Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @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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- 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 should be fewer products named like "Eightfold.ai" and more like "Kyle's Ultimate Brush Pack"
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gender roles, economy
It's difficult to discuss this topic without veering into Men's Rights Activist garbage or incel rhetoric. But both of those groups offer no solutions to the fundamental problem. They just drill men into embracing the traditional gender roles even harder, becoming more violent and unfeeling and even more dangerous to anyone who isn't a man or doesn't sufficiently fulfill his role as a man, be they queer, be they emotional, be they jobless.
What really needs to happen is men rejecting and rebelling against the gender roles that get forced on them. Laugh. Cry. Hug each other. Spend time with your family. Treat women and queer people with respect. Say no to your boss and to your career, if it brings you closer to fulfilling your own dreams.
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grumbling about the light/dark theme discourse
@joepie91
This is why having easily-changed settings with a few variants for different people to use (and switch as needed) should be the default. That's the ramp that everyone can use.
While we're here, can we also talk about the proliferation of the use of terrible (blurry, poorly scaled, grey, etc) webfonts for body text in text-heavy spaces like blogs?
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So are you.... you know, a friend of Xenia?
re: grumbling about the light/dark theme discourse
This whole thing uncomfortably reminds me of the more general tendency to see different inclusivity and accessibility needs as "competing with each other in importance", rather than as a reason for mutual solidarity
An absolute plague in individualist politics, to be honest
grumbling about the light/dark theme discourse
I've seen a lot of grumbling about the lack of light themes lately, and those complaints are generally valid, but also
Y'all do realize that this was *exactly* the situation for people who couldn't use light themes until a few years ago, right?
Depending on the ambient light level I have (different) issues with both light *and* dark themes so I get to experience *both* sides of the problem on a daily basis...
And I gotta say that I'm very unhappy seeing the current discussion framed as "dark themes are inaccessible" without any acknowledgment at all that *both* are problematic for different people for different reasons, and that the real solution there is for *both* options to always be available
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Reminder that fascists believe whatever is convenient for their goals at the time and are utterly unbothered by people pointing out inconsistencies or hypocrisy in their actions, statements, policies, or ideology
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What would a doctrine of squatter's rights look like for digital places?
I don't really think this is realistic. It would be nice if there were provisions to more easily turn a website over to collective ownership. Leave it to the users to keep the server coffers full. There are places that work in this manner but in a legal sense they aren't really governed this way. Almost always there are 1 or 2 people who could simply shut the place down. Or let it slowly fall apart neglecting software.
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Online communities are real communities. People have met future spouses, weathered difficult life events, organized politically, raised money to help each other all through the panoply of social websites.
Often community rules and culture are guided by moderators, who almost always work for free.
Despite all of this we generally accept that these are not the people who own the website or the ones who control its fate.
Over and over this creates heartache and disappointment.
on bad necrocomputing takes
Sometimes I see takes like "computers used to be able to do the same job using way less resources, software is shit nowadays"
And I can only wonder whether they've ever developed software back when real-time compositing was unaffordably expensive, and so was proper process isolation, and a million other 'modern conveniences' that make software, y'know, not suck
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Everything happening with Reddit will happen with GitHub.
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@cemhend not that I know of unfortunately, though at the least pleroma's history as a gnusoc frontend and having been hosted on gitgud is verified by the git history for the pleroma-fe readme https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma-fe/-/commits/develop/README.md
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I wonder if there's any games out there that exploit the "moving black shape on an OLED screen" phenomenon
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I found the post, here's a thread of me banging on about about how recency-focused social media makes good stuff harder to find
https://mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/110401485793795904
It took me a bit to find it because I had to scroll past all the memes and shite I posted since then
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Grumbling about Open Science advocacy
Open Science advocate: You can tell we're doing it right because even big companies are getting on-board with Open Access! Open Access means better science!
Large corporations: (Under their breath) It also means an extra $4000 Open Access charge per article
Open Science advocate: Huh?
Large corporations: We just love uhh transparency, actually
Open Science advocate: 😍
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Grumbling about Open Science advocacy
Open Science advocate: I got a great idea, let's uncritically emulate the Free Software community, their goals and tools! They did everything right!
Large corporations: Hey we'd like to exploit your naivete to advance our own narrow interests
Open Science advocate: (Checks notes) Omg the plan is working already
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Grumbling about Open Science advocacy
Corporations managed to manipulate us
Into getting government funding institutions to mandate
That we pay those corporations a huge sum of money over and over
To waive the rights to protection of their copyright
That is granted to them by the government
If we cared about openness in any meaningful sense
We would just abolish that form of copyright
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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
- 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
