Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
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someone's firefox is making bursts of up to 50 requests every 5 seconds. logs show 185k requests in a 12 hour period. that's like half of all requests the server has received over the past week - in 12 hours!! from a single client!! cannot make this up
if you happen to be in poland and use linux with beacondb configured, could you double check if you're running firefox v132? is your isp play.pl? if so, something is very wrong lmao please reach out 🙏
software development
@marlies That's part of the correlation, though - as far as I can tell there's a very particular (I would call it ideological) narrative through which people learn of the term "untyped", and that same narrative includes an extreme oversimplification of typing, something that more or less boils down to "static typing is strictly better than dynamic typing", with no recognition of the tradeoffs.
I can understand how people would end up learning it that way, and it's not something I would *blame* them for personally, but at the same time it does mean that they will also have adopted the corresponding belief. And trying to talk about typing with someone who holds that particular belief is, in my experience, an extremely high-spoons task. And so I generally avoid it.
software development
Someone calling a language like JS or Python "untyped" immediately tells me a lot about their beliefs regarding typing
re: Personal self reflection atp
@jonny I feel like that's true on a... world-scale level? But also important not to overextend to consensus in the general sense, since different forms (eg. small consensus growing outward) are usually viable
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the fact that we never elevated the discussion from "a better way to post about our papers" to "a better way to govern collective information" is our failure, forever.
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train wifi things
Today I found out that considerably more of https://iceportal.de/api1/rs/tripInfo/trip and https://iceportal.de/api1/rs/status can be null than I thought. This train knows practically nothing, the only thing it knows is that it is an ICE, it thinks that the internet is offline (which I am using to post this with) and it also thinks it is in the literal center of Germany.
At least it still knows the time!
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Basically if the work you do isn't somehow threatened by explicit fascism you should probably ask yourself why not https://mastodon.social/@matrig/113570867078894912
venting, web dev, web components
Over the years there's been a couple of folks pushing Web Components very hard, and making one particular argument that has been grating on me: "tools like React are bad tools because they don't support Web Components".
The exact phrasing is usually different, but the implication is always there; Web Components are, well, The Standard(tm) and so anything that doesn't use them is reinventing the wheel and doing so badly.
And it seems like none of these people have ever asked themselves: *why* does it not use WC? WC have been around for a while now, and frameworks have not transitioned to them. Why not? Usually the answer is "because their model is not compatible with them".
And *this* is where things go sour. Because then the answer of WC proponents is usually "well they are badly designed then". And I'm sorry, what? Who made you emperor of design techniques?
If WC are supposedly a neutral standard, yet it cannot support existing widespread usage patterns, *that makes it a bad standard*. It means that your design is too opinionated, and that it's more like a framework than a primitive!
This particular line of reasoning is pretty much the #1 I do not like interacting with WC folks, because sooner or later it always turns into "laundering an opinionated framework design as a standard", and this is what kills agency. We need better building blocks, not an opinion cast down onto us from the heavens.
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I want to better understand how people decide to donate to things. Therefore, a little poll! 
Do you donate to people/projects through Patreon, or through other services? Why or why not? (Please elaborate in the replies if you can.)
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NLpol
Our lovely clown show of a prime minister found out the plans of his government aren't popular at all, and is now asking his government to start talking with the opposition about making better plans that are supported by them.
This is what you get when you make a budget based on resentment without a majority in the senate 🙃
https://nos.nl/artikel/2546449-schoof-roept-coalitie-op-maak-totaalpakket-met-oppositie
A lot of ADHD researchers could be saving a lot of time and "further research required" statements by, y'know, actually asking folks with ADHD what they need
@tanepiper *Really* not a fan of the framing of 'demanding environments' as being stuff like "needing to put food on the table", this 100% feels like a pretext for dropping disability support to me
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Voorwaarschuwing voor de Dutchies hier: maandag is het weer NL-Alert testdag om 12:00. Dus dat gaat wat lawaai uit je telefoon geven.
Early warning for the Dutchies here: Monday it is again NL-Alert test day at 12:00. That will create some loud noise from your phone.
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Got a marketing email from an app that sells train tickets, informing me that their “Crazy Black Friday Sale” is beginning on the 30th November, which is the Saturday
This doesn’t fill me with confidence about their ability to sell me tickets for travelling on the correct date…
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please CW things like "like this post or X will happen". it's not great for folks with OCD and other neurodivergencies
@ramonita (That is, ways to do that that don't boil down to "spending half your energy trying to figure out who the informant is instead of doing useful work")
@ramonita I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but do you have any reading recommendations about how to deal with managing trust in action groups better than... whatever the fuck that group-hopping nonsense is?
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hello, you who are on bluesky. can I ask a favor? can you make some noise about #rescueTransRescue over there? share a link to the shop or the site, talk about the stickers, etc. I would be very grateful!
shop: https://ko-fi.com/inherentlee/shop
site: https://rescue-trans-rescue.glitch.me/
edit: and feel free to link your posts in response to this one!
- 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
