Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
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And here’s SNCF inviting harassment of passengers by telling them to display sensitive information
No, legally you DO NOT need to put a mobile number on your luggage!
How dare SNCF exceed what’s legally necessary in this publicity?
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"open data" or "open information" has very little to do with milliseconds of UI latency or fractional uptime and much more to do with "what happens when it becomes profitable to weaponize my dependence on you as an information source"
fascism, actionable on a personal level
A word of advice: if you are a part of any organizations that refuse to do something, anything, specifically because "they do not want to make it political" (or something else that involves the word "political"), *regardless* of what that something is...
Start finding or building alternatives to those organizations. Start doing that now.
Organizations like this *will not* survive a wave of fascism without ending up supporting it themselves, because they are not equipped to deal with the realities of a changing political landscape, and are unwilling to engage with the political consequences of their actions or inaction.
You could in principle try to fix the organization, but in practice this almost never succeeds - these stances are typically the result of ingrained beliefs by a privileged subset of the organization's participants, who will push back *hard* on any attempt to change this, and you will likely just end up burning out.
This doesn't mean that *all* inaction is bad either, of course. There can be legitimate reasons to not engage with an issue, but they must be more nuanced and detailed. If all you get is "politics" as the reason, with no further explanation, that is your cue to leave. Take your labour and energy elsewhere.
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Job!
Welcher Web-Frontendentwickler möchte für 3-6 Monate an einem Open-Source-Projekt arbeiten und anständig bezahlt werden?
Es geht um Znuny, eines der weltweit führenden Ticket-Systeme.
Ein Redesign ist vorhanden, es muss noch in modernes und barrierearmes HTML, CSS und JS umgesetzt werden.
Wer Intereresse hat, schreibt eine Mail. Znuny sind die Guten, ein langjähriger Kunde, aber ich selber habe gerade keine Kapazitäten frei!
@schratze Huh. Here that would actually be illegal. As in, "report to the work safety authority and the employer has a Problem" illegal. Not sure how it works there.
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shoutout to the guy who delivered more than 200 kg of furniture to us yesterday.
He said his boss called that morning and told him his coworker had called in sick, so he had to do the entire tour by himself.
We had paid to get the furniture delivered into our apartment, but of course I went down there and helped him carry all that shit. I'm not a monster
I hate it when employers don't hire enough people to do a job so god damn much
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To make some noise for the newly independent wikis, https://undertale.wiki as well as https://deltarune.wiki are now live. Congratulations on their successful fork from Fandom!
Even though the community vote on the fork ended just recently, the websites must have been prepared waaaaaay beforehand as they seem to be:
- completely independently hosted
- domain registered a year ago
- Discussions backend uses Discourse, which I don't think I've seen before on wikis?
- There are some kinks to iron out, but the fork seems to be pretty quality.
This was also some very quick reaction based on incoming Deltarune releases.
My utmost respect goes to KockaAdmiralac for leadership on this move.
Also a reminder of https://getindie.wiki/ existence, Undertale and Deltarune wikis will show up there as soon as the extension gets accepted in browser stores.
NixOS community/governance
Well, at least the SC did *something* against the fascist arms manufacturer recruiting on the forums, but again with the both-sidesism and the seeming deathly afraid of doing anything that might be deemed 'unfair' by fascists.
It's almost as if this is an entirely predictable outcome when you try to emulate a nation state in your governance structure and refuse to settle on any actual value system!
@byte I've mostly seen JSON5 used for this purpose, FWIW (not always explicitly specified - various tools just quietly support this)
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Hello, my friends. I have a different request for aid. I have a trans friend who has just escaped the US, but she couldn't bring any of her stuff along, and she doesn't have anywhere to live.
She's in the region of Quebec City, so any resources we can find to help her would be valuable. Right now she's crashing temporarily with someone, but that can't last. She's waiting on a place in a shelter, but that will only last 3 months when it happens, and may be months yet.
So I'm looking for anyone who knows someone in the region who might be able to help, who has a room to spare while she gets on her feet. I can vouch for her, she's trustworthy and helpful, easy to get along with. I've known her two years. She needs to stay in the region if she's going to be in Canada, because her children live there (with her ex).
There's no money request on this one, just looking for help finding a place she can stay while she finds work and gets settled again.
Thank you. Boosts encouraged.
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it may feel like everything's falling apart (and that may be because it is). but please remember (as i'm trying to) that there's still goodness and joy. there are still kind people and caring hearts. there's spring and autumn and trees and bees and cuddly things and blankets. there are snacks!
please remember to take care of yourself and find even just a smidge of joy and comfort today. you are so very worth both.
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Sigh....
One of the most important things I have learned about protecting my very precious brain spoons these days is to recognize when somebody is not listening, and to just quit trying to communicate with them.
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Matrix
Matrix won't let me leave a room that permanently displays a notification.
Element developers say it's a Synapse bug (https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/28599), Synapse devs tell me that it requires matrix.org admin intervention (https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/18007).
matrix.org admins tell me they can't remove me from the room because they "observe very strict privacy policies" and I should ask the room admins to kick me.
The room admins have left (they upgraded the room), and can't join it back to do it.
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Housing as an open-air casino for rich people
Housing as a human right
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Use of a slur that I am okay with using for myself for rhetorical purposes but I know that a lot of queers aren't okay with
What if one of us fags didn't want the cishet sexual repression you call "love" and just wanted to fuck and fuck but also wanted to have basic human rights?
What then?
@flesh Different things tend to work for different people (and flavours of AuDHD), so YMMV, but:
Smear out unpleasant/dysfunctional tasks across multiple days, and decide at the start of the day how much you can realistically get done. Then cut off a third of it. Once you're done with those things, you're *done*, even if you feel like you could 'do a bit more and complete it' if you pushed yourself.
Remove tasks where possible. Get a dishwasher (even a shit, cheap, tiny one) instead of washing dishes by hand. Store things in closed boxes so they don't get dusty. Get a cheap botvac that can run unattended. Enable the automatic medication renewal at your pharmacy. And so on.
Push yourself to complete those 'investment tasks', if needed - they are one-off setup tasks and will save you a lot of spoons in the long term, so they are the ones that it's worth spending your spoons reserve on.
To improve time efficiency, pre-plan your tasks, especially chores. You can partly unload the dishwasher while you're watching the rice cook, or fold the laundry or go shopping while the paint is drying. Time yourself on different tasks so you know how long they typically take, and then schedule a single 'flow' that lets you interweave many of them and get all of them done, before starting on the first task.
In my experience, most of the "time loss" isn't actually in the stuff you're doing, but rather in the gaps inbetween - the 'sitting down for a quick break' and then getting distracted by something on social media, the travelling to the shop to "buy something real quick" (that you could've also gotten with tomorrow's grocery haul), the staring at a screen trying to force yourself to do something when it would've been more effective to briefly step away and complete a different chore that your brain is less opposed to at the moment.
So basically: track where your time is *actually* going (it is probably not where you expect, because time blindness) and then find ways to optimize those things specifically, either by making things easier to start on, or by improving the efficiency of the process itself (by eg. batching or splitting tasks).
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Gah, I hate the "love is love" slogan so much
Just say "respectable gays only" already and be done with it
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@joepie91 outside of SQL :p
- 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
