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
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-open one window
-no exchange of air happens. it gets colder but remains just as stuffy
-open a second window on the other side of the apartment
-all my worldly possessions are immediately blown through the window and swept away
Firebase and misconfigured ACLs, name a more iconic duo
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@joepie91 read this post and realized that my keyboard has a “my favorites” button, so I pressed it, and it opened the bookmarks sidebar in Firefox. Dunno what I expected.
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a few years ago, i posted about recycling and the use of disposables as an accessibility issue ... not a moral one.
i don't remember if it was an article, or a meme, or a self-reflective declaration. but that doesn't matter. the point i made is that:
i'd probably not do a lot of eating if we didn't have paper plates, that to shit on me because i used paper plates is ableist because you presume i can function the way you do and be able to cook and clean like you, that the real problem isn't me using paper plates, it's greedy corporations and shareholders and venture capitalists that are making this a problem and it's them who need to fix it - not me.
a friend took a moment to say to me that they hadn't thought of it that way and that they were going to be more mindful of the punching down that they used to do.
because yelling at me for using disposable utensils is punching down.
a lot of the problems we have today are because of this same dynamic - the greedy 1% keep telling us that the problem is us and give us piecemeal, vague platitudes about how we can -as individuals- solve the climate crisis we're currently in. so while you're down here yelling at me, a disabled woman, about my use of paper plates, capitalists are snickering at your idiocy while sipping champagne in one of their many yachts, private planes, or weekend mansions.
i am not the problem. neither are you.
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Every number whose digits add up to 9 is divisible by 9.
Every number whose digits ad up to a number whose digits add up to 9, is also divisible by 9.
(And so on...)
You're welcome.
Oh man, just reminded of the existence of 'internet keyboards' that had physical buttons for browser navigation
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this is the revolution that is transition. our revolutionary act is not dying. with every breath, we deal another blow, every time we are seen we help save another trans life.
our visibility is our greatest weapon. and they fear it. do not hide. make them hide from us. push their hate back into the shadows where it can rot, rejected and forgotten.
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"um but ai is good when it's used for accessibility!!11" NO! that's not fucking ai! we don't call that ai! we call it assistive technologies because that's what they are! don't go fucking defending the ai trend just because you saw someone describe the machine learning system which generates subtitles from audio as "ai"
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yo!
- are you a #Signal user?
- is your gender on the more feminine side of the spectrum and/or you're comfortable being part of a group labeled "women"?
- are you tired of being instantly reply-guy'd to whenever you talk about anything?
then you'd love to know that I and a member of the Signal Community Forum mod team worked on an exclusive forum category for folks just like you!
https://community.signalusers.org/t/announcing-the-femme-space-category/63071?u=rassilon1963
musings on software and tech culture
I'm starting to feel like there should be an explicit semantic distinction in software development between "automation" (manipulating existing tools to make someone's workflow easier) and "tool development" (making new tools for people to use).
And I don't mean a rigid technical distinction, or necessarily even a career distinction, but a *semantic* distinction when talking about what you or someone else are currently doing with a computer. Right now these two are often grouped together into "software development" (or one is ignored entirely) even though they have very different needs and audiences.
Also wondering how this relates to the huge tool quality gap that currently exists between 'office automation' with Excel and such, and application development.
I am getting real tired of having to reconsider my approach and choice of personal projects constantly due to tech industry hypes ruining a subject or a community...
description of hypothetical accidents
It only just occurred to me that "you are less likely to have an accident in a theme park than on the drive towards it" says just as much about the risk of driving as it does about the safety of theme parks
(The problem in that case was that modern dishwashers apparently tend to have optical sensors that get confused by swollen bits of rice getting stuck in front of the sensor, and so rice is the one thing you really need to make sure you remove from plates before putting them in)
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This is why exercise is so exceptionally hard for me. I want to do it, I know I need to, but there is no dopamine reward for doing so, only agony and sweat.
And this is not an exception, this time I paid them out of pocket to fix a machine I bought elsewhere, but previously I've called up their repairfolks for a warranty call on something purchased there, and it was just as good.
Show up, look at machine, test a few things, establish problem without even opening up the machine based on a deep knowledge of how it works internally, fix it and provide recommendations on how to reduce the chance of failure in the future. Done.
Just had the repairpeople from the local electronics store over to look at my broken washing machine, and it's such a breath of fresh air to deal with *competent* repairpeople...
I can see why this is one of the few electronics stores in the country that's doing well financially
hookup site adventures
Was solicited yesterday by a married guy, ended up giving a mini-lesson about healthy relationship dynamics, polyamory and non-binary gender identity to a willing listener instead.
(We did not end up hooking up; it seems that my dire warnings about what the consequences would eventually be for him put him off enough to reconsider...)
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We received feedback from a grant application that included "While your impact metrics & thoughtful approach to addressing systemic issues in AI are impressive, some reviewers noted the inherent risks of navigating this space without alignment with larger corporate players,"
AKA you can't do tech without BigTech's pervasive influence, as your mission statement states, in spite of your track record and in spite of their track record of harm.
Make. It. Make. Sense.
- 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
