Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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
And I should note that I am saying this with an acute awareness of React having problems of its own, and being unamused by its internal complexity, and not *really* liking it.
But I've also learned not to trust promises of solutions that don't come with a clear understanding of the problem domain attached, because it usually means that someone is trying to sell you something, for money or otherwise.
I would take criticisms of the React model a lot more seriously if those criticisms actually critized, y'know, the React model, and weren't just picking on a bunch of badly designed libraries that happen to be built on top of it, or complaining about websites that happen to use it.
The same applies to supposedly 'better alternatives' for React. I'll take those seriously once they demonstrate an actual understanding of the problem space that React tries to inhabit - because very often they are 'better' by simply jettisoning some of the design goals that inform React's design, and so they can't actually replace it.
(Inspired by, but not a subtoot of, another toot about React)
re: politics, kind of a downer, worries, and my living situation
@mynameistillian So, I don't think that's a fool's plan, to be honest! Sure, you should do some preparation work to make sure you don't burn through your money faster than necessary (eg. staying in hotels gets expensive fast), but I don't think there's any point in waiting for perfect circumstances either. All you really need is enough 'runway' to get yourself into a better space and figure out what to do next.
re: politics, kind of a downer, worries, and my living situation
@mynameistillian (Are replies wanted?)
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Anyway! People talk to me about feeling weird about writing and there’s this whole complex about innate talent and like, “who should calls themselves a writer,” and meh, I’m not having it.
Clearer and more structured thinking through writing is our birthright, and although we all start at different points and with different brain architectures, if you want to write you should write! And if you do it like any other mindful and reflexive practice you will develop deeper and subtler power. 🌬️
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I want to think out loud about writing for a second before I go into proper weekend mode, so if you hate that and find it self-indulgent or whatever, this is your warning. (I think feeling weird about feeling weird about writing is what keeps people from writing, and I don’t think gatekeeping about it is anything but an unproductive and ego-protective bummer, myself, but that’s just me.)
relating to personal experience, writing
@kissane I recognize a lot of this from the way I write; often when I finally write an article, it's the result of discussing a topic with people for years, to a level of depth that approximates writing ad-hoc articles each time. It takes forever!
I've been experimenting a bit lately with reviewing and editing less before publishing an article, and I've found that it doesn't seem to matter much for how much people appreciate the end result, and how effective it is. At least for me, it seems that the slowness of writing has been mostly to satisfy my own standards rather than that of anyone else, and at least some part of the lengthy process has been a matter of diminishing returns.
@jonty It often feels like there's a sort of bell curve where the most conflict occurs in the massive communities (because it's impossible to maintain social cohesion) and the tiny communities (because every disagreement feels like a mortal threat to the community's continued existence) and there's just one fairly small range of 'community size' where things can actually be stable, big enough to weather some broken ties but not so big that ties start breaking due to scale alone
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Social Media Sites if they were Table Top Roleplay NPCs, a thread.
1) Tumblr. A very well dressed, witty and urbane goblin, that keeps stealing sandwiches and making a nest out of stripy knee length socks. Has ninety seven different celebrity shrines.
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@reinderdijkhuis I submitted ten of my best puns to a pun contest, knowing that one of them would win. But no pun in ten did.
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Was für Covid-Schnelltests (oder ähnliches) will eins denn aktuell haben?
@freakazoid Most of my experience in terms of 'garbage' is Steam (which doesn't seem to have the most basic dependency management functionality...) but if Nexus Mods' site is any indication, then I don't expect their mod manager to be any better, no
@Riedler I find it kind of baffling that this doesn't really seem to exist, to be honest
Are there any game-agnostic(!) mod managers for Linux that are compatible with the Steam Workshop and ideally also other mod sources, and that are not complete garbage?
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i'm not citing shit and i'm not bringing receipts but we have the best in-character bot-like-but-not-bot accounts in the fediverse who will absolutely break character to share love and comfort when times are particularly hard. that's community shit right there. fuckin love it. hell yeah, y'all anonymous folk runnin those accounts. much love.
I wonder how many solutions to scientific or technical problems got dismissed and "lost" because they didn't quite have the right set of tradeoffs for the problem that someone was trying to solve at the time, even though they could've solved many other people's problems
@shoofle Well, that's a familiar feeling for sure...
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I was doing two activities yesterday when I noticed I was getting tired of doing them. I exercised self control and stopped doing them even though that was very difficult. Today I am trying not to do them until I'm sure I want to do them and I'm not just trying to fill time.
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i sent this devon price piece to a friend who has expressed stuff like this (i think archive .is is back up if you don't substack)
Dr. Devon Price - How Do I Become Less Obedient?
https://substack.com/@drdevonprice/p-137545860
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talking about resistance but you're too embarrassed even wear a mask in public
- 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
