Sven Slootweg @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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Does anyone here on fedi work for a (preferably small) online retailer, and want to pull some strings internally to get me a price feed? I don't really care what format it is in, and country doesn't matter either. 
I'm trying to make a non-commercial product price comparison site (I'm absolutely sick of the affiliate spam everywhere and "just use Amazon" isn't good for society either) and it's extremely difficult to find public price feeds for anything.
The point here is to have a credible place to point people at when they ask "okay so where do I buy $thing then" that isn't itself a store, because monopolization is bad for everyone and 'ease of search in one place' is a big part of why people use Amazon. But writing price scrapers is taking forever!
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Networking!!!
I used to naively think networking would be a neat way to meet people with common experiences and interests and make friends! Yay!
Heh, silly fox 
“Networking” is either:
1) one of us wants to sell the other something
2) one of us wants a job at the other’s company
Like, that’s it. And you have to play this weird friendly chatty game pretending it’s neither of the above the whole time!
So weird and gross
@bumblebeedc @hvangalen Zou kunnen, geen idee!
@bumblebeedc @hvangalen Overigens nog best een uitdaging om foto's vanuit een rijdende stoomtrein te maken met een telefoon 😅 Uiteindelijk maar een video gedaan en daar een screenshot uitgehaald
@bumblebeedc @hvangalen Oh huh, toch wel? Ik vroeg het me al af. Op Eftepedia stonden opnames gepland voor 1 januari, maar er stond al zo'n studio truck die volgens mij heel duur zijn om op locatie te hebben, dus ik vond het al wel heel vroeg daarvoor...
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forever caught between “I wish I had more friends to talk to I’m lonely” and “I can’t possibly respond to everyone it’s too overwhelming”
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I found out the other day that "penguin" in Mandarin Chinese is literally "business goose" and I haven't been able to think about anything else
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Be careful booking hotels - when we got a room for my grandma's funeral, we called the number listed on the Google business page, Turns out Expedia had hijacked the page and pretended to be the hotel's front desk when I called. Charged us a higher rate than we would've paid had we reached the front desk.
I reported the charge as fraud and my bank is getting me a refund, and I've spoken to the actual hotel to pay them the correct amount directly.
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Okay so according to hCaptcha's support there is no way to get a different kind of puzzle. If you're confronted with this unintelligible AI-generated nonsense you're basically just not able to access whatever site you were trying to use.
I don't think it's possible to score lower in accessibility at this point.
re: Linux/python help wanted
@jollysea I don't have a concrete solution, but I've had similar issues many times on Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu, and they generally boiled down to some packaging jank (either broken package, or conflicts, or stuff like that), and it generally seemed to be an apt problem more than a Python problem. Hopefully that's helpful information.
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Question for my game developer friends out there (please also feel free to boost/share widely!): why do indie games still tend to be closed source, especially compared to indie app ecosystems where there are thriving open source communities?
That’s obviously a super broad question, but I’m open to broad perspectives. :) I’m especially interested in hearing from folks who have been actively involved in video game design, development, publishing, etc.
Inspired by another post, a lot of FOSS projects need to learn the difference between "this problem needs money to solve" and "my approach at solving this problem needs money to be possible".
re: grumbly meta
@jenny753 @welshpixie I see this pattern so often in FOSS and it's immensely frustrating.
Some project lead decides to cosplay a startup, ignores the many many attempts of people contributing low-cost work, and then creates a formal position With Money(tm) which then isn't a large enough amount to actually pay a competent professional, all the while the long-term contributors are left out in the cold unable to pay their bills.
The contributors burn out, some grifter usually gets the paid position (sometimes if you're lucky it's an actual competent professional taking a chance, who then gets bullied out for trying to do their job), tens of thousands of dollars have been burned and the problem still hasn't been solved.
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grumbly meta
The fund to hire a trust & safety person for Masto has, in 24h, gotten enough money to pay my bills for two years.
People throwing money at a white techbro who has consistently NOT had the 'protection of diverse communities' and the 'prioritising of moderation tools' on his agenda since 2016, while myriad projects like blocklist tools and forks of masto with stronger moderation capabilities led by Black and queer folks have been barely scraping by.
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Antiblackness is the root of transphobia part eleventy bajillion
https://www.out.com/gay-athletes/jk-rowling-transphobic-speech-barbra-banda
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@robinhood it's amazing how far a Willingness To Click Everything will get you into an IT career
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“Wow you’re good at computers”
“I just click everything”
“But how did you know which menu it was?”
“I just click everything”
“But then you were able to find the correct thing in the drop-down”
“I just click everything”
“How did you learn the new system so fast?”
“I just click everything”
“You must have some deep systems knowledge”
“I just click everything”
Today in more obscure news: the manufacturer of the de-facto standard municipal trashbin in the Netherlands, has declared bankrupcy
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Actually, come to think of it
Maybe decent Fedi software + migration path is too big an ask for one programmer/team
Maybe the real way to defeat website boy is:
Masto migration software that takes your Masto database and converts it to its closest functioning approximation but for other already-existing Fedi software
- 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
