Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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
"I need a HDD with failing SMART data" and other phrases indicative of moderately cursed software development projects
software development meta
A reminder that the most useful feedback often doesn't come from the people who love your project or the people who hate it, but from those who have serious concerns but continue using and recommending it anyway
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saving this for the next time I want to tell someone to shut the fuck up <3
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Was just thinking again of Ibby, who decided to burn his passports and travel from Norway to Morocco on foot, without any money: https://www.shareable.net/walking-from-norway-to-africa-without-money-or-a-passport/
I met him in 2013 at an Occupy camp in NL. Very inspiring person, who pretty much lived the world in the way that so many folks imagine. Could listen to him talk for hours.
I don't know where he is now or what he's doing, but he seems to have published a book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43562112-the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-not-hitchhiking - I do hope to get back in touch with him some day.
re: political complaining
There are so many articles, videos etc. that analyze governance failures that are just painful to read or watch for me, because their conclusion ends up being "this is just what happens, things fail" when those failures have *obvious and known* causes that they just were not ready to actually analyze in depth
political complaining
Being an anarchist (and actually having studied power dynamics and decisionmaking in that process) means constantly seeing people make the same governance errors over and over again, consistently having things fail in the same ways across a wide spectrum of topics, and then being told that *you're* the naive one when you try to point out this pattern
The plan: working on my project
The reality: debugging a problem with VS Code that keeps me from working on my project
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from my understanding, that's what 90% of the people on Mastodon want >_>
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fandom "discourse", fascism
from seeing some twitter accounts, there is a very real "puriteen to nazi" pipeline, which is completely unsurprising as the puriteen mindset is already pretty fascist thinking
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Do you remember hearing the news of #Google trying to enable #telemetry by default in the #Go programming language? Apparently they've been doing the same with their #Flutter UI toolkit all this time 😐 Their docs also mention that "By downloading or using the Flutter SDK you agree to the Google Terms of Service." - linking to Google's general terms and service policy at policies.google.com/terms
github.com/flutter/flutter/iss…
This is a github issue requesting Flutter to make their #analytics opt-in for complying with EU/ECC laws (#GDPR). That issue was closed in 2021, now three years later and the telemetry is still there enabled by default. And even if you try to opt-out they'll still ping Google's servers to let them know you've opted out, as per their docs.
When Google tried to add telemetry to the Go language last year it made news and there was significant backlash from the community, enough for them to reverse course and make their telemetry opt-in rather than turning data collection on by default - www.theregister.com/2023/05/17…
Unfortunately the same didn't happen with Dart/Flutter so far, which means you're likely to face more data collection there by default.
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i wonder if that's why the Advertising sector is so overvalued and the vector that every major tech company seems to be pushing into now? i mean, everything's been restructured around getting the most ads in front of your eyes as possible but it's not even proven that it's effective (though searching for "is advertising effective" just brings up marketing companies. lmao) because it's not about selling the product, it's about selling the idea that There Is No Alternative
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tech monopolies have got such a death grip on social spaces and indeed the concept of socialisation itself that people are always surprised when they see a space not driven by capitalist interests and see how different it is.
yes i am talking about VRChat vs. the Metaverse, thanks to Dan Olson and PeopleMakeGames
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I want to thank everyone here so much for the outpouring of support that @zillanovikov , @martennorr and I have received in response to Amazon taking down the Sad Bastard Cookbook. Several different people and bots are now reviewing our case, and we hope it will be back up soon.
Just wanted to share the fantastic email that Zilla received from a massive company worth over a trillion dollars. I hope y'all enjoy it as much as we did.
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type of website that only seems reliable bc your adblocker makes you not realize how much they spam you with ads
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I am just going to read ‘AI' as 'Average Inference’ from here on out, although ‘Aggravating' and ‘Appalling' are also appealing options, depending on the specific context.
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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
