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
Oh and I literally did the mid-sentence "oh look, a squirrel!" thing, unintentionally
Also it probably didn't help that I was already having a pretty shitty day, but that wasn't Toverland's fault
Toverland really needs to fix their acoustic problems at their food places, it felt nearly impossible to order food, I had to shout over the noise and the ordering kiosks were broken
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is a blue boxI wonder how many people have gotten so burned out from fruitless arguing with people on Twitter and other engagement-driven social media, that they no longer have the energy for good-faith discussions and organizing in friendlier circles anymore either
And to understand this problem better, ask yourself this question: what is more marketable and brandable, something that does one task well within a narrowly-defined scope, that you will only think about when you have that specific problem... or something that promises to solve all your problems (but turns out to do so poorly because of the impossible scope, and you'll only find that out 3 months later)?
And no, I am not talking about tools like grep, sed, or awk - those do lots of things, and have a very broad scope.
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@joepie91 Also refusing to accept that politics drives the development, adoption, and use of technology means that, if you work in tech, you are probably going to do some stupid and unethical things.
"You are not immune to propaganda" also applies to developer marketing, basically, and the problem is far far bigger than a bunch of startups *deliberately* propagandizing; there are masses of developers unknowingly contributing to the problem by unquestioningly accepting the dynamics involved, and developing new things in their shape, with the same problems
And if you think this is a shitpost, I can assure you that it is not, and that I have seen hundreds of people do exactly this thing for exactly these reasons, and every single one of them believed that they weren't
Seeing technology as a politics-free endeavour is how you end up wasting hundreds or thousands of hours of your limited time on this earth because you don't realize that that framework isn't popular because of its high quality and developer efficiency, but because of a combination of social and political dynamics, and that you could've saved all that time by using something that works much better but isn't as marketable
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Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
bluesky, twitter, lmfao
showing this screenshot to everyone who moved to bluesky because of twitter.
this your guy?
(Incidentally also something that seems to co-occur with loud FreeBSD usage in suspicious amounts)
Also, if your toot history is full of strong claims about technical things being 'harmful' or 'bad' or 'dangerous', but completely devoid of anything about *non-technical* things, sorry, but I'm gonna treat you with extreme prejudice
This applies to the user I just ran across, but also more broadly
Can't help but notice that loudly FreeBSD users come accompanied by shitty takes suspiciously often, what's up with that?
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Do I want it?
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Is it by a startup?
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No.
(A ‘startup’ is not just any new small business. It’s a temporary venture capital funded company that must either fail fast or exit. An exit is where you’re either bought by Big Tech or become Big Tech through an IPO. To understand this better, if you have a sustainable small company, a startup is what will put you out of business.)
#startups #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #vc #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming
LTT
The people who are suddenly very concerned about Gamers Nexus having "poor journalistic practices" after they criticized LTT, need to do some careful introspection, I think
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Concept:
A fork of Firefox but where you can split the window into an arbitrary number of vertical or horizontal panes, like in Emacs and have multiple pages, or even just views on the same buffer to aid in referring to different sections of a long document
Well, I have found the cause: it was the piezo-electric igniter in the gas stove, that was tripping an RCD. Somehow.
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You don't need to be able to repair your car, but I do think you're on the hook for knowing it burns gas to turn the wheels.
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I get very very frustrated by terms like "screen time" and "phone addiction" because it's a fundamental flattening of a huge, complex, textured landscape of social spaces, communities, games, audiovisual media, textual communication systems, automation, and productivity tools into "technology bad" - it's a dismissal of the complexity of the the global communications infrastructure from a boomer perspective.
But I also absolutely hate the whole "WiFi means Internet", "don't tell me it's not an app", "discord servers are actual servers, language is moving on" attitude. It's the same level of flattening, the same lack of interest in the actual shape and texture of this enormous machine we use every day.
We cannot say anything meaningful about all electronic communications except, perhaps, that they rely on petrocapitalism. We cannot say anything meaningful about "technology" as a whole, or even "high technology", except that it is, presently, captured by capital.
- 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
