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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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Gender?
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https://screwylightbulb.itch.io/paper-textures
Six high res paper textures. They're the best I could get them with no studio setup and my scanner refusing to pick up the texture, but maybe they'll be usable for someone. :) #CC0, use them however you like, and you can skip the donation and grab 'em for free. <3
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Schratze's Law: whenever someone is talking about a country-specific thing online, and they don't specify which country they're talking about, they are talking about the USA
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is there some sort of software like a wiki but less of a hassle. some ppl in tetris community are starting to compile a big google doc that links to other google docs because people tend to use google docs to writes guides instead of like actual articles/blogposts... wondering what would be the easiest way to move this info onto some other platform
I beg of you, don't publish packages with a million different builds of the same code, just stick with one build per environment that actually needs it
On Twitter, the bias seems to be slightly different! An *even stronger* bias towards the third option, but the first option is no longer the least popular.
Can't help but feel like there's some positional bias in the polls...
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the great thing about fediblock is that every bad actor paints the words "I AM A BAD ACTOR" on every surface they can find in their house
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Dear parents,
You also have no right to make permanent non-mandatory changes to the child’s body.
This includes male genital mutilation.
This includes male genital mutilation.
the Javascript ecosystem is essentially a failed anarchist society (long)
What it used to be:
- many early adopters were anarchists/communists/etc.
- a huge public commons of highly reusable, high-quality, collaboratively developed libraries on npm, built for the benefit of the public, not for profit
- high degree of interoperability between different people's work, no need for pointless busywork to redo the same work over and over again
- successful(!) 'community specs' designed through community consensus (Promises/A+, CommonJS, etc.), gaining near-universal adoption
- fundamentally different structures from other language ecosystems, both technical and social, to make this work
What went wrong:
- large influx of users from other ecosystems due to hype in startup circles, unfamiliar with the established practices and reasons why
- early adopters failed to effectively convey and explain the ideological basis
- corporate adoption and subsequent capture; increasing "business value", leading to corporate steering of many essential pieces of the ecosystem (language spec, Node.js, etc.)
- npm became npm inc., a for-profit corporation, eventually being acquired by Github due to its large userbase, placing control over the public commons and its namespace in private hands
- ideological basis was forgotten, early adopters eventually left for greener pastures, now an almost purely parasitic environment of people leeching off the commons without guarding its integrity or health
- community-consensus specs started being replaced by "official", by-decree-from-up-high language specs (CommonJS -> ESM, Promises/A+ -> ES Promises)
- widespread adoption of these "official" specs, even though they were in many ways worse, due to their "official" label and many people assuming that what a central authority says must be correct or better
- rapid increase in shiny, well-marketed new tooling that is not interoperable with the existing ecosystem at all, and frequently works less well
- more and more commercial/proprietary 'sidecar' services (eg. Snyk) that you are expected to use, sometimes replacing open initiatives
- now an ecosystem and public commons that is rotting in every aspect with no real hope for recovery
... we should probably learn from this?
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I’d tell you a Fibonacci joke, but it’s probably as bad as the last two you’ve heard combined.
another poll
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Many years ago I saw a few images from a Japanese photographer who would walk and photograph the same route daily, if I recall correctly many of them featured a tall red chimney, perhaps from a bath house. This process - repetition, place and memory - are very interesting to me. Would love to revisit that work. Can anyone help me find the photographer again?
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Can any of you recommend fantasy artwork of arachnids depicted in a positive light? I'm wanting character artwork for a species that are roughly waist-high spiders.
Part of the lore of my game is that, if you can put your prejudices aside, the arachnids and the humans hold a lot of psychology in common, where's the other bipedal races are *quite* psychologically different.
- 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
