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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the big draw of factorio is not that it's a giant spaghetti pile of technical debt of your own making... it's that you can spend an hour of intense work FIXING that technical debt. that's the unrealistic fantasy this game is providing
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I see a lot of GitHub spam but this comment has been circling in my head for weeks
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dont blow me up for speaking ill of git over email
i should have said nothing. i was able to avoid an onslaught of "git over email is the best" earlier this week by posing it as a joke, but srsly I just don't think it's a step in the right direction to make it so when i'm teaching programming I have to be like "ok your email client doesn't even allow you to send plaintext emails anymore, so turn on 2FA for your gmail and then generate an app password, configure your terminal to connect to the gmail SMTP server, compose an email with format-patch using the format that the repository maintainers favor. make sure you wrap every line at 72 characters or the devs will flame you. send that email by copy pasting your app password. then when you're replying, remember to expand the entire message and delete the inlined replies so you're not top-posting, sorry about how the code isn't highlighted in your email client, it really wasn't made for this. If you need to update the code just send another patch, remembering how many prior times you have updated it so you can apply the correct annotation to it...."
I get why that works for some people and there should be plenty of ways of interacting with code, but if you have taught anyone how to program who started from zero in the last 5 years you would know that is an unimaginable amount of complexity to endure to be a part of collaborative programming.
i don't love microsoft owning everything and i do think their monopoly of github is super bad, i run my own forgejo instance and am stoked for federated forges. i just really dislike the general pattern of treating ppl with scorn while telling someone that using something that to them is unimaginably worse is actually better to do - a classic fedi move that thankfully i have seen lots of growth past in the last year.
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Note to self: every time you use a megacorp-sized tool to solve a personal-sized problem, you miss out on lots of interesting smaller projects made with love.
You can always overcomplicate things, so maybe don’t?
conscription
Conscription is perhaps the most obvious example of how supposed "advanced democracies" are still ultimately authoritarian and backed by violence, and it continues to baffle me how people do not recognize this
If a state were actually "by the people, for the people" in reality, then conscription would not exist
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I am once again reminded of how bootlick-y Android news sites are, reading about how it's "sometimes most necessary to trim down features" regarding the discontinued Assistant features, with absolutely zero mention of the mass layoffs that just hit the Assistant team
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I'm seeing folks casting about trying to build their support systems, but not always clicking. Like the structures aren't there yet, lots of people are tooting out to crickets.
So this is a general call out pls share:
1) active tags (or groups) that are helping you connect and be uplifted
2) gaps or struggles ie "I can't find a tag/group for [ ]
3) any tags/groups you are trying to launch
Let's create and consolidate and enliven the tags we need.
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I think the Substack discourse is good and that we should really be asking "why are Nazis okay but sex isn't" for nearly everything involving our society.
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re: grumbling about funding
Also can't help but notice how these organization are virtually never hiring the marginalized folks in their own community who are desperately trying to get by financially, and instead it's almost always random white tech startup dudes with little prior affiliation
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:ms_deminonbinary_flag: (falling apart phone edition)
apparently there's a new fork at https://github.com/javulticat/NewPipe which is based on a fork of newpipe which implements sponsorblock and RYD
i also just randomly discovered this through https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/issues/377 on the last thing that's there (not comment, linked issue)
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Imagine calling your "for everyone" dating* app T4T, then *afterwards* looking on the internet what T4T means, and THEN asking queer orgs to please stop using T4T or at least put an ad for them there
I'm laughing so hard rn
*Edit: It's not even a dating app, it's an app where you can offer/look for paid dates
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Starship Enterprise implies the existence of Starship Free, Starship Personal, Starship Cloud (Most Popular), Starship Cloud Pro, Starship Cloud Pro PLUS, and Starship On Premises (Contact for pricing).
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If you host a #GitLab instance, you should update it as soon as possible. There's a critical security update, including a fix for "Account Takeover via password reset without user interactions". Oopsie.
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/11/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-7-2-released/
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An electrician had to cut a hole in our drywall and instead of just patching it up, my wife decided to make a little scene with miniatures embedded in the wall. 😂🖼️🤯
Edit: https://pixelfed.social/@thisfunhouse has some more pictures of the subway and I will post lots more quirky art over there.
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TIL every mastodon account has a page showing posts with just a single tag
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New blog post! "Where is all of the fediverse?"
The fediverse is de-centralised, but it still needs to be hosted behind something, in this post I investigate where the most of the instances are, and working around caching proxies to get a better idea of how resilient to hosting disasters the ecosystem is.
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances
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grumbling about funding
One thing that will forever continue frustrating me, is how there are certain very institutional organizations behind eg. FOSS projects that are comparatively swimming in money, indiscriminately spend it like they're a startup with cash to burn, and then still manage to run out of it
All the while grassroots community endeavours are desperate for *any* funding at all, and could have achieved more with less than a tenth or a hundredth of the budget, but got absolutely nothing in the process
This is not any one specific organization I'm thinking of, it is happening all over the place
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google, DRM
here's something that only recently occurred to me: google's fully homophobic c++ compiler thingy sure is an impressive feat of engineering and it may very well improve privacy in cloud computing, but it actually sounds like the perfect DRM scheme if you think about it
- 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
