Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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- 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
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@williamoconnell You seem more interested in convincing (yourself?) that there is no problem, than you are in genuinely understanding the problem I am trying to describe, given that you haven't meaningfully engaged with any of the points I've raised, so I'm not really interested in continuing this line of discussion.
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I will say that “helmet with face shield” has been my biggest upgrade for biking in the rain BY FAR
so much better than getting rain all over my glasses 🙏
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furry, trans, incredibly neurodivergent on main
It still surprises me how much the emotions that wearing a pair of fox ears and tail evokes in me resemble gender euphoria.
If I hadn't experienced it myself, I wouldn't believe it, maybe even offended by the comparison - these two aspects seem so unrelated and on such different levels of importance.
But walking around my apartment with my tail tied on and feeling it bounce against my thighs or pushed against me while sitting on the couch or laying in bed *genuinely* brings that same kind of "what a relief, this is my true form" comfort. It doesn't feel like clothes or a costume, my brain fully just processes it as a part of me - it's wild.
And sometimes, if I'm cuddling with a partner and they stroke my hair or back a certain way for a little while, I feel a mental shift into what I call "foxmode" where my mannerisms become a lot more fox-like - nuzzling, pawing, nonverbal except for little purrs or yips. My surefire indicator of this is my fingers: in foxmode, I scrunch them up so they're only one knuckle long to look more like paws. And when foxmode wears off, I straight them back out. And all of this is purely instinctual: at no point am I like "let's be a little silly and fun right now".
Honestly makes me question if I'm not just furry, but therian. Maybe writing all this out is kinda telling tbh
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@williamoconnell This incorrectly assumes that users directly assess the feature capabilities of browsers. Pretty much only computer nerds do that.
What actually happens is that sites are built with the assumption that features are present, those sites then break on browsers that do not implement them, and the customer service for those sites tells people to "use Chrome instead", gradually building a reputation of other browsers as being "unreliable" in the process.
Also the actual thing I made the order for, aluminium profiles, is of quite good quality (for not very much money) so honestly I'm pretty happy
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En maar jammeren en maar klagen. Mijn opa zei 60 jaar geleden al, hoe harder een boer klaagt, hoe beter hij het heeft!
Geld geen probleem voor de Nederlandse boer. Helft boerengezinnen bij hoogste inkomens
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You don’t need to be Jewish to apply.
$10,000 interest-free loan for folks who need to relocate because of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies, and climate in their current state of residence.
@chriscoyier There are two major points that seem to be missing here:
1. Google, through their involvement in (and more recently, dominance over) the standards process, has generated a lot of changes and expansions to the web platform that primarily serve Google's interests, not those of users or 'the web' more abstractly. "What's good for Google is good for us" absolutely is not true, and this 'investment' comes with strings. It's worth asking how many of these 'contributions' to the web platform are actually desirable, and how many of them merely serve to make developing a competing browser an insurmountable task (as everyone who has tried has already discovered).
2. Because Chrome is so heavily subsidized, precisely *because* it does not need to be free-standing to survive, it has generated an environment where nobody can meaningfully compete with Google (at least, without becoming similarly malicious as Google) because they do not have a surveillance capitalism sidehustle to fund their browser development with. This has created a Chrome monoculture, which is the opposite of an open and standards-based web. This kind of bundling is, in fact, the core of antitrust issues, for exactly this reason.
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θΔ ⋐ & ∞
tfw you see a 90s style website but it uses like nuxt js or some shit so includes 500mb of different js files when it could easily have been made in php and/or xslt or even some fucking js static site generator like eleventy or some other thing that maybe even uses jsx or whatever it is
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@bl00d
making game solid: $350,000
legal: $85,000
office: $120,000
???: $450,000,000,000
someone who is good at the economy etc
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@Qyriad Honestly that's the most frustrating part to me - the protocol isn't *fundamentally* awful, it's just awful because they got the 'last mile' wrong!
The spec is incomplete, the docs are bad, the governance is crap, the libraries unreliable, the endpoints inconsistent. These are all solvable problems, they're just not... solved.
It would be entirely possible to have a governance change and issue a new revision of the protocol and solve all of these issues overnight without a server compatibility break. If the people in charge were actually willing to commit to it. Which they're clearly not.
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In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.
2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779
2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html
2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."
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vague about news & CWs, lack thereof
fwiw
there is a big difference between educating people to understand what's going on
and creating an endless flood of The Details
like for example, I am exceptionally grateful how many people are relentlessly documenting all of the terrible things happening right now. this is good and important. sharing it, with adequate warning, is good and important
but I don't need All The Details
for example, I am still on the never-ending hell quest to get my partner in the country so we can finally be together. I wish there were an easier path, like me maybe going to her instead, but this is the best we've got. and knowing all of the details about immigration shit, and trans shit, happening right now, is very useful and good.
but quite frankly, I do not need to be inundated with untagged content about the latest border-related suffering happening right now. it does not help. you just make it so sometimes I get so stressed and upset I have to just lie down and accept I'll get nothing good done for the rest of the day.
please tag your posts. giving it without adequate warning does not help
@rune (Basically my attempt at sourcing an equivalent of T-track since that seems to be unobtainable here at any kind of reasonable price)
@rune It would have to be a very big ziploc bag, since these are 1.5 meter long aluminium profiles
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Aha, rich man, you know the laugh’s on you
You live and die by another man’s rule
And when we both are dead and gone
The legend of my kind will still live on
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The rich man has no use for me
Nor have I any use for he
He’ll judge a man by the clothes he wears
Judge I a man by the burden he bears
- 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
