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
re: firefox, rant at fedi
@deneb (The specific way in which all these things connect together isn't outlined in every post about it, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't still hold true, and also this isn't a court and some vagueness should be expected)
re: firefox, rant at fedi
@deneb That article literally describes how they *are* in fact selling data, except they argue that it isn't "really" selling data (which it is).
As for the "watching porn" thing, that is entirely Mozilla's own fault; the Firefox ToS specifically says that the service AUP applies to its usage, and the AUP has that clause in it. It's badly written, and the interpretation of fedi creatures is actually correct here.
Also it's carnaval so there's zero chance of getting any kind of help from the library right now 🙃 The whole city is currently nonfunctional
There are three different organizations (local library, national library, OCLC) involved in this registration flow and I have no idea which of them did the oopsie
So I finally got around to getting a library card for the local library
... or so I thought, but it turns out that their entire online registration thing is just... broken? Most of the links point to the wrong URL and the one correct one redirects me to a "Forbidden" page with no further information
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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cis people tell me it's weird behavior to want to make a queer/ally focused guild for a game or something, but then act confused when i leave theirs because it's full of people lamenting all "these purple haired game developers ruining the industry" 
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I’m Dutch and I cannot live without Hema. But how can you explain Hema to people not used to it. “Yeah, I buy soup and bed linen and nail polish and bicycle bells and underwear from the same brand in the same store” 😅
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Note to self: having test tickets open on your phone when the conductor comes round to scan tickets results in many questions if they scan a ticket you didn’t intend to show them
world politics
This seems like it would be a good moment for a global demilitarization campaign to take off, before we automatically get the exact opposite
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Help wanted!
Have you worked with the glitch-soc frontend code before? Do you want to do it again, because you just love fiddling with JS + React + Redux projects? Do you also like GoToSocial?
Well, good news for you then! The GtS fork of the Iceshrimp fork of the Glitch-Soc fork of the Mastodon frontend (which is deployed here: https://masto-fe.superseriousbusiness.org) needs people to help add GtS-specific features, and adapt existing glitch-soc frontend features to work with the GtS API.
There's three issues open right now that need some attention:
Only 4 pictures displayed per post -- Since GtS by default has a limit of being able to upload 6 attachments (and this limit is tweakable in the settings file), it would be very useful if the client could display more than 4 attachments!
Local-only statuses not actually local -- Glitch-soc indicates local only posts by appending an eye emoji to the post. But GtS has a specific local_only boolean that can be set to true when submitting statuses. So to make local-only posts submittable via the client, it needs to be tweaked to use the boolean rather than the eyeball (what a sentence).
Nicer index.html page, with cute styling + link to source code -- Currently the landing page of the frontend is just a super barebones HTML page, it would be lovely if this was a bit nicer and more welcoming, and had links to the source etc.
Interested in volunteering? For no money?? For some reason??? You can just comment on one of the issues that you're gonna work on it, and get poking. Then everyone who uses the masto-fe can enjoy the fruits of your labors (including me, I use it every day). That's it :) Thanks for reading!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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One of my friends forgot what Protogen were called at the pub the other day so now they're "Beep Boop Foxes"
@Timo_Micro Not just a generational divide, also a regional divide :) One place could have extremely colourful costumes as the local tradition, whereas one town over it might be more like you describe, despite being like a kilometer apart!
Back in Roosendaal, it definitely seemed to be about colourful appearance and celebration first and foremost.
@mjdxp Yes and no; there's a very basic example browser shell that comes with Servo itself, but to my knowledge nobody has built an "end-user browser" yet.
Servo has very recently improved its embeddability, which from what I understand makes it easier to start building such a browser for end users.
@Timo_Micro I did grow up with carnaval (to some degree) and at least back then, the recognition of history was mixed; there was a lot of focus on the local traditions (those in Roosendaal in my case), but not so much on its historical roots.
It was mostly seen as an 'event for everyone to come together and have fun', to kind of blow off steam and generally celebrate.
That 'everyone' part seems to have persisted to this day, given the controversy this year over carnaval events moving indoors and requiring (paid) tickets to get into; a lot of people are calling out how it excludes a lot of people from the festivities, and is not in the spirit of carnaval.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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hey mozilla how is your legal department so bad that you start your acceptable use policy with "follow all laws" and about halfway down there's "don't harass people" and everything else in there is something that sounds close to a law but is misworded in such a way that it basically makes all online communication illegal
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today i learned: KDE has open species documentation
- 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
