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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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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All I want is sweeping systemic changes, is that too much to ask??
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Does that advertisement thing Mozilla is doing to Firefox now bother you? Simply switch to a browser that respects your privacy, such as:
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Calling All Blind and Low Vision Users!
Exciting news! I’ve reached out to Apple Accessibility, and they’re on board to collaborate with us. They’ve asked me to put together a team so we can work directly with their team and engineers.
Are you passionate about improving accessibility features for blind and low vision users? Do you use VoiceOver, Zoom, or other low vision features on your devices? We need your help!
We’re looking for individuals who are interested in providing feedback and testing new features from our point of view. Your input will be invaluable in making technology more accessible for everyone.
If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form below:
https://forms.microsoft.com/r/eRQAsmMb7C
Let’s make a difference together!
Feel free to share this post.
Best,
Matthew Whitaker
#Accessibility #BlindUsers #LowVision #VoiceOver #Zoom #AppleAccessibility #TechForAll #Inclusion #AccessibilityMatters #blind #lowvision
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ATTN #GodotEngine Users Who Like To Import 3D Assets a Lot:
For those cases where you are importing an asset file (Blender, GLTF etc.) that only has a single root object, this script lets you get rid of the annoying extra root node that Godot will always add for imported scenes.
Particularly useful if you've configured your import settings to generate a RigidBody3D + colliders for said object and you want that object to be what ends up in your scene.
https://github.com/hmans/godot-survival-guide/blob/main/import-single-node-assets.md
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"The privacy invading feature that was patched into your browser and silently turned on by default was announced on our browser's blog 2 years ago so why are you so mad?"
My dude I'm probably in the top 0.01% of humans alive advocating for your product and I have never read your fucking blog because even I think "keeping up on the blog of the browser I use" is a fucking weirdo move
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Testing my Wayland implementation by repeatedly turning a monitor on and off 🙃
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The year is 2029. Free Software finally has become the thing almost everyone uses because all commercial alternatives have been rendered unusable by mandatory “AI” integrations.
Due to extremely wide adoption, software projects can fund themselves with donations from just a small percentage of their user base.
Usability and accessibility testing has become common in Free Software development as more resources have become available and feedback is received from a much wider audience, leading to a much better user experience for everyone.
Hardware requirements for most people have stagnated as their common computing tasks can be done on a machine from 20 years ago without all the bloat.
Things are still rough around the edges and will probably remain that way but in general, users of different tools can inter-operate through standard file formats on whatever devices they happen to like best. Personal computers look actually personal as each is a reflection of its user’s needs.
wayland
The problem with Wayland is really not the protocol itself, nor that it is extension-based (that is actually a very good thing!), nor some weird conspiracy theory about it 'competing' with Xorg or being some kind of 'takeover' (it's the same people developing it! It's effectively just the next version.)
The real, actual problem with Wayland is that some desktop environments started defaulting to its use before it and its ecosystem were at feature parity with the systems and tools people were already using. Some projects jumped the shark. That's it.
We can be critical of something like Wayland without losing all nuance and inventing conspiracies and doom that don't actually exist.
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neverending cw meta
💠 yes, the violence is pervasive and constant. i am well aware. i am looking for a staging area to address it in a controlled manner. constant exposure is not that
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Pssst: influencers struggle with Mastodon because it's harder to influence people here. It's not because this place isn't neat.
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thoughts about legally shaky software licenses, somewhat hot take
@joepie91 "Your software will be legally risky to *any* kind of high-profile organization"
adding to that very specifically: this includes any distro other than AUR, nixpkgs, flathub, and snapcraft.
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#uspol Unity without compromise
I'm old enough to remember when Dubya/Shrub/Bush43 was selected President by a corrupt SCOTUS, and his message was that he would be "a uniter, not a divider." Then he clearly explained that meant that Democrats were welcome to change their minds on everything and unite with his positions. That is the Republican idea of unity. There is no compromise or middle ground. The loser submits to the will of the winner, and then they are united doing what the winner wants.
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thoughts about legally shaky software licenses, somewhat hot take
So there's an increasingly common argument in favour of licenses that prohibit using the software for evil, or other difficult-to-define restrictions - the argument goes that it's *good* that it's unclear from a legal perspective, because that scares off the people you don't want using your software.
While that is true, and I agree with the *spirit* of the idea, I think that that's overlooking the collateral damage of this approach, which has two main forms:
1. Your software will be legally risky to *any* kind of high-profile organization, *including* the ones doing good work, and so it will be unavailable to them too
2. More insidiously, it makes it very difficult to build on top of, limiting the benefit it has to the *desirable* users. I'll explain this one more below.
Building on top of someone else's software is usually a big decision that's mostly irreversible, you become entirely dependent on the upstream; you need a pretty large amount of trust in the upstream to make that kind of decision, as the future of your project (and all the work you've put into it) will hinge on it.
This is a problem especially in the context of disabled and otherwise margnalized folks who are trying to tackle difficult problems; they'll often have a very limited amount of energy, and will want to make it count.
That means that they are both a) dependent on building on top of other people's work, to reduce the energy that's needed to build a thing, and b) *particularly* badly affected if something goes wrong with the upstream, and therefore need an even higher level of trust.
Not only that, but those same marginalized folks are also some of the most vulnerable to legal pressure, including from eg. copyright trolls.
All this creates a situation where such 'shaky' licenses become a hazard; anything licensed like that may not be safe to build upon, and even if it is, their *own* project may get disregarded by others because it inherits the shakiness of the upstream's license - and they may well be targeting a whole different demographic that *does* care about this, even if the upstream doesn't.
The end result is that shakily-licensed software is not safe to build on, and so you end up severely limiting how many 'levels' of "building on top of other people's work" are possible with it - and that may sound appealing from the perspective of a 'dependencies bad' ideology, but it hampers the ability for marginalized communities to construct alternative systems and infrastructure more broadly.
This is why I don't like those kinds of licenses. Doing this on a license level all but guarantees that it is a threat only to the least privileged people, while the likely intended targets (governments, corporations) can mostly just ignore such restrictions anyway and get away with it.
If you *must* use such licenses, then please at least make sure you have an alternative solution to the question of "how are people going to be able to collaborate around this and build non-oppressive systems".
But really, there are probably better ways to scare off governments and corporations than a legal system that's stacked in their favour.
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If I were a musician, and made albums with other autistic people, I absolutely would make sure the album tags, instead of "Various Artists" would say "Various Autists"
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US pol: stop drinking that doom juice all of ya'll
Though I might dance & celebrate when Biden wins, it will not be for him. It'll be in spite of what he & every mealy-mouthed norms-anxious compromiser has done to put us here. And then, when I'm done dancing, (it may take a moment) I will turn around and put my focus in a new place.
I'm filled with optimism because all caution is gone from my body. We can't afford an ounce of that.
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Whenever I ponder the advancements of my field I get thoroughly dejected. Take the latest "great innovations":
- **Targeted ads** ended privacy in a way that makes Gestapo look like silly children
- **Crypto** gave rise to the scourge of ransomware
- **"Self-driving" cars** destroying our hopes for good public transportation
- **AI** turning the semantic web into a web of lies
If you're not an anarchist/communist by now, you're not really paying attention.
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I should start a penalty piggy bank for everytime I don't follow my own #gamedev advise 😅 this time, I did not play through the new build version after uploading
- 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.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
