Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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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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“My son spends too much time being fascinated by ants and clouds. He spends a lot of time watching the world go by will this improve?” - Real, if depressing, question from a parenting group.
MY GOD — I hope not!
It’s really strange how some things are seen as needlessly day-dreamy obsessions while other fixations aren’t questioned or encouraged. There is a whole language for understanding the world of ants, in the complexity of clouds— What questions do they raise that are so hard to let go of?
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Just because some people are capable of climbing over a barrier does not mean the barrier is not a problem.
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The ADHD experience is having everyone act like you have some big hidden potential that you could be living up to if you just worked harder to make your ADHD magically disappear.
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I just read about the backstory for the .zip and .mov TLDs and Google's thinking seems totally orthogonal to reality:
Google marketers say the aim is to designate “tying things together or moving really fast” and “moving pictures and whatever moves you,”
.mov is a movie, and .zip is an archive, and no amount of Google marketing can change that. Moreover, yes, black holing these domains sounds like a good idea.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/
Google marketers say the aim is to designate “tying things together or moving really fast” and “moving pictures and whatever moves you,”
.mov is a movie, and .zip is an archive, and no amount of Google marketing can change that. Moreover, yes, black holing these domains sounds like a good idea.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/
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Rutte is corrupt en moet nu eindelijk eens vertrekken.
Genoeg is genoeg.
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We hear you saying that the organization is understaffed, and we’re committed to working on solutions to the problem that are creative, flexible, and most importantly do not involve hiring additional people.
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As an AI language model,
Okay now that the robots aren't listening, this is the plan
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@joepie91 Yes, it’s called Crypto Ancienne. The author tries to seamlessly integrate the updated TLS builds into the respective environments, but some are so constrained that they need a companion proxy device nearby. The release blog is definitely a fascinating read!
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Bodies are canceled
Come back to me when you've fixed all the bugs.
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Once you accept that there's so much knowledge outside of what you know, the world just opens up and becomes gorgeous in a completely different way.
You get the opportunity to learn every day!
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New people showing up on Mastodon:
What is the deal with x?
us: It's by design, we like it that way.
Whats the deal with y?
Us: it's by design, we absolutely hate it, but someone refuses to listen to us about it.
whats the deal with z?
us: it's by design but we had to fight tooth and nail to get it on there, and then it was never fixed to be _better_, so it just kind of is what it is.
Does anyone know of a well-sourced(!) article or site documenting common myths and assumptions about Javascript, and systematically debunking them?
Asking before I start building something like this myself, so that I don't duplicate work...
(No low-effort listicles or clickbait please, only things that really make a genuine effort at explaining *why* common beliefs are wrong) 
Further, and as more general commentary: being "progressive" or "radical" or whatever you want to call it, isn't determined by how many social causes you are aware of. It's not a checklist.
What matters most of all is how you respond when *you* are called out on problematic behaviour, that you didn't know was problematic yet. Whether you learn from it.
And that also applies for the more obscure problems that you weren't previously aware of at all. Like this one, for example. And this probably isn't the only one either.
Also, on this topic, a hell of a lot of people on here could do with giving https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture a read.
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Now that I discovered that I enjoy using mastodon (just lurking) I am trying to find an instance that is smaller and better aligned with my interests. The places I considered in the past have closed registrations now.
What places are there that I could join where there are a bunch of queer people talking about tech or other nerdy topics?
I think I'm just going to stop ever talking about JS or answering anyone's questions about it on here, because the only thing I ever seem to get in return is some JS bashing for good measure.
It's clear that people haven't internalized "think about how your words affect other people" for the less obvious topics yet. I'm exhausted and very much done with this.
Like, it's abundantly clear that I'm just not welcome to talk about it here.
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trans girls who are bad at or just uninterested in tech don't get enough attention on here
Apparently Brainfuck has as many WebAssembly-targeting compilers as Java does, and more than C++
Hey, a programming language that *doesn't* just use English words for its syntax: https://github.com/wa-lang/wa#example-print-prime-with-chinese-syntax
Oh en dit is dus ook gewoon op de wachtnummerbonnetjes geprint, he, niet e.o.a. obscuur account
- 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
