Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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
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@Splig Yes... I can see it might work a lot on young artists, when they are already on a propretary OS where their product runs, and when Krita is their first software. A tactic like that on many channels can really suffocate any competitors; because it gives the illusion that everyone use the same product.
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Rant about the world of social media and marketing:
My latest (very recent) shock was receiving an email from a digital painting software company (I can't name them) asking me my price to switch my entire workflow to their proprietary product and announce it on my channels.
Of course I refused.
I'm still 100% committed to Free/Libre&Open-Source Software. But it made me realise that these days even profiles without a huge internet presence are getting paid to use and advocate things. Meh 😔
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@fgaz At a job long in the past, I had a coworker who was very enamored of a particular do-everything Python library which I will not name at this time. This library included some built-in logging facilities, but he didn't actually need the log for the thing he was making, so he set it to log to `/dev/null`.
It turns out that this library had automatic log rotation built in. The way it worked was that it kept track of the number of bytes written to a log, and when it crossed a certain threshold, it would rename the file it was logging to, and open a new log file.
Unfortunately, the thing my coworker built ran as `root`. It started up and ran fine for a while, merrily logging to `/dev/null` as instructed. After a while, though, it noticed "oh hey I've written more than a megabyte of logs, time to rotate the log file" - it then renamed `/dev/null` to `/dev/null.YYYY-mm-dd.HH:MM:SS` and created a new `/dev/null` that was just a regular text file. From that point onward, anything that got written to `/dev/null` actually got written to disk. Chaos ensued.
That one took a whole day to figure out...
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the problem is cyberpunk envisioned a future where we have no bread but the circuses fucking rock, and instead we get this future where we have no bread and the circuses suck too and will soon all be fake-AI generated
Kan me niet aan de indruk onttrekken dat de nieuwsbriefschrijver bij ABN Amro hier ook dies bedenkingen bij had, en daarom de e-mail op die manier is begonnen
"Ondanks de val van het kabinet zijn er nieuwe belastingregels aangekondigd op Prinsjesdag."
🙃
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@sundogplanets Conferences and conventions are just pure madness right now. The CDC's own conference had a 13% infection rate, and each infection has between a 7.5% and 41% chance of giving the person long covid, with 1/4 of long covid cases being SEVERE ( on par with terminal cancer or a major stroke in terms of disability.)
So, yeah in person conference attendance is, at best a .25% chance of being fully disabled. That makes it less safe than activities such as base jumping, bull riding, and mountain climbing.
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How to steal public services the old fashioned way...
I saw a great little poster early this morning from @MMRnmd ,so I boosted it, but the people I know in real life (like my friend and boss) can't read french. Also, I'm really tired of trying to get across how this works with him! I don't need to convince people like you lot who either do read french and/or know how this works already. Really, I loved the imagery of the dominoes, because the steps taken are always the same in my experience, both where I have lived and looking out at the world. Here are the original and then my effort. I did vary the text a bit in english, even between when I made my notes and when I made (ahem) plagiarized the graphic.
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Academics: stop being coy about #SciHub and start treating it like basic research infrastructure. If you dont include it in your syllabus already as a normal way to access research, you should start. No more winks and nods, just link directly to it and accept no criticism for doing so from the researchers that necessitate its continued existence by their publishing practices
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@njion a lot of this is influenced by conservatives and other prudes by way of literal fraud.
Some dude is out on a business trip, buys himself some porn ppv at the hotel, and then calls of the card company, claims his card was stolen and that the charges are not valid to keep the missus from finding out.
The bank then dutifully reverses the charge and issues a new card.
This has happened so much that adult services are globally considered high risk by payment processors due to the number of chargeback requests.
they consume content by sex workers, but are ashamed to admit paying for it and we are punished instead
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If you paid for funeral expenses for someone who died in the US, and their death certificate mentions COVID as a cause, you may be eligible for up to US$9,000 in funeral expense assistance from the US federal government.
https://www.fema.gov/disaster/historic/coronavirus/economic/funeral-assistance
Eligibility does not depend on your income, even if you have a high income right now: https://www.fema.gov/node/does-fema-consider-annual-household-income-when-determining-how-much-covid-19-funeral
More info: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/historic/coronavirus/economic/funeral-assistance/faq
Currently, Sept. 30, 2025 is the end date for submitting applications, I believe.
News article headline: are Unity's terms of service changes even legally possible?
Article body: talks about everything from a US perspective without ever mentioning as such, and concludes that they seem to legally be in the clear
I don't know, it seems like you might be forgetting about some 200 countries there, in your conclusion...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66847139:
A Danish artist has been ordered to return nearly 500,000 kroner (€67,000) to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named “Take the Money and Run”.
They hate to see a successful artist 😔
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Us: "Unity, you can't possibly accurately track installs."
Unity: ". . ."
Unity: "You're right, you should track it instead."
Us: "THAT'S NOT WHAT WE MEANT?!"
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"Lees hier onze reactie op:
➡️criminalisering van demonstranten,
➡️het #waterkanon,
➡️meldingen bij #VeiligThuis,
➡️inbeslagname instrumenten,
➡️waarom demonstreren zo belangrijk is."
(Van @amnestynl ) #a12 #a12blokkade
https://www.amnesty.nl/actueel/een-week-klimaatdemonstraties-vijf-opvallende-zaken
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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If your website doesn't work properly and tells people to "use Chrome", then it's not a website, it's a Chrome app
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I don't know what the solution to this is. I'm not sure there is one.
More experienced folks can usually distinguish between the two by looking at how someone responds to feedback (eg. personally defensively, vs. saying "I have already considered that"), but that clearly doesn't magically scale to "interpersonal communication between any two arbitrary people".
So yeah, no idea.
Another frustration (unrelated to capitalism this time): if you *already* have a habit of taking into account diverse viewpoints, and have been doing so for years, and have formed a nuanced conclusion based on that... then any one person expressing disagreement is unlikely to change that conclusion, as their concern has probably already come up in your considerations and has already been accounted for.
But to an external observer, this is nearly indistinguishable from "they have rigid beliefs, never listen to others, and believe they are always right".
A frustrating cycle:
1. The power dynamics of capitalism allow some public need to be monopolized and become shitty
2. People argue "it's bad when there's only one option, that's why competition is so important"
3. People argue that capitalism is a good thing, because how else are you gonna get competition, and competition is important
4. Go to point 1
- 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
