Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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here’s a thing I wish cis people understood better:
That we didn’t suddenly decide to transition on a whim. That, most of us agonise our whole lives over the decision and its consequences
that one of those consequences that we did anticipate is being expected to constantly explain and justify our existence to other people
that explaining ourselves to you is not something you are owed
merry cismas fuckersss
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I find it outrageous and incredibly offensive how often subtitles are censored.
I've experienced it on broadcast TV. On Amazon. On YouTube. And elsewhere.
Deaf people do not need swear words hidden. Those of us with hearing loss don't suddenly decide, "Ah, yes, because I can't hear fully, I don't want to experience swearing anymore."
Stop censoring our content!
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Every time you redesign your app, you vaporize all the experience built up by everyone who's been using the current version. It better be fucking worth it.
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@cda I'm just amazed that this guy running this antarctic research station thought "Huh I'm changing the timezone I should email the internet to let them know" and found the right people to tell and the first reply is basically "Are you fucking drunk"
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https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-December/033317.html really feels like Old Internet (read the entire thread, it's amazing)
hackernews, sort of meta
HN commenters are very busy deliberating over how weird it is that all of the alternative social networks are just Twitter clones, and nobody is doing more experimental UX stuff
In the same thread where people are complaining about how fedi stuff and federation and all that is just so *difficult*
Gee I wonder why you're only finding Twitter clones
Heads-up: I will likely be gone from fedi and Matrix for a few days, as I try to unfuck my sleep schedule.
Redux, bonus hot take
Composability that only works with first-party code is not really composability
Redux, hot take
Redux is very composable in theory but extremely poorly composable in practice; it is very difficult to combine the subtrees of different third-party utilities in a way where the utilities are aware of their location in the tree, without resorting to a variety of different hacks (that are different for each utility)
And they do *need* to know their location in the tree, if you want those utilities to be mountable at arbitrary positions and able to manage their own state, and then you still need to figure out how to isolate the utility-specific action types too
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nilered liveposting
"I wanted a ring made of purple gold"
(picture of purple ring on screen, with caption AI-generated with DALL-E 3)
nigel, my fellow sibling in science, have you ever heard of blender. did you know you can grow your own cylinders in the same amount of time you can commit stealing
re: venting about shitty software devs
Off to look for a different Redux query management library now, I guess
venting about shitty software devs
Some days you can just smell from a mile away that the author of a piece of software is 100% someone who would build a deportation system because "well, the tech is cool", and today is one of those days
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You are only temporarily abled.
This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact.
Edit: Glad this is seeing so much resonance. If you've got any cash to spare, please check my pinned posts for my mutual aid request.
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#Copyright works for capitalists, not for artists, and perhaps one of the most illustrative examples of this would be subtitles:
Hobbyist subtitlers get regularly threatened with ruinous copyright lawsuits for daring to make TV shows more accessible to different audiences without the publisher's permission.
And now tech corporations use those very same hobbyist subtitles to train their audio transcription LLMs, and there are zero legal consequences for those corporations.
meta over politieke toots
Ik zou zo graag zien dat meer van de politiek actieve en activistische Nederlandse gebruikers ook CWs en alt text gaan gebruiken voor hun politieke posts.
Nog even los van dat ook dat gewoon een onderdeel is van inclusiviteit, zie ik nu heel veel dingen langskomen waar ik eigenlijk niets mee kan; ik boost geen dingen zonder alt text(-verzoek), en ik ben heel selectief met welke politiek-zonder-CW ik boost om de mensen die mij volgen niet te overladen.
Dat is zonde, want er zit een hoop goeds en belangrijks tussen, maar ik heb ook niet de energie om alles *zelf* van alt text en CWs te gaan voorzien... dus dan gebeurt er uiteindelijk niets mee. Dat kan beter, toch?
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VACATURES
#Utrecht #BIJ1 zoekt versterking!
Onze fractie is vanaf 2024 op zoek naar een #communicatiemedewerker en commissieleden. Deze functies kunnen gecombineerd worden, maar ook door verschillende personen worden vervuld.
Fractiemedewerker communicatie (betaald)
Als #fractiemedewerker #communicatie ben je verantwoordelijk voor de communicatie van de fractie: via social media, nieuwsbrief en pers zorg je ervoor dat het werk dat we in de raad doen, ook zichtbaar is voor onze achterban en in de stad. En je bent natuurlijk ook inhoudelijk betrokken bij het werk dat we doen.
Commissielid (met vergoeding)
Als #commissielid voer je namens BIJ1 het woord in commissievergaderingen op thema’s in jouw portefeuille. Je werkt samen met andere partijen voor mondelinge en schriftelijke vragen over die thema’s. Ook denk je mee over de politieke lijn, strategie en prioritering en schrijf je mee aan moties en bijdragen voor de raadsvergaderingen.
Lees de volledige vacatures op onze website, link in bio.
Reageren kan tot 8 januari.
Mocht je twijfelen of vragen hebben, mail ons dan gerust! In verband met de kerstvakantie zullen we wellicht wat langer doen om op je mail te antwoorden.
🖇️ https://utrecht.bij1.org/vacatures/vacature-fractiemedewerker-communicatie
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This tends to get snowed under with everything else that's going on, but it's worth mentioning that, from sometime next year, Dutch descendants of enslaved people who had a last name imposed on them, often related to those who enslaved them or where they were enslaved, can have that name changed for free, with a lot less paperwork than is currently required.
It's this kind of progress that is also under threat from a possible Wilders government.
Vigilance, folks ✊🏻
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sometimes the fediverse will just show you some unsecured scada interface
if you like recommending FOSS software to people
Here's a way to avoid pissing people off.
Before recommending something to someone, ask yourself: would you commit to providing lifelong and unlimited free support to the listener for this software?
If no, then you probably shouldn't be recommending it; likely one of the following is true:
1. the software has too many frustrating rough edges to deal with, and your time is better spent contributing to fix those, or
2. you made a low-effort recommendation that expects high effort from the listener in trying out and investigating the suggestion.
Yes, this applies even when the listener specifically asked for recommendations. And unsolicited recommendations are a whole separate problem.
Yes, there are exceptions to this rule. Unless you can *specifically* argue why a given situation is an exception, it's not.
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- 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
