Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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 have noticed that privileged tech dudes are overwhelmingly overrepresented in the group of "people who are fine with the threads implementation as it exists in Matrix/Element today" (and most everyone else seems to hate it and refuses to use it) and I'm not sure what to do with that observation
CW-boost: healthcare system comparison, superficial description of medical procedures
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Dear instance admins,
Please set your account sign-ups to manual review. Your instance doesn’t need to grow at any cost.
Remember: Quality, not quantity.
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a mastodon instance for delightfully tooting about cats
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I want to deploy my servers on a new architecture, but it feels like a bit of a risc
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Kennen jullie die lijst van leugens van Trump?
Dat hebben we ook nodig, maar dan voor VVD'ers.
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Oh we’re doing “your admins can see your DMs” again?
You’ll never guess what’s true about literally every website that has a DM feature
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Is there a term (English or not) for when people make something work for them in a way that is busted as hell but charmingly effective and doesnt need to be improved? Im thinking of dragging windows around in a screen recording frame as a way of editing videos rn, but also stuff like idk using a keychain ring on a pants zipper to loop around a button and keep it up, etc. The emphasis is more on the unexpectedness or laterality of approaches than them being "bad."
"Hack" or "kludge" implies too much jankiness and is usually negative, "macgyvering" or "Jerry rigging" is too specific to using only what is on hand to do something, there is a Brazilian word "gambiarra" that I think is quite close but I don't have the cultural context to tell.
Edit: I think gambiarra is what im looking for here, thanks @catzilla !
tumblr but also more general, grump
Very very tired of people's first response being to try and argue that such-and-such isn't transphobia/racism/whatever instead of taking a step back and thinking or asking about why people feel that it *is*
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"Some people try to make everything political" is a political stance
#AskFedi: weet iemand een winkel (in NL of met betaalbare verzending naar NL) die allerhande pride-themed dingen zoals kleding verkoopt? En dan graag eentje die ook echt onderdeel van de queer community is, niet e.o.a. handige jongen die even snel wat winst wil maken
"Technology will not solve social problems" is true, but so is "social solutions to social problems may need certain technology to make them viable", and both are important or otherwise you'll just end up with a dogmatic anti-technology stance
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It feels like not long ago that everyone was talking about Tears of the Kingdom.
As an extension of Breath of the Wild's open-world Zelda model, TotK had a lot of interesting ideas, a fascinating physics system, and generally struck a chord with a wide audience. But the more I played it, the more disillusioned I became at its narrative, especially in its use - and attempted subversion - of tropes.
So here's an unlisted thread on careful application of harmful tropes in videogame narratives:
#AskFedi: does anyone know of a trustworthy Firefox extension for one-click-zapping various dialog walls (paywalls, registration walls, etc.) where the content is still visible below, but the view is obscured and the scroll is blocked?
(Element zapper in uBlock is not sufficient; it requires too many clicks and does not deal with scroll blocking)
a general piece of advice, for fedi and elsewhere
Even if you're marginalized, you are probably privileged among *some* axis. And sometimes, or even often, the right decision is to just step back and *absorb* things. You don't need to have an opinion about everything. It's fine to excuse yourself from a discussion.
Follow some people who are marginalized or living a different kind of life in a way you are not familiar with. Quietly. Not commenting on their experiences or giving advice, just *absorbing* them. For months, if needed.
I promise that you'll learn things you'd never considered before, and the only thing you have to do is listen quietly, and stop yourself from responding to them. Nobody will expect you to opine on them just because you've read them.
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Add this one to your deck immediately (https://nashhigh.itch.io/fedi-cardmaker) #fedicard
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Yeah, getting screen readers to work on Wayland is really important.
Distros shouldn't default to a display manager that breaks accessibility features for the visually impaired.
Distros (at least the large ones) should give the user the choice between X11 and Wayland at install until this is fixed.
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AI and tech rant
@researchfairy Also a helpful qualifier: "Better at what exactly?" and "Better at fulfilling *whose* needs and requirements?"
And the answers to those may not be the ones they are hoping for / assuming.
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AI and tech rant
"Tech always gets better" has very "evolution means life is moving toward perfection" energy
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AI and tech rant
I just heard someone on the radio say of AI that it will only get better and
Do they know anything about tech at all?
Have they used Google search in the last year?
Tech gets worse all the time
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
