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.
- 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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Fedi was built by queer/leftie/trans/otherwise marginalized people and that still represents a big chunk of the people who are here
So when a bunch of straight cis people show up
People who can't even imagine what online harassment looks like
And they're publicly publishing lists of who we are without opt-in consent
Even if it's "for benign reasons"
That level of clumsiness is a fucking threat
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if you've ever written a sentence that's just "imagine using XYZ" and¹ XYZ is some linux distribution or whatever. have you actually imagined using it? nobody creates out of pure folly; so this thing must at least serve a niche. what type of person gets value from the thing you are deriding? who are they & what do they want? what is it like to be them?
explore the lives of your fellows and then delete ur post bestie
¹ i wrote this post about software but extrapolate elsewheres if you'd like
explore the lives of your fellows and then delete ur post bestie
¹ i wrote this post about software but extrapolate elsewheres if you'd like
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I saw someone confuse etymology and entomology, and it bugged me in a way I couldn't put into words.
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I wonder how many people are still using Google Chrome because they haven't tried Firefox at all in the last decade.
If you've tried Firefox years ago but found it didn't suit your needs, and are currently using Google Chrome or one of its many clones, I'd highly recommend revisiting Firefox. It really has come a long way over the years and you may be surprised by what you see.
🦇
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I sincerely hope that the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk and the subsequent massive user migration to alternative media such as Mastodon will initiate the downfall of tech giants having way too much influence in the public debate.
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Misinfo
@thufie yep, you can connect to any other masto user in less than 6 polycule steps
So apparently a very specific problem that I've been working on solving in my database project (transparent reindexing upon Unicode version changes) is basically just unsolved in PostgreSQL, and it just caused a serious outage at Google's hosted SQL stuff..
"Capitalism drives innovation" my ass, why does my hobby project account for a failure mode that your billion-dollar corporation doesn't
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send me anarchist lit
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What’s the Mastodon iOS client with the best (or literally any) filtering for main timeline?
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Die activismeverzekering van het mauritshuis kan op een gegeven moment natuurlijk best omlaag geschroefd worden, want secondelijm werkt niet lekker onder zout water.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Hey! I'm looking for design feedback on current fediverse clients, both web, mobile and desktop.
What decisions do you like? What do you dislike? What new features would you like to see?
And for Mastodon Web specifically: do you prefer the single-column or multi-column (advanced mode) layout? Why?
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There seems to be some confusion about our NFT rule so let me once again clarify:
NFT content is not allowed on .art
Selling your NFTs is not allowed on .art
Advertising your NFTs is not allowed on .art
Posting pictures connected to your NFTs is not allowed on .art
If you do any of these things your account will be suspended
It's one of the rules you agreed to on joining
No I'm not changing the rules for you
This post is not an invitation for you to try to change my mind
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Because we value accessibility here, a lot of people won't boost toots with images that don't have alt text - so not only are you being accessibility-friendly, you're also ensuring your posts reach a wider audience.
If you're having trouble remembering to include alt-text, follow @PleaseCaption who will DM you an alert when you post images without descriptions.
If you're low on spoons you can use 
, # Alt4Me , or tag @ imagecaptionspls@a.gup.pe
How UX apathy leads to corporate capture
"No, $software is fine, users just need to learn how to use it"
"That's a stupid feature, nobody should ever need that"
If you've spent any amount of time in FOSS circles, you've probably seen sentiments like that all over the place. Unfortunately, they're a big part of why dubious corporations (eg. Microsoft, Google, etc.) have been able to co-opt the FOSS community.
Why? Because regardless of what you, as a technical FOSS person, believe is "necessary"... users are not going to care about that. They have certain expectations from their software in terms of feature set and ease-of-use.
Either you meet those expectations, or users go elsewhere.
Now, "it's FOSS, it gives you freedom" can sway that decision *somewhat*, but it only gets you so far. Most people care more about getting their stuff done, than they care about (to them) abstract ideals of "freedom".
And because of that, you're setting yourself up to be vulnerable to corporate capture - because corporations can superficially *claim* to do FOSS, but provide an actually accessible user experience, and suddenly everybody flocks to the corporate thing.
And sure, corporate FOSS has real problems compared to community-run FOSS. But understanding that requires a degree of nuance that most people won't see, and that you frankly cannot expect from people for whom FOSS isn't their whole existence. It's specialized knowledge.
Which boils down to a very simple reality: either *you* provide the UX that users want, or a corporation will do it for you, and with none of the community governance and long-term sustainability. Those are the options.
A great example of this is systemd; yes, it has plenty of problems. But because of the widespread insistence in FOSS circles that "nobody needs more than SysVinit", everybody flocked to an actually usable alternative the moment it appeared, monolithic design and corporate governance be damned.
Don't be that person. Listen to users about their needs. Take complaints about UX and accessibility seriously. If you don't, then you're not helping FOSS; you're harming it.
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We hebben de afgelopen bijna 6 jaar meerdere stromen nieuwe gebruikers moeten ervaren op #Mastodon. Meerdere keren van Twitter natuurlijk, maar ook van oud Tumblr-gebruikers en van Google+ toen die de nek werd omgedraaid. Echter dat duurde max. 2 a 3 dagen. We zitten nu op dag 6 en het houdt maar niet op!
climate activism, court case, wtf
In the Netherlands, two climate activists have just been convicted and sentenced to two months in prison. Their crime? Gluing themselves to a glass pane in front of a painting.
The judge's justification for a prison sentence was that "they must have known that they could have damaged the painting [even though they didn't], and it was not a peaceful form of protest". What the actual fuck.
One of the convicted people was even only there to make a video of it, and didn't do anything themselves.
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@ghorwood a stack trace is a pointer to something, so technically it is an integer!!!
- every annoying C programmer ever
It's actually very weird how "software architecture resembles the org chart of the organization it was produced in" is pretty widely accepted and joked about, but "software resembles the bias and ethical values of its creators" is somehow controversial
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Where to #find your #Mastodon #instance?
Relax, you were able to find phone and internet providers, hence you can manage this, too!
Mastodon instances
- Based on #community: https://joinmastodon.org/communities
- Based on #sustainability: https://greenfediverse.codeberg.page/green-instances/
- Based on #size: https://instances.social/list/advanced
- Based on #proximity: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/
- Suche #deutschsprachige: https://contentnation.net/de/favstarmafia/artikel2
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Weet je nog dat je vroeger moest wachten tot een familielid klaar was met telefoneren voordat je in kon bellen bij een BBS en dat daar ook nog wel eens de lijn bezet was.
En je dan moest auto-dialen om binnen te kunnen komen.
En dan na 15 minuten zat je er eindelijk op, om met 128 bytes per seconde electronische berichten en bestanden te downloaden met ZModem of Kermit.
Nee, dat ken je niet? Nou, opa wel, en opa vindt dat die vertragingen hier wel meevallen.
- 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
