Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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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There is passing privilege, but there is also the privilege of not having to pass, it’s way more nuanced than black and white passing bad or passing good
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Passing is neither the end all be all of being trans, nor is it simply something you can ignore and trivialize, it’s an important mechanic of the trans experience and the way you deal with the concept is related to your geographical, socio-political and socio-economic realities
Yes maybe passing is “bullshit” if you’re a middle class tech workers in a progressive European Capital, but it absolutely is life or death in regressive countries where being trans is illegal and may result in a death penalty
Passing is like an unequally distributed social lubricant that like conventional beauty can become an obsession to the detriment of your life quality, but it’s also a tool of survival, and I feel most takes on the morality of passing really are way too personal and don’t generalize in the slightest
Hoe vertaal je "amatonormatief" naar het Nederlands, eigenlijk?
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have physicists determined yet why it is that when you drop a small item it always, always disappears? even when it had a fairly predictable path & you watched it fall & there was no reason for it to bounce or shoot off in a weird direction or anything
And like, I understand *why* the fork exists, but it doesn't change that this is a completely non-viable requirement that's keeping me from even trying to use Qt with Node...
Every few months I look at nodegui and want to try it out, then am reminded that it uses a fork of Node called Qode which... is 2 years of security updates behind on upstream 😐
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Unsurprisingly in light of yesterday's news, Omnivore exports are taking somewhat longer than the advertised 1 hour to be delivered...
re: Told to remove accessibility feature.
@JohannaMakesGames I frequently adjust the volume settings of specific parts of the audio to prevent headaches from certain sound (patterns). Honestly if a game didn't let me do this, I would likely stop playing the game.
I will never understand Quora's increasing tendency to show you everything *except for* the answers to the question that you asked
re: overanalysing a querdenker/cultist pamphlet
@elilla "this is what I think we're living: *no one* likes the lives tech civ made for us"
Out of curiosity, could you share more thoughts/elaboration on that?
(I think I know what you mean but it sounds like there's more insights there so I'd rather ask and listen :P)
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yesterday it eeped with a surprisingly good view on the rail infrastructure :3
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- Patricia, you ancient programmer, how does one get good at programming, please share your wisdom.
*thinks*
Well, you write a lot of bad code, like a hole shitton of bad code, then you maintain it for a few years and then you look at it again and say holy shit, and that’s when you know you’ve gotten better. Rinse and repeat for ever.
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please reply to this with either
a) something that you think would make elon musk upset if someone said it to him
b) a thing about elon musk that happened a while back that you feel like everyone else forgot
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I'd sure love to pay a tech co-op $25/month to host and sync a knowledge-workers stack including an open-source read-later + Obsidian or equivalent + Zotero + simple blogging with blot or something
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Today's screams brought to you by Omnivore (open source) giving its entire hosted userbase two weeks to get their data out before they exuberantly drown themselves in the service of an Andreessen Horowitz-funded AI voice company co-founded by a Palantir person.
https://blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore-is-joining-elevenlabs
(The two weeks' notice went to my spam folder, so I'm grateful someone mentioned it here and I happened to see it.)
@kissane For what it's worth, if this ends up turning into a new coop (judging from various of the other comments), I'd be interested in joining - I have experience with wrangling low-cost hosting setups (and reliability on a shoestring budget, basically), and can do sysadmin work, though I am somewhat limited in scheduling.
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@ifixcoinops (And in the rare case that it doesn't, I can usually find a new purpose or home for the old thing anyway)
@ifixcoinops I imagine that that's going to be something that's different for different folks; I don't tend to have a lot of choice paralysis issues because I tend to follow a heuristic that I've picked up from elsewhere: buy the cheapest option that looks acceptable, it'll probably be fine, and if it turns out not to be fine, that means that I'm far enough into the hobby to get something better! Works a lot better when you don't quite know yet what's going to stick (in the absence of better options like hobby exchange schemes).
It's very rare for something to not suffice on the first try.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
