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.
- 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
... why are query stanzas in XMPP called "IQ" again?
(I know what it stands for, that is not the question)
Suggesting Gemini or Gopher to someone looking for a Chrome alternative, or suggesting Markdown and Git to someone looking for a Wordpress alternative, is like suggesting a bicycle to someone looking for a car alternative.
Yes, it's technically possible that it will solve their problem - but more likely than not, it is completely the wrong thing to recommend because it isn't even the same *kind* of thing.
Please, when recommending 'alternatives' to people, don't just assume that because you personally like something, it's a good recommendation - actually make the effort to understand what someone is asking for, which may not even be something you've ever needed!
(And I say this as someone without a car, with a bicycle, and who uses Git and Markdown for their blog, so don't bother with the "you just don't understand how much better it is" please.)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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As I'm doing a lot of accessibility testing these days I feel like I need to re-share this 5 year old blog post. :)
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So I've learned that RedBox has gone bankrupt and is shutting down. Apparently property owners are getting quotes as high as $1000 from companies who will contract to haul the machines away. I know several hackers interested in them, however, and would be willing to take one or two for free. If you are in central Florida and have a RedBox machine you no longer want on your property, you can reach out to me and I'll put you in touch with someone who will take care of it for you and re-home it.
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more games should have full color support for names. per-character.
xonotic has that and it's really nice to be able to put pride flags just in your name. (xonotic's impl is only 4 bits per channel but that's enough generally speaking)
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cw boost: fucking neonazis pretending they aren't
@rail_ I imagine that's maybe not viable from a funding perspective? Going off how badly public OSM tileservers tend to fare (mainly because of shitty companies leeching off them and using a crapton of bandwidth inefficiently)
@lnl Yep, that's pretty much how I looped around to "huh. I guess custom protocols are dead" - the fact that everything seems to have a web-based version now
@jon Definitely. Though that's usually not due to journalistic philosophy :)
I think the distinction matters mainly because the handful of journalists who *do* actually have journalistic integrity specifically, tend to be used to (unreasonably) shield the entire profession...
@jon I would say that there are definitely specific journalists that have particular integrity which is driven by a journalistic philosophy, but this is indeed absolutely not true for "journalists" as a broader category of people, in my experience...
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we have any USA-based tax/lawyer types here on the fedi? i need some basic guidance.
For some reason this hadn't occurred to me before, but I guess that basically every messaging and chat platform nowadays is just a HTTP or WebSocket API? Instead of a custom protocol?
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it's weird how there's a whole class of fake news that's just reposting stories from 8+ years ago without context and pretending it's happening right now
@jalcine (that post is only visible with a Bluesky account, FWIW)
I'm currently really enjoying these mixes: https://www.youtube.com/@Shell_PL/videos - high variety and only uplifting, it seems!
CW-boost: politics, philosophy, agency, centrism
Dutch food
stroop is pancake glitter
geklaag over FTM, content warnings
Hoewel ik content warnings graag meer gebruikt zie worden, zal ik iets of iemand niet snel direct erop aanspreken.
Maar FTM maakt het wel heel erg bont; dan denk je een artikel te gaan lezen over retentie van gegevens door politie, dan krijg je ineens een gedetailleerde omschrijving van een gruwelijke moord in je gezicht gegooid in de inleiding, zonder enige waarschuwing vooraf.
What the fuck, FTM, had daar nou echt even geen waarschuwing vooraf vanaf gekund? Dit gaat echt wel heel erg ver.
@bert_hubert Zo dan, daar had wel even een content warning bij gemogen (ook vanuit @FTM_nl) voor die introductie, zeg...
- 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
