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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- 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
Corollary: if you are organizing a hacker event that *does* have safety precautions, please let me know! I'll probably be interested in attending, if it's viable to travel there from here.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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top ten weird thing about the computer is that it doesn't really matter how much you know about it you'll still get randomly humbled like every few weeks by, whoops, surprise, i had a filename wrong the whole time, or i wasn't actually building what i thought i thought i was, or whatever
you get better at figuring out which way the computer has humbled you today, but overall i'd rate the experience of trying to make it do what i mean as "excruciating"
Time for the - I guess yearly by this point... - toot again:
No, I will not be at #38c3. I *could* have squeezed it into my schedule despite an upcoming transplantation, but they have *once again* failed to implement any COVID safety measures.
A few days of Congress is not worth the risk of brain damage or (in my case) severe illness or death.
If you want to see me at your event, push for appropriate safety precautions like sufficient ventilation/filtering and (particularly where that is not possible) mask distribution and ideally masking requirements.
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ACAB
honestly i want a crime drama/police show that actually does the inverse of copaganda and has the main character realize that they are a pawn in the system which is designed to enact violence on people for financial and political gain and they were lied to their entire life. they try to change it from the inside but then realize that they can't do it and the only way to do so is destroy it.
also could apply to a war movie tbh
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4 years ago I convinced the HOA board to leave the leaf litter for the insects to winter in.
Now every summer we have so many fireflies.
New guy just moved in and asked if he should rake up the common areas.
A literal child stood up to say that he shouldn't because they will not have summer fireflies if he does.
So proud of the little one starting to advocate for the world they want to live in.
6 years told and already learning how to get things done.
The leaves will stay.
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@Peetz0r Because money, it seems. Kind of the predictable outcome of their high-spend approach to protocol development (which I'd already warned them about before but they were *sure* wasn't going to be a problem)
@Peetz0r It was apparently mentioned in a recent Matrix Live, and came up in a TWIM room
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@joepie91 idk but whoever told me about Open Scanner deserves many thanks. F Adobe, but I need to be able to scan documents with my phone since the HP scanner and printer I own refuses to connect to T-Mobile Internet, therefore I can’t even use it connected to my laptop with a cord.
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what do I think of Germany denazifying after world war 2? I think It's been like 80 years and they should probably hurry up and get on with it
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"Behind every error blamed on computers there are at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer."
Apparently matrix.org runs Synapse Proprietary now.
Did someone make a list of "AI-free alternatives to software" yet?
@Sparkwave Well, the good news is that all the 20-year-old techniques for progressive enhancement still work fine today! You can pick up basically any article on the topic, written at any time, and learn how to approach it.
The bad news is that with the deterioration of search engines, it's become harder and harder to actually find that sort of article anymore 😐
Either way it's pretty much just a culture/community problem. If you personally care about getting it right, then it's entirely possible to do so today! I still build things with progressive enhancement by default today.
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@wheeze_NL It was something about sentences where some words were replaced with a bold-printed word like 'adjective' as a placeholder to create a template, something about superheroes.
I don't recall enough to know whether it was *good*, but I do remember thinking after waking up "huh. this is *exactly* in the style I would expect from a real XKCD"
@bananas Unfortunately this is a completely typical conversation. The only thing that makes this conversation special enough to warrant posting here, is that it happens to be condensed enough to fit into a screenshot - usually they drag on for longer. I could have this conversation every single day if I wanted, probably multiple times, with different people each time.
But like, almost the entire webdev industry is like this, often worse - at least this person did acknowledge progressive enhancement being useful *in principle*. You don't even get that from most.
As some additional context: the other person in this screenshot is not a beginner. They are a professional web developer who has been around in this community for years, and who builds production systems.
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Just released a page about Air to Ground Signals, which is about how to communicate with aircraft in the sky when on land, or the water, in the event of an accident.
- 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
