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
#AskFedi: Are the "OCS" as defined by Nextcloud, and the "OCS" as defined by FreeDesktop, actually the same thing, or are they different specs?
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every time you install an adblocker a techbros dreams dies
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@joepie91 This is a good point. Like you say web dev has been caught between being coopted by dishonest tech cos and been seen by outsiders as not worth defending. Then we had the mass layoffs and—honestly—it’s not surprising that there isn’t much of a community-driven field left.
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So, it may feel like I’m harping on a bit about JSR—the tech industry’s latest attempt to ‘fix’ the JavaScript ecosystem—but it kind of bugs me how little discussion there is about it
Like, it’s literally a proposal by a VC-funded startup to coopt existing infrastructure and the only comments I’m seeing online are “ooh, they put a lot of work into making it fast.”
There’s no discussion of what it’s for, whether it tells us anything about npm or how that can be improved.
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ACAB
climate catastrophe, news from my country, flooding
this is why i am involved in politics of other countries aside from my own. you guys are influencing us in ways you do not even begin to examine because you aren't concerned with our existence
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climate catastrophe, news from my country, flooding
oh and by the way. ecocide done by other corporations is finally catching up to my country too. we are having massive floods this spring. a lot of towns or small cities are being in a state of emergency because the rivers are overflowing. the government doesn't give a shit of course, just like when the wildfires happened. we need a revolution
Library API naming poll! Which makes more sense? 
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Great news coming from Germany: today, the Bundestag adopted the gender self-determination law, which will allow trans people to change their gender on their official papers with a simple declaration at the civil registry. Gone are the medical requirements. 🏳️⚧️
The law isn't perfect (a 3-month delay is to be observed before the change takes effect; minors will have to go through a dispute in court if their parents oppose the change), but it's still a huge step forward.
https://www.dw.com/en/gender-identity-law-passes-in-german-parliament/a-68800054
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shower thought: lap is the only part of the body that doesn't really physically exist and appears and disappears based on whether or not the person is sitting down
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How did you get your gender?
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Money may not be capable of purchasing love, but lack of it sure does cost lots of extra time which could be going towards more useful and/or enjoyable things (such as, e.g., love) -.-
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@NoraReed Besides the ‘list of lists of lists’ which we’ve already discussed, I appreciate the entry for “Sock” — wikipedians go deep as only they can on an utterly mundane topic, and the results are roughly equal parts genuinely fascinating and utterly hilarious wiki culture self-parody
CW-boost: LLMs, exploitation, research
This really shouldn't need to be said over and over again, but here we go...
CW your damn politics, genocide, etc. posts! And preferably don't boost un-CWed ones either, link to them in a CW'ed post of your own instead.
"But people need to see this!"
Yes, I'm sure they do. You know what actually happens? The people who don't want to hear about it, will unfollow you. The people who *do* try to follow the topic already see so much about it that it becomes overwhelming, and they will start detaching from it. You're achieving the literal opposite of what you want.
(To be clear, I'm not talking about personal experience posts here, but about the people boosting an endless stream of non-actionable doom articles from news outlets, political parties, etc.)
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Woooo es ist geschafft! Das TSG ist Geschichte und es gibt ein Selbstbestimmungsgesetz 🥳 
Ich würde mich Jan Plobner anschließen und sagen, es ist ein guter Schritt, auch wenn es nicht perfekt ist und wir noch viel Arbeit vor uns haben.
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If anyone was in any doubt as to where Hashicorp is going post-BSL...
https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/
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Yes yes yes yes! Bundestag beschließt Selbstbestimmungsgesetz https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/selbstbestimmungsgesetz-geschlecht-bundestag-100.html #SBGG
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Ffs. Not good. More international trains people. Not fewer!
subtoot of multiple things, actually
Like, I can understand this if you're a single person and you're unable to alt-text for eg. spoons reasons. But as a collective that proclaims to strive for inclusivity, you really do not have an excuse to not find someone to do this
subtoot of multiple things, actually
I have difficulty taking your 'revolutionary movement' seriously if you cannot even be bothered to alt-text the images in your campaign communications. Maybe start with that
- 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
