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
programming, negative
@clarfonthey Nope, I wish it were just that. Essentially all new development is in shiny do-it-all frameworks with a lifespan measured in dog years at best, and usually with an exploitative and unsustainable startup attached.
Almost everything that isn't "tools for building a bog standard startup webapp" has gone unmaintained, and pretty much no new such things are being built. There's nothing for newer protocols, native modules no longer work on newer Node versions and don't get updated anymore, practically nobody does cool weird experiments (like how WebTorrent started) anymore, and the entire community around it has basically been captured by LLM garbage specifically and startup culture more generally.
That's not an ecosystem anymore, that's a shopping mall.
@jay Aside from its uh, GNOME UI design afflictions (too many clicks to find a menu), I am finding it pretty pleasant so far, certainly better than most anything else I've used on desktop
programming, negative
The JS ecosystem has died and I don't think very many people have realized this yet
Also about that Acer laptop, I ended up having to install fire-resistant EVA foam pads on *both* sides of the drive to have it not flap around inside of the bay, and because the design is absurd and the 'drive caddy' (bit of flexible plastic with some screw holes on the side...) is missing, I also had to tape some reused packaging plastic over the underside of the drive because otherwise it would risk touching the metal shielding that is directly next to it.
I don't think I've ever had to do so much trashgoblining to install a drive into a laptop before, what the hell.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
not sure if everyone got this surprise (to me) update to firefox but:
had to go under Settings to General to Tabs to click off ""Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups"
had to go to Privacy and Security to uncheck everything under "Firefox Data Collection and Use"
currently unable to add back noai.duckduckgo to my preferred search engine (it won't let me type nor copy/paste)
ive changed my settings to check for updates instead of automatically install them (not sure if i had that originally but im gonna go ahead and believe i did)
i wish firefox would stop trying to be like the Big Five or whatever and just.....ask if people want to opt into shit
@alina (Occasionally people try to define 'scripting language' but that definition never ends up being actually useful in any meaningful way, and usually makes incorrect assumptions about certain language properties 'belonging together')
@alina Far as I can tell, "scripting languages" just aren't a thing that exists, with the only possible exception being when the term is used to talk about the process of adding customized scripts to an existing application. Everything else is just a programming language, regardless of how it works under the hood. Dynamic or static, strongly or weakly typed, interpreted or JIT-compiled or AOT-compiled, it doesn't matter.
It's mostly used as a derogatory term in practice - either to bash a language someone personally doesn't like, or more often to insult programmers who don't meet some arbitrary standard of 'real programmer' (and that standard is usually toxic macho stuff).
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
"I vibe coded enterprise grade software in four days"
I'm gonnae go out on a limb and say naw, ye didnae
The primary reason such software normally takes longer than this isn't because the programmers can't type fast enough ffs
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
god this is one of the shadiest legit buttons I've seen
(One of the devices with a new HDD is the mini PC thing that I'll be taking to #WHY2025 to run a copyparty server on!)
Some maintenance work later, three HDDs have been installed in a variety of devices, and a laptop battery has been replaced.
Also Acer, what's wrong with you? Why would you design a laptop with a harddrive "bay" that just has the drive dangle freely from the SATA connector on the edge of the motherboard with no mechanical support whatsoever?!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
@vlrny I like the idea and it reminds me of this other way of saying it
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Take it from someone who's already been through this.
https://www.osnews.com/story/142956/vibe-coding-yourself-into-irrelevance/
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
food (vegan)
I bought pickle-flavoured candy and, uh, it tastes like burger pickles
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
In older biological publications, you can find references to "Malaysia" before the country was established in 1967. This is because "Malaysia" originally was a biogeographical term to describe Borneo, Sumatra, Java and the Malay Peninsula all the way to Tennasserim.
I have found references to "West Malaysia" which actually meant Sumatra instead of the modern Peninsular Malaysia definition.
You have to be very careful when reading these older localities.
re: tesla, historical accident, legal stuff
@navi In the US it usually does, as far as I know, much more strongly than elsewhere
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
re: fedi meta, self congratulatory
the consent piece is important obvi, we were all pretty careful about not grabbing things we shouldn't have and removing them when we should. my hope is that by treating collections as an active participant in the activitypub landscape that encourages appropriate handling by all fedi software, that we actually should have fine grained control over the implicit collections we're associated with instead of it being mostly gated by the interface.
- 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
