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.
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- 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
geklaag over treintoiletten
Echt, wat een UX-faal zijn de toiletten in de SNG sprinters toch ook. Nagenoeg 100% van de keren dat ik iemand naar het toilet zie gaan, snappen ze niet hoe de deur werkt - dicht proberen te trekken, niet op slot doen, op "open" drukken... Ik heb intussen zo ongeveer alles wel gezien behalve de bedoelde procedure.
Daar had echt iemand terug naar de tekentafel gemoeten. Dit ontwerp is duidelijk nooit door de user testing heen gegaan.
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Gimme the CELL processor again! Give me chips with names like Reality Engine
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obviously if you have very strong breathing issues or are unable to afford masks etc that means you can't and i don't mean you in the above post
but yea
statistically i have a bunch of followers that /are/ meant in the above
wear a fucking mask
save someone's life, possibly your own
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also, if you stopped wearing a mask for whatever reason: you can just start again, and i'll not judge—in fact i'll thank you
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advice to independent software developers
Speaking from many years of experience with software development, personally and professionally: There's really nothing special about the stuff that large tech companies do, actually.
In the vast majority of cases where it looks like they have some magical technology that's miles ahead of what's publicly known/available, in reality they're using the same commodity tools and techniques that you are using, they've just papered over the sharp edges with marketing / manual labour / UI design / etc.
Sure, they have more budget, more marketing teams, more developers, more testers (well, hypothetically anyway), more control over the market and so on. That is all true.
But ultimately you could totally build the majority of the things they build yourself, as long as you set realistic goals. (Whether you *should* do that is a case-by-case question, of course...)
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I’m at a ~2000 capacity music venue, and can’t see anyone else wearing a mask.
COVID’s still about, still fucking over the lives of so many people who have had it. It’s not just a cold.
Please stay safe.
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Jailbreaking RabbitOS (The Hard Way)
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/r1-jailbreak.html
Spoiler alert: they're violating GPL, but that's the least of their worries
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/r1-jailbreak.html
Spoiler alert: they're violating GPL, but that's the least of their worries
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Sometimes I feel like pain in the ass to some moderation teams I'm in. I tend to bring up that some actions of other moderation team members are unfair towards moderated users and this usually results in some members of moderation not being very enthusiastic about interacting with me.
I think as much as we try, there will always be a power difference between moderators and users with no moderation powers, and moderators always ought to mind that and consider it a bias so to try and eliminate it from their actions.
Moderators should always look from the eyes of moderated and consider whether moderation action against them would be fair. Try to give benefit of doubt.
advice to independent software developers
Speaking from many years of experience with software development, personally and professionally: There's really nothing special about the stuff that large tech companies do, actually.
In the vast majority of cases where it looks like they have some magical technology that's miles ahead of what's publicly known/available, in reality they're using the same commodity tools and techniques that you are using, they've just papered over the sharp edges with marketing / manual labour / UI design / etc.
Sure, they have more budget, more marketing teams, more developers, more testers (well, hypothetically anyway), more control over the market and so on. That is all true.
But ultimately you could totally build the majority of the things they build yourself, as long as you set realistic goals. (Whether you *should* do that is a case-by-case question, of course...)
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“Adactio: Journal—Ad tech”
https://adactio.com/journal/21285
> But the idea that behavioural advertising works better than contextual advertising has no basis in reality.
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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 🙃
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.
- 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
