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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- 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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@sinbad the main thing you would have missed is an increasingly heavy-handed series of lessons on the topic of how much it's appropriate to trust software companies
@sinbad I care about doing good work, and have told customers so as a freelancer (sometimes in the context of "I will do it right or I will not do it at all"), and that usually results in really strong expressions of appreciation.
In the back of my mind, I cannot help but think "if you are so thankful for me giving a shit, then what the hell has everyone else been shipping for you?"
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Honestly if you left the tech industry a decade ago and sat out all the “big trends” (blockchain, NFTs, metaverse, AI) you could come back in a few years time and have missed precisely nothing of substance
@eniko @bean Hm. To me it feels more like exception handling, at least when using the question mark operator.
But with the benefit that there are compact, inline ways of (selectively) intercepting those errors, and that they have a value representation (which is particularly useful when you need to represent an operation that *partly* failed, like a batch operation). That's something I miss in eg. JS.
(Also I think a lot of the hate for exceptions is bandwagoning and only a very small part of it is based in the genuine criticisms, tbh.)
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Na een volle week met twee begrafenissen blijkt dat mijn ouders nu covid-19 hebben. Ik ben echt ontzettend blij dat zij iedere booster en/of vaccin halen die er te geven is.
Mijn vader is in de 80 en hartpatiënt, mijn moeder is iets jonger en heeft zes jaar geleden een nier gedoneerd.
Het gaat goed met ze, wel veel hoesten, maar de huisarts (heel attent) houdt ze goed in de gaten.
Net kippensoep en wat dropsnoepjes gebracht, dus ik maak me zo iets minder zorgen om hen.
Mijn buurtjes (stukken jonger dan mijn ouders) testten vandaag ook positief, maar die hebben de afgelopen twee jaar geen booster meer gehaald, want het zal zo'n vaart niet lopen. Die liggen nu met flinke koorts uitgeput op bed.
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nickelodeon should host a presidential debate and every time a candidate lies they get slimed
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wish noise cancelling headphones had a setting that inverts their noise cancellation priorities
most of them will filter out everything except speech
we want…kinda the opposite. get rid of the background chatter of people talking, get rid of cars and stuff. leave the birds and the wind and the rustle of leaves.
most of them will filter out everything except speech
we want…kinda the opposite. get rid of the background chatter of people talking, get rid of cars and stuff. leave the birds and the wind and the rustle of leaves.
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Something I've been saying for a while now. If you know how to program and are willing to dig in, you don't need permission to create the online world that you want. But that's not sufficient. Very few people have both the skills and fortitude to do something meaningful on their own. I would go further and say that's not even what we want.
Creating the world we want is always a social problem. Because we need to find like-minded people to join us.
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You and your coworkers should talk about how much you get paid. It is not some secret, that is only giving power to the bosses. They want you to be isolated, solidarity is the enemy of the capitalists.
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Maybe I should make an autistic news channel where I just read whatever bullshit that's coming out, and translate it to "this person thinks they'll make money if you believe what they're saying"
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politics
This Halloween remember: Damage to property matters only so far as it harms actual people.
@pascaline Hmm. Ik heb er mijn twijfels bij of dat wel echt non-profit is, als ik zo eens naar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow.io kijk en dan vooral de aanzienlijke funding daarachter - dit lijkt mij meer op een "non-profit dochter van for-profit bedrijf"-constructie zoals je die wel vaker in de VS ziet, vaak om belastingredenen (en dan is het uiteindelijk wel degelijk for-profit want er is een afhankelijkheidsrelatie).
@Maxnichols Someone happened to link me to this video recently, which talks about exactly this, and what's likely really going on there: https://hax.social/@rallias/113387653018321332
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UDP jokes are unreliable at best. You never know if someone's going to get it
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Most adorable : the conductor had a printed sign "Tickets please" they hold in my sight in the silent area of the train rather than loudly asking for it. They said that'd be more comfortable for everyone than shouting and half of the people in the train were wearing headphones anyway.
I really, really like that idea and their commitment to just print these tiny signs.
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ph+, mh+
tl;dr In just over 2 weeks I will donate a kidney.
Some of you may know that @joepie91 is preparing for a kidney transplant. That kidney is mine. But if everything goes right, not for much longer.
See their post at https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/113227488818373457 for their perspective.
Lots of people have told me IRL that this is a huge thing. But honestly, it was a "no reason not to"-situation. I'm in near perfect health, and otherwise in a situation where the procedure won't really impact my life that much.
@jacksonchen666 Ah but see, this was a food thermometer
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i saw this being floated around again and it felt very apt lately.
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It's my last day of being a Pumpkaboo before the spell is lifted and I may return to my dragon form!
I have had a lot of fun as a Pumpkaboo and I'm especially looking forward to pumpkin carving today, though as a Pumpkaboo I certainly have some mixed feelings.
- 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
