Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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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
re: food-related, medical diet, positive
(For a bit of background context: my diet is *extremely* difficult to cook for, because basically every salt replacement runs afoul of some other dietary restriction...)
food-related, medical diet, positive
So I booked a short stay at the Efteling for next week and I asked them whether they could find a way to accommodate my kidney disease diet (low salt, low potassium) at the hotel breakfast/dinner.
I had kind of expected them to get back to me with one specific improvised option, but no, they sent me a whole list of potential options and their nutritional values, along with suggestions of what would combine well, and a question whether there's anything missing from the list that I would like to eat.
Wow.
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Saw someone on Korean fedi call the CW a 뚜껑 ("lid") and now I can't think of it as anything else 
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"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.
"They won't even admit the knife is there."
Happy birthday to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, called Malcom X. In his honour, at least admit the knife is there.
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it's weird that people let pride be an event that the city puts on
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Ik ben niet jong. Allang niet meer.
Nochthans heb ik in mijn lange leven maar één kabinet meegemaakt dat een beetje links was. Een beetje; want verder dan licht overhellend centristisch was het kabinet Den Uyl niet.
Verder dus tegen de 60 jaar centrum-rechts, uitgesproken rechts, knetterrechts tot extreem-rechts.
En alles is natuurlijk de schuld van links.
Just finished watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4 and 1) I'm not really sure how this managed to capture my interest for 4 straight hours, and 2) wow, what an absolute trainwreck of a "game".
After watching the whole thing I'm mostly left with a sense of anger about how clearly a lot of people put a lot of effort into making something cool, and it just got ruined by completely unnecessary corporate greed.
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so tired of #signal app. How can I criticize it when I’ve never used it I would like to use it. I would like to use it very much. However I don’t own a smart phone. Which means I can’t register a desktop app which intern means I can’t use signal as even trying to create a virtual I machine running, android to download the mobile app to register my desktop app. Which failed. I don’t care how much you improve it until you’re actually inclusive. Signal is not a good app. You might also want to think about who are the people they don’t have access to their own smart phone. Think about other ways for users to register without a smart phone please. (running macos desktop)
#crypto @signalapp #singalapp #telegram #security #digitalsecurity
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In case you missed it, there are many Mastodon apps for old computers from the 1980s & 1990s:
#AppleII
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii
#AppleMacintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
#Commodore64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore #Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon
#MSDOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
#MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON
#PalmOS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump
#Windows95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups
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What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.
Why a masking policy? “Many of us and our fellow community members can’t attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,” organizers explained.
Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379
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The plural of "load-bearing temporary hack" is "career"
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I was bored in an airport
https://paste.gmem.ca/paste/182d4ab3-2e94-4063-b40a-ebd208b2d3a2/org
If half of your code examples are either creepy social graph tracking or about some hypothetical person's "gender" (in the binary sense) and the vast majority of the latter are explicitly "man", sometimes emphasized to an absurd and contrived degree...
I am going to have some questions about your development culture, you know
Every time I look at RDF stuff, it further reinforces my impression that the mechanisms are pretty cool but I probably don't want to have anything to do with the people driving the effort
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If you have a disability and your disability isn’t “visible”, you’re still disabled and deserve respect and accommodation.
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do you need a bit of chaos in your day-to-day life? don't worry, i'm here to help 🐺
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someone made an icon theme for VSCode that brings back the old VS2010 file icons and oooh my god I Love This. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jez9999.vsclassic-icon-theme
- 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
