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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- 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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just found out about the twitch stuff
they announced that putting any graphics related to a brand larger than 3% of the stream size into your stream or ANY advertisements that are not done via jeff bezos amazon twitch will get you banned
then 1 day later after everyone complained on twitter and threatened to leave, they removed the weirdly arbitrary 3% rule and removed the infographic explaining the advertising restrictions from the help article
the restrictions are still in the terms of service, along with a new rule that you are not allowed to stream simultaneously on twitch and any other platform even if you make no money from twitch and have no business agreement with twitch
and if you're a twitch partner or affiliate and you decide you don't want to agree to the new terms of service, twitch will charge you $25
(This is not really specific to React, of course, this sort of shit is widespread among "faster than X" projects)
Another week, another hip "twice as fast as React" library where the fine print is that it doesn't handle edgecases
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isolation sucks
Being chronically ill and isolated sucks.
Yet society is deadset on making itself as hostile as possible for people like me to survive in it. I wish our communities fought against the normalization of death/mass-disablement and did more collective action like mutual aid. Instead, folks like me get tossed out as inconvenient and left behind.
It hurts even more when my communities claim to 'leave no one behind' and yet people like me (millions of us) are being left behind anyway due to lack of accessibility (Covid mitigations are part of accessibility by the way) and mutual aid to aid in our survival in an increasingly warming, hostile-to-life world.
It's so... exhausting and dispiriting.
Check in with disabled people. Aid us and support us, and please stop leaving us behind. Be accessible, please.
#Accessibility #MutualAid #CollectiveCare #PandemicMitigations #StopIsolatingDisabledPeople
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No random open source application, I do not want to join your Discord channel for support.
There's this really cool technology called hypertext markup language, and if you use it for your documentation another piece of amazing technology called a search engine can help me find the answer I'm looking for
And the real magic is you only have to answer it once and the answer helps anyone. You don't have to answer the same question every day. This frees you up for more fun development
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aggressive mall cop, ableism
So today, joepie went to Walibi Belgium and almost got into a fight with one of the security people working there.
I wonder whether it's standard policy to respond to something unsafely-designed breaking off a ride, by ejecting guests from the park, extorting them, and then trying to restrain them - emphasis on "trying", dude was all muscle with no strength and the panic visibly set in once he realized I wasn't falling for his intimidation tactics.
"You need to pay 800 euro to replace it, otherwise we have to call the cops and you will be here for a couple of hours"
And having the fucking gall to claim that I was obviously intentionally breaking it because I pushed down on it. As a kidney patient I need to support myself on my arms to be able to get out safely, asshole. It's not *my* problem that your ride isn't designed correctly, and you're lucky this didn't end with me falling down.
It's a small consolation that mister security guard probably came away from this with more stress than I did; he was clearly not prepared for an apparent weak target to bite back... and the aggression was very much predatory.
I'm physically fine, cops have taken statements (and already concluded from security footage that it was obviously accidental), and I'm back home now. To be continued. I definitely want *at the very least* an apology from Walibi Belgium for the way I've been treated there.
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@millenomi it’s incredible how effectively they made that come across as “I hear you— not you, but, like, an imaginary version of someone in a situation like yours”
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How to draw foxes! Tip no. 1:
Foxes are just shapes.
Including and especially the truncated great icosahedron.
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"I don't like how the movie treated the MC."
"Lol I bet u haven't even read the book"
"Hah! I read the book so long ago it was before the dawn of mankind!"
"Oh yeah? Book wasn't even out then!"
"I didn't say that's when I got it, I said that's when I read it."
"Whatevs"
That night, before bed, he thought to read the book again - but there was a space on the shelf where the book once stood, and in its place, a handwritten note that read "This is when I got it."
ride design (re: aggressive mall cop, ableism)
Speaking of which, if you've ever wondered why the safety rule of thumb for ride design is "anything you can grab should be able to support the full weight of a person": this is why.
re: aggressive mall cop, ableism
It's a shame, honestly, because the park overall is really pretty nice, and has improved a lot over the years
Except for the mall cops, apparently (this isn't the first documented incident)
re: aggressive mall cop, ableism
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aggressive mall cop, ableism
So today, joepie went to Walibi Belgium and almost got into a fight with one of the security people working there.
I wonder whether it's standard policy to respond to something unsafely-designed breaking off a ride, by ejecting guests from the park, extorting them, and then trying to restrain them - emphasis on "trying", dude was all muscle with no strength and the panic visibly set in once he realized I wasn't falling for his intimidation tactics.
"You need to pay 800 euro to replace it, otherwise we have to call the cops and you will be here for a couple of hours"
And having the fucking gall to claim that I was obviously intentionally breaking it because I pushed down on it. As a kidney patient I need to support myself on my arms to be able to get out safely, asshole. It's not *my* problem that your ride isn't designed correctly, and you're lucky this didn't end with me falling down.
It's a small consolation that mister security guard probably came away from this with more stress than I did; he was clearly not prepared for an apparent weak target to bite back... and the aggression was very much predatory.
I'm physically fine, cops have taken statements (and already concluded from security footage that it was obviously accidental), and I'm back home now. To be continued. I definitely want *at the very least* an apology from Walibi Belgium for the way I've been treated there.
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This week really needs another reminder that ‘respect for the dead’ is demanded by the oppressor, but not given in return. To not speak ill is another form of ‘being nice’, of decorum imposed by a white supremacist society.
Celebrating the death of evil men is a form of punching up, a final form of accountability that they eluded in life, and a speaking out against which their privileged position can no longer protect them.
Rejoice in their passing. The blood on their hands demands it.
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Meanwhile on Windows 11 in the UK right now…
Senior programmer to intern:
“Remember, the Brits don’t say zip, the say postcode!”
Intern:
‘’Yessir!”
Senior programmer:
‘’Change every instance of Zip to postcode”
Intern:
“YES SIR!”
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looking for work, sort of, software 
(Probably only going to post this once, as I dislike advertising but I do need a place to start)
So I'm a freelancer (mainly for ADHD reasons) doing software-y things, and I'm currently looking for some more clients, because I'm uncomfortable with how few clients I'm currently dependent on for my income.
I've also been wanting to start doing something different that involves less scheduling and aligns better with my disabilities: flat-fee expert support for #Javascript stuff (and probably #NixOS stuff, realistically).
If you know someone (most likely, a small company or team) who might be interested in trialing this, please let me know!
The pitch: you get a flat-fee expert support plan for around 1800 EUR per month (final price TBD), with unlimited tickets for JS/Nix problems, including (especially!) the complicated problems. Much cheaper than hiring an expert full-time for occasional tricky issues, and less hassle than eg. hourly billing of freelancers.
I have 17+ years of experience with web development (including JS), 7 years of experience with Nix/NixOS, and 9+ years of experience with technical writing and teaching. Also a grab-bag of experience with many other (weird) things, the usual ADHD stuff.
All support tickets go through e-mail, and are answered on a best-effort basis (realistically usually same-day, but that's not a hard guarantee). Complexity of the problem doesn't matter, I'll figure it out. If it's outside of those topics, I'll try to answer it to the best of my ability, but no guarantees.
There's no limit to the amount of tickets, but of course it's not going to make sense to create tickets for simple problems, because it'll be faster to just figure it out yourself. That's how I plan to keep this sustainable on my end without having to *actively restrict* the amount of issues.
So yeah, if that sounds useful to you or someone you know, please reach out! None of the details are set in stone yet, so if something custom is needed, please do ask. You can also reach me via e-mail at info@ossworks.nl.
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Today in absolutely wild things: a CA abusing an RCE in ACME.sh to add their own validation methods to it! https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/4659
- 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
