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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- 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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also, if you're ever talking to a stranger who doesn't speak the same language as you via email or whatever, write to them in your language, not theirs. It is infinitely easier to figure out what a bad machine translation of good text should say than it is to do that without having access to the good text.
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how can we help restaurants use HTML to share menus online challenge 2024
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Website that lists all known #AI agents (including autonomous chatbots and data scrapers) on the internet, in case you want to update your robots.txt.
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I’ve had more interaction in about an hour on my toot about my recent experience regarding no masks in health care settings, and #longCovid, than I have from my friends in a week on two FB posts on my wall about long Covid.
I’ve been absent from mastodon for a while and I’d forgotten how good it feels to be validated (outside of a dedicated long Covid group on FB) and not dismissed for daring to say the C word.
As I type this my support worker is out picking up medical supplies for me as I’m crashing hard after going out for the first time in six months on xmas day somewhere that wasn’t a medical appointment or rental open house (we have to move).
I’m just as sick as I was when I actually had Covid. Congested, coughing, really sore throat, aching all over, weak, no appetite (I’ve tested negative three days straight). All because I spent a few incredibly chilled hours with 3 other people, none of whom were visibly or audibly sick at the time. This is my life now and my nearest and dearest can’t even be bothered to pretend they read a post or an article and hit the like button to show support. So thank you for reminding me that there are people out there who do still care about it and are taking it seriously.
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i think i had just figured out why i have a hard time starting friendships and romance with people who are overly edgy and try to be offensive or ironic for shock/lulz value or are not taking anything seriously in general
it's the lack of emotional sincerity i think
like i cannot connect to you if the "you" i get is just a cardboard cutout or a bunch of soyjak/trollface masks slapped on your face
how am i supposed to invest into something that requires honesty with someone like you
re: hot take, FOSS development
To make it more explicit; that individualist understanding of 'collaboration' is the belief that people will contribute to scratch their own itch and that this will somehow magically convert into a public good at scale, and you will find this assumption embedded *everywhere* in the design decisions of popular FOSS project management software
Of course in practice this isn't how anything works, and it just means that lots of people submit often low-effort "patches" and then a few people burn out having to review tons of patches from people they have never talked to, whose motivations they do not understand, with zero guarantee of a response to a review, and with little chance of them sticking around in the long term, meaning that core maintainers have to repeat the onboarding process over and over again with every new patch
hot take, FOSS development
The "hit-and-run PR" model is a completely unsustainable model for FOSS development, because it shifts the majority of the labour to a handful of core maintainers, and is the outcome of a hopelessly individualist and capitalist understanding of what "collaboration" means
Project management systems should instead be primarily focused on building trust and retaining contributors at varying levels of commitment, and giving them room to breathe without becoming detached from the project
racist rhetoric, re: LLM grumbling
Imagine believing that "they are just not capable of starting tech companies" is the reason that folks in the global South are getting exploited, jesus christ
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Ik schreef een stukkie. Over mijn ervaringen van afgelopen 13 jaar met #rolstoel.
De ongeschreven regels die bij een #handicap horen in mijn ogen. Iedereen heeft eigen ervaringen. Dit zijn de mijne.
https://daisymerollin.nl/opinie/de-20-geboden-voor-mensen-met-een-beperking/
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re: LLM grumbling
Like, if your first response to being told about the exploitative nature of it is to make colonialist jokes, then uhhh I don't know what to tell you, but you might be part of the problem here
LLM grumbling
Discussions about ChatGPT sure are very educational in learning how people think about colonialism and labour exploitation, huh
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I'm probably never going to be able to go back to school because my blog is in the chatgpt training set and anything I write is marked by AI detectors as AI generated
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"Why don't people want to pay for streaming anymore?" cry the companies who split streaming into 40 different services that keep increasing in cost while randomly removing content without warning, and shoving ads into our paid services.
Yup, sure is a mystery. A real head scratcher.
Claudine Gay
If you run across claims about Claudine Gay, be very wary; by all appearances this seems to be another wave of racist harassment disguised as criticism, from all of the usual right-wing pundits who Suddenly(tm) care about academic integrity now that it's a Black woman they can point their anger towards
(Like how nobody except said right-wing pundits seem to believe that any plagiarism actually happened, not even the authors in question whose work was supposedly 'plagiarized')
WaPo has an article, I wouldn't exactly call it excellent, but it does at least provide a lot of context for what's going on: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/12/15/harvard-president-claudine-gay-race-criticism/
I wonder if the "you can't say anything anymore" crowd would like to hear some of the things that I can't say to privileged tech dudes without them exploding in a ball of anger
Such controversial statements as, for example, "you are violating a boundary", "you hold racist beliefs even if you don't realize it", or "building tech does actually come with an ethical responsibility"
Something tells me that that's not what this crowd is talking about, though, when they complain that "you can't say anything anymore"
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The reason why QR Code generators can charge you up the ass for a fucking JPEG is because the image they generate is not a direct link to your page, but in fact a redirect link going through their servers. So they can limit traffic however they want. That's the scam
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PSA: If you're using a self-hosted #Gitea, you may wish to migrate to #Forgejo instead, it is a drop-in replacement.
Gitea started down the enshittification path, and is now open core: it has features available in Gitea Cloud that aren't in the open source version. I know of at least one such feature: a user quota, which limits how many users a Gitea instance can have.
That's something required by their pricing model, but it's also something that would be interesting for self-hosted instances in the long run too: once Forges federate, a user quota on an instance with open registration would make it much easier to run a small forge.
Who knows what other changes there may be? Just say no to open core, and use #Forgejo.
- 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
