Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @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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Bonus fun fact: most Dutch people don't seem to know that the Dutch keyboard layout exists, either
(We all just use QWERTY US International here, and although there are supposedly some Dutch-layout keyboards in existence, I have literally never seen one with my own eyes anywhere)
Did you know: there exists a Dutch keyboard layout, and basically nobody in the Netherlands uses it
From the history of 7 Up: "It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948."
USian soft drink history is just something else
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Are you fucking SERIOUS? At least you can get refills via telehealth but holy shit this is an accessibility nightmare. Fuck Biden, fuck the DEA. #ADHD
journalism, sarcasm
Maybe instead of running fact-checking articles for claims made externally, media outlets could prioritize setting up *internal* fact-checking
People who would review their own publication for accuracy, filter out propaganda, and so on, and who would do research into a topic rather than blindly publishing the claims made to them
We could call them something like, idk, editors or journalists or something
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Hey Webster if you love words so much why don’t you Merriam
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Big companies have taken and taken from the commons for years - decades even. And we have all just kinda put up with it as we just wanted to connect and share with other people.
But to be honest it's time we took back much of that control we have freely given up just to connect. We have the means to interact with one another without having to have our data, images, lives completely monitored and sold as fodder for ads.
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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
- 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
