Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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oh, so when *I* throw shit at a problem until something sticks and half-assedly improves it, that's called "unproductive" and "lack of expertise", but when a COMPUTER does it it's suddenly "machine learning" and a "promising technology"?!?!
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*sigh* I probably should own crutches and a cane as, just in case items..... given the bugs my body has. It probably would have been doable already for me to get groceries if I had crutches and maybe a cane would have sufficed.
Anyone have recommendations, what to look for (Netherlands or at least EU shops ideally) and feel free to boost.
As an activist, I really only have one expectation of people: to leave space for activism.
Don't trivialize problems, don't actively demotivate people who are working on the solutions, don't get in the way of those solutions. Leave room for them in conversations. Let activists do their job.
I'm not even expecting everyone to become an activist, or to become 'politically active'. But I *do* expect you to let us do our job, and that is an expectation that I will not yield on.
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@joepie91 All people defending capitalism because it is self-optimizing should start asking themselves "optimizing for what exactly" and "is that a correct thing to optimize for?" (It's not)
dream, snake
Shape-shifting snake that disguised itself as computer cables (usually VGA) and would bite you if you tried to pick it up, but it wasn't poisonous
Called in an expert, they pointed out that the snake could be brought to feral court, but "feral court is kind of a hellhole".
The snake at some point turned itself into a plump mouse instead, and sat there looking cute and innocent in what looked like a tiny lemonade stand.
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Really not liking the new trend of non-visual arts academics using AI to create graphics for their blogs, slide presentations, videos, etc.
VALUE HUMAN LABOR & CREATIVITY
We already know that this AI was created by ripping off visual artists without consent or compensation. When you use AI to goose up your work instead of using public domain, the right CC license, legit stock licensing or work you've commissioned. you are engaging in academic misconduct, in my opinion.
I have lost count of how many developers have told me over the years some variation of "I want to learn to do it right, but my boss wants it done tomorrow so I don't have time".
Your periodic reminder that the root cause of slow/inefficient software is not laziness, or Javascript, or Electron, or "interpreted languages", or people not understanding how to do software development, or not understanding memory management, or libraries, or abstractions.
None of those are the root cause. The root cause is capitalism, and the incentives it creates to build software that works barely well enough to make money under impossible deadlines, often leaving developers no choice in the matter and affecting the broader software development culture.
You want to fix bad software, you need to start by addressing those capitalist incentives. Telling people that they are doing a bad job will get you nowhere, and you will likely get things wrong in the process.
Fedi is consistently better at answering my technical questions than StackExchange ever was, tbh
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Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 🤯😱😢
Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. 😢😢 Ouch.
This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!
read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra
rollercoaster accident analysis
I'm so used to accident analyses being a never-ending series of "and then they cut a corner here, and they saved a buck there, and that's why it happened".
So I'm positively amazed at this case where it seems that the operator actually did everything by the book, and proactively responded to the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApYID0lAiQc
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shitpost, kink
I'll have my first spanking lesson tomorrow.
I hope I get good marks.
I hope I get good marks.
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I need a reasonably popular Youtuber to start a viral 'no to fascism' campaign, something that takes off beyond our wildest expectations, spreads to TikTok, results in remixes by a ton of artists, which then also go viral.
Like, to the point where nobody can just unsub from a few of their favourite creators, because there's too many of them to just ignore it as a protest, and it starts showing up in everyone's recommendations.
We don't truly meme enough, and that needs to change.
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Vandaag was onze klimmer weer eens te vinden in Amelisweerd voor een klimtraining. Deze training kwam voort uit een filmvertoning over de Alti bosbezetting in Duitsland gecombineerd met een praatje vanuit Amelisweerd niet geasfalteerd.
In de bos zag de klimmer dat spandoek in solidariteit met Atlanta forest weer eens in de knoop hing, maar door tijd gebrek is het niet gelukt om het spandoek weer recht te hangen. Daar gaat onze klimmer nog een keer voor terug. Het spandoek hangt er nu bijna een jaar. En zo lang de tekst goed leesbaar blijft, blijft ie nog hangen
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You can just be a girl if you want. It’s okay. Or a boy, or something else, or no gender at all. You’re not too old, or too young, or too much, or not enough, or trespassing, or appropriating, or causing trouble. It’s okay. Really.
The important thing is: do what you want, not what you think you’re allowed. Find the joy and follow that. You can experiment and you can change your mind. That’s okay too.
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foss nerds: rtfm!!!
the manual:
--archive, -a archive mode is -rlptgoD (no -A,-X,-U,-N,-H)
Actually, let's make this into a public request; if you have a HDD with failing SMART attributes of any sort, please run `smartctl --attributes --json` with a decently recent version (the nixpkgs one is definitely good enough) and send me the output!
(I'm specifically interested in how failing metrics are represented, so completely healthy drives are not useful here)
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sex work
i don't know who needs to hear this, but sex work doesn't have to be a soulless act.
for some reason there's a social stigma surrounding sex workers that they shouldn't enjoy their job, that they're just doing it for the money and so on.
sex work is an art, and many of us get into it for the same reasons as any other artist: to enjoy doing something that we love.
its okay to do sex work just because you like others seeing you naked, its okay to do it because you like to fuck, and its okay to do it because you're a kinky slut.
its okay to dedicate your life to it because is just what you vibe with.
you don't owe it to anyone to treat it as just a job and a paycheck, not even to the people who are paying you.
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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
