Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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.
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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
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one time a tim hortons was opening up near where i lived. i stayed up late enough to catch them right when they opened to be the first ever customer. i bought a single donut and paid with a winning rim from the roll up the rim contest. all so i could say that i, personally, put a tim hortons location into debt
mozilla, browsers, actionable 
In light of Mozilla's recent terms-of-service bullshit (and well, the years of enshittification preceding that too)...
Here's a reminder that Servo:
- Is an independent browser engine that exists,
- Is no longer a Mozilla project,
- But *is* being actively developed and maintained,
- And needs your help and contributions to make it a full-fledged alternative!
https://book.servo.org/contributing.html
(Its current primary objective is defined as being an "embeddable browser engine" but this is only the first step, and more importantly, it's where 95% of the work in "building a complete browser" lies)
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If we survive the next 4 years, I hope we'll have finally burned out our collective admiration for arrogant, abusive assholes. No matter how adept they are at performing brilliance and promising miracles. I hope we'll turn instead to supporting people who have track records of being careful. Of skillfully maintaining the quietly valuable. Of assiduous, thoughtful repair. Because we're sure as fuck going to need it.
10/10
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I've been thinking about the shitshow that is DOGE, and I see two kinds of professionalized arrogance: tech and MBAs. A thread!
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@Asbestos @sterophonick I checked, but this one definitely didn't have anything. And yeah, the goal was not to go without one, but rather to make it shut up until the landlord sent someone to replace it, so that people could actually sleep.
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Got some free time? It’d sure be a shame if folks flooded this site with bullshit:
I recommend believable stories with completely made up schools, or reporting your local private right wing Christian private school. 😇
(Remember they’ll probably just feed it into AI, so the goal is to poison the data.)
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one time we had to smash a smoke detector with a hammer to get it to shut up (it was malfunctioning)
@sterophonick Reminds me of the Landlord Special smoke detectors that got installed in this block, and the one at the neighbours which kept going off despite there being no smoke.
Of course these were the '10 year' things which did not have a removable battery, nor any (intended) way to shut them off...
Good thing I have a set of wire/sidecutters and tools for prying 🙃 Ended up disassembling the thing, cutting the internal wires, and declaring it "the landlord's problem now"
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re: slightly spicy take, funding (2)
@joepie91 well, you gotta ask for a lot of money first in order to make the claim that "people don't care enough to donate to FOSS projects (or whatever)" later
re: slightly spicy take, funding (2)
@jonah I do sometimes get the feeling that this is the intention of some projects... and that people are just looking for a way to confirm their prejudices.
slightly spicy take, funding (3)
Basically, in my opinion, a responsible and sustainable donation-funded project makes a deliberate effort to stretch every donation as far as it can plausibly go, to get the most effective impact out of the limited pool of funding available to them.
That doesn't mean underpaying people or cutting corners, but there's a very big spectrum between that and "running things like a startup with millions to burn".
slightly spicy take, funding (2)
More specifically, the 'red flag' to me is when a project is asking for an amount of donations that's so large, that it's obvious they haven't really tried to reduce operational costs, and instead went for the nearest most convenient or familiar option, usually one that's explicitly designed for corporate use. Think stuff like building everything around AWS.
Even if they don't *intend* to monetize things later (but it's likely that they're not very opposed to it, because it often signals a corporate background), with that kind of operational cost, they will eventually *have* to monetize things simply because the operational cost is not sustainable.
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@linus what we want: EU funded browser
what we get: browserchoice.eu
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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good time to repeat what I've been saying for ages: browsers should be publicly funded as critical infrastructure
slightly spicy take, funding
It kind of feels like the most reliable predictor for "does someone intend to eventually monetize this donation-based thing" is the amount and scale of donations that they are asking for, with an exception for projects with a very large scope
@admin Huh, odd, I feel like it used to be a list of just the city names without the account address. Perhaps I picked it off a different list?
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good morning, enjoy a crime cat.
#TheCrimeCats say shop local, steal corporate, today and every day.
#comic #comics #ComicStrip #DailyComic #IndieComic #WebComic #cat #cats #crime #anarchy #anticapitalism #antifascism
@admin Two bits of feedback:
- It seems harder to navigate the list of cities now, there's a lot of spurious information in the city list that isn't the city name
- Not a new issue, but <<'s Hertogenbosch>> is being auto-capitalized incorrectly (see attached image)
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FediMeteo just got prettier!
The homepage, national pages, and local city pages of FediMeteo now have a refreshed look, making them more visually appealing and engaging.
While still maintaining full accessibility - even without JavaScript or images (so it's fully compatible with text-based browsers) - the new themes are now better suited to the project and easier on the eyes.
Enjoy! ☁️🌍✨
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements
The homepage, national pages, and local city pages of FediMeteo now have a refreshed look, making them more visually appealing and engaging.
While still maintaining full accessibility - even without JavaScript or images (so it's fully compatible with text-based browsers) - the new themes are now better suited to the project and easier on the eyes.
Enjoy! ☁️🌍✨
#FediMeteo #FediMeteoUpdates #FediMeteoAnnouncements
@mitu @davidgerard All this is skating right past the most crucial question here: why would they remove this to begin with? That is a deliberate action, it doesn't just magically happen, so there is an intention of some sort behind it.
- 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
