Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
@forestine The only description I have for design choices like that is "utterly disrespectful of people's time and energy", to be honest, it speaks of a callous sense of self-importance, simply assuming that everyone must always want to read their articles with the greatest haste... it's probably one of my least favourite tech developments of the past decade or so
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@joepie91 the environment canada weather app has them now under a 'messages' tab. the 'messages' are articles about the weather 🤦
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if a business pays a utility bill with cash then it will credit its cash account (decreasing it) and debit its utilities expense account (increasing it)
if a business has sales revenue then it will debit its cash account (increasing it) and credit its sales revenue account (increasing it)
so credit and debit have opposite meanings depending on the type of account
😵💫 😵💫 😵💫
(this is like double entry bookkeeping 101 for babies and all the accountants in the room are like yeah, just get over it)
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Good morning, today we're headed out to join the picket lines of #AFSCME3299 :
https://afscme3299.org/blog/strike-nov2024/
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Reporting a bug
... to megacorp: no reply, maybe a chatbot if you're lucky
... to minecraft modder: fixed 15 minutes later
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Latest news from my bumfucknowhere rural town in Poland
> we have absolutely no public transport whatsoever
> so everyone has to drive a car everywhere, for everything
> that means having to drive to get to work, always
> that means places with lots of workers like the hospital, need a lot of parking spaces
> they obviously don't have enough
> so workers of those places park everywhere around, flooding parking spaces of the neighborhood disproportionately
> local residents complain because they don't have anywhere to park their cars that they also need to use to get to everywhere
who needs public transport anyways, that's socialism when a bus
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with how things are going in regards to public transport in rural Poland, i can bet whatever you want that EVEN if money for a public transport is obtained and/or secured, it's going to be the most nonsensical and pointless schedule of buses imaginable, making it completely useless to everyone.
Add being unreasonably priced on top of that, and you just cooked a public transport network that serves nobody
So ofc local politicians will claim people are ungrateful and can't appreciate the thing they wanted so much. Project will be scrapped and every time it's brought up again to the council it will be dead on arrival because "look, we tried - people like cars" :3
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DAO is all like "but we're decentralized, you can't do that" and the US District Court for the Northern District of California is like “I heard you say you're a general partnership?"
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.422388/gov.uscourts.cand.422388.115.0.pdf
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Experimenting with a design idea for a low-stimuli chat client, specifically the visualization of unread messages and notifications (I cannot sufficiently express my burning hatred for anxiety-inducing bright-red-background notification counts)
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whoever invented work has clearly never heard of bed
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My favorite thing about windows is that if something doesn't work you just can't fix it because it'll say something like "Sorry! Failed to create hotspot! No, we will not give you any additional information!" and like thanks that's so helpful for troubleshooting
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nix understanders of the world! it seems i have encountered a usecase where nix should shine! however, in my attempts to make it work, i have encountered but pain and despair.
please prove me wrong and show me that compiling waybar and all its dependencies with -fsanitize=thread is but a simple nix oneliner.
please prove me wrong and show me that compiling waybar and all its dependencies with -fsanitize=thread is but a simple nix oneliner.
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not to be a far left radical but the concept of jail is one of the most fucked up things that anyone has ever come up with
@bananas (In practice it would be 'loud notification dots' and 'quiet notification dots' and you can configure what it does when, the above is just the default mapping)
@bananas The exact visualization algorithm would have a bit of complexity to it: the current idea boils down to "a ping must always remain visible, even if there have been many non-ping messages after it, but the ordering of dots should still give you an impression of the amount of activity since the ping".
In practice that mostly means it will visualize the last 3 messages, starting the 'fill' from the top (if there's less than 3 then the remainder is light gray placeholder dots), but the pings will 'pile up' once pushed to the top and always remain visible even if there have been many non-pings since.
Some of the ideas that went into the design: the exact notification count doesn't actually *matter*, but you may want to know whether someone just pinged you once or repeatedly; and you might want to get a general idea of whether there's been conversation since the ping, or not. All of those states can be represented with these three dots, without yelling "look at me!" at you all the time.
Experimenting with a design idea for a low-stimuli chat client, specifically the visualization of unread messages and notifications (I cannot sufficiently express my burning hatred for anxiety-inducing bright-red-background notification counts)
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uspol petty and spiteful
i'm sorry i know this is really fucking mean and we'rle all tired of it but i've seen names on here begging, BEGGING for help, the Mastodon4/forHarris tags flooded with disabled people, trans people, homeless people, DESPERATELY BEGGING for some help, whose needs have gone unfulfilled because of the uselessness of liberals. because they thought that the rich woman running for president needed more money
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @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
