Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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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Succubard's Library
AI, Psychology, quote-boost
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and you really aren't supposed to not have a mailing address in your home country. or spend like over a month outside it. the world isn't made to handle people who do.
health, meds
So this is what my post-transplantation morning medication looks like now (which is one of four medication moments, though it is the biggest pile)
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One of the themes for #FluConf2025 is "open licensing and business models".
A lot of people on the fediverse will probably take that to mean *software licensing*, but we're interested in a much broader range of topics.
We want to hear about open licenses for scientific publications, data, art, games, text, and whatever else we haven't thought of.
Share why you think it's important. Write about how overly permissive commons are being enclosed by corporations. Tell the world how you choose licenses for your own creations, and how others licensing choices influence your perception of their projects.
#freeCulture #FOSS #law #publishing #science #games #art #data #openScience #openData #openGardening #open #openCulture #openSource #freeSoftware #openAccess
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@onepict I think this is a very relevant and interesting session:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6721-organizing-sponsor-free-conferences-bof/
At NixCon 2024, we took the bold step of going completely sponsor-free—and it turned out to be a great success, with 400 attendees, making it the largest NixCon to date.
In this BOF session, I’ll share my experiences as a core organizer, including the challenges, lessons learned, and tips for anyone looking to organize their own sponsor-free events without breaking the bank.
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#FOSDEM does do a lot of good too, bringing people together and promoting Free Software. And there are amazing people putting together the event every year — especially the tons of volunteers spending their time and effort to make this all happen.
But promoting the ideals of Free and Open Source Software is all the more reason they should really respect their audience, be inclusive, and try to be better.
(People critical of FOSDEM aren't attacking it; we all want it to be better.)
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is inaccessible for those with:
- mobility issues
- scent sensitivities (no policy against perfume, uses smelly soap in bathrooms); this affects around 30% of the population
- who need/want CC for videos
And refused:
- to have a code of conduct for years; have no real means of enforcing the one they have now
- to implement any kind of sickness mitigation (COVID, "FOSDEM Flu", or other), including encouraging masks and ventilation
And promotes:
- cryptocurrency
- billionaires
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For zod's sake, PLEASE stop making progressive communications inaccessible.
If you want to get the word out about your union, etc., please make sure all images have alt text, all PDFs are accessible ones, etc.
It literally helps your words reach more people. #Accessibility #Union #Labor
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Enjoy the RedNote cultural exchange while you can.
It would be either US, deathly afraid of Americans learning something from Chinese.
Or China, deathly afraid of Chinese being corrupted by Americans.
But someone's going to pull the plug on the thing, sooner or later, I bet.
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I don't like the whole generation divide thing. It feels like just another way to split people up instead of having us in community and working together. You know the whole boomers do this, millennials that, alpha over here. Yes, we have differences. We grew up in times that gave us different challenges, necessities, and possibilities. But our differences should be complimentary not dividing.
We should be able to value the skills in each other and support each other with them. For example, I wish I had paid a lot more attention to my Gran when she gardened because I could really use that knowledge now in the face of our exorbitant grocery prices. There are things I could have helped her with too, things I can navigate more easily than she could. I hope my nephews and nieces and I can help each other out with things as we grow too.
I feel like there's not much more scary to leaders than people of different generations working together. Hard to just pin something on one generation and get everyone else to hate on them when we're all here.
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The living internet theory asserts that, due to a coordinated and intentional effort by search engines and major social media platforms to only surface LLM generated garbage, the internet consists mostly of human activity and carefully crafted content that you just will never see
matrix meta
Before believing anything Element promises, you should know that there's years of repeated promises that never materialized across multiple funding rounds
@vyr So the abbreviated history is that historically there has been an almost 100% overlap between Element and Matrix core folks. They claimed to want to solve this, but attempts at actually doing so were constantly rejected out of hand.
Large amounts of contributors offered to help with spec stuff, but the core spec team insisted on keeping a small spec team, even though they could not keep up with the workload. Proposed process improvements were routinely ignored with comments like "we do not feel this is necessary right now".
Two people in particularly (Matthew and Travis) have continuously pulled governance authority towards themselves, and seem unwilling to trust anyone else to take over any part of the process, causing the whole process to stall on their combined capacity, which simply isn't enough to maintain such a large protocol.
All the while Element has had a very capital-intensive development process, partly due to their insistence on prioritizing feature development over resolving technical debt, despite rapidly mounting maintenance costs and everything being constantly on fire. I have personally warned them repeatedly of the outcome of this approach, and I know that others have too.
What it boils down to is that they have refused outside help that didn't exactly fit into their vision at every turn, ignored just about every warning they've gotten because they were sure they knew better, and have chosen to centralize the process to such a degree that it was never going to run sustainably.
In the years that I have attempted to be involved with Matrix, I have seen at least several obviously more sustainable development models proposed, some but not all of them my own, and none of them were seriously considered. Instead they continued to insist on a highly institutional process that excluded most potential contributors a priori (I can go into more detail on that if wanted).
@vyr People giving up on Matrix is something that Element can entirely thank themselves for, frankly.
I have lost count of how many people have tried to contribute or caution them about their unsustainable development path, only to burn out after being constantly ignored or strung along.
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Some quality lichens shot on Harman Phoenix film :3
It was my first time trying out this film and I'm really happy with how some of the shots came out! It's definitely not the best tool for every job, but it's got a really cool aesthetic; I'm excited to pick up some more now that I have a better understanding of how it behaves
@sandradejong (Maar het klopt dat je dat in zekere zin 'gratis' krijgt op een grotere instance, zeker als je de federated timeline gebruikt)
@sandradejong Dat ligt er een beetje aan wie je volgt. Die koppeling komt voort uit het volgen van mensen, hoofdzakelijk, dus als je op een kleine instance zit maar wel veel mensen volgt, zul je alsnog best een grote reikwijdte hebben.
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One of the better ways I found to solve programming problems is writing the high level code as if I have all the other parts already in place.
It is a bit like TDD or Tracer Bullet dev, but I don't write any runing code until I feel fine with the phantasy-code I have written (but then I can continue with tests and tracer bullet mocks)
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wait, so they rearchitected the whole thing to not suck and rewrote it in rust to reduce overhead and instead of letting everyone benefit from this, they're designating it "Synapse Pro" and will continue to maintain *two* codebases now just to have a product they can sell?
all while even small Synapse deployments can be slow and rickety?
what the fuck
all while even small Synapse deployments can be slow and rickety?
what the fuck
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someone has got to create a polyglot filesystem. a filesystem that can be read by two completely different filesystem drivers
- 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
