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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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
@markstos @futzle (Also, if you want more volunteers, a good start would probably be to recognize that people submitting detailed bugs are *also* contributors, and not indiscriminately closing their issues without ever resolving them, which is functionally equivalent to telling them you don't care about their work.)
@markstos @futzle I have read the whole thing. No, it is not just for commercial teams, that is just the context in which it is explained.
I have also been doing open-source development and community management for some 15 years by this point so I understand perfectly well how volunteer work works, thank you.
@markstos @futzle Here's an extensive guide that suggests some strategies: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20171213
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badly designed junctions? simply engage eta road designs and consulting ltd., the premier cardiff road design consultancy!
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Everyone talks about how the Steam Deck has helped Linux gaming a ton, but I don't see people talk about how it is probably the one thing (alongside the Switch, although most games don't get ported to that) encouraging “modern” games to run even somewhat passably on literally anything but $6000 gaming PCs
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Where are all the reverse engineers, compiler devs, and OS devs at!? There must be some people interested in this stuff around these parts...
(Please don't recommend hashtags. It's an intentional omission, to avoid the "hacker bros".)
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you know what else was already free
the superior ogg opus codec
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It's interesting that "fuck around and find out" used to be a boomer parenting strategy/threat but now it's an anarchist promise about boundaries and natural consequences
@rvansleen Ik denk dat het heel erg nuttig zou zijn, als het zo geschreven zou worden als de 'ouderwetse' boeken over "hoe met Office te werken" enzo - dus veel uitleg van basisconcepten, schermafbeeldingen en stap-voor-stap instructies.
De nerds weten doorgaans wel wat er te vinden is in open-sourceland, en zo niet, dan komen ze er met wat googlen ook wel uit. De 'leken', echter, hebben vaak toch echt meer hulp nodig, en daar wordt maar weinig meer voor geschreven.
Of je het qua energieniveau aan kan, dat is een vraag die ik niet voor je kan beantwoorden. Mogelijk is het haalbaar als je iemand anders vindt die hier ook aan mee wil werken?
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Ik loop eigenlijk al een tijdje met het idee om op mijn site een serie over #opensource software te maken. In het Nederlands. Voornamelijk om te laten zien wat er is aan #apps op #Android en #applicaties voor de #desktop.
Alleen... Neem ik dan niet teveel hooi op mijn vork? Ik heb in verband met m'n ziekte ook nog wel genoeg andere dingen te doen.
Zou er belang zijn voor een dergelijke serie?
@markstos @futzle The problem here is closing an issue for a still-existing problem to begin with, whether it's automated or manual is besides the point really.
An open issue costs nothing if you have a halfway decent workflow (eg. having some kind of sorting metric to prioritize work, and communicating that not all issues may be solved).
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If your open source project uses “stale bots” to close issues after a period of inactivity, I am not going to participate in your project.
These bots do nothing to help issues be fixed. What they do is put undue pressure on the author of an issue to come up with a fix themselves, or to discount issues raised by people who are not familiar with the language or toolset used by the project.
I can report a bug, well, without writing a single line of code. If your stale bot closes it, you didn’t want the bug report. Happy to oblige.
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IMHO: #BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage on 2024-11-14 is obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic/storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.
[1] https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture
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Doing my best techbro impression
Don't like the way this software works? Fork it.
Potholes in your street for months, ignored by the council? Obviously you should abandon your career, become a road worker and fix them yourself!
Local store manager shitty to their employees? Clearly you should open your own store and run it your way!
Resident calligrapher writing 'butts' too much for your liking? Learn to Blackletter, n00b!
What, you don't have time? Don't have the energy? Sucks to be youuuu
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Anyway the cold weather and *gestures around* has gotten me wanting to do ~tangible~ things with real impact. Not too many of them translate super well to online spaces so I am dreaming of outdoor spaces where knowledge can be transferred
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I mean I also know a bit about permaculture, farming, construction, raising chickens, composting, fire building, shelter building, navigation, etc but not necessarily enough to confidently teach all of them haha
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I’m just about ready to start my own summer camp for adults so I can teach everyone ceramics, welding, archery, canoeing, kayaking, and birding.
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Like why do I know all these weird things if I’m not sharing the knowledge, seems selfish tbh. Like if I was living in a proper healthy community I could just teach whoever was around and wanted to learn but I don’t really have that right now
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Literally never bother using any software product which uses CLA's or which has full ownership over open source code. It's always just open source "for now".
- 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
