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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- 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
Corollary: the things that the well-paid privileged tech folks like to complain about generally have zero overlap with the legitimate issues that marginalized folks actually run into
It once again occurs to me that the people who talk the loudest about how FOSS communication systems are "not usable" and "just can't compete with Discord/Twitter/whatever" tend to be the most privileged folks with the best salaries who could most easily afford to spend some of their time to *fix* that problem... and then don't.
This is not universal, of course, and there *are* legitimate problems, and there *are* legitimate reasons for especially marginalized folks to be more wary of this. But those are not usually the loudest voices in that conversation.
(Incidentally, the people who shout the loudest that "it's perfectly fine, just get used to it", *also* tend to be highly privileged folks who are unwilling to put in the work to fix issues...)
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ahhh, Mastodon FOSSbros 😇
It's been a while since I talked about non-open source software on this platform, and gods help you if you do.
Guess what? Open source software is actually consistently not enough for a lot of people in a lot of cases. This is not a matter of a lack of advertising, this is a matter of what the software does and how it fits into peoples' lives.
You can either own that or whine about it, but if you're going to do the latter, maybe keep it amongst yourselves.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect here is that the various YouTubers by and large correctly describe how NixOS is *structurally* different rather than focusing just on themes and whatnot
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PSA: If your basement is continually filling with water, despite all efforts to ameliorate groundwater pooling around your foundation and your pumping and shop-vaccing literally *hundreds* of gallons out ... it might be your HVAC condensate pump on the opposite side of the basement. Water can take circuitous routes.
Ask me why I know that.
Ask me why I'm being so specific.
Ask me.
I don't pay attention for a couple months and suddenly NixOS seems to have gone mainstream????
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Short PSA:
WD-40 is not a lubricant. It is a brand of penetrating oil, also known as penetrating fluid. If you have metal parts that are rusted solid, WD-40 might help you get them to move so you can take them apart, but it evaporates quickly and leaves no lubrication behind.
So if you want to *oil* something, you need a lubricating oil. Which one depends, but which one is never WD-40.
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For me it isn’t just making friends that can be difficult, but keeping them too.
image: @oh_sograceful
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A lot of trade unions used to maintain an "Ask First" list of people or companies their members should, well, ask the union about before agreeing to do work for because they'd been found to have mistreated or underpaid or generally shat on their workers in the past.
Unfortunately there isn't such a list for tech companies (although my goodness there should be), but in the absence of such a list I'd just like to say that (particularly if you're at all neurodiverse) then it would do you well to Ask First before agreeing to work for #RedHat.
I'm not posting this lightly. It's very much a last resort. But after six months of trying to fix this myself I'm done. I know it could have professional repercussions for me to post openly about this, but any company which would consider that to be a show-stopper as far as hiring me was concerned isn't a company I'd want to work for anyway.
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I wish a lot of these 'leftist' people with wide-reaching platforms would realise that it *is* possible to talk about right-wing indoctrination and propaganda in settings like schools *without* denying that our schools *do* indoctrinate and spread propaganda.
And I also wish that they'd stop leaning into the whole myth about teachers frequently being good people, which often relies on the trope of saviourism people hit us with.
Many teachers are bad, many teachers are good, and schools are most certainly not great places (and they definitely do not encourage teachers to be understanding of their students' needs).
That needs to be understood instead of swept under some rug because the right-wing is right about indoctrination happening in schools for the wrong reasons.
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The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.
Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit
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The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
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every time people complain about GoToSocial --
"wah missing features"
"wah bugs"
"wah why does it force authorized fetch"
-- we add another bug 
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@tobi adding bugs will continue until morale improves
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Does anyone have any idea where to find a sensory friendly, affordable apartment in Germany? I am currently trying to move back to Cologne (because my friends live there), but it seems to be impossible.
Which city/area in the West or North of Germany can you recommend for an #ActuallyAutistic female person and her cute Beagle?
If you can't help please boost.
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http status code breakdown
1xx - you need to do it
2xx - we did it
3xx - go do it over there
4xx - you can't do it
5xx - we can't do it
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I don’t “live with” autism. I am autistic. My husband lives with autism (me).
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I hate every single person who thinks that the EU should expel states for "not living up to the bloc's standards of human rights and dignity." [mentions state-sanctioned murder of migrants, racism] - Part 1
a) This bloc has no fucking standards of human rights OR dignity. Zero. If they did, the entire Greek government would've been fucking drowned or burnt to the ground after all the times it murdered migrants, not just this last time where they intentionally enabled their coast guard to capsize a whole boat of people. The Italian governments (even those BEFORE Il Duce, Part II -- Giorgia Meloni) would've been smashed through the floor for sending migrants to camps in Libya. The Spanish governments would be brutalised for their attempted murder of migrants in "Spanish North Africa" (places like Cueta). All of that (and more) to protect "Fortress Europe."
Every single anti-Roma bastard on this continent would be punished (not just legally but in every way possible) for razing Roma communities and demanding they be put on LISTS.
There is no such thing as human rights or dignity in Europe, and people better fucking recognise that now and stop pretending like it's some bastion of perfection.
Europe is trash. Get that in your heads *now*.
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anyone know of a status page that can post to mastodon?
- 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
