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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- 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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A320 cockpit
I was trying to sneak photos of the cockpit and the pilots saw and just invited us in to see it and stuff, was so cool omg
Okay by this point I'm *convinced* that Mastodon is eating a bunch of my favs. I'm *certain* I've favourited things that now show up as not favourited.
If you could choose one piece of software you wanted to exist, something that just does one simple thing and which right now you can't find (because eg. everything is bogged down in subscription or enshittification nonsense), what would it be? 
Hmm. What do people actually use office suites for nowadays?
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OH: “I’m not genderfluid, I’m diversifying my gender portfolio”
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boundaries, somewhat negative
i wish someone had sat me down and talked to me about boundaries when i was 15 or so. like, my boundaries, not other people's, i did get taught about those. i wish they had told me that if i don't want to do something that isn't a job or a chore, i don't have to do it. that if i don't want to be touched or have sex, it doesn't have to happen. i think that one conversation would've saved me from many bad situations.
i think it's a related, but separate concern from safety. the adults around me talked about safety a lot. but it always assumes there's someone evil who wants to do something bad to you. it's a very simplistic view. people are complex. cartoon villains don't exist.
dunno. i know all that now. it took me longer than it should've.
if i ever have children, making sure they don't have to learn it by trial and error will be one of my top priorities.
i think it's a related, but separate concern from safety. the adults around me talked about safety a lot. but it always assumes there's someone evil who wants to do something bad to you. it's a very simplistic view. people are complex. cartoon villains don't exist.
dunno. i know all that now. it took me longer than it should've.
if i ever have children, making sure they don't have to learn it by trial and error will be one of my top priorities.
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I wonder if anyone has a copy of Tatort Episode 430, “Tödliches Labyrinth” (1999) or Episode 691 “Tod einer Heuschrecke” (2008) (they were in parts filmed at c-base)
spicy? take, GNOME/GTK
@silvermoon82 I've evaluated it a few times over the years and it has never taken me more than, say, 30 minutes, to run into a significant problem, and I don't even need very many accessibility accommodations.
I'm sure they have better 'accessibility' in a very narrowly-defined sense (assistive tool integration, that sort of thing) but I absolutely would not say that they are 'designing for accessibility' in a broader sense
spicy? take, GNOME/GTK (2)
I don't really know how people expect me to take a desktop environment seriously that defaults to a narrow font and doesn't let you change it without some absurd hackery
spicy? take, GNOME/GTK
The usability of the new-ish GNOME/GTK stuff is great! ... unless you need literally any kind of disability accommodation, ever
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Scrollbars are becoming a problem
https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html
I'm joining the war on scrollbars, on the side of the scrollbars
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Vind iemand die naar je kijkt zoals de huisgenoot keek toen hij erachter kwam dat we bijna door de vieze biologische koffie van de goedkope aanbieding heen zijn
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Moderation related pet-peeve
Whenever some moderator goes "some person shouldn't be doing this to staff member/moderator" I die a little.
There aren't a lot of things that shouldn't be done to member of moderation, that can be done to anyone else in a community. Implying moderation/staff is some protected class deserving more protection from rule breaking behavior is simply disgusting. If someone is harassing or behaving rude - it doesn't matter if its done to a community member or a moderator. You moderate it just the same.
Separating creatures into staff/non staff creates double standards and it's awful. Bleh.
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Haiku domain PSA
The domain of the Haiku Project (haiku-os.org) domain has just expired, due to autorenewal failure. Do not visit links from the main site or any associated subdomains until the domain has been renewed.
I made this PSA in Haiku Community Discord earlier today too, but I've been seeing people in the Fediverse asking about this so it's posted here too.
In the meantime, there is still the official Haiku IRC/Matrix channel on OFTC (#haiku:oftc.net) and the various unofficial Haiku communities:
Discord: https://discord.gg/8KsjHbW
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/haikuosgroup/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=165215
reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/haikuOS/
Vk: https://vk.com/haiku_os
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/haiku-os/
Telegram: https://t.me/haiku_os
@being Would be very situationally dependent. I would primarily be grateful, though uncomfortable if I got the impression that they rifled through private things without asking. I guess whether that's the case depends on what 'deep cleaning' is understood as.
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layoffs
And like, I'm not saying that "big names getting laid off" is some kind of perfect indicator of anything, it's just that they seemed to be the last ones still standing after the past few waves of firings
layoffs
Cannot help but notice that even the 'big names', those well-known in the community, etc. in a lot of tech places are starting to get laid off with barely any notice, in addition to just about everyone else, and am now wondering who tech companies are actually still employing
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Friendly reminder, if you stopped masking due to social pressure, anxiety, or for any other reason, and you wanna mask up again, you absolutely can! Lots of folks never stopped masking and some folks are starting again because of the cold and flu season on top of national COVID spikes.
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp
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#poll for folks who make art regularly as a hobby: how long do you usually spend working on a given art project?
- 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
