Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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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- 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
@awoo I usually get my laptop batteries in general from 123accu (as I know that they will sort it out if it doesn't work correctly for whatever reason), but they only seem to ship to the Netherlands and Belgium - they do seem to at least have a generic x230 battery
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The "Trending now" on my instance knows exactly what it's doing.
@eloy There's definitely a bias going on there, but I do think there is a certain kernel of truth to it - *a lot* of FOSS culture really does revolve around chasing the currently-hip proprietary thing with a FOSS 'alternative' rather than working to build new, better things that can stand on their own merits.
To my never-ending frustration, because it can be really difficult to find people willing to put work into trying new things 😕
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a bias I started to notice on Wikipedia recently: open source projects that are described like "offers similar features to $proprietary_service" while the proprietary service is just described as what it does
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ACAB
what do astronauts in space do when their nose gets itchy
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Het losse feit dat je een miljard hebt zegt dat je een slecht mens bent. Punt. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Hope4All/114540363317403748
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I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...
I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.
Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.
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Hi everybody! Welcome to the fediverse.
If you're new here, you might not have seen my dating site yet:
https://ben.lubar.me/dating-site/
Have fun! I hope you find the date you are looking for.
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@baldur this number is only so low because there are so few well-regarded tech execs.
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Thought about linking to one of the few well regarded tech execs writing halfbaked bullshit with a tag along the lines of “This is halfbaked bullshit.” But then I remember that he searches social media for links to his site and mentions of his name and tries to argue with people, and he gets all offended when I reply that I’d rather not, if I’d wanted to debate him I’d have mentioned him directly
Instead comfort yourself knowing there are at least a dozen different dudes this could apply to
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Velotunnel-Eröffnung am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2025! Wir besammeln uns um 18:00 Uhr am Louis-Favre-Platz in #Zürich (Ecke Josef-/Hafner-/Zollstrasse). 🎉🚲
Die #Stadttunnel-Runden fahren wir im Uhrzeigersinn (d.h. Zollstrasse—Hafnerstrasse—Konradstrasse—Velotunnel—Lagerstrasse—Langstrasse).
Obacht, das ist keine Velodemo – es gilt das Strassenverkehrsgesetz, also: Nebeneinanderfahren erlaubt bei dichtem Veloverkehr sowie in Gruppen ab 10 Personen. ✌️#velozh
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On the relationship between Qt and KDE
Volker Hilsheimer, chief maintainer of the Qt project, says he has learned lessons from the painful Qt 5 to Qt 6 transition, the importance of Qt Bridges for using Qt from any language, and the significance of the relationship with the Linux KDE desktop.
↫ Tim Anderson at Dev Class
Qt plays a significant role in the open source desktop world in particular, beca
https://www.osnews.com/story/142401/on-the-relationship-between-qt-and-kde/
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Boost with CW, LLM nonsense, education
AI meta musings
@rune (Tangentially, I've noticed that people in general seem to have a very accurate sense of when something feels "off" and is suspicious, but a very *inaccurate* sense of whether others share those feelings, often wrongly believing they are the only one or conversely that they are wrong for disagreeing. Which can also create some *weird* dynamics around controversial topics...)
AI meta musings
@rune I think a lot of this can be explained by people's spidey senses going off on something being sketchy and therefore speaking out against it, but not necessarily having a solid technical understanding of the thing itself.
I've noticed a very similar thing with eg. the blockchain hype, where people correctly concluded that it was an environmental disaster, but incorrectly based their entire reasoning on "every transaction costs X amount of energy", which is false as the energy use of the network is influenced by exchange rate and not by transaction volume.
I feel like this might just be unavoidable with the kind of hype that deliberately poisons the public discourse with false information and needless complexity to hide the grift...
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The squirrels I planted are finally starting to come in. #Gardening #Zone5 #ClayPot #Squirrel
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@eloy @theresnotime@fox.nexus It dates back to... 2012 or thereabouts, I believe?
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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
