cut effect
yes, you can use the CW tool to give content warnings for material that requires content warnings, like news stories about ongoing atrocities or unsolicited suggestions to strangers
...but now that the technology exists, you can also use it for literally any information you want to offer to contextualize the post for those reading it
we love using the CW field to say when we're novice-blogging (talking about something we're not very knowledgeable about), as a kind of tone-indicator thing when we're posting brain nonsense, when we just feel self-conscious about taking up space ... it's handy
pointers on how to change CSS in Firefox
@aeva Pretty much. Stylus was originally developed in response to proprietary platforms that let you change absolutely nothing and use no third-party clients, and in that context "keyed by domain" and "the version is whatever currently runs" are reasonable assumptions... they just do not transfer to self-hosted software very well 🙃
@bellitre @aral People are definitely affected by the environment they grow up in (and *maybe* genetically, though that's much more questionable), but that's never an excuse not to learn and change.
At most, it makes it harder for specific people to learn and change specific things, and that is something to take into account and make room for; but it doesn't remove the responsibility for them to do the best they can, and if someone doesn't do the work of learning and changing at all, that's a _choice_.
So, adapting slower? Sure, understandable. Not adapting at all? Not an option.
Some very important context here is that the "they just are that way and it's hard to change" argument is only ever used to defend privileged people from any hardship. Marginalized people usually don't get that choice; they are *expected* to adapt, or die. That is why I do not accept an "I just can't do that".
pointers on how to change CSS in Firefox
@aeva Sort of; it has a "themes other people created" gallery, and some people do keep their custom styles up-to-date against changes. However I think it keys by domain name, so I'm not sure that's actually useful for Mastodon...
I suppose you could search directly in the galleries it searches, and fork them for your own domain? But then you'd also have to pull in updates yourself.
pointers on how to change CSS in Firefox
@aeva You can do it without a plugin by editing your userstyles I think, otherwise there's Stylus (not Stylish! That's malware), which has a nicer UI for it.
@steeph Oh I actually didn't see the outcome 😅
(Some very old blank DVDs are still getting regularly burned here for the PS2, and your picture showed no visible disk rot, so that's what I was basing my guess on)
- 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
