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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- 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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I have said this a couple times, but I wish there was more anime about adults that look like adults. I don't mind the adults being sexy. Honestly it could be like Baywatch the anime, silver edition, featuring only old people, and I watch it, because I am sick of watching high school animes or childsoldier animes.
Give me like, a normal anime about a vampire butler who falls in love with another vampire butler, and then they both kill a king or something together and then they get to live a nice life in a castle with their vampire weaner dog or something. They both look like they're 40, because they are. The dog looks like a puppy though, because we need to comic relief. Just imagine it... it could be great. There's no children, no war, no school, just a solid working class rising up and then eating the rich.
It can take place in like 2025 too. Europe still has a bunch of castles and shit. A bunch of it still looks like its out of a story book. Artists... consider it... consider... adults with adults... eating the rich. And maybe they smooch.
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Just saw a house-hunting type show where a guy offhandedly mentioned his 40ish year old husband had a "massive stroke in 2022"... But hey, they sure were glad they were able to get on the properly ladder!
Watching "non fiction" TV (eg house hunting/renovation/travel, etc) these days is wild. Phrases on repeat:
"Is unable to attend due to illness..."
"While recovering from a sudden stroke..."
"After an unexpected health scare..."
"Having had some health challenges for the last few years..."
"After suffering a heart attack..."
"Due to the unexpected passing of their sister..."
"Unfortunately my father died suddenly in [insert year between 2020 and 2025]..."
"Was diagnosed with ME/CFS in 2022..."
"Has a rare form of cancer..."
"Has an aggressive form of cancer..."
"Had a nasty virus that I just couldn't shake for a few weeks..."
"Just getting over a nasty cold..."
"In memoriam" at the end of an episode..
People want to act like #COVID is over or it's no big deal but the tells, like a bad poker face, are everywhere.
@raphael Not liking this shutdown post. "This is not an Our Incredible Journey shutdown post", then continues to tell you that it's shutting down the thing people use it for, and they don't yet know what else they're going to do...
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I am glad I never used nor recommended glitch dot com as it is now shutting down. It sure felt like a great project, but I am sick of the dependencies we feed when using those kinds of startup’s tools. Make your own tools or use free [software] ones.
If you are interested in an alternative to glitch, check out https://gitlab.com/raphaelbastide/stolon, it is community made, self-hostable and flat file.
#glitch #digitalLiability #selfhost #prototyping
@xgranade@wandering.shop (For example, in EXIF data, you might pick the start of a date range for the 'standard' field and then add the whole date range in an additional custom field, for applications which can deal with the uncertainty)
@xgranade@wandering.shop Where the uncertainty is in the data, I'm honestly not convinced it's actually that complicated - usually the data layer is the most-custom, least-outsourced-to-an-abstraction part of an application.
And when you do need to interact with something that requires certainty (eg. a "sorted by date" item list display), you can convert to the most reasonable estimate for that specific context, from a source data structure that is designed for uncertainty?
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seeing a show from a streaming service that’s got like four seasons and still going is, like, how did you survive, little guy? did they not notice you?
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“Their response? A masterclass in liberal evasion.
Rather than engage the substance of my critique, SMA’s leadership sent back a polished, polite note thanking me for the “tone” of my letter while ignoring every single argument.They claimed “capacity constraints” as the reason they couldn’t continue the conversation.This, despite launching a book, fundraising, hiring teams, and expanding globally.
In other words:they had the capacity for power,but not for accountability.” https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/how-elites-rebrand-power-as-virtue/
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Vor ein paar Tagen gab es ja diesen Vorfall mit dem Containerschiff, was im Garten eines Norwegers eingeparkt wurde.
Jemand auf Bluesky postete den Link zu dem Livestream, in dem nix passierte und das ganze mehr ein entspanntes Stillleben war.
Daraufhin haben sich alle so sehr in diesem Thema hochgeschaukelt, dass ich gestern allen ernstes ein Fanart zu dem lustigen Boot gemalt habe.
Es ist random, ja, aber für solche Momente liebe ich das Internet. ❤️
@eloy I think the problem with this idea, while it's very much correct in and of itself, is that the majority of developers are not in an environment where they *can* learn and gain insight - whatever they write is to be shipped to production, and that changes the consequences of reinvented wheels rather severely 😕
@elilla Right. I don't know who came up with that definition of 'left' but it does not make an ounce of sense.
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@joepie91 https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOMO
They're made by several manufacturers, that are certified to use the brand name. When a manufacturer screws up, they can lose the accreditation.
Just learned that there's a trashbag brand in NL that has a whole dedicated 'complaints' website, with an extensive list of possible manufacturing errors: https://www.klachtenadreskomoafvalzakken.nl/
Can't tell whether they really care about quality, or they just have so many manufacturing issues that they needed to automate the complaint handling process this extensively
re: Racism, Nottingham
@TatraT815@queer.party I would not publish it, because indeed it would just amplify their crap.
Probably the most useful thing to do would be to send it to a local antifa group? There's usually people who dig through this sort of footage to find the fascists who keep showing up everywhere, and map out fascist orgs.
@elilla Just learned about the BSW, looked it up on Wikipedia, wiki page claims it's "left to far-left" and then immediately rattles off a bunch of right-wing policy positions...
What on earth.
@jacksonchen666 I've definitely noticed that for comments with links in them. But in these comments, I deliberately avoided linking to stuff to keep it from getting automoderated.
So what exactly is it triggering on then? Because I couldn't identify anything other than "talking about government" as the common factor 😕
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mozilla, AI, questions, complaining, wei are so tired
@joepie91 ¿Wtf is 'smart search'? Doesn't FF just blob out their searching to google or duckduckgo or something?
The only good thing they mentioned in this is vertical tabs. A shame that tree style tabs are a few parsecs ahead in terms of features and usability.
Wei never used these removed features, and yet wei feel upset they are being removed [especially] for more effort into garbage llm [etc] stuff. It's amazing the culture of disposability in tech. Everything is only here for a few years, maintaining trusted apps, programs, etc not as cool as just pivoting to new slop. 
It's particularly odd because it's the comments where I explain some government procedure that get removed, and not the more irritated superficial comments.
Hmm. Lately I've noticed some of my comments on YouTube disappearing from view, especially those that mention government in some way; both in Dutch and in English.
In all cases, it's unlikely that they were removed by the channel owner, given the content of the comment, who operates the channel, and the rest of the comments around it.
Wonder what's up with that.
(This has been true for at least 7 years by this point, probably longer)
- 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
