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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i solemnly swear as types admin that i'm going to hold off the gentrification of this fucking network as long as i physically can
It is taking an absurd amount of time and reading of documentation to figure out how to go from "AppStream is a format that exists" to "I have a full dataset of packages and metadata about them"
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considering that we'll likely never see the prince of persia original artwork again after it disappears into a private collection, here's a lightly cleaned up version of the scan done by the auctioneer.
yeah, it would have been nice to have a professional art restorer do a proper clean up of the faded edges, but in the absence of that, a 300 dpi jpeg ain't bad.
full res PNG here: https://vga256.com/dialup.cafe/uploads/pop-florczak.png
enjoy!
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I'm willing to pay up to $10,000 (USD), to whomever I need to pay, to solve the #GNOME AT keyboard input handling problem once and for all. Currently, toolkits implementing AT-SPI have to pass all keyboard events to the AT-SPI registry, then wait for a response on whether the event should be processed as usual. No other platform does something like this, and this unique platform-specific requirement is a major complication for #AccessKit. I want to get this fixed. #accessibility
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meta, humorous
I kind of love how cross-posters have established the convention of acting like twitter.com is actually a federated instance, as in @example@twitter.com. Feels like a great little nose thumbing, honestly.
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meta, short rant
Tired: Don't Invent the Torment Nexus
Wired: We Invented the Torment Nexus from your favorite novel, "Don't Invent the Torment Nexus."
Inspired: Someone Else Would Invent the Torment Nexus Anyway, So We Invented It First
(with apologies to @AlexBlechman@twitter.com)
meta, short rant
Isn't it remarkable how *every single time* some asshat tries to fuck with the fediverse by corporatizing or full-text-indexing it, they *always* justify it by saying "well it's inevitable, it'll happen eventually", apparently not realizing that *they are the one making it happen*.
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Anne C.A. Baanen
further funmaking of that hilarious realname corpo instance equel.social
Algorithmic feeds and fuzzy search are both inevitable mainstream features as the ecosystem grows. People need those to be able to use the platform effectively.
good thing i'm not people because i've been using the Fediverse rather effectively without any of those things thank you very much!
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@freakazoid @haskal @alasaarela@equel.social "venture capitalist startups" versus "corporate overlords" forms a distinction in achievements, not in intentions.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
nothing, shitpost
it's nice they sell weighed blankets but also, I have a scale at home, i can put it on there myself
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@alasaarela with all due respect my dude this is nonsensical. are the VCs backing startups not "corporate overlords"? what makes you think capital investment and weird startup culture is something that masto users want or desire? what makes you think "allowing decentralization of social media" requires this? or that it hasn't already been happening without any VCs or startups needed? you're a november 2022, literally stop projecting your fucked up lil cis white techbro culture on us and listen to existing users please
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🦆 how many times do I have to refresh my production instance before it updates to the code I'm editing locally
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EDIT: Sorry folks, this was actually old news, and the call for views had already concluded. My bad!
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UK artists! Your government just published a call for opinions on AI generated artwork, and your voice is needed!
They are affirming that under current law, artwork used to train AI without license or permission is most likely copyright infringement - but they're calling for the public's opinion on whether the law should be changed to make exceptions for use with AI.
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there is no certification for professionally posting "beep" online. you can post "beep" online with no qualifications.
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wow i hate the concept of professionalism and work to destroy it every day
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a re-creation of Dark Sky (weather website/API) based on open data was released today! 🌤️
https://merrysky.net/
https://pirateweather.net/
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Transphobia, wikipedia
Some terrible trivia for y'all: When did the Hebrew #Wikipedia abolish the policy to misgender #trans people when describing the period before they came out?
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Here's your reminder that any brand that makes an account on here can be shot at with eye lasers and exploded. It's legal
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On Twitter, I had a hard time finding other trans people with shared interests to follow. On Mastodon, they’re just all coming out of the woodworks. It’s like that SpongeBob scene where he keeps opening different things and there are diapers. But instead it’s a good thing and the diapers are all #trans friends who become mutuals. I love this place.
- 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
