Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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- 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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We have the millennium prizes in mathematics. There should be a similar prizes in computer science. Here's 5 problems I suggest for the list. Maybe they're too hard, I'm not sure.
* Synchronizing audio and video streams.
* Detecting an external display has been plugged in. Especially if that display is a projector.
* Establishing that everything is correctly set up at the start of a video conference call. Especially verifying audio is working, and unmuted.
* Bluetooth. Especially emulating the straightforward operation we can do with wired devices: unplugging from one and plugging into the other.
* Printers. Making them work.
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So today I got to explain to my very much not online coworkers what UwU is. Thanks, Kubernetes.
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General politics
So here's an observation I had some time ago that I feel is very obvious and cannot be original, but I don't recall anyone else having said it:
The goal of capitalists is not to maximize their profit in absolute numbers. The goal of capitalists is to make as much *more* money than everyone else as possible, because having more money gives them power, which is the true goal. If they make everybody worse off including themselves, that still serves their ends as long as the disparity of wealth and power is increased.
Pointing out how businesses would be more profitable if they treated workers well misses the point. They would have more money, yes, but their workers would have more power, and that can't be allowed to happen.
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I've just read the latest Nix community trash fire^W^Wopen letter (https://save-nix-together.org).
The commentary on Eelco sitting on leadership roles and not doing anything + not allowing contributions fully reflects my experience with joining the #NixOS infra team. When I expressed interest to join the infra team when it was clearly understaffed and malfunctioning, this was blocked for **6 months** by Eelco, even though I was supported by the foundation board member nominally in charge of infra.
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"I want to make my own resistor": get a piece of wire. you are now done. this will perform perfectly well.
"I want to make my own inductor": get a piece of wire. wrap it round a stick. you are now done. this will perform perfectly well.
"I want to make my own capacitor": here is a twenty page essay on building a foil capacitor. follow these steps. it will perform like dogshit.
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just signed: https://save-nix-together.org/
if you're one of the people who have recently told us you'd felt ostracized by the Nix community, it may be of interest
SimpleX
In case you were considering SimpleX, this is an actual quote from its founder, in response to criticism about their misleading marketing:
"Most marketing is to some extent exaggeration, and you are saying that we are not allowed to exaggerate at all."
Certainly not someone I would trust with private communications, with that attitude.
(Source: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/367#discussioncomment-9088499)
I originally started using it for its auto timetabling feature, but it turns out to have a lot of other cool stuff!
Also, if you've been playing OpenTTD and hadn't heard of JGRPP (JGR's Patch Pack) yet, you *really* want to try that - it has a ton of quality-of-life improvements and I don't think I'd want to play without it again (if you're using NixOS, it's packaged as openttd-jgrpp)
Honestly, #OpenTTD is such a good game
Really enjoy it (/s) when two different train drivers disagree about whose train is going to continue on to my destination, and the trip planner and the station signage don't agree with each other either
Your reminder that posting fascist shit with a 'dunking' caption is still posting fascist shit
self-meta
Time to mute that memes account that frequently posts un-CWed dunking on fascist shit, I guess
I broadly like my Glove80 keyboard but the tenting system really is atrociously bad
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Δ-44203, 'Carbon the "atomic beeper"' 
writing prompt: you are overworking yourself and suffering. your robot roommate decides that this requires action under the first law of robotics and takes you to town to enjoy fun activities.
title: "if you don't schedule time for selfcare, your machine will schedule it for you"
Sinds een artikel van de Correspondent benoemde hoe berichtgeving over verkeersongelukken altijd de nadruk legt op de fietser/voetganger maar nooit op de bestuurder van het motorvoertuig, al dan niet via passief taalgebruik, kan ik het niet meer ont-zien.
Echt bizar hoe wijdverspreid dit fenomeen is. Nagenoeg 100% van de nieuwsberichten, zelfs van de partijen die *niet* van het ANP overnemen, heeft dit probleem.
musings about how the web used to be better, long
I often see people musing about how the web used to be so much better two decades ago, and while I don't disagree...
I think it's important to realize that we're remembering the *good* parts of the web back then; the parts that provided us with community and a sense of togetherness.
But there was widespread corporate meddling in communities back then, too. There was plenty of co-opting going on, too. There were a ton of unsustainable exploitative tech companies too - that's what the dotcom bubble *was*. Even the oft-lauded things like webrings often had commercial encroachment going on.
What made the web good back then wasn't the absence of shitty corporations. It was people building and finding community *in spite of* shitty corporations and hostile environments.
Yes, there's a subtly different set of problems on the web today. But what really makes the situation different isn't that the environment is more hostile now; it's that people have, by and large, given into it.
The way we fix the web is not by musing about former greatness, or by trying to replicate old protocols. We fix the web by *taking* it back, and that goes well beyond "being on the fediverse". It means taking on a subversive attitude towards the established systems again, and deliberately not playing along with them, in every way we can.
And, ultimately, making it so that we don't *need* corporations anymore to keep communities alive, make them obsolete. And hopefully fix things for the long term, this time. And yes, that is going to involve anti-capitalism somewhere along the way.
The fediverse is a good first step. But it is only that. And now it is time to organize further.
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The results are in for the #4DayWeek (i.e. paying employees the same dollar amount for 32 hours of work instead of 40).
For individuals (n=3500):
* 71% reported decreased burnout.
* More than 40% reported improvements across mental health, sleep quality, and fatigue.
* Workers are not using their day off to take paid work elsewhere, but instead for hobbies, leisure, housework, caring, and personal maintenance.
* 90% of people want to continue.
For businesses (n=91):
* YoY revenue up by 35% during trial period.
* Employee attrition down by 57%.
* 91% of companies immediately established the 4-day week permanently.
* Another 4% are leaning toward continuing.
Report available here: https://www.4dayweek.com/
treingeweld
Ik zou graag eens wat meer analyse zien over *waarom* er schijnbaar meer geweldsincidenten in treinen plaatsvinden, i.p.v. alleen maar observeren dat het zo is en het omschrijven alsof het een regenbui is waar je nu eenmaal niets preventief aan kunt doen...
Tot zover lijkt de NS zich redelijk in te houden qua roep om meer 'tegengeweld', maar dat lijkt wel de richting te zijn waar het publieke debat nu naartoe schuift, en daar gaat niemand beter van worden
- 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
