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.
- 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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maliciously bad companies
honestly BetterHelp & co. seemed incredibly sus even before the journalism came out exposing just how bad they are
like, venture capital wanting to come in and "improve" mental health care is so obviously bad and so obviously scripted that it's suspect that you wouldn't see the red flags in advance unless you're either clueless about how companies work, or clueless about how mental health care should work
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mmmm I love a bicycle after a service. everything works perfectly.
the gears change immediately, quietly and without any skipping or problems... 🥰🥰🥰
🚲🚲🚲
#bicycle
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🏴☠️
it would be nice if DB could display where free seats are on a train on the monitors
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Occasionally, I try to convince sighted people to try an audio game, and in doing so, better learn how the blind experience games. I am going to do that once again now, because The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is now available on even more platforms, (namely PS4, PS5 and Switch), so it's even easier to try depending on what platform you're willing to try it on. It is also, in my opinion, a great audio game to start with if you want to experience audio gaming, though I would probably recommend starting with the casual difficulty for new players. Take a chance. Try an audio game. :)
CW-boost: comic, climate-destroying tech
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Taps the "more efficient growth is just the same problem we already have but faster" sign
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good morning fediverse. 
there's honestly very little that the big brained titans of corporate tech can do to make this place awful for the rest of us.
it's pretty easy for us to make this place awful for corporate tech titans, though.
shush the little billionaire defender in your mind and block the hell out of corporate platforms. you'll feel better about things in the long run. really.
The Matrix developers really underestimated how much personal attachment people have to nickname colors, huh
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Governments around the world have found exactly this every time they've looked hard at Apple keeping competing browsers at bay, but crikey. The DOJ is not playing around:
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Imagine you have a dam. Fish want to get through the floodgates, but the gates are locked. You want to open the gates when a fish wants to pass through.
If you are a tech bro, you might say “we can use AI to solve this problem”
If you are the municipality of Utrecht, you instead say “what if we put a livestream of the canal on the internet and instructed viewers to push a button when they see one”
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I cannot stress enough how important CWs are. You may only boost one post about something awful, but the posts add up and build up and fill the timeline with issues that people are already facing and dealing with and know by heart at this point.
Please be kind and CW any posts that could be upsetting to read, especially for marginalized communities who live these stories every day.
Thank you 💙
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Fans of 
gadgets, the NS Upcycle pop-up store is returning to Rotterdam Centraal again. Days of operation:
25 March: 15:00 till 20:00
26-29 March: 08:00 till 20:00
30 March: 10:00 till 18:00
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Peak HN is saying "I trust Redis to not do something weird with their licensing" in response to Microsoft releasing their garnet (faster redis replacement) project two days ago. Visionary.
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Just ran into an absolutely cursed support thread...
"We have a VM that has started to hard shutdown on the 24th of every month for the last 3 months."
https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/4279/vm-shuts-down-on-24th-of-every-month
JS, ESM/CommonJS
... perhaps more interestingly, said package has seen a constant decline in its total download count over time
JS, ESM/CommonJS
For reference, the package I am currently looking at officially switched to ESM 4 years(!) ago. I don't know, but maybe people should be drawing some insight from this...
JS, ESM/CommonJS
It's 2024 and the fastest way to determine what the last CommonJS release of a package was, is still to look at the version history and see which one gets downloaded the most
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If your answer is "I don't know": you should have a look at your finances to figure out the answer.
If the answer is "0%": well, you have some work to do then. The #mutualaid tag is a good place to start.
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If you have a job that pays well enough that you can afford to buy neat tech stuff to play with...
What percentage of your income are you setting aside, to support the needs of other people through things like mutual aid requests and grassroots food distribution groups?
(Replying not necessary; the point is to try and answer it for yourself.)
- 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
