Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
"Unmanaged dependency": a chunk of code that has been copy-pasted from elsewhere and therefore has all the downsides of dependencies - but that never gets updates, therefore is 'unmanaged', and gets few of the *upsides* of dependencies.
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⭐ Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology by @matt https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/
"Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works."
This is an excellent overview of how Apple Pay and others hide card numbers. Plus a lot more I didn't know I wanted to know about.
📌 https://rknight.me/links/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple-pay-does-this-mythology/
code, screenreader-unfriendly, question 
(Note that this is not a typo; the block syntax is indeed made up of parentheses.)
code, screenreader-unfriendly, question
With no further context on why it looks like it does, *could* you work with code that has syntax like this? (Even if it may not be your favourite syntax.)
if (equals a b) (
log "matches";
doThing a b;
) else (
log "does not match";
doOtherThing b;
)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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me: "nix is really neat, you can build your whole server just from CI, and the configs are reproducible, and you can copy aspects between various machines, and-"
friend: "hey i just switched to nix"
me: "oh god why did you do this to yourself "
friend: "hey i just switched to nix"
me: "oh god why did you do this to yourself "
CW-boost: pers, politiek
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I have suspiciously good internet on this train ride
Am I on one of these trains where PKP with ISPs installed signal repeaters 
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-Fanatikerin 
@rail_ “Our train is equipped with modern WiFi connectivity”. The WiFi:
After thinking a bit, I've come to the conclusion that I don't like tycoon-style video games because of the "making money" part (I don't care about that at all), I just want to do supply chains and logistics with some sort of feedback metric on how well I'm doing
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If you want to know more about the impact of antitrust on IBM behaviour, I’d recommend reading this paper by Tim Wu. In his conclusions, he looks at what antitrust regulators should learn from the case, and I found this paragraph quite relevant to what’s currently happening. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3292&context=faculty_scholarship
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facebook threads, fedi (actionable)
https://todon.eu/@queue/112130436372737490
To very little surprise, Facebook's Threads platform (the one that was supposedly so enthusiastic about the Fediverse) is now hiding all mentions of Pixelfed - the Fediverse software that's competing with their Instagram platform. Hopefully this makes it clear that they were never going to federate in good faith.
Things you can do:
1. Sign the Fedipact (if you run your own instance) or ask your admin to do so (if you don't) to commit to defederating from Threads: https://fedipact.online/
2. Support the creator of the Fedipact, vantablack, who is in financial and housing trouble: https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/112080004580673240
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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:
- 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
