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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- 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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People complain about inter-instance drama on the fediverse and, yeah I get it. It's super annoying when a bunch of people you don't know get into it for reasons you don't care about and it affects your social space. It does suck!
But the fediverse is a network of social spaces containing millions of people, owned and operated by a bunch of regular people, and people are messy so sometimes things will get messy on here. It sucks, but it's inevitable. Expected, even
To be honest given all that I'm kind of shocked how smoothly things seem to go for most of us on here most days
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"Because it would be hilarious" is not a good reason to elect someone.
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IND against humanity
IND Amsterdam, Tuesday, 27 February (16:00)
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Literally everyone who wants to use ChatGPT at work should be required to spend a whole day listening to ChatGPT explain things you know very, very well. There's nothing like reading absolute nonsense in that very authoritative tone it uses.
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"Die richt zich onder meer op de bedrijven Nestlé Waters (van o.a. Perrier en Vittel) en Sources Alma (van o.a. Cristaline en Vichy-Célestins). ,,Deze bedrijven laten de consumenten geloven dat ze natuurlijk water verkopen, terwijl het gaat om water dat in het verleden vervuild is geweest en dat op illegale wijze behandeld is’’, aldus de advocaat van Foodwatch."
Bronwater uit Frankrijk blijkt regelmatig illegaal gereinigd vuil water | Buitenland | AD.nl
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/bronwater-uit-frankrijk-blijkt-regelmatig-illegaal-gereinigd-vuil-water~a6daa856/
CW-boost: transphobia, wikipedia being shitty
Het zou fijn zijn als gemeentes eens zouden stoppen met het neerleggen van spekglad siersteen als bestrating in herontworpen voetgangersgebieden, waardoor je bijna op je bek gaat als het even geregend heeft
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Ok wow just witnessed a person in a car throw some garbage out of their window and then a pedestrian ran to grab it, then chased them to the next stop sign, insisted they roll down their window (they refused) so the pedestrian opened the door and threw the garbage back in at them and then ran away.
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I wish bands were releasing instrumental versions of their songs more often
Like I love the vocal too but sometimes listening to just the guitars and drums would be so 🔥
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Rust ecosystem document your expected error handling patterns challenge 2024 (still failing)
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PostNL have stopped leaving a note when they miss a delivery. I have a package coming that I don't have a tracking number for. So if I'm not home when they try to deliver it. It'll goto an unknown parcel shop. And I'll never know to go collect it...
This feels fundamentally broken.
This is really one of those "I wish I had been wrong" moments
Quickly checking up on the state of public opinion about ESM in JS and it kind of feels like by this point pretty much everyone who has actually worked on JS tooling (which ESM was claimed to make easier) has come around to the view that ESM was a mistake and not worth the ecosystem misery it caused
Not remotely the first time I'm bringing this up, but: a lot of services don't actually need federation (with all the tradeoffs and caveats that come with that), they just need a mechanism for zero-effort account/profile creation and management that doesn't rely on a third-party service.
That's the sort of thing that could plausibly be solved with a browser extension or feature. It would be nice to see more interest of developers in doing so.
If you can eliminate the whole "pick username, enter personal details, generate password, keep track in password manager, confirm e-mail address in site-specific way, have to keep updating avatars/names across sites forever" dance, then "needing an account per site" suddenly isn't a problem at all anymore...
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You really gotta wonder what all went into just this banner.
1. Someone had to say "we need change the login page to add a banner that says we're going to change the login page"
2. This proposal was met with no significant dissent.
3. A project manager presumably drafted up a task and assigned it to someone.
4. There probably were multiple versions discussed.
5. The change with the banner probably had to be deployed first to a staging site for testing.
and so on
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Every time I've had to log into something through google for like the last month or so there's been this weird banner threatening that google is preparing to make their login page worse. It's so funny. I wonder if they've got a KPI for how much dread they fill their users with.
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Who has got an accessible guide for 'best you can do' level privacy practices for people who have to interact with google services? Specifically pitched at non-computer experts. Obviously best privacy practice would be to not interact with their services at all, but in this case 'just use a different thing' is not helpful - like i said looking for 'best you can do if you have to use google stuff' like search, docs, gmail, etc.
bluesky
"Defederation, a way of addressing moderation issues in Mastodon by disconnecting servers, is not as relevant on Bluesky because there are other layers to the system. Server operators can set rules for what content they will host, but tools like blocklists and moderation services are what help communities self-organize around moderation preferences. We’ve already integrated block and mute lists, and the tooling for independent moderation services is coming soon."
That sure is a lot of words to say "we have no way to deal with clusters of targeted abuse" and make it sound like it's a *good* thing
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- 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
