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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long post on accessibility advice from a blind screen reader user
OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading! 😘
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machine learning is just incredibly reckless.
from a moral viewpoint:
we're freely spreading code that generates content almost inconceivably different (at times) to that produced by humans, but without any sense of morality involved during the generation process. also the obvious existing systemic issues we have being embedded deep into the datasets and models.
from an an existential view point:
our grasp on consciousness, whether our own or other animals, is limited at best. in relation to that we have no idea how this generated code matches up in relation to that. not to mention the generated code is essentially a blackbox. now I'm not saying anything definitive with this, like that we've already created some semblance of sentience, but in what way is what we're doing not reckless?
this isn't to say that all machine learning should be stopped. but come on there's a fucking middle ground lol
Oh, and a whoooole bunch of cleaning of course, took the shell apart entirely, scrubbed away for a good while at some discolouration, etc.
Things fixed:
- Replaced dinged-up plastic lens with a new glass one
- Battery area and button contacts were corroded, removed corrosion and replaced the battery bridge contact
- Wouldn't read game cartridges correctly; fixed by cleaning out the cartridge slot with isopropyl alcohol
(This one was originally listed as "junk, doesn't work")
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
pov you're catsitting cats who are known to try eat everything that looks edible, especially when it's still in packaging, and you hear crunch crunch crunch coming from the kitchen
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Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮
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Goo Truther 
Hey website boy? Can I make a humble suggestion for upstream? I think it really suits the new brand push for better marketing data for our new journalist friends.
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Nieuwe blog … 📣
*Mastodon is geen revalidatiecentrum voor white innocence*
https://blog.joenepraat.nl/mastodon-is-geen-revalidatiecentrum-voor-white-innocence
"Wat een eer! In het zoveelste artikel over #Mastodon staat mijn #mastofittie (hierbij als nieuw woord gelanceerd) met ene Caroline (what's in a name). Zelfs Todon.nl wordt in het zonnetje gezet! 🎉 Helaas word ik wel gemisgendered (ondertussen op mijn verzoek online gecorrigeerd). 🙄
De context was dat op 19 november jl. de bus van #KOZP (waar ik in zat) net daarvoor was belaagd door (inderdaad) fascistische terrorboeren in de buurt van #Staphorst. Tijdens de terugreis naar de beschaafde wereld maakte ik in een sarcastische toot/bericht met een (uiteraard) fake motie om dat zwaar gereformeerde dorp om te toveren tot een Natura 2000-gebied. Een manier van mij om deze afschuwelijke ervaring te verwerken. Dit werd door vele mensen zo begrepen en gewaardeerd, dus ging die trending (ja dat hebben ze ook op Mastodon) en kwam het op het beeldscherm van deze Caroline terecht. Die kwam hier op Mastodon voor haar geprivilegieerde rust 🤦🏻 en dacht een activist die nog vol met adrenaline zat de mond te kunnen snoeren (tone policing). …"
#StaphorstKanHetNiet #ZwartePietNiet #ZwartePiet #activisme #solidariteit #blog #Volkskrant
Edit: Ik had door alle euforie het misgenderen over het hoofd gezien. 😢
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Sometimes I like to do an online internet web sites search for supposed ‘tactical gear’ to see what kind of ridiculous things come up. Today we have:
TACTICAL S-HOOK!
TACTICAL NYLON WATER BOTTLE HOLDER!
TACTICAL LANYARD!
TACTICAL PEN!
TACTICAL!!!!!111!!
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Update arrestanten restaurantbezetting gisteren in Utrecht: allen zijn vrij!
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The link below from @schratze is giving me PTSD flashbacks from when I first started working in games. One of my duties was getting the cell phone games I was working on translated into other languages.
Trying to fit a 20 character German word onto a menu item on a 128x128 cell phone screen with the localization guy telling me repeatedly that there's no shorter way of writing the word was a very special kind of hell.
RE: https://todon.nl/users/schratze/statuses/107841112980965745
Trying to fit a 20 character German word onto a menu item on a 128x128 cell phone screen with the localization guy telling me repeatedly that there's no shorter way of writing the word was a very special kind of hell.
RE: https://todon.nl/users/schratze/statuses/107841112980965745
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fediblock grumping, long
*everyone sits down for story time* Come children, imagine with me a group of people who are being made to have an extra rough go at things, and against whom all forms of abuse are normalized, defended, and exacerbated both by institutions and individuals, simply because they survived unimaginable brutality in any condition at all when it was hoped they wouldn't
Imagine they make a tool to protect themselves from the bigoted nonsense that other people routinely dish out whether those other people see it as bad or not
Now imagine that people from groups who benefited from the abuse of their predecessors and continue to benefit from continued abuse of them try to intentionally interfere with that tool as a *joke*
I cordially invite everyone who's intentionally interfering with the fediblock tag to eat shit. Fucking eat shit. This has been an extremely polite under-reaction 😘
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Silicon Valley is a direct pipeline to the surveillance state. Remember that Ring Cameras went from being a super-neat Amazon product to a surveillance network that can be accessed by police in real time.
Everything that can be used against us, will be used against us unless we fight and get privacy protections in place from the get-go.
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@researchfairy seriously the jokingly doing the exact thing the original user was complaining about was not that funny the first time anyone did it, and it has not been funny the next seven billion times.
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@joepie91 this instance is not covering it's running costs http://activism.openworlds.info/ you can donate to the #OMN here https://opencollective.com/open-media-network
If you are running a (non-commercial) fedi instance, and you're having trouble paying the server bills, reply with a fundraising post and I'll boost it (and chip in myself as well)!
If there really are instances that are having trouble staying afloat, then let's fix that together :)
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@bikeshed I believe ever since most of the population started to think of COVID as a virus deadly only for disabled people in early 2022, due to state propaganda but also due to experiencing or witnessing mild enough infections from the original Omicron, the latent ableism throughout society permitted a lot of people including many anarchists to give up on COVID.
I think the lack of a militant anti-eugenics movement is a big reason why shit is bad.
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Shout out to everyone else who was "just interested in being supportive of queer people", who "didn't really have a reason" but started researching neurodiversity to "understand others better", or who "just really wished people were kinder to trauma survivors" without being sure why...
For everyone who has had the moment when you realize that the unheard, marginalized voice you've been trying to amplify for so long is actually your own.
Love y'all. In case nobody else has said it yet, welcome home.
- 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
