Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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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there are these late episodes of Halt and Catch Fire that I hunger for every few months. i'll watch the entire series just to get to season 4
i've never known any medium that captured the excitement of the early #worldwideweb better than S3E10 through season 4.
i find it hard to describe the sheer electricity of those early days of the web...
... web *surfing*, whether you were running Lynx or Mosaic or Netscape, was positively addictive. you could spend an entire day following hotlinks from site to site. prior to global search indexing, you had to rely upon pure exploration as the means for finding something you wanted.
we don't surf anymore. we search and we share photos within platforms. hotlinks have a link depth of n=1, as sites actively try to entrap the user within the domain by never linking externally.
for the past year i've been chasing that feeling again. i'm building my #homepage again today... my first in twenty years. i'll be sure to link out to you, if you're out there too.
let's get our #worldwideweb back... by rebuilding it one hotlink at a time.
I think they might just be a taaaad too late with that recommendation
"Windows interprets Ctrl+Alt as AltGr, to accommodate some compact keyboards [...]. Because of this feature, Microsoft advises that Ctrl+Alt not be used as part of any application keyboard shortcut, [...]"
lol
software dev, grumbling
Moderately annoyed by there being a million "attach keyboard handlers based on hotkey strings like ctrl+F" libraries on npm, but seemingly none that just test such a hotkey string against an event object and do nothing else
And of course VS Code's implementation is nowhere to be found as a stand-alone library either
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we should strive to make the fediverse as unmarketable as possible. nobody should want to invest money in it. we should show as much hostility to corporations and businesses as possible
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wish you could tell streaming services to delay the subtitles by a couple seconds
i like being able to read badly sound engineered dialogue, but the timing ruins good comedic delivery.. so i'd rather have it on a lag
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https://mastodon.social/@rands/109921409744032476
37 requests and 1.2MB delivered to display an email address.
665.6 KB of script, 230.4 KB for the font, 116.2 KB for the HTML (!?), 105.3 KB of CSS, and 31.4 KB of imagery.
A paragon of modern web dev.
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poll about how you follow people on here (please boost)
do you read people's bios on here before sending them follow requests?
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You might not be surprised to learn that I support fediblocking moth.social.
Don't support venture capital-backed anything for the fedi. They're here to destroy it, like they've destroyed everything else.
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You can lead a bluebird to water . . .
Well, I'd drink with the bluebirds any day.
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If everyone in the USA could remember that people who are not in the USA do on occasion use the internet, that would be great. Thank you. <3
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@Siph also, like one of the early steps in your learning about racism both outside of and inside of you, includes learning that you are racist, because you're raised in white supremacy, that's the whole point.
Unlearning it isn't a one day lesson, or seminar, it's a hell of a journey and you will learn over and over again just how racist you are and have been and still continue to learn as you uncover more things.
and it connects to sooooo many things, that you then start to learn about those things, and phew... one heck of a ride.
What I'm trying to say is: If you haven't learnt that you're racist yet, your anti-racism journey has not even quite begun.
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if you think calling someone racist as an extremely serious accusation that must be heavily substanciated and carefully considered like accusing someone of a crime then you might be racist
it looks like for some people "falsely" accusing someone of racism is as bad or worse than being racist, if you think like that, subconsciously or not, then you might be racist
idk how to explain it more clearly but if you’re doing that in "good faith" you’re leaving the gate open for 1) shutting down conversations about racist behavior 2) endless concern trolling and "debate" about what is racist or not by people who really have no business being the arbiter of the subject
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#Fediblock moth.social
moth.social and the Mammoth client are backed by VC funding, same shit that ruined the rest of the internet. if you care at all about commercial exploitation of the Fediverse, send this one to the trash can next to Cloudflare and Medium.
https://mammoth.writeas.com/we-are-hiring
https://mammoth.writeas.com/our-business-model
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As always, https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture is highly relevant
Developers write a critique of software development without using JS developers as a punchline challenge 2023 (impossible)
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moderately cursed
a microSD card is *technically* a cartridge
re: dependencies, capitalism
(You can actually see this in practice in the JS ecosystem, where it's the shiny half-broken reinvented kitchensinks that have glossy websites stuffed full of sponsors... but all the crucial underlying single-purpose libraries have gone unfunded, as have all the modular Just Works alternatives to the high-level glossy stuff)
dependencies, capitalism
I frequently talk about how the ideal dependency is one that does precisely one well-defined thing, rarely needs any maintenance, has no room for scope creep (because it only does exactly one thing), and that is so straightforward and unremarkable that you almost forget you're using it.
Explaining this to people is already exhausting, because this is a topic with a lot of misinformation and wrong assumptions floating around it.
But what *really* worries me is that even if everybody were to accept this on an 'intellectual level' overnight, it likely still isn't going to happen - because capitalist incentives work against it.
Why? Because you won't get millions of VC or acquisition money for something unremarkable that Just Works and needs no marketing copy.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
