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
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Also I'm pretty happy to see various supermarkets in NL finally starting to stock somewhat more creative/unusual vegan substitutes that aren't just Burger, Copy of Burger, Copy of Burger(1)
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Doesn't have quite the same texture, though the flavour is pretty good. Also seems to not be a promo, but rather a permanent addition.
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I cannot unread TP-Link as Toilet Paper Link
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Okay, so Lidl recently added vegan 'beef strips' to their collection and what the actual fuck, these look *identical* to actual beef strips, I had to double-check that we didn't accidentally buy meat
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mozilla announces that firefox will not operate without a blood sample submitted weekly. but don't worry, the submission process is completely FOSS and was created to combat the proliferation of proprietary blood collection services
re: mozilla, browsers, actionable 
@frumble@chaos.social Also, more directly pertinent to the situation: why argue against people doing a helpful thing they are already doing, in the first place?
re: mozilla, browsers, actionable
@frumble@chaos.social It's not that simple. A big part of how the situation ended up where it did, is precisely the complexity of the project - and the history of Firefox means that it has not only accumulated a lot of technical debt over the years, but also that the design choices made in its development process were often optimized for short-term results over long-term maintainability and sustainability.
Or to put it differently: if you try to take over a project that was developed to corporate standards, you will need to emulate all of the same corporate dynamics to be able to do that, because those are the assumptions about the environment that will have been encoded in the design. That just sets us up for the same kind of failure again, 10 years from now.
There is therefore a significant benefit to developing a new browser engine from a different set of principles; those of a community-led project where you cannot assume the existence of funding, which recognizes that sustainable maintainability by a potentially small set of maintainers is the most important metric.
(Also, the oft-repeated "don't rewrite your software" advice is related to rewriting for *technical* reasons. That is not the context here, and so you cannot just port over the rationale 1:1 and assume it to hold true.)
mozilla, browsers, actionable
@serrebi A little further investigation turned up these two threads:
https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/4344
https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/31321
It seems that the situation can be summarized as "screenreader integration is wanted but going to be a lot of work and nobody has really gotten around to it yet; and the off-the-shelf library for it isn't feature-complete enough yet to support the complexity of a browser".
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Your reverse engineering of the 2 extensions is perfect
ahaha, amazing emails to receive
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mozilla, browsers, actionable :boost_requested:
@joepie91 Thanks for the heads up on this project! Setting up a monthly donation now.
On a side note, I wish more project would do this! It takes the guess work out of how to make the most effective donation! https://servo.org/sponsorship/#donation-fees
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🦊checking out our steam wishlists and this "Lesbian Toggle" post has caused them to go *way* higher than being in Steam Next Fest has
the logical conclusion is that every game should have some kind of toggle like this, and also lesbians
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Things can be complicated and uncomfortable and still worth doing.
mozilla, browsers, actionable
@serrebi (The background for my original post is mostly that a lot of people don't know that Servo is alive again, and "them contributing to Servo" probably gets us to a viable alternative faster than "everybody building their own incomplete alternative browser" would)
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@serrebi By this point Servo is not even a usable feature-complete browser yet; a lot of stuff is missing, so I'm not at all surprised that accessibility would be one of those things.
I don't know what their exact plans on accessibility are, but based on the general community around it, I would expect it to be considered, but for it to take some time because it's essentially a from-scratch implementation of a lot of things including UI integrations.
(The 'actionable' part right now is mainly for developers who can contribute towards making it a usable browser engine, less so for end users)
personal, discussions
One of my least favourite interaction patterns is when I try to subtly/non-adversarially communicate that someone holds a problematic belief, reference a word they used in the process, and then the response is "well no that's not what I meant with that word, I meant <non-problematic thing> instead".
Except that everything else they've said and demonstrated is consistent with the interpretation I'd used, and not with what they claim the word was meant as.
By that point there just don't seem to be any non-adversarial responses left...
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@joepie91 and that goal makes it instantly way better than Gecko, because at least from what I've heard, embedding it into anything else is a huge pain.
The current situation finally pushed me to start monthly donations to servo :)
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I think there should be a sticker collection mechanic where you can collect stickers that you can put on the borders of your UI
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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
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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.
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- 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
