Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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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
copaganda, NL
En ook dit jaar is de politie op Twitter weer bezig over "illegaal vuurwerk", met daarbij een foto van hun 'vangst'... van legale merken.
Vraag je je toch af op welke grond ze iemand precies opgepakt hebben.
Honestly it was almost indistinguishable from one of the better 'real' burgers I used to order
Milestone: just cooked my first genuinely delicious vegan burger!
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Useful term I discovered this week: “toxic mimicry”. It’s the pattern of substituting systems/organisations/services that look superficially like they fill a core societal need but in fact act to take up the space that a genuine system would fill, and only provide virtual nutrition.
Examples:
- 6pm TV news mimics public discourse
- Malls mimic public spaces
- Daycare mimics collective child rearing
I like the term as it suggests something predatory and insidious.
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https://blog.mastodon.se/inl%C3%A4gg/%C3%A5siktspolis/
#Fediblock mastodon.se - this is a post from the admin speaking about allowing anti-abortionists, anti-political correctness, people who have been harassing other users, etc., because the admin doesn't want to be the 'thought police'.
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oh no this version of the Hannah Hillam Are you going to sleep? meme is… just, oh no
My kingdom for a React state management approach that is unopinionated and also modular, instead of just assuming that your whole application has a single centrally-managed state tree
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clergy sex abuse
4 days ago, a Las Vegas pastor was arrested for molesting a child.
5 days ago, a Connecticut pastor threatened to kill a boy he abused.
6 days ago, a Delaware pastor was arrested for paying a runaway child for nude photos.
7 days ago, a Montana pastor was arraigned for sexually assaulting 4 girls.
8 days ago, a Maryland pastor was caught with child porn.
15 days ago, a Kansas pastor was arrested for sexual assault of a child.
IT'S NOT DRAG QUEENS.
IT'S NOT TRANS PEOPLE.
An interesting #UX lesson from a *very* old blog post by, I think it was Yahoo?
Never do total UI overhauls. Instead, take your "target UI", the thing that you're trying to work towards... and just change one thing. A single thing. A small one, that's easy to get used to.
Next week, do the same. The week after that, do the same. Introduce the changes very gradually and very slowly, so that the end user never feels lost, and never suddenly has to adapt to a new UI to get their work done. Ideally they shouldn't even notice the change.
There's a reason that so many especially older folks kept insisting on using Yahoo services, despite the severe mismanagement within the company.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
i wonder if the disdain for stuff like frontend as "not real programming" etc just harkens back to [contempt culture](https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture), or what other factors are involved
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oh you built an entire computer out of discrete logic? I made a usable user interface
PSA, personal, mental health
PSA: if you've been trying to get hold of me and I've not responded, that's because I'm taking it easy right now and avoiding the firehose of social stuff for a bit to recover from depression, I'm doing fine otherwise
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but.
Poor mental health is not an excuse or an apology for treating people like shit.
It might contextualize it, at most! But it's not a "get out of jail free" card, it doesn't let you off the hook, and it doesn't give you an out from taking accountability.
Likewise, I think 'fake' vegan minced meat may now be cheaper than the real thing (though it's still of extremely questionable quality)
It's official: vegan 'fake' cheese is now cheaper in NL than real cheese
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happy December 25th I'm going to buy some multicolored string lights on super discount and enjoy them. the Halloween candy sale of lighting
(Corollary: packages that boast "zero dependencies" on average tend to contain far more bugs and even security issues than equivalent packages with transitive dependencies; which is not that surprising, when you consider that this means it'll be reinventing a lot of wheels inline)
As a bit of extra background: I've been professionally auditing (probably thousands of) FOSS dependencies for years now, in a high-risk environment, and *not once* have I run across deliberately malicious code, not even questionably broken code, really.
Every single issue so far has been a security issue, none that were likely to be disguised backdoors. Many of them very common security issues that most developers are likely to create themselves when reinventing wheels (eg. when avoiding dependencies out of a misguided fear of malicious code).
That's where the *real* risk is.
This also feels like one of those cases of the metaphorical-law-I-forgot-the-name-of, where people perceive an uncommon event as being really common because it's so uncommon that it gets widely reported every time it happens, and therefore skews people's perception of its frequency
- 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
