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
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Everyone excited for #gmtkjam
? I'm kind of nervous for the theme announcement
If you need music or fonts for your game I have plenty of 100% free CC0 options for you - a 🧵
Out of curiosity: do we have any fundraisers on fedi for anarchist community spaces in "low-income" countries? Or people seeking to set up such things?
Does not need to consider itself 'anarchist', as long as it's ideologically close enough (ie. anti-authoritarian, autonomous community space), and run by locals (so no "digital nomads" and whatnot).
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I love it so much!
Firefox has made it SO EASY to switch to Firefox from Chrome, that you dont even lose your OPEN TABS.
Have you got 34 open tabs lol? And you lost uBlock ad-blocker today? (You did, you lost your ad blocker, because Google)
You dont even lose open Tabs! (And you get to install uBlock)
Fancy that.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox
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Piece of software says it’s “open source” and links its Github repo. Its Github repo says it’s all rights reserved, and you can contribute after signing copyright over to them. 🙃
The terms you’re looking for are “source available” and “free labor”
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Normale mensen kopen een zak Wilhelmina of een rol King in de winkel als ze pepermunt willen.
Maar ik ben niet echt een normaal mens, ik maak er een volledig pepermuntweekend van. Tijd voor een weekend met een #Pepermuntje
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Seeing more discourse about Rust again, I want to chime in with some of my personal experiences and feelings to help illustrate how complex some of this shit is, and why the C/C++ "git gud" approach to software dev can be so grating to read both as a software developer and as someone who has left that part of my life largely behind.
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Perhaps most complicated of all, though, is the question of secure for whom? In a software development world where users are as often seen as the threat as they are the beneficiary of security, having more secure software doesn't necessarily mean that *I* personally am more secure.
Taking stuff like bypassing DRM, jailbreaking, and other pro-user stuff, a lot of that depends on software being "insecure."
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I would be remiss at this point, though, to not mention the immense failings of the Rust community around racism, weapons/arms contracting, cryptocurrency, and more. Some of that is endemic to all software development and something that Rust fails to challenge, and some of it is unique to the Rust community to its immense discredit.
Like I said, shit's complicated.
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As a trans person in tech, the focus on inclusivity in the Rust community was also a godsend. I almost got gatekept out of software entirely by the "git gud" culture of C/C++. That's a story for another day, but suffice to say, having access to an intensely queer-friendly community was a very good thing as I was transitioning and also working as a highly skilled software developer.
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(I am aware of the Rust book. It doesn't click with me.)
#AskFedi: does anyone have a good article that explains *in depth* what Cell and RefCell are for in #Rust? So not just "this is what they do" or "this is how they work", but more questions like "why does this exist", "why would you need this", "what other approaches could have been taken and why was this one better".
(Do not send me ad-hoc explanations please; an explanation that fits into a toot is almost certainly not going to be in-depth enough here. I'm looking for articles that were written with deliberation and review.)
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@zachklipp So many things wrong with what he said but this immediately comes to mind
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@yon i feel great about it. i honestly don't think the launch would've gone over nearly as well without the massive amount of support i got on fedi around launch. aside from people just being super supportive, the release post i made got 1.6k boosts which is phenomenal. i'd recommend fedi to any gamedev who is serious about using social media to help support their work
not just that fedi also played a big part in us even making it to launch. we were afraid we'd run out of money long before august and if it hadn't been for fedi buying our older titles and giving to my patreon and kofi i don't know what i would've done
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If you have a list of announcements for your community space or local business, please, please, *please* make it available as an RSS feed.
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Als je wat wilt doen voor Palestina en de Palestijnen in Gaza maar je weet niet wat, hier een paar (laagdrempelige) manieren:
1. Praat over Palestina! Deel informatie van Decolonize Palestine: https://decolonizepalestine.com/
2. Doe mee met Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: https://bdsnederland.nl/
3. Doneer eSIMs, de enige manier waarop Palestijnen in Gaza nog contact kunnen onderhouden. Een simpele manier is via Disability Visibility Project: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/
4. Doneer aan GoFundMe's van Palestijnen in Gaza via https://gazafunds.com/ en/of deel ze.
5. Zoek je lokale actiegroep op en overleg of je mee kunt helpen met iets wat passend is voor jou en hen.
#Palestina #PalestineSolidarity #Palestine #FreePalestine #EndApartheid @palestine #Gaza #GazaUnderSiege
The municipality of Maashorst in the Netherlands, after an internal reorganization and municipality merge, had a lot of monitors and peripherals left over - and so they're handing them out to citizens in their municipality for free!
https://dtvnieuws.nl/nieuws/artikel/maashorst-heeft-schermen-over-inwoners-krijgen-ze-voor-niets
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19 Trans and gender expansive/diverse people have signed up so far to share something to help #rescueTransRescue!
That's *awesome*!!
Are you somewhere under that umbrella, make cool stuff, and want to help an org that helps refugees get out of dangerous situations?
There's still plenty of time, you can sign up now with an idea that you know won't be ready till as late as Nov 15th! (there are earlier dates too)
personal, mental health negative, activism, sort of a request I guess (part 2)
If you've noticed me suddenly disappearing from social channels for a while every so often, that's step 3.
So many people wish to talk to me. A lot of them with the best of intentions. But I ultimately get so little out of many of these conversations. They are often very one-sided.
Sure, it often inspires people to change their minds. But it doesn't usually inspire them to start *doing* something. It doesn't usually inspire them to offer to collaborate. It rarely inspires them to take the initiative on something. So what good are those conversations to a better world, really?
In some cases, this can be explained by spoons shortages, autistic burnout, and so on. In many other cases, people simply do not feel the impetus to do anything. Sure, I can get along with them conversationally, but they are not 'my people', for lack of a better phrase.
I don't think this is what I really want to be spending my time on. I don't want to always be the person driving an effort, pushing the conversation forward, suggesting things to do. It brings me nothing but work and frustration.
I need people, preferably in the Netherlands, who I can rely on to want to actively improve society. Who are also willing to pull the cart themselves, instead of just expecting me to do it. I don't care that much about *what* exactly they want to build, as long as it is on anarchist or equivalent principles.
I need someone who I can talk to and collaborate with, and be left with more energy and spoons than I had going in.
- 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
