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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question (boosts okay): has anyone successfully redeemed an International Reply Coupon with the United States Postal Service?
I tried a few months back and was told that local post offices can choose not to accept them
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I made an awful bird joke at work today and got glared at by my coworker. I’m counting that as my win for the week
health, immunosuppressants, meta-ish but personal
@serapath Unfortunately my kidney disease is one that has affected both of my kidneys equally, and I only have 10% remaining kidney function.
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complaining
Looking for a job in IT is a fucking paradox where it is implicitly expected you do some cool personal projects on the side to impress potential employers, but can't dedicate time to cool side projects, because you should be looking for a job.
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Fantastic talk by @mntmn about open hardware!
As I reported yesterday, the airflow in Hall H is bad :( #38c3 #38c3novid
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Hall Glitch not doing great. Packed, closed room for iOS exploitation talk
#38c3 #38c3novid
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i don't know who needs to hear this, but you can turn off the autoplay on mouse over on YouTube by going into your account settings
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My new coffee machine wants to be connected to the internet. I am not letting it connect to the internet. If it’s bored, it can read a book.
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ACAB
@kescher ah yeah, that's a problem.
i genuinely wish movies and tv series included settings or some alternative visuals that are more disability/seizure friendly. like you could switch them on like colorblindness filters on your phone
@epilanthanomai One that comes to mind, though maybe in an unexpected category: Brabantia, a houseware brand that is widely available in NL. Affordable but not cheap (outside of discounts), and pretty consistent quality and well-though-out design. It's surprised me a few times now.
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Hey tech folks. Real talk. What companies do you know that seem to mostly avoid sacrificing long-term quality for a fast bottom line?
I'm talking about this tendency people have been noting for decades now, where companies rush for a big feature announcement and build something that barely holds together, and when it doesn't make enough money they rinse and repeat.
Who do you know that doesn't do that, or that does it less?
Please boost; I'd really love to hear broad responses.
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I love that with #GoToSocial, I can do full-text search on my toots (and toots that are replies to mine), without running an external indexer.
I love that it doesn't try to encourage opting into a public index. It doesn't even support that. And that's great.
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honestly the world of league of legends/arcane is so amazing and stunning. it has so much potential. it's giving magic the gathering and shit. it's just so sad they wasted it all on a videogame populated by white incels who have the patience of a grenade without a pin
i guess arcane saved that potential, in a way, though
fedi meta
@ifixcoinops "competence and frustration are not mutually exclusive"
@khaleer_art @mynameistillian Partly that, partly it was pushed through the interface guidelines (and mechanisms) of Windows Forms, IIRC.
I do think a lot of the customizability and empowerment at the time was more accidental 'collateral benefit' than some grand plan to deliberately improve the world, but for a brief period in time, *we had it*!
personal vent, vague
Where's the magical switch that stops unqualified people from endlessly telling me "you are not going to achieve the results you want" when I have 15 years of evidence that my approach does, in fact, work
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Masculinity, trans men, personal experience
There was a point in my life where I felt like being a man was bad, where being masculine was something inherently wrong, I must admit that Fedi did a great job at making me feel worse about it…
I guess that the reason of why I vibe with trans men so much is because… they were there for me, they taught me that being a man was good, they were extremely supportive of me, no cis person was ever able to make me feel this happy about my own gender, and I feel like that is something important that has to be mentioned.
Trans people make my existence better, I love you all.
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After 6 months and about 333 commits I proudly present:
Faircamp 1.0 – A static site generator for audio producers
https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/
To recap the highlights of the past months and learn what's new in the final 1.0 release, check out the blog post: https://simonrepp.com/posts/faircamp-1.0/
Development of version 1.0 was made possible through the amazing support, funding and expertise of the @NGIZero programme and coalition, led by the @nlnet foundation and financed by the European Commission's @EC_NGI initiative – thank you so much for giving me and everyone benefitting from a better Faircamp this incredible opportunity!
Also, many thanks to all faircampers, contributors, testers, translators, bloggers, podcasters and encouraging voices for supporting this journey - for the final 1.0 release specifically to @branpos for release candidate testing, @n00q for bugreporting/testing, @limebar for the external artist page feature inspiration and @Vac for their diligent translation work.
Along with this release I've published multiple new documentation resources - from an official Linux/macOS/Windows tutorial to a 1.0 migration guide, from an overhauled reference manual to a beginner's guide to publishing faircamp (or any!) static sites - check out the website and recent posts in the #faircamp hashtag to discover them!
That's all!
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honesrly the most difficult part of art is unlearning the fear of sucking. as a kid you don't really have that, but somewhere along growing up you come to fear it not being good, but that's the devil talking. Art is true fuck around and find out, and you'll never find out if you're scared to fuck around.
Your drawings of hands are gonna look shit at first, but every good art of hands is built on thousands of bad drawings of them. Your perspective work is gonna look weird as shit at first, but the more you do it the more you'll figure out what you need to do.
Everyone is so extremely quick to shame art that looks beginner or unskilled and it helps nobody. Embrace that your art is unskilled, and do it badly rather than not at all. Whether you just want to draw or want to be good at it, you have to embrace sucking and lose the fear of it, and everyone else has to learn to shut the fuck up unless you asked for criticism
- 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
