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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The way software development's shifted from people wanting to do it better to people wanting to get rich reminds me of how contemporary music schools shifted from people wanting to get better at making music to people wanting to get famous.
There's a real X Factor feel to the common discourse, with lots of folks obsessing over levels of commercial success they're never going to experience - too busy preparing for hypothetical stadium tours to learn scales.
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Boost with CW, COVID, Please mask
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once again subtooting a tweet I glanced at like 4 years ago that said something like
everyday billions of us wake up and remake the world exactly how it was but we could be creating something else, none of this is mandatory
politics in tech
Can't help but notice that conservative/fascist/etc. software developers seem to consistently be hyping up the same technologies and frameworks, and I'm not talking about the well-known hypes like "AI" or "cryptocurrency" here.
They're also disproportionately technologies that don't actually do anything new or better, but rather have shinier marketing than the thing they claim to 'replace'.
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There is a difference between
a company that provides a product or service which requires money to continue providing that product or service,
and a company that accumulates money which requires making a product or service.
What they have in common is that both will present themselves as the former.
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Part 4: The Way Out
Unacceptable performance is the consequence of a chain of failures to put the user first. Breaking the chain usually requires just one insistent advocate. Disasters like BenefitsCal are not inevitable. Responsibility is always an option, and it's generally easier and cheaper in the medium to long run.
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Is there an alternative to Grafana that is snappy, fast, pretty? We can have triple A games render a gazillion polygons at 240fps yet I can't display 200k data points without my browser tab crashing. There must be something better out there no?
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went in a dessert shop earlier and they had the menu up on 2 screens but they had more than 2 screens worth of menu so if someone wanted like a milkshake the worker had to reach up and manually page through to the milkshake page with the buttons on the monitor. good system
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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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(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
- 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
