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.
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- 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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annoying ActivityPub fact
Did you know that, similar to Matrix, ActivityPub specifies a Client-Server API? It's funny because it is largely unused. No client or server actually implements it
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stale bot but good
Stale bot, but instead of closing the issue it sends a notification to the devs periodically and annoys them until they either fix the issue or they mark it as wontfix
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Remember how my previous employer denied my WFH request so that I could flee the state of Ohio to take care of my trans kid while still working for a company I loved?
I just heard they did it to someone else today.
When you insist people come in to an office a few days a week because you want a "hybrid culture" not a "remote culture" and then tell them to just fuck off when all they want to do is get their kid somewhere safe that makes you an absolutely shitty person.
I'm done hiding who it was.
The company is #OverDrive, based in Cleveland. They make ebook lending software for your local library called #Libby. They say they care about their LGBTQIA+ employees and families but that is clearly a lie.
Ohio lawmakers are turning my home state into absolute garbage and companies like this one are playing along.
Tell your local library to #DropLibby
#Trans #TransRights #Ebooks #Libraries #Bookstodon
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I want to see less "this is not possible" and more "what problems do we need to solve to *make* it possible?"
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if you rewrite a text by replacing every word with a synonym until none of the original words are left that's a ship of thesaurus
I want to see less "this is not possible" and more "what problems do we need to solve to *make* it possible?"
Was quite happy to learn that apparently pnpm now has both linking and patching functionality, which were the things that were missing last time I properly evaluated it
Package managers that install the wrong packages do not spark joy
Bye yarn, new best friend is pnpm
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psst
weirdos, freaks, and malcontents
we built a thing here. all of us - from the folks who worked on standardizing a protocol to replace OStatus to the folks who implemented and extended the protocol to the folks who did interop testing between different servers implementing the protocol all the way to the folks that use the protocol daily to communicate with each other.
it's a thing that's successful enough to have attracted experts across many fields to study the hows and whys of what's being done over here. it's a thing that's successful enough that titans of capital are doing the only thing they know how to do - throw capital - to try and figure out how to not lose their power over the internet at large.
it's pretty dang impressive, y'all. even with its warts. even with its missing stairs and paper cuts.
makes me wonder what else we could do for ourselves and each other instead of waiting on industry or government to do things humanely...
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The word "weird" is not perjorative. Weird is wonderful. Weird is fantastic.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Stay weird, my friends.
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"the bot that posts screenshots of unsecured vnc servers posted yuri art" is such a fedi sentence
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😀 "For support..."
🤔 "...please join..."
💩 "...our discord"
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“Last year, Big Tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft) received about $3.04 billion in fines for breaking laws on both sides of the Atlantic. As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned enough revenue to pay it all off.
A little over a week of operations is all it would take if the companies tackled their fines one after another.”
https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-2023-fines-vs-revenue
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Why you should NEVER look directly an optic fiber panel: you dont know the power of the signal 🔥
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/FiberOptics/comments/167jjlh/is_the_signal_too_strong/
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whoever is DDoSing sourcehut and codeberg: i hope your main computer's network driver gets removed from the kernel, and your distro refuses to package it
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"What is moral is often illegal"
Anarchist sticker spotted in Portland, Oregon
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IDK it does sorta reflect something tho right, like the emphasis on AI powered programming for the individual programmer over the social nature of code. codespaces has collaborative editing, sure, but comparative neglect of the thing that really keeps people on github - issues and pull requests, aka yno the collaborative process at the heart of open source - highlights the vision of software being the work of sole geniuses.
(yes i am aware that there are other ways of doing contribs like emailing a patch, no I don't think that is relevant to the point, no I don't think we should move to a system that is even more inaccessible to new programmers.)
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game: this factory is technical debt in visual form. every conveyor belt is placed in such a way that made sense hours ago but now is nothing but a blight on your dreams
techie gamers: why would I play this?
game: and you get to fix it without any meetings
techie gamers: THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE
- 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
